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Evenings with the in Dwellers of the World of Spirits
David Paulus ab Indagine, a learned Hollander, personally acquainted with Swedenborg, says in a letter (March 5th, 1771), “Last Thursday I paid him a visit, and found him, as usual, writing. He told me ‘that he had been in conversation that same morning, for three hours, with the deceased King of Sweden. He had seen him already on the Wednesday; but, as he observed he was deeply engaged in conversation with the Queen, who is still living, he would not disturb him.’ I allowed him to continue, but at length asked him how it was possible for a person who is still in the land of the living, to be met with in the world of spirits. He replied, ‘that it was not the Queen herself, but her familiar spirit.’ I asked him what that might be, for I had neither heard, nor had I read anything about them. He then informed me, ‘that every man has either his good or bad spirit, who is not constantly with him, but sometimes a little removed from him, and appears in the world of spirits. But of this the man still living knows nothing; the spirit however, knows everything. This familiar spirit has everything in accordance with his companion upon earth: he has in the world of spirits, the same figure, the same countenance, and the same tone of voice, and wears also similar garments; in a word, this familiar spirit of the Queen, says Swedenborg, appeared exactly as he had so often seen the Queen herself at Stockholm, and had heard her speak.’ And he adds, ‘that Doctor Ernesti, of Leipsic, had appeared to him in a similar manner in the world of spirits, and that he had held a long disputation with him. See Wilkinson’s Life of Swedenborg, p. 203., and Swedenborg’s Arc. Cel., Vol. VIII. Nos. 5848-66, also 5976-83, where the subject is treated at length.”
This spirit was not my good one but my Doppel-ganger. 8th January, 1856. I invoked C. A. the spirit of the mirror.
The C. A. appeared, but indistinctly, the veil appearing thick in front of the mirror. The answers to my questions appeared, and also the book in the C. A.’s hand, who kindly brought it up close to the front of the mirror; but my seeress could not read any portion. I then mentioned that Emma had first received a great disappointment about a journey she had anticipated, and was also suffering from nervous faceache; I therefore requested the C. A. to defer the vision of the book until the following Tuesday, and requested as usual a spiritual vision which would interest and instruct us. Immediately a response came and at the end of it a representation of my oval mirror. The seeress could not read the response, but upon opening the oval mirror she said, “Here is yourself come in.” I asked:
Q. Why have you come uncalled? Are you the interesting and instructive vision I requested?
R. I am obliged to take any opportunity of appearing, and come when I can. You never ask me. I cannot appear in the other mirror, but when there is no vision I can tell you or show you where you can see me.
Q. Was it you then, who caused this mirror to appear just now, with some reading we could not make out?
R. I caused it to be done.
Q. Can you tell how it is my seer can now read your answers, and yet could not read in the C. A. mirror?
R. I suppose because I am not so purely spiritual. Ha! Ha!
Q. I have received from my good spirit friend some valuable spiritual information, which I also hope you will study and profit by.
R. You are a prodigy. If you are as fond of telling others what you tell me, and circulate the report of receiving such wonderful information, you are quite entitled to one of those paragraphs in the newspapers, headed, “Wonderful! if true.”
Q. I am going to publish the book this month, and as I hope you will be greatly benefited by its perusal, just hand me over ten pounds towards the expense of printing.
R. I could tell you how to get it, at least a friend of mine could. He can appear in a bottle of water, and leave a diamond at the bottom worth a great deal more than that.
Q. I presume you obtain that from my former discourses relating to Count St. German's obtaining diamonds by the Ob.
R. Well, I can tell you the spirit who can do it, and the formula for making him do so; at least I can cause you to know it. Shall I?
Q. Yes.
The seeress then said: He is gone. Now he's come back and says—
R. I wish you to cover up the other mirror. I did so.
R. You must request the C. A. to keep <... continues on page 10-411 >
Editor's notes
- ↑ Evenings with the in Dwellers of the World of Spirits by Hockley, F., London Spiritualist, No. 410, July 2, 1880, pp. 2-5
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London Spiritualist, No. 410, July 2, 1880, pp. 2-5