We were always friends, always co-workers, sisters and brothers bearing forward a great Truth. Very frequently during this wonderful visit in the realm of spirit I saw them—either alone or in smaller or larger groups, renewing the companionship that had been so beautiful and delightful when we had worked side by side in human forms.
In your memory, dear reader, or in your reading scan the list of names who were first known as “Investigators” then as “Spiritualists,” and the names of those known as MEDIUMS (there were no “Psychics” in those days.) I knew and loved them all. I met them all. Each one in spirit life is still engaged in imparting this knowledge—most important of all that human beings can receive—concerning Spiritual Truth. Existence, life, love, work beyond the change called death;
Spiritualism as a Movement,
I had ever been instructed by my Guides, was given to the world when needed, and when there were those upon the Earth who were ready, when the “ages were ripe” for its coming.
In spirit states of Earth and in the realms far beyond were those who knew the “day and hour” had come for “moving upon the minds of Earth with this new illumination.”
There was from the “smallest” to the “greatest,” from the seemingly “least” to the “most important” of the manifestations a concerted action. The “rappings” at Hydesville were no “accident,” the visions of Clairvoyant and seer, the writings and trance utterances (phenomenal) were all a part of this Stupendous Movement. All, all, under guidance of those wise Spirits who knew what the people of the world needed and gave it to them according to their needs.
Necessarily many extremists and “imitators” would be attracted to the subject—like driftwood following or borne upon every new current of thought—but it is safe to say that Spiritualism during the sixty-seven years since the “Rochester Knockings” has attracted the attention of more eminent minds in every department of human research (and convinced them too) and given knowledge and consolation to a greater number of people than any movement or system of knowledge in ancient or modern times. With those who are willing and anxious to be classed as Spiritualists it is knowledge of life beyond death—and of the presence and ministration of the beloved arisen ones.
So spoke my Guide to me and to the group of co-workers who had come forward to meet and greet me. How young and beautiful they were. Always I had noted in earth life how beautiful the dear ones are when one has been for a time absent from them—and here, in this realm of perpetual youth, with the freedom from human pain and cares that some of them had so bravely borne, I could but note the beauty that is theirs.
In the interchange of thought and experiences with these arisen co-workers I could readily understand that being brought into direct personal relationship with their “Guides,” “Inspirers,” “Teachers,” “helpers” and with each other, they had become more and more aware of the true meaning and nature of the gifts (mediumship) that were theirs when in the form, and they realized that even those “Inspirers” and “Teachers” were also the instruments of higher and wiser Spirits.
One sister worker said to me “I always wanted to see my Guides, as you did, but I could not, for the gift of spirit vision was not mine. Now I understand what it means to ‘see with the eyes of the Spirit’ and I am satisfied.”