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Stainton Moses, William - Spirit Identity – THE COMMUNICATION OF THE LADY WHO WAS A SIMPLE LOVING SOUL
Identifier
015714
Type of Spiritual Experience
Background
Again we have the connection – the bridge - with Dr Speer. So we can hypothesise that Dr Speer was thinking – deliberately or unconsciously of this lady. And he was thinking about what he would like to happen – fantasising about ‘touching communications’. And Stainton-Moses ‘saw’ this, in effect read the perceptions of Dr Speer.
There is a fair amount of padding added by Moses too.
A description of the experience
Spirit Identity – William Stainton Moses
During this same day I was conscious of the ‘presence’ rather than the form of a spirit that tried to make itself clear, but failed.
This is a familiar fact to me and I find, frequently that some try and never succeed, but go away after fruitless efforts or communicate through a medium spirit.
In this case I watched the efforts of the spirit at intervals during two days. The atmosphere – what shall I call the sensation of a known presence without a recognised form? – of the spirit seemed familiar and I thought it was, but did not know who it was until I was told by a spirit friend who gave me the name.
It was that of an old lady, a connection of near friends of mine and her husband had been a frequent visitor to our circle when we used to meet at Dr Speer’s. The figure never was very clear, as the others had been, to my eyes, but the recognition was made complete by some very touching communications made from her.
She had been a loving, simple soul, who had lived out all her days and had dropped from this material plane after a life as blameless and as innocent in its sincerity and simplicity as most of us would desire to spend. Her husband had been other in his nature, more material, more given to hoarding wealth and to the things of this world. The union between the two natures seems to have been real. And now the freed spirit found its delight in union with her earthly husband and the two rose together beyond the atmosphere of earth in which one of them had been prisoned so long.