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122 Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research.
conditions " which were an important obstacle to the fulfillment
of the " coming event."
On the next day, very soon after the automatic writing began
the subject was resumed and the following came:
I must try and do some work which will help my wife to be
prepared for the new burdens which are to fall on her.
(What are they?)
Sweet burdens which would be no burden if I were in her home
to receive the great joy.
(Specify the nature of the burden, if you please.)
I am trying to get it down in words.
(All right.)
It is in my mind and I think in yours but I have no help from
these people because of its private and secret nature. Do you
understand my position?
(Yes, perfectly.)
For I am able to see some good pictures o£ the future 'for her
and it, but I know the shock of death and all the incidents of the
horror and pain and sorrow and sleepless night are not the conditions
best for assurance in such a case. I have seen the many
gi f.ts. Is that plain to you?
(Yes, perfectly.)
Gifts that are meant to draw the mind from the past to a coming
event.
Then followed another communicator who lost his life in the
same way and at the same time, and he made direct reference
to " offspring " in the very first sentence after the above quoted
passage, showing what " the coming event " implied. I had
conjectured what the phrase" coming event" meant tho I knew
nothing about the facts till a month later. They referred to remarriage,
and later communications showed that the whole affair
was worked up from the spiritual side. A later message showed
also what the " sweet burdens " meant and the expression was
quite correct for the facts as told me. Subsequent incidents
show how it was all planned and influence . exercised to bring
about the union.
On the next day the communications were resumed and the
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