Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 March 1895 — A Spirit's Revelations. [ARTICLE]

A Spirit's Revelations.

Mr. Stead's ‘‘ J alia, ” in Borderland. When the soul leaves the body it is at the first moment quite unclothed as at birth. The spirit body disengaged from the physical body is conscious, at least I was, almost from the first. I awoke standing by my dead body, thinking I was still alive and in my ordinary physical frame. It was only when I saw the corpse in the bed that I knew that something had happened. When the thought of nakedness crosses the spirit there comes the clothing which you need. The idea with us is creative, We think, and the thing is. [ do not remember putting on any garments. There is just the sense of need and the need is supplied. No, if I might come back and live an earth as I used to do, I would not: it would be all loss and no gain. There is nothing the body could give me that I do not now enjoy, only in an etherealized but more real way, and much that I now enjoy I should ose by being again in my body. A new theatrical spectacle is to have in “electric ballet.” That sounds as if it night be a pretty shocking show.