I dedi ca te this volu m e to m y beloved Si ster MARY ' HE LE N GARRETT who i n pa ssin g over i n to the hi gher Febru a r 2 1 1 drew a side y , 9 7 , the vei l or m e tha t I m i ht kn ow f , g the Tru th a n d recei ve thi s grea t revela tion of Spi ri t com m u n i ca ti on D . G. G. PREFA CE IN giving ou t this revelation to the world it 1s on ly with the deepest sanctity a n d rever I ence , and might add , a reluctance m the fear that this beautifu l and wonderful experience u of may , thro gh necessity the times , be soiled by public skepticism ! but in the belief that in the world today there are millions eagerly I awaiting the message , give it now with a ul heart f l of hope and love . Will the world accept it ? Or do the words Crucify Him !” ! Crucify Him ! ” still cling to suffering humanity in their potenc y and unbelief G . G . D L K F ILL . A E ORE ST , , Nov . I 1 1 , 9 7 CONTENTS P A GE Chapter I . Present Day Interest in Psychic Phen omena Chapter S ci enti fi c an d Literary Notables Who Were Out spoken Spiritists Chap ter My C onvers ati on s with n Abraham Li coln , Count o a n d of Tolst i , Joan Arc Chapter Clergy from Every Church a n d Creed Ackn owledge Spiritism as a Fact ’ Vo r l d s Chapter V . T h e V Gre a t e s t n a n d Statesme , Authors , Poets Voiced the Truth of Spirit Communication Chapter My Own Awakening to n the Truth . Christi a n Scie ce vs . Spirit Heal in n g , Many Testimo ials Chapter Separatin g the Tares from the Wheat — All Genius is but In spiration from the Spirit World SIR OLIVER LODGE RIGHT SPIRIT COMMUNICA TION A FA CT CHAPTER I PRE SENT DA Y INTERE ST IN PSY CHIC PHENOMENA N I a recent magazine , Sir Arthur Conan Doyle caps his splendid article on Spiritism a n with interrogation , Is Sir Oliver Lodge ” ? ffir Right It is my great privilege to a m , while Sir Con an Doyle begs the question in f spite o the proof of his own conviction . Then certain philosophers of the a n d of en Epicureans , the Stoics , countered him . And some said , What will this babbler sa y ? other some , He seemeth to be a setter forth of strange gods . ! And they took him an d brought n him u to Areopagus , saying , May we know what this new doctrine , is ? whereof thou speakest , 1 3 For thou bringest certain strange thin gs to ou r ears : we would know therefore what these things mean . ! Then Paul stood in the midst o f ’ a n d Mars hill , said , Ye men of Athens , I perceive that in all things ye are too superstitious . For as I passed by , and beheld u yo r devotions , I found an altar with n n To the Un kn own this i scriptio , o G d . Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship , him I declare u nto you . !Acts 1 7 : 1 8 - 1 9- 2o -2 2 Century after centu ry has passed since Pau l uttered these words and yet today as then the same inscription is foun d over the many altars o f To the n kn own od church and creed U G . Like a voice crying in the wilderness , Truth , o f ou r the Gospel Lord Jesus Christ , has been but sounding brass a n d tink ling cymba so lightly has it penetrated into the heart and f f soul o the mortal o this earth plane . When I can stand today and sa y openly and fearlessly that I speak directly to those who o r have passed over to the Life Eternal , what the world calls Death , the worldly wise , the or skeptical , the ignorant , superciliously smile perchance may pity . Nevertheless it is a fact that it is as n atural for me now to speak to 1 4 sa a s those on the other side , as we y , it is to speak to those in the flesh . The voices are the as distinct , oftentimes more distinct , than v oices of some human beings . In n o article on Spiritism in recen t cu rrent literatu re has the Voice Medi u m been m en tion ed and yet no means of commu n i ca tion with the Spirit world is as positive or of such absolute proof . Sir Oliver Lodge in the August number of the Bookm a n describes the different modus Operandi of mediumship but di does not mention the voice me um , the one complete commun i cation with the Spirit world ! so as but this is not strange , for far is known there ar e few if any voice medi um s in England and not many on the entire earth plane . Jutis Va iri 1 8th , an occult brother of India in the n Ce tury , told me recently from the Spirit di world , in speaking of the voice me um , that there are today and always have been voice mediums among the Psychics of India , but that the communication to man in India from the Spirit world is more generally the Voice of God within man , an impression as it were , or conscience thought . There is no lon ger any doubt in the a u th en ticity of communication between the Spirit world and the earth plane ! it is an established di fact beyond spute , even though the intel fi lectual , scienti c and ecclesiastical world may 1 5 n o t yet b e ready to accept it . But the world today is blessed with great min ds too broad to n a n d s eer , too open to refuse to listen when such men as Sir Oliver Lodge , Sir Arthur Conan u Doyle , Ma rice Maeterlinck , not only listen but express their views and impressions , the ! ” world is beginning to wonder . ! Sir Oliver Lodge , as Maurice Maeterlinck ! of u Bookm a n i n speaks him in the Aug st , s o e of o f ou r the most notable scientists time . on e He has , in a word , of the best balanced brains that on e coul d hope to meet ! and he is convinced that the dead do not die but are ” able to communicate with us . The public very generally is conversan t with ’ Sir Oliver Lodge s book , Raymond , or Life and Death . I doubt if in recent years a n y one book has absorbed the readin g public as ul has this volume . In these times Of dreadf stress when the flower of man hood has b e en so on e n ruthlessly cut down , for to catch eve a ! ” glimpse of the beyon d has been life to man y an aching heart that has suffered in this world wide con flict . This is perhaps the first time that on e has openly given out the life that is beyon d the n of in veil and the livi g words Raymond , who n n in his fra k boyish ess , tells even the m utest f n di details o his Spiritual surrou ngs , is like a cu p of cold water to parched lips . But Ray 1 6 mond w as a new Spirit in the Spirit world when the com m u nications to his father were ! as given related in Raymond , since which time he has had great spiritual growth and develop ment and his knowledge and understanding of the Life Eternal is much fuller and plainer to him now . He longs to speak again through — of his father, to the world to tell the won derful and beautiful existence Of those who have — passed over from the battle fields to assure n the weepi g fathers and mothers , wives and r1ev m for children , who are g g their own in this w a r th a t terrible , if they could but know the j oy and happiness of their loved ones in the Spirit world , no more tears would be Shed ! rather songs of than k sgiving be su ng and prayers of gratitude be said . I have h ad several splendid talks with Ray n mo d , and the conversation is the same as - I would have with any bright , pure minded , n oble young man in the flesh . Raymond n aturally is very much interested in the war a n d war conditions , and in a conversation with him a few days ago he Spoke of ou r ow n Ameri or can boys getting ready to go the front , of ! those who are already there , and said , Mrs . Durand , I love to look at them , they are such ” fin e of a lot fellows . I have not as yet written Sir Oliver Lodge in regard to these talks with Raymond , 1? although I had meant to do so , but Raymond ! laughingly said the other day , Father gets thousands of letters about his book , so your letter might never reach his eye ! better still , write an article for a magazine and send him ” the magazine ! he will get that .