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our atmosphere, and after this has been done, an individual in the afterlife has no more
difficulty in speaking than he had when in the earth-life. These were the conditions being
arranged on the evening which I am about to describe.
As we waited, every faculty was alert. Though I had had the same experience upon hundreds
of previous occasions, yet each occasion seemed more interesting and different from the one
preceding. I had long since ceased to demand tests, or to insist on the coming of any particular
individual. I asked for knowledge, and any one who was in a position to give that would, I
knew, talk; so with patient expectation we waited, conversing easily, filling the room with
voice vibrations. Who out of the great beyond could take on the physical condition which
would make conversation possible?
There was absolute silence, save for a slight movement as of soft garments, a moment of
expectancy as we awaited the greeting of those from the great beyond - was there ever a
situation more intensely interesting?
"Good evening, Mr. Randall. I am glad to have the pleasure of greeting Mrs. French again."
The voice was clear and distinct. "I have been asked to tell you something of the conditions
that make speech possible.
"First of all," he continued, "I know that to your physical eyes all is in intense darkness. With
us, however, who no longer live subject to physical vibrations, there is light, but not the light
of your day. To us in the etheric world, who are not bound by earth conditions, all is light - a
state far different from the light you know. In our light the physical is visible, and through it
we pass as easily as atoms pass through your solids, and here let me say, as we have often said
before, our etheric bodies are just as perfect as when we inhabited physical garments in the
earth plane, or as your bodies are tonight. When compared to yours, our bodies appear
transparent, and all things in this life appear more transparent than did things in the earth
plane, but they are more real to us than things physical are to you, because more intense. It is
difficult, I know, with all you have been told, to comprehend matter, except it be tangible -
but to continue my account of the work being done here.
"From Mrs. French's brain project magnetic lines of force, to me perfectly visible, extending
to a point just over the table between you, while over your head appears a bar of light from
which other lines of force reach out, meeting those first described, under which there appears
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to be a cup into which the magnetic and electric forces so taken are gathered. These
substances, etheric in character, are by chemists, skilled in such work, manipulated to clothe
my organs of speech; otherwise the sound of my voice would not fall upon your ears. All
psychics possess a peculiar vital force that is used by us; otherwise they would not be
psychics, and when I speak to you I am for the moment really an inhabitant of your world,
just as for the moment you are in touch with the afterlife. In the conditions prevailing at this
moment, there is no line of demarcation between the so-called two worlds; we are both in the
same room, actually within a few feet of each other; both have bodies; for the moment, you sit
in a chair, while I stand, and each hears the other's words. If I could gather just a little more
strength, I could touch you."
"Just a moment," I interrupted, "won't you take my hand in order that I may feel the
tangibility of an etheric body, re-clothed for the moment?"
"I will try," was the answer. "Wait."
Then in the darkness I held one hand to my right, while across the table at right angles my left
held firmly both hands of my assistant. This was in a room in my own residence; all light was
excluded, and we were alone. Soon a hand took mine; there was no groping. I took the hand
meeting my own firmly, feeling the form and outline. It was warm, and perfectly natural in all
respects with one exception; although it rested easily, yet it seemed to move and to vibrate
beyond any description I can give. As my hand closed, the other hand seemed to dissolve. No
word was uttered during that particular time. Then the gentleman speaking from a point very
near his former position, said:
"We do not like to use the material that we have gathered with such great effort for physical
demonstrations, for so much can be accomplished in other ways. Do you know there is no
place in the world today where such work can be done, as in your home tonight? I mean that
working with Mrs. French and you so long, we have overcome many crude conditions, and
have reached such a state of perfection that many of those in an advanced plane can enter, can
teach laws and explain conditions unknown among men, touching the very foundation of the
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