Inhaltsangabe
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1901 Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XI. PAUL VISITS EARTH AS A SPIRIT. On the morning of the ninth day of my visit Pearl said: "My dear Paul, I have refrained from telling you tilll now, but in the opinion of our friends who have charge of your physical body, you ought not to be absent from it longer than ten days. You have, therefore, but one more day before your limit of leave will be reached. Having made quite a thorough investigation of conditions in the three spheres of the celestial world you were permitted to visit, I suggest that you spend the remaining time in a visit to the earth, that you may learn something of the relations that exist between people in their physical forms and those who have severed the ties which once bound them to the flesh and its environments." "I am in your hands, my dear Pearl, and under your wise guardianship; hence your wish is my law." "Thanks for the compliment; and now I propose a brief visit to the City of Washington, after which we will go to Boston and attend one or two seances." Bidding adieu to our poet and other friends, we winged our way down through the gloomy atmosphere of the realm of shadows to the Capital City of the greatest and most advanced nation on the planet earth. Congress being in session, our opportunity to observe the working forces of the government was good. Proceeding at once to the White House, I was surprised to find the President surrounded by a great host of spirits from various spheres, a large majority of them from the first, quite a number from the second and a few from the third. I had been told that disembodied politicians and statesmen are interested in the affairs of this and other nations, but I was not prepared to see such a crowd of them as I found there, each trying to influence the President. Some were in...
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