Before beginning an historical record of the communications and messages received from or about my son since his death, I think it will be well to prelude it by—
- A message which arrived before the event;
- A selection of subsequent communications bearing on and supplementing
this message;- One of the evidential episodes, selected from subsequent communications,
which turned out to be exactly verifiable.
- A message which arrived before the event;
- A selection of subsequent communications bearing on and supplementing
this message; - One of the evidential episodes, selected from subsequent communications,
which turned out to be exactly verifiable.
A few further details about these things, and another series of messages of evidential importance, will be found in that Part of the Proceedings of the S.P.R. which is to be published about October 1916.
If the full discussion allowed to these selected portions appears rather complicated, an unstudious reader may skip the next three chapters, on a first reading, and may learn about the simpler facts in their evolutionary or historical order.
CHAPTER II
THE 'FAUNUS' MESSAGE
Preliminary Facts
Raymond joined the Army in September 1914; trained near Liverpool and Edinburgh with the South Lancashires, and in March 1915 was sent to the trenches in Flanders. In the middle of July 1915 he had a few days' leave at home, and on the 20th returned to the Front.