September 28th.

 

Pheneas speaks.

Ask! Ask! Why don't you ask ?

Do you believe in God ?

With all my heart. But ask. You throw yourself open to any imposter.

Also hold the Medium's hand as she returns, as tight as the rope is held which binds a ship to the quay when it reaches port. Let there be no division between my leaving her and your holding on to her.

All is going splendidly. There are forces of which I can give you no conception - great forces of good which are contending with great forces of evil. But light will always defeat darkness. All is well. There are new vibrations being released from the depths of the collective human aura which will become a positive force, and as such will defeat the negative forces and will play a great part in the events to come.

I trust you absolutely.

That is what makes me so strong. The rope which connects us could not be strong if it were sagging at your end.

 

October 3rd

 

Pheneas speaks.

You travel (the Medium) such a lot at night. A sweet band of loved ones come - giving teaching that has been sent from a high centre of knowledge.

In your record my expressions should be used. I do not like paraphrases. I wish you to go and lecture in a place where they sorely need you.

My Medium has a vision of a little spot in your homeland. It was like a long front of steps which lead to a lake side. There is a silvery light over the steps and the trees meet overhead. Just a little vista.

She is worried because she thinks the idea of steps in the other world ridiculous.

The steps represent the ladder of life up to the homeland. It is symbolical. It is a spot that others will be taken to, to show them and to encourage them.

It is so hot !

When I come down here I get into the old stagnant atmosphere. I can hardly breathe.

Sometimes when I have been with you for long while and I go back to my beloved land I have to rest. Loving dear ones surround me and bring me renewed power - so great is the draw, as it were, upon my vitality.

For each time that I come and help and guide you my soul vibrates out greater strength to those I meet with.

Now dear, dear brother, I would give you word of advice. It is this. Relax your vibrations when I come and do not send out quivering antennae for information. Be like a soft wax plate on which I can write.

Talk in a general way and keep the vibrations going.

The call for your lecture will come. Let us direct you to it. I don't think I ever failed you.

No, God bless you ! Never.

No evil shall ever come to your home.

There will soon be a tremendous oblivion of all the teachings of the past. They will be like trees struck by lightning, green one moment, but brown the next, withered and dead. And then a lovely exquisite light appears which draws out the spark of life in what appeared to be brown and dead. And that spark grows and blossoms out into wonderful flowers full of the scent of love that is symbolical of what will happen to the world.

You know I would like to tell you of your travels in this world at night. You don't ask enough questions on such points. You must start the vibration down the cord. I can’t be at both ends at once.

I want to explain. We have many messages, and the power is not strong, and it is like pulling a cord which wobbles and gives way.

I will tell you this - the vibrations are not always very strong - I like sometimes to talk about your home in the higher life. Keep as many lines as possible open.

Only those who would add to your happiness will be on the other side.

                                                                October 4th.

 

We had a communication from another Spirit source which was not entirely in agreement with Pheneas.

Pheneas speaks.

I love to be with you. For you are the stepping stones of my own spiritual advancement. Referring to our informant, he said : That is a good young man - a fine young man, but he is in a preparatory school. What would it be thought if a Professor of Oxford should be contradicted by one who was in a preparatory school. He has put his own advancement back by this.

He meant no harm.

He has done harm. Anyone who takes upon himself to give spirit information when he is in truth ignorant does harm, for he misleads and confuses the world.

What he has done is as if an ignorant man was to try to uproot a fine and rare plant, long tended and reared, so as to put a buttercup in its place.

[He then gave a beautiful and wonderful address to some spirits present, telling them to cease brooding over their failures, and to have confidence in the wonderful love of Christ which would help them if they would only look up.]

 

October 14th.

 

I asked Pheneas whether I might go over in my sleep and bring back some remembrance of what I saw. He said he would ask leave. That night I had a very vivid dream. I found myself in an enormous city. It was built on rolling hills, and you could see it extending away to a great distance. I saw no end. Here and there were raised hills with large buildings on the top. At one time I had an impression of New York, and at another of Rome.

There was one very old ruined building which I saw very clearly. The road wound past it. This certainly was not New York.

I saw some rather fine isolated villas, rather like the kind of house you get in Edinburgh suburbs. I can remember no people at that point, but there were some very fine paintings on the wall.

I remember also being in a sort of club - a large room, finely built, with pictures. There were several men. I did not recognise them, but saw them so clearly that I would know them again. One was dressed as Romeo a gorgeous mediaeval dress. I remember joking him about it. His face was dull, heavy and rather sinister.

I had at the end a feeling of being, lost and of hurry. Altogether it was a very curious experience.

October 13th.

A strange spirit came, We had some doubt about him, but finally allowed him to write.

You are well guarded and guided. I only came because I might help you. If you were to go to a place where the vibrations are free from humanity, then it would increase your powers and therefore your message would be strengthened to the people.

I am one of those who love you and therefore I would greatly like to advise you in any way.

Pheneas does advise us.

He said I might come.

Do you know our other friend ?

I know whom you mean. You have a world full of friends here.

Were you an Englishman ? Yes, I lived in the West Country. When ?

Time is like a fleeting shadow over here.

Were you in the low spheres when you passed on ?

I was very low, but I have come up through the agency of dear ones who loved me enough, to seek me in the dark. I am now with them in the light of God's smile, the golden light of love.

Are you happy now ?

More so that I could ever express to you.

What was that town I saw in my dream ? It was what we call the probationary sphere.

My work over here at present is to report the progress made by a certain centre of activity.

What do they work at ?

The way of truth - the opening of the eyes of humanity to what pertains to their future life. You do this yourselves.

We do what we can.

Did you live one hundred years ago ? Less, by far.

Good-night, and thank you both for allowing me to come to your beloved home.

 

October 21st Pheneas came at night. He said:

 

Many of us are eager that you should have some completely quiet place in which the Medium would have clearer vibrations.

If you were there you would also be impressed with a message, a volume, which would stir humanity very deeply.

I am the vibrant link between you and God.

You know I never will leave you. Forget that thought which has pressed into your brains.

The vibrations of love are the cause of God's universe, binding it together.

There is much teaching waiting to be given to you for the human race - folios of it.

The light is better. Do not break the conditions. I

Pheneas then said that he would like a room of his own - mauve colouring - in the cottage.

Power would vibrate out from such a room.

[This was the cottage we had just bought in the New Forest.]

Do you remember that I told you that they had a Place for you. This is it. The world there is as God made it. We will bring volunteers to spring-clean its psychic atmosphere as soon as you arc ready for it. Also one or two beautiful guards. When you come down for refreshment of soul the battery will be filled. Sunshine is written over it - Soul's Sunshine.

(pause) My power ran down. There is a crowd all pressing to come. The light is shining from this centre, beating up through the spheres of darkness into the sphere of light. Crowds gather at each shining stage, anxious, clamouring, beseeching, imploring admittance to the vein of light and life between spiritual humanity and the spirit world. And so when the pressure is great, my message becomes weakened. Do you understand ? Great power, great help - Oh, my God, I thank You for it !- is going out to these poor souls who clamour at the different stages of the lift of Life.

God bless the sleeping world - (it was midnight) - sleeping in darkness, in ignorance, in evil. God save it and uplift it. God bless all!

What about your own life on earth ?

I do not care to talk of it much, for so long has passed and so much greater experience, that it is like looking with a telescope through the wrong end.

I carry the impression of much love and sorrow and trial.

The Churches, are now much exercised over the Spiritualist advance, and they are holding council what to do. Their present idea is to adopt it, but under some other form or name which will save their faces.

November 14th, 1925.

Pheneas came.

[The clock struck eleven.]

We have no horrible noises like that with us. Everything is sweet and musical. They have the other sort in lower spheres, I presume ?

No, no, they would welcome it there. It is deadly silent. And dark. The conditions are indeed terrible. There are many Ecclesiastics there. They are shown pictures of the lives of those whom they have influenced for evil by getting in the way of God's message. That is among their punishments.

You will help these poor people when you come over. Love is the ladder which leads down to the lowest hell. Pray for and pity those who are in trouble,

I am thinking of the poor fellows in that submarine. *

* A submarine had just sunk in the Channel.

Do not pity them. All is well with them. God has blessed them. God has welcomed them. It is for their poor loved ones that you may send out a wave of pity.

I fear it was a hard death.

No, no, it was not. There came very rapidly a psychic state, and all earth conditions were submerged. They are now through all their troubles. But God send balm to the wounded hearts of their people - the mother hearts who loved them!

[He then turned to the dark side of the room and gave a wonderful sermon to some, Spirits. The Medium's tears were pouring down her face, for she took on the grey conditions.]

Mother came earlier in the evening. She intimated that the difference of the spheres were differences of vibrations rather than of distance.

November 20th, 1925.

An artist guide came.

Do you like our cottage ?

Yes, it is wonderful. I should like to draw there. The vibrations are wonderful. I do wish you could see me and know how real I am. You will be able to see vast crowds of spirits in time. You have all the power undeveloped.

Things will be arranged for you as required by the spirit world.

You see, any troubles you have, have a purpose, though at the time it seems undiscoverable. Under every difficulty there is golden love and light - the germ of immortal happiness.

You have a man helping who is greatly honoured over here. Try and get that name.

Names are extraordinary. They are like a bubble that is burst. You cannot get the parts together again, because they are not.

I see a very beautiful tower in the East which is near a famous well mentioned in the Bible, and that conveys the name of the helper who is round this beloved star of light.*

* We could make nothing of this.

We never want the wrong vibrations to come near us or our Channel. It is far more important than people realise yet, the good or evil of vibrations, which are attracted to all and everything they come near.

It will be a real pleasure to me to show you over my gallery. Every artist has one. Nothing is wasted. Each gift is as a gem from God, shining with its own particular light and colour, making up the vibratory cord of God which is an all-embracing power coining from the Divine Centre.

There will be a great cyclone in America before long.*

* Miami was destroyed, I926.

December 20th, 1925.

We were sitting (tenth time) for the voice. Pheneas came.

You will get phenomena. (This was so.) The mantle of power descends. The Medium is like the high pole of the wireless - without her your wires would all be on the ground.

Your similes are wonderful.

I have lived long. My brain has been sharpened.

Dr. Lamond is a great vibrant soul. Tell him from me that the long lane is near its turning.

You need not ask for miracles all the time. We cannot build a house with a few bricks. All we could do was to collect and store the bricks. The Medium is the brick factory.

Guard your health in view of the work soon to come upon you. God is descending upon mankind and upon all the strata of His creation.

I will tell you one little thing more - another picture.

Your home in the other world is ready for you. The human forces which are to make it a perfect creation have been selected. There is a round, small building in the grounds which is filled with exquisite coloured vibrations into which you go when you want soul's rejuvenation. It stands amid trees. There is a lovely terrace outside that home with flowers everywhere. Flowers and creepers are all round the home - and there is an oblong pond round which coloured birds will come to drink. It is quite close - opposite.

All is going well.

You are like travellers in the last few hours of a railway journey, who are weary, hungry, and dirty. The time seems very long. But you have just to reach the black tunnel ahead of you. Then you will run in to the most beautiful of all lands.

I suppose you see things in pictures ?

I see them as one in an aeroplane would look down and see a train and the various stations which it would pass. The stations are the events which we foretell to you.

We wait for the day when we shall meet upon the threshold of infinite peace, progress and immortality. And the Crown of Life Immortal is peace.

January 10th, 1926.

A new spirit came.

God bless you.

Then you believe in God ?

I do. I did not, but I do since I have been in the lower grey spheres. A friend of yours brought me here who has been very good to me. His name is Raymond.

Lodge ?

Yes.

I can see the light shining through the gateway of life eternal. The room is very dark.

Not as dark as it is here.

Are you in the city I saw ?

Yes.

It was grey.

Terribly grey.

Is it on rolling hills ?

Inaccessible hills.

You will soon win out.

That is what Raymond tells me, too. He comes here from time to time.

 

January 26th, 1926.

Pheneas speaks.

God bless you !

I turned off the lamp.

What a relief. The light hurts. It is like a weight.

Where have you been ?

I have been very far away.

We felt that.

My connection with the earth plane was broken.

Not our fault, I hope.

It was like a snapped wire joined.

Love is always between us, but I have to have my material landing place, and

that is effected by the vibrations that you two supply. I must have those right. My bridge has been up - like your roads. I can't get across when it is up. We have been much pre-occupied from Christmas.

You see my Medium knows, and she finds it difficult, because I want to say

that impressions that we imprint on her are vital. [He complained of the smell from the candle.]

We had sweet oil lamps in my day.

Don't let my roadway be blocked. The enemy is always at the gate.

Keep a lookout like a man who watches at night lest a thief enter. Be wise. Any word of dear Auntie ? *

* This dear lady had died a week or two before.

I have a message for you both whom she loved.

It is this : She is so full of joy - so full thanks to God for His infinite goodness in bringing her to this wonderful world, and she begs me to tell you that she is happy beyond any human description. She implores me to say that in spite of her heart's fulfilment the bond of love, and of closeness to you and her beloved niece is greater, not less, and that she is going to petition that her work may be on this side of the veil, with the guidance, the protecting care, the home love over you all until you physically meet again in our lovely world.

Any word to ---- ?

He would not understand. It is too sacred for an appeal to the mind of a human who has the blinds down to God's truth, or to knock at the door for admittance when the bolt is shot.

We have wept over her loss.

Every tear is a flower of love round her, and already a new garden of flowers has grown.

You see it is the amount of love within you which regulates the spiritual development on this side of the veil.

I want to keep very close for the next short lap of the way. We will do all we can.

I don't want shut windows in my Medium. I want every window open - no shutters. So that I can come and give the message.

God bless all !

What about the direct voice ? Do you approve?

I've been so very far off I do not know about your direct voice. I will find out and let you know.

You must be a better gate keeper. You must keep the bridge for the messengers of God only.

I don't want to go - it is so long since I have been. You are like a plant with the roots a little dry. I stay to put in sap. I will come again to do it soon. Then my beautiful plant will have many flowers, and humanity will feel and sense them. We must get the sap so that the flowers blossom.

It is a very muddy earth at present, and very hard for us to breathe in it. There is not much spiritual oxygen. I realise how deeply grateful we must be to you and your beloved one in the work that you are doing in so stifling an atmosphere.

There is no death. There is a lovely portal with " Welcome " written over it. All is well. God bless you.

February 12th, 1926.

A Friend came

God bless you! The vibrations are very thin at present. Where is Auntie ?

She is resting. But she was told that you were communicating, and sent you a message of her dear love. She wished me to say that she realised now how much she might have learned from you had she only responded upon this subject.

She is intensely happy. Love is everywhere round her. She has a home which is only a little way off. We can meet continually.

Pheneas speaks.

My dear Medium was not at all comfortable because others came to use her. She is not a main road, but a private way.

These subtle human elements smother the connecting cord, and we have to bring great forces to check those evil vibrations which intervene between you and the beautiful spirit world.

God bless you.

A lantern has been light ed, and a wick has gone out. You must light the other. The light is dimmer than it should be.*

*This referred to the psychic bookshop.

May greater power descend upon you and those other lamps which are shining on the waters of tribulation.

But you do not always understand the ground on which you put your feet. I mean that you walk among vibrations that you are not aware of.

And now listen. You must remember that the signal that goes out from our representative is from our higher knowledge. When people pass by in gorgeous colours, but are black beneath, her eyes penetrate the outer covering.

February 15th, 1926.

Pheneas came in the dark, and could not be reported verbatim.

He gave us a good deal of advice upon business matters, and made a prophecy and a promise. “ Leave it to me. I will arrange everything.”

[He did.]

[I asked if the Cleophas script was that of which he spoke two years ago ?]

I have not been in close touch, but I think it is. I will make enquiry among the messengers of the outer circle, who have charge of such things.

He said that he had been with a wonderful man in the East.

The earth now is like a kaleidoscope. The same old pieces, but in different combination.

I will come soon with a special message about something you have to do. Should I give forth the Northcliffe message ? *

* A message of warning had come purporting to be from Lord Northcliffe.

When people are in the sunshine there is no use telling them to put on their mackintoshes. They will not listen. Wait until the first drops begin to fall.

The bridge which crosses the stream of death, should have six planks. They are Faith, Hope, Charity, Forgiveness, Kindness, and Humility.

Everything is going on exactly as God would wish it.

I see this circle as light amid the dark, muddy colours of earth. Soon something very happy is coming to you all.

In this country ? I may not say.

Your sittings for the voice are each useful. When you make a wireless here you have to put up a pole, aerials, etc. It is the same with us.

When I come, each. of your guides gives me an account of what goes on.

Do not worry at all about things, for you are very near the end of your tiresome stumbling road, and it clears soon, and all will then be easy, and you will live at your fullest.

It is ordained. [Tommy came. *]

* A young officer killed in the war.

Do you like your home ?

It is a paradise, not upon earth, but upon Heaven's foundations. No greyness enters that sphere. Kingsley and I are chums in the same teams. Lily has found her affinity.

[A new spirit came.]

Do you believe in God ?

I believe in Him because I see His glory every minute of my life.

I am Holman. You knew me in South Africa. I was a lieutenant in a mounted corps.

Were you in our hospital ? *

* I served in the Langman Hospital in the Boer war.

For one month, and you saved me. But not for long. I died of influenza. It was promotion for me. You have such a cloud of people round you that it is hard to distinguish them. Frank Holman. My home was in the North. An orphan.

Shall we get wireless with you ?

A great discovery is shortly to be made in that direction. A machine is being made in secret. A bridge is being made.

[Another spirit.

He hesitated to say he believed in God.

I was a rotter upon earth, but I see now a little light before me. What it means I do not know. Perhaps it means there is a God, and in that case I do believe in Him.

Are you in a grey place ? Fearfully so.

[We spoke to him and consoled him.] Pheneas speaks.

We have been very busy in Dalmatia to-day. All these preparations are like the scaffold poles one fixes up all round some building which one is erecting.

I am going this afternoon to the Euphrates. We did not call it that of old. We had an Arab word for that land which meant “ The Garden of Flowers.”

March 25th, 1926.

In a little time there will be a great discovery of an electric nature made by spirit power by a man who knows nothing of electricity. It will mean seeing and hearing by means of electricity.

This spiritual knowledge is coming into your world in little rills all from a source which is inexhaustible. Soon these rills will unite and form pools and lakes, which will submerge everything.

Conditions are mixed to-night. There have been workmen and others in this room who have mixed the atmosphere.

You must understand the difficulties. Electricity is as coarse as lead compared to these fine psychic vibrations.

All is well. There is a very great man on our side who will inspire you at your address to-morrow.

Humanity will soon be staggered at the enormous power shown from on high.

The result will be to lower all the bridges of thought in the direction of the spirit world. You Spiritualists will have to get busy, all of you, in helping to lower those bridges, and giving the tickets of entrance to those who would pass over to a greater conception of faith, thought, and knowledge.

A gardener in a conservatory, when he sees a life-killing fly destroying the plants that he lovingly cultured and tended, will spray those plants with an anti-death toxin. So will the great Gardener when He sees His beloved flowers being destroyed by noxious growths. God bless you !

Let your mind be very open to us - to our directions - in the next twenty-four hours. Don't shut the doors and windows. Let us in. Don't get it too tight. You understand.

April 10th 1926.

[Pheneas came - begged us to be very careful that no one personate him.] Put a double lock on the door.

Your lectures of the last week have roused up several who will be captains and leaders in the future.

It is very important that I keep the line open now. It will be so important soon.

Now I go to the Hebrides. There is a development of power which will eventually show itself there. I am being shown it because I am one of those who are in touch with the central wells of power.

Why don't you test me ?

You are rather like a ticket collector who never takes the tickets. Do you believe in God ?

With all I am I believe in Him.

My Medium has been made clairaudient to our powers lately. The veils of sound are being lifted between us and her.

It will not be long before you see my face. You have seen it many times at night. You know me well. It is always blotted out when you return to the earth plane.

What a pity !

Because all that comes to you on the earth plane is so vital that you must have no after glow around your daily life. It must be free of the vibrations of the spirit world, so that you can concentrate your human energy entirely upon what you have daily to perform upon the earth plane for God, humanity and the various spheres.

Mark that last ! You are not only preaching to the very narrow earth stratum, but to the intermediary ones all the time, every day. Your work is repeated through each stratum unseen by you of those who crowd to listen, and to learn.

I'll tell you something. It is like this.

Take it all down. I don't like telegraphic forms. I want to talk to the heart of men, not dot, dot, dash.

All is well. Wherever there is a shadow there is sunshine ahead. All is well. On entering into the spirit world there will be a wonderful golden pathway of love, of sweetness, of joy indescribable, and of lightness of soul, for her and for all those whom she harbours within her heart - for what she has done for your mission, and for those dark shadows of humans who have crossed her path, for the arms that have held up, for the heart' that has loved, for the soul that has gone out to all those creatures of suffering.

[The Medium partly regained consciousness, but Pheneas again took control.]

The forces of God are descending rapidly upon the world, and they are encompassing it. Then will come the conflict between black and white, but white, as always, will win.

Those in the movement are being judged one by one.

[Here the Medium went through the action of picking up one after the other, some replaced, some thrown down.]

April 26th, 1926.

[Denis present.]

Pheneas speaks.

This Medium is concerned about her piccaninny getting cold. Light the fire.

Am I “ de trop” ? No, indeed.

They say you (Denis) must try to develop on a very high sphere in a way that will be given you, because there is going to be an upliftment of psychic force in your direction which will have most beneficial results upon you in every way. Give us the key-note. We look to you. We watch you. Tender loving eyes are on you.

He volunteered for work upon the earth plane. He was told before he left that wonderful sphere the road would be rough, that the rocks would cut his feet - the difficulties of life. He answered “ The Glory of Christ reigns in my soul and my heart and my being. I have courage. I can succeed.” And Christ's blessing was on him as he left the spirit world, and the Angel forces blessed him as he passed on to the earth that needed him. Soon the call will come. The memories, dim memories, of the life immortal, linger at the back of his soul, with the blind down - a Venetian blind, as you would say, which lets the light in.

What form will the call take ?

It is like the tuning up of wireless, and then the inspiration can come through. If it is switched on to earth only earth can come.

What about the work ?

He has work to do with the regeneration of certain souls that walk, as it were, on a tight wire, balanced. He is to meet those people, and by his own influence he will pull them up and keep them from falling into the abyss. Those people will in turn do enormous work, and all on account of his help to them. Great will he the glory - the glory of life immortal, Love is joy, Love is Happiness. Love vibrates out in all directions.

You are put a little through the fire so that you may make the effort - and you make it, mark you. - It is ordained. Trim your wick a little, and soon the wick will not require trimming.

All is well with you. All is beautiful. All is holy. All is as it should be. Tremendous power will descend from wonderful sources to you before long, which will bring a light, a happiness, an upliftment, a joy past all understanding. I mean the beautiful life which is to emanate from Him to

those around him, and which will react on him in a way which will fill his very being with happiness which he has never imagined.

In the next world ?

No, here, and there also.

Do not pity the so - called dead. They are the lucky people. If you saw a place that had been stricken with disease, would you say “ poor people,” because they were going to a land where there was no suffering ? Where all had enough and more than enough, and where joy filled the heart instead of sorrow. You would say “ lucky people.” So it is with those who have given out kindness and unselfishness and who have tried their best in doing their every­day work in the earth plane. That is the flower of religion.

We don't have meat here. We love all living creatures because God made them, and He loves all that He has created, for in each there is a spark of God, and that is love - for their mates, their little ones, for something.

I get troubled when I see the creatures sacrificed to the appetite of man. But their days are numbered. Comparatively few more will be sacrificed, because in the new world humanity will have awakened to the sense of the enormity of the action which they take when they absorb a life that God has not done with - I mean when they kill creatures to fill their own bodies.*

*We are none of us Vegetarians.

Your hearts are full of love for the animal world, and you will be glad at the memory that you had sympathy on the dark earth plane.

We see the difficulties of dietetic change - soon you start a new era - you begin life instead of existence. Now you come up to the top story when, for the first time, you will see things as they are. Humanity will be like the worms when they come up to the surface.

You have wandered away.

I have my own way of getting at my subject.

We will do what we can. I can't promise anything.

When I come and manifest, I bring a communicating cord with me so that the power I use from you is replenished at night by a revitalising spiritual and physical power, so you are the gainer.

The balance is always in your favour when I use you, you are the gainer.

I uplift the soul and strength of the Medium when I come. I build up the vital force to carry on in the path she treads, carrying the banner of light, and holding out the hand to those who need it, on the little path of life that is left.

May your circle all realise the Angel world that surrounds and envelops them. May they realise the blessings that come from it and ever look upwards.

[Another came.]

I am your guide (the Medium's). I believe in God with all my soul. All that I am, all that I ever shall be, is founded and created by Him.

I am Julius - yes, her guide.

God bless you, my dear one.

What about the future ?

I leave all that to Pheneas. It is his province.

You will do an enormous work in that dear home in the Forest. It will have most far-reaching effects.

We are eager now that you should get there. Where is dear Pheneas ?

He is in the darker spheres, suppressing evil forces.

It is intermediate, between the lower spheres and this earth. He was most anxious that I should come in his stead. [Another came.]

I never knew you on earth, but I love you both very much. Why ?

Because you have shown me the light.

Who are you ?

I was a Norwegian.

How long dead ?

A century.

Were you in the dark ?

Yes, I was a materialist.

And are you happy now ?

I am a well spring of joy.

Were you an artist ?

I was a singer - first a doctor, until I found I had a paying voice.

I was at your Leeds lecture. There was a crowd of us. We all came away new men.

May 8th, 1926.

Pheneas spoke of the strike. He said: England is our chosen land. We are lighting a light there, but when you light a light you get smoke from the wick. This is the little smoke, but it will soon clear, and then you will get the light.

The world is very black, but East and West there is more attention to the ideas which you have preached, and that will be a help to them in the days to come.

The world will now come out of the kindergarten and into the grade one class. This fourth dimension which is spoken of so mysteriously, is only one more step in the ladder of evolution.

May I ask a question ? Certainly.

Do I understand that when the climax comes, some folk will pass over spontaneously, and a large number will carry on, and the rubbish all be destroyed ?

That is correct. Ask me more if you like.

If we pass on spontaneously and our bodies lie behind, how does it differ from death ?

It will come when your psychic senses are open, and you can see us around you. You will drop your body as a man with many coats might drop one without knowing. When you look back and see the old worn coat, and find you are in a better one, you will not regret it.

Will many other Spiritualists pass on ? Yes, many.

[There followed prophecies as to the fate of individuals.]

We must have another meeting soon. We have some important orders from on high for you.

Could you give them now ?

Across them is written – ‘the time is not yet come.’ When that writing disappears we will give them.

He then spoke of our home in the spirit land. Built by loving hands and loving hearts.

[A very clear and remarkable sitting.]

May 16th, 1926.

 

Pheneas said that he would presently send a healer to give us both more strength. He was a very sweet soul. He was studying the root of all diseases so that microbes might be extirpated in the new earth world.

He had been taken by my mother and others recently to see our beautiful home. The scent of the flowers was a living thing, for those flowers represented help that we had given to various people in life.

I will come soon in the flat. I will not come in the cottage until you are alone there.

Several of the opponents of the movement are beginning to feel very uncomfortable about their position.

We address unseen mortals here, those who ruined their opportunities on earth -would not see or hear - who turned a deaf ear to humanity's cry for help - and now their hearts are full of bitterness, the bitterness of regret. They have come to this bright home like drowning souls clinging to any plank of hope.

Now I would tell you a little thing about your home. The little whales like it.

Give me more air. Air has many vibrations which come from nature, and so some is vital, and some all dried up. Open the window.

Things are going wonderfully well in the East - far better than we had contemplated. There is also a strong vein of power being created in the Eastern hemisphere, which will greatly affect Central Europe in an unexpected way.

For good ?

All is for good eventually. It is being created by our side against the evil forces prevailing in that part.

The rubbish heap is ready for them. The world is in the state of a honeycomb. The holes are filled in some places, and seem solid, but there is nothing at the back of them, and when the pressure is put they all collapse.

My power runs low. I wanted to come on the eve of your birthday. I’ll come soon again.

Why do we get so few messages about the future ?

They have been told by the higher powers that it will be better for them now to leave what they have told you to sink into your minds. Do not be afraid that they have deserted you. That is out of the question. Whenever you need their help in any way just call to them, and they will be there.

And you ?

Always until the end, or rather the beginning of life eternal. June 26th, 1926.

I should like to say, don't think I am not with you because I don't come often. The reason is that there is great pressure over here at this moment, and we depute our representative to guard and watch over those who we are intimately responsible for, and when the need comes for our presence, they signal and we come, So our line is always in touch with your conditions.

The whale has been hungry. There are tit-bits for the whale. I could do with more.

I have a sack load, but the time of delivery is not yet. All is as God has planned it.

There are tunnels, but you come out into the sun.

Only a wee while, and the door will open into a world so sunny and beautiful that you will almost be blinded by it. It is Life written in big letters. The other, the prelude written in grey.

It is all right. It is all right. Our bridge is the link over which much valuable traffic must cross. Therefore we look after our bridge, and angelic power shall be felt, to revitalise the vein of life, which is thin at present.

All God's blessings surround you, and make you realise that the day is at hand when we shall all meet and say “ God be with you.”

You will put the nasty old journey away into the background when you arrive home.

August 5th, 1926.

Pheneas, after a long absence, came through for a short time. He said that the Medium had been busy and this had hindered him.

How is everything ? Splendid.

I shall come soon for a long talk. I have an invisible room in this house where my helpers always are, and I will come sometimes, and give you all strength.

I have more than a knapsack of news for you. I have a whole cart full. This Forest home was marked down for you as long as twenty years ago.

 

August 16th, 1926.

 

We waited in vain. Finally someone came.

Do you believe in God ?

I do. Upon my word I do.

Why do you come ?

Because I wanted to.

What brought you here ?

Your light.

Can we help you?

Many thanks for kind wish. Not at present. Are you happy ?

Very - now. I only came to say “ God bless you.” Do you know Pheneas ?

No,

 

August 17th, 1926.

 

Pheneas speaks.

I am here. I do believe in God, my Maker, my Inspirer, all that I am, all that I shall ever be. God guard and bless you, my two dear ones. Your thoughts reached me far away. I came at once. I knew I was needed. His Angels' wings surround you with all power. Fear not. All is well. Great care is round you.

We always know the conditions prevailing on earth.

The time is approaching when the flood gates will be opened to spirit power, for God's message to descend to a very troubled earth.

You have not long to wait, even from your point of view.

I shall very soon want you to take down a message in cipher for me, which will be very evidential.

There is a man coming into your life who will be a tremendous aid to you in many ways.

Later came Pheneas again with cheerful words.

All is well, he repeated, but would give nothing definite. He said he was needed at once at a place where the dark forces were in growing strength.

You can pack up your things. It won't be very long now. The Medium does not want to be bothered by any more boxes. But it will be easy now. Spirit robes don't crush.

 

Friday, August 27th, 1926

 

At last Pheneas came back in full force. He began by writing.

God bless you, my dear ones. I will tell you something. It is this. When I was a child I had a horror of God, because I was taught to fear Him. Then I passed through the river of Life, and I saw all the rocks of religion, which were marked “ God,” and I hated Him. Then I came here, and I saw the love of God prevailing everywhere, the glorious happiness radiating out through that love, and then I knew God's love, and I realised that the Theological wolves in sheep's clothing had deliberately led me down the by paths away from Him, and His tenderness. Arthur, will you tell the world people this, that on earth at this time there is a force which will transform the earth. That there will be an upheaval (a change) of unprecedented force which will transfigure the earth's surface, so that it will be as God originally intended it to be.

Pheneas then began to speak.

You should be more careful in testing who comes to you. You should first ask. “ Do you believe in God ?” And then ask: “ Are you Pheneas ?” Remembering what is said in the Bible. Test the Spirits.

I will be more careful.

I have told you this before. It is very important. You expose the Medium to harm.

I would not do that.

It is good to be here.

We feared you had left us.

Never. You need never fear that. But am like a captain who has to visit the ramparts continually, though he can always be recalled.

Do not ask too many questions. Let me give my own message else you make my landing stage more bumpy than it needs to be.

This house is splendid, and the place wonderful. We have got it now as we want it. The great trees of this Forest* shed out a power, an aura, which man has not yet recognised.

*We were in our forest cottage.

A beneficent power ?

Yes, entirely so. You will get a fountain of power built up in this house which will affect everyone of you, and strengthen your spiritual powers and vibrations.

How are things going ?

All is well. The dark forces have set a movement going in order to check God's power, which they see approaching the earth. They will fail.

These forces are evil, and must go. You will be approached soon by letter by another, who will claim to be a Spiritualist, but who plots evil. Be on your guard. We have our eye on him.

There will come much good from a spirit source, a medium, who has been regarded with some suspicion.

Tell the Medium when she wakes that the matter she is wondering about will be all right.

I will tell her.

She will be wonderful. She has God's great work to do. Tear-dimmed eyes will look up at her, and they will lighten in joy as they see the power that God has given her. So long as she uses those powers no harm can touch any of you.

What shall I do about the book I am preparing on your teaching ? *

*The present volume.

We shall always let you know the Medium. Very good. It is delicate work.

You will be instructed. Much must be withheld, for the world is not ready yet. I shall come back soon, for I have a message for someone near here, who needs it badly.

May God's blessing rest upon you all in this house, and upon all whom you love.

 

September 1st, 1926.

 

(Children present.)

It is I, Innes. We shall soon be very close. Have you news of the future?

We in our sphere are never told what to happen in detail and time. We only have a general knowledge. Never press matters. Let things come about naturally. Do not be ahead of the coach. Be on it.

We should like you to observe the following directions

I. To be ready in health.

2. To be ready in knowledge, accumulated.

 

Then we would have you understand this, that you must all realise that at present there is a very vital force surrounding you all, to determine which is capable and worthy of the work Christ may send to your group to do. This is the testing time. You are all unconsciously putting on your armour now. Be ready. In God's name, in Christ's name, be ready. Do not wait till the bugle sounds from on high. Then it will be too late. Be prepared. In all our names we beg, we implore you to do this, for upon your present efforts our great united meeting depends. Do not fail. All else is as the sands of the sea, unseen, unknown, of a great uselessness. We are tremendously excited, and hopeful, and our hearts reverberate at the thought of the great assembly of all our beloved ones. God is in His Heaven, and all is well. Never fear, however the dark clouds of opposition surround you. The circle is God-sent, God­preserved. God be with you all, my dear earth people.

 

Pheneas speaks.

I do, God bless you, I do. I have seen His glory. I am your guide.

Have you been with me long ?

Yes, for many years, watching your development along the line ordained.

Do you like this house ?

We have found it for you. It is the ideal place for much power to be transmitted through it. It will be a receiving station for much knowledge.

God bless you in all peace.

 

(Children present.) Pheneas speaks. After the usual tests.

Was that message right about a delay ? Yes, in a way it was right.

But all is well.

I will come soon and tell more.

You seem to have left us.

You have this idea of your book in your mind, and it blocks me. We are like two people meeting on a plank. One or other has to give away.

Well, it is your book, not mine.

You have been the pen. I, the writer.

Exactly, but I have to arrange all about when to publish and so on.

It will all arrange itself.

Wait until it is really needed.

I will read it and let you know.

But it takes three months in the press.

Well, you could have it printed, and then hold back the edition.

Very good, I will do so.

Do not trouble. All will be easy.

If you make the sign of the cross on your foreheads when you lie down to sleep you help the good spirits.

You seem to have some very R.C. ideas.

Yes, they know the signs, but not always the spirit. [He then gave Denis some advice.] Why do we get nothing at our voice sittings ?

It is not yet ready. You can't get an apple dumpling till you have the apples. You might say that we have the crust ready now.

September 28th, 1926.

 

It is like this. When the vibrations are low, then you tighten them up by another cord which is created by the earth's vibrations. Some day I will tell you how to get the most sensitive vibration on earth, so that we can almost see each other.

We thought you had gone. We have been lonely.

Do not ever feel lonely, for I am always within call.

I wonder if a Dictaphone would not be desirable to save you writing. I will consider that.

As to my absence you must realise that it is difficult sometimes for me to penetrate the barrier which gathers round you. In this place there was an entity who was a very strong materialist when on earth. He brought others of the same sort to foregather in his old home. We have now banished him to his right place. We wanted a battery of human power here to release those who had originally owned the spot. We have the right vibrations now.

We have also entire control of the Forest House - entire control. It is what your very practical wife would call ‘spring-cleaned.’ God's mark is in every room.

Our sentinels are replenished with power - I mean our leafy sentinels. Those who protect Nature in our sphere have been busy spring-cleaning them also.

You have had long sight by which you can visualise the Coming Country towards which you and humanity have been walking. You have told them, and they have jeered, because they could only see the stones at their feet. But many are looking up now, and can see dimly an outline, and these are handing on what they see. Before long they will see what is now the horizon close up, and will acclaim you.

I want no acclaiming.

My power is running down.

I wish you to throw out your vibrations to the Homeland, as it makes a double cord. You must take a real interest in your future home. Otherwise those preparing it lose heart.

I do take interest, but I am very busy here.

September 29th.

 

In the evening Pheneas's guard spoke to us. He then seems to have called Pheneas, who came very cheerily. After the usual password, he said:

I now can come down with great ease. You have made me a good landing place. This whole forest may be called our landing place upon earth, an unspotted place.

You cannot think how I am pulled to pieces by human vibrations when I have to come to you amid crowds.

We look on you as a standard for our aerial. That standard must be plumb. It must be held up by supports. These are humility, bravery, knowledge, tenderness, open-mindedness. If the standard is out of plumb our message won't get through.

I have a room in this house. From the window I look out on the great tree sentinels.

We are greatly honoured.

You must think more of what we are doing for you in our home. How can I, with so much before us ?

All is going on well - more than well.

All beautiful things down to the smallest berry or flower are from God, and act as God's servant.

There is one here who was earnest and good in life, but now that he has passed over he realises that he really missed everything. He is horrified to find it so, and his one desire now is to make good by helping you. He has attached himself to your forces.

Yes, get a Dictaphone. Use it for all purposes. For above all, it is needful to get an exact record of what we say when we consider its importance in the days to come.

 

October 10th 1926.

 

God bless you. I wanted to come to-night especially,

Yes, I believe in God, because I have seen, His glory. No, I am not Pheneas. I am an Arabian. I go with him always to the East.

Any news of the future ?

Only this. That we are very expectant. [Another spirit came.]

Are you happy over there ?

I am, and have been for some time since my dear wife came over here, and helped me to join her.

Did we know your wife ?

No, but you helped her greatly when she was distressed over my passing, so I have come to thank you and bless you with all my heart.

Perhaps you can help our children. I will do all I can with all my heart. [Pheneas came.]

I will try to write direct. It is strange for me to write. When I was on earth we used to write through pieces of leafy stuff. This is quite different.

[The writing became very rough.]

You know that I am coming with you all the way until we meet at last in the great beyond.

[Pheneas then began to talk. He said that the conditions were always very thin because I would not show interest enough in the other world, but only in the future of this world.]

 

Seeing that I was rather hurt by what seemed to me to be unnecessary criticism, Pheneas came back and spoke very beautifully. He said he was very eager to get through some teaching about the spheres which had never before been given to humanity. It was this which he was anxious to give me.

 

Further' messages carry down to November I6. He said:

 

If trouble comes it is not a case of ‘poor people.’ Those who are even a little good will come into what is a little better. As to those who have misled others and stood in the way of God's light they will be removed. There is no one, however humble, who has not a special guidance from above, one little ray

shooting down to him, and to all living things, from the centre of love. No one is neglected. There is a glowing cord of love.

All these disturbances of Nature are like the sirens which in your world would summon the workmen to their work.

 

November 26th.

(A spirit came.)

Do you believe in God ?

I do, because ever since I came to this wonderful world I have seen His love everywhere. I am an Arabian.

A friend of Pheneas ?

Yes, his cousin. Pheneas has a great band round him. Did you also live at Ur ?

No, I lived many miles apart from him.

Was he a King or Chief ?

He was a leader among the people, respected and beloved. Was he a warrior ?

He won a great battle against odds. That was what first drew the people's attention to him. Then it was his glorious character.

Humanity lives in a closed box at present, knowing nothing of the great spirit world outside, so full of radiant vibrations.

What shall we call you

You can call me Josephus.

These are Eastern, but hardly Arab names.

We care nothing for our old earth names.

I suppose it is thousands of years since your earth life.

Time is as a puff of wind over here. It is not. Your own time will very soon be the same.

Pheneas came.

Have you any message ?

 

Just this. It is the great fight of good against evil. What we want is not that folks should be frightened, but that they should begin to change themselves and to develop on more spiritual lines. We are not trying to make people nervous but to prepare them while there is time. The world could not go on as it has done. It would destroy itself if it did.

 

For the sake of unborn generations a new right understanding of God, the great, tender Father of all, must be given to humanity, and the old theological misconceptions of God as a judge must be swept away. Love, not fear, must reign in each heart. Humanity must know the kind of existence they will lead in the lower greyer spheres if their lives are selfish and evil in the earth plane. Knowledge of where a man's actions are leading him will help and inspire him to live at his highest and what to avoid. The knowledge of the real and human happiness in the higher worlds ahead will give a man courage in facing sorrows and difficulties on this earth. The hope and joy of great happiness and the fulfilment of all his heart's ideals will make life here so much easier to bear and so much more radiant. When beloved ones have their promotion to the Higher life, Death will have lost all its sting, all its tragic sorrow, when those left on earth know that through infinite love and goodness of God a bridge of communication has been made and that dear ones have not been cut off, but can still make their presence known and can help and guide and influence by their newly gained knowledge of the Higher life. Humanity's tears will thus be dried and a new hope and anticipation of a greater life will inspire men and women to greater love and understanding of each other and to Him, the great Father of every thing. The world will then be as He meant it to be. The shadows will flee away and God's love will radiate through all.

 

Those who have stood in the way of God's truth are being swept aside. Soon, very soon, the light will be seen in the sky, God's untainted sky, and great will be the fear. Great also the rejoicing of those who have kept their lamps burning against the coming of the bridegroom.

 

Tell the people this that they will be for forced to realise God and life immortal. The autumn leaves of the world's history have fallen, the winter frosts are approaching; Then the dawn; Then the spring of eternity. And above all, then the sunshine of love - God - Just that, God !

A LAST WORD

 

I would now add one or two comments upon the teaching of Pheneas.

 

First of all, I would ask any Roman Catholic or Plymouth Brother or Bible student, or other ultra-orthodox critics whether any traces of diabolical origin can be seen in the teachings or influences of Pheneas I would also ask agnostic critics whether the script bears out their oft repeated assertion that nothing but rubbish comes through. Finally, I would beg those who accuse Spiritualists and Spirits of being inimical to Jesus of Nazareth, whether the conception of the Cosmic Christ, and of Him as being one of the representatives of it, does not make His wonderful career and influence more intelligible and more universal. This view of the matter, with Pheneas's assertion that the same or a similar great Spirit is about to manifest itself once more in the world's history, is a matter which is utterly foreign to our own minds. So, too, is that conception of coming events which is dimly outlined here - the time has not yet come for fuller detail - and which has been corroborated by not less than a hundred independent communications from all parts of the world. To speak of such revelations as coming from our own sub-conscious minds is a mere playing with words, since we are at once faced with the question as to what inspires the sub-conscious mind with such definite information and original ideas.

 

No sub-conscious theory touches the fact that so much correct information has come through which was beyond our knowledge.

 

Let me sum up in a short epitome the teaching which we have received under the general guidance of Pheneas, supported, as will be seen, by many other less exalted beings. His whole message breathes intense reverence for the Christ Spirit, which he realises as a sort of spiritual prism which focuses the Divine rays upon the world. He proclaims that the world must prepare itself for great changes, physical and spiritual, all leading to a higher level of human existence, which would seem, so far as we can trace it, to imply a more equal distribution of wealth, greater simplicity of life, far greater humanity both to fellow creatures and to animals, abstinence from flesh diet, and the end of all dogmatic religions, forms, and rituals, inspiration coming direct from constant contact with the spirit world, so that the two spheres will act in close harmony and cooperation. Such is the future as Pheneas foresees it.