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THE SPIRITISTS' OTHER WORLD 57
they do now." We will see first what they have
already been taught.
Maeterlinck, in his "Unknown Guest," says:
"The glimpses Spiritism gives us of the next world
are none too assuring. The dead there, to-day,
seem strangely like those Ulysses conjured up out of
the Cimmerian darkness; pale, empty shades,
bewildered, incoherent. They appear much more
up in this world than in their own. They seem
intensely anxious to establish their own identity,
and recall most trivial details. They say and do
the most inexplicable things; but give no real
glimpse of the hereafter.
"But Messrs. Myers, Hodgson, and William James,
being earnest inquirers of mediums (on earth), are
now themselves in the next world, and know all.
F. W. H. Myers and "Katie King"
"A month after F. W. H. Myers' death he spoke,
and (in one thing) was not changed. He at once told
them to take notes! But he seemed dazed. He had
forgotten the Society of Psychical Research (of
which he had been President, and where he did
so much work)
! When first dead he thought he was
in a strange town (on earth), and was groping about."
"Katie King," Sir Wm. Crookes' materialised
spirit from the other world, never uttered one word
of its secrets, or told us a single new -thing about it
during the years she visited him !
One spirit says, speaking of Spiritist revelations:
"All will be destroyed that is believed by the
Church, but, at the same time, the spirits have
nothing to tell us that was not declared by Jesus!"