-9 - The first spirit healings my father was privileged to perform during the meetings, through prayers and the laying on of hands, took place at around that time and this carried his reputation beyond the borders of the land. Materialisation also occurred through physically gifted people to verify the actions of the world of spirit. A very conniving and distrusting friend wanted to receive special proof of the truth by hiding a pocket watch at a location only known to him to then ask that the watch may be returned to him at the next meeting. The medium suddenly stood up during the meeting, raised a hand in the air and said: “You infidel, Here is your watch”. He had grasped it from thin air and presented it to the owner in front of all present there. Even though this event of a materialisation deeply impressed and convinced everyone there, I have to mention that such demanded evidence was given extremely seldom. Such evidence was generally not forthcoming in order to turn doubters into believers, but to reward pious people for their positive attitude, to consolidate and strengthen their faith. Because God’s greatest gift to us is our free will and we should find our way back to the light with this free will. Coercion of any kind only diminishes the reward of our own upward development and should therefore be avoided if possible. And one’s own experience of such evidence is nothing more than mental coercion that makes one believe what one saw with one’s own eyes, whether one wants to or not. Faith build on this basis has only limited spiritual value because: “blessed are those that do not see and believe just the same.” Due to its uniqueness, I do not want to withhold one more materialisation phenomenon: The medium stood upright in the middle of the meeting room and said: “As pure as this garment is my soul”. A rush was heard that very moment and the medium was cover from head to toe with the purest white snow so that we found it difficult to free it from it. The snow was then carried in baskets from the house. One found out the next day that the same amount of snow that our medium had been snowed under was missing from a meadow near our villa. But no footprints led to this spot, this verified that the snow had been dematerialised, removed and transported to our closed meeting room to be re-materialised there. - Such and similar phenomena naturally had to strengthen the faith in the existence of an actual world of spirit of the participants at the meeting. One event that was mentioned in the meeting protocols and contained a verifiable prophesy has stuck in my memory: During a meeting in 1883, my father and the medium entered the nursery next to the meeting room where my brother Paul and me were. My brother was 1½ and I was 3 years old at that time. The medium that was in a trance pointed to me and said: “This child will reach old age and it will have three missions; two technical and a spiritual one. Pointing to my brother, the medium said: “This child will only reach manhood.” Today, after more than 80 years, I can say that I have already fulfilled two technical missions and it seems that the third mission is about to be fulfilled now that I devote more time to spiritual problems. But my brother Paul already died at age 39 from his terrible experiences in Russia at the hands of the Bolsheviks in 1920. This prediction has always given me renewed impetus, even when it seemed that I would lose my life in 1946 in the dungeons of the Czechs. But I believed in God, in the prophesy and the three missions and as I was 68 years old at the time, I knew that this could not mean the end of my life. My father conducted these meetings for seven years and collected experiences and insights during that time. Both mediums then got married and my father, who now had the evidence of the existence and the workings of the world of spirit, discontinued these types of meetings in order to evaluate the received insights in silence.
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