MESSAGE FROM SPIRIT

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1021, 11 July 1930, Page 11

MESSAGE FROM SPIRIT

SAID TO COME FROM LATE CONAN DOYLE

CLAIM BY NAPIER WOMAN From, Our Oven Correspondent NAPIER. Today. The full test of the message from the late Sir Arthur Conan I>oyle. which Mrs. H. S. Cottrell, of Napier, claims to have received, is as follows: “I am feeling rather sad at leaving all my dear ones, even though I know that I will be able to get In touch with them presently. Separation i.« hard on both sides of the veil. I aru learning, but I must not repine ©r sadden you with my longing for a heart to heart chat with my own folk. In the meantime I am very glad and very grateful to you for affording mthis opportunity of getting some of my thoughts through. “I am thankful indeed that I knew as I did before passing of the conditions here, for what knowledge I possess has helped me considerably. You are doing a great work, they tell me. in spreading such helpful knowledge far and wide. I can only wish you th-* best possible success in this worthy undertaking. I can assure you. also, that the need for the broadcasting of information concerning conditions in the next stage of existence is very great indeed. lam lavinp to adjust myself to the changed conditions. “After having been such an active worker in the cause of Spiritualism. I will have to stand by now and watch others carry on the good work. lam afraid I do not seem very cheerful to you, but I am very unsettled as vet. I will be very happy soon. I know, and as busy and useful as ever, but in the meantime it is nice to have a chat with an understanding person still in th* flesh. •‘WARM WELCOME” "l have already received an astonishingly warm welcome from immense numbers of spirit folk who were complete strangers to me. They knew ©f me through my work for the cause of truth, and had been helped at various times through my lectures and writing, just as your work helps thousands ©f people whom you have never heard of. You were wondering lately whether it really does help anyone. Well, you need have no doubts on that score, for your work is immensely productive of good, I am told, and that fact is already clearly apparent to me also. _ “I am most happy to meet my beloved son face to face once more and many other relatives and friends also. These reunions are far more wonderful and soul satisfying than I can possibly describe. Words are totally inadequate to convey the true happ‘ines» and great joy that one feels on beholding loved ones long lost sight of and friends long removed from physical ken. *

“ONLY A TRANSITION” -Vs hand-clasp follows hand-clasp I am overwhelmed with gladness and my heart overflows with thankfulness because now X know, from wonderful personal experience, that that which X so firmly believed myself and expounded to others for so long is an actual, marvellous fact. It is true —gloriously true—that there is no death, only transition from one state of being to another.

“I am thankful that I was spared much of the physical suffering that might easily have fallen to my lot aa result of my heart trouble. My family is thankful for this also, for though they are grieved at my going and will miss me sorely from the home circle, which is a ve**;* united and harmonious one, they are glad that the end came as easily and pairHssly as it did. I slept, or so It seemed to me, and wakened to somewhat new conditions. That is all. “There is no need to fear death, for it is not at all the horror that it is so often represented as being. It Is merely a sleep and an awakening, th** separation it entails being the hardest part for all concerned. That is where honest, sincere mediums can be so helpful in bringing comfort and assurance to sorrowing folk. “My own people will be able to get into touch with me very easily presently, as my wife is mediumistic, and, besides, we have been much associated with mediums of repute both in England and abroad, but it is a. help and a comfort to me at this stage to be allowed to write through you. Your guides assure me that it will prove helpful to you also and beneficial to the movement that is so very dear to me. I thank you most sincerely for allowing me to the privilege of using your mind and hand in this way. “Yours is a marvellous gift. It has been sugg # cd to me by your guides that I prep re a book—a popular tale —embodying psychic teachings for you to record. I will be most happy to do so. for by this means I be able to help you and also the cause that is so dear to me still/*