-8 - with the world of spirit exist now exactly as they existed then. It is therefore just a case of finding suitable mediums and pious people for a circle and to find the way to move and act within God’s laws. Subsequently, three gentlemen from my father’s best social circles, as well as two mediums, the daughters of a spinning mill director, 13 years old Maria and 15 years old Emilie, joint them at their father’s request. I must mention here that my father was certainly not an eccentric oddball or a bigot, but an industrialist and technician of the purest water and noblest attitude with both feet on the ground, whose family was one of the most respected families of the monarchy. When he now strived for a thorough and conscientious schooling during weekly sessions, even though he was the responsible head of a company, it didn’t happen out of curiosity or sensationalism, but due to a serious, pious search for knowledge and evidence for the survival after one’s terrestrial demise. In spite pf prayers and prescribed schooling, nothing happened for a long time and my father was already inclined to regard the inconclusiveness of his endeavours as a sign that it was nonsense to try to get in contact with the souls in the hereafter and that the survival after death was put in question under the adopted circumstances. - But about 20 minutes before the last schooling session, the older medium Emilie, fell into a trance and channelled the deceased spouse of my father who greeted him with the most touching words. The ensuing thorough debate between my father and his wife dealt with things that only the two would know, and it allowed my father to convince himself of the absolute identity of his deceased spouse. This shocking event prompted my father to conduct these meetings every Sunday at the same time. He also asked a young man to stenograph every spoken word. These shorthand recordings were then transcribed into protocols. Between the years of 1880 and 1887, more than 70 brochures were filled in a small calligraphic font, my father left me these as a legacy. I thoroughly studied these and I was able to considerably broaden them with my insights in the field of psycho-scientific knowledge, because these meeting were not only dealing with communications with former citizens of Earth now in the hereafter, but also with high and highest spiritual indoctrination from God’s Light Messengers. I must once again point out the untold number of examples of an equal nature that come to us from the Bible. The bishops of early Christianity were selected by a Light Messenger from the higher world of spirit talking through a medium during such spiritual meetings and devotions. Only later, when the old Church had already turned into a solid terrestrial structure and spiritual officialdom started to govern the faithful, were the bishops selected and appointed by people. The ban by the later Christian, respectively Catholic Church, to train oneself to become a medium or to achieve it through others, stems from the time when spirit interferences in worship meetings had partially come to an end, because the leaders of the now too mundane organisation of the Church no longer liked the competition from the world of spirit and suppressed it with force. It naturally had to come to pass that my father got into difficulties with the authorities, but this didn’t stop him from continuing his psycho-scientific research. The district authorities in Trautenau sent a commissioner to attend these meetings and to stop them for the slightest reason. But he was so impressed by what he witnessed that he not only approved of these meetings, but became a valuable member of the circle himself. These meetings attracted a lot of attention in the region, the number of participants grew to around 200 and as the district authorities found no reason to intervene, the Bishop of Königgrätz himself endeavoured to put a stop to these meetings, but just like the district authorities, he also didn’t succeed.
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