{"1": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3336", "width": "1980", "jp2-path": "echoesfromspirit00kane_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": "LIBRARY OF CONGRESS.\\nChap Copyright No.\\nShelf?!.!^^\\nUNITED STATES OF AMERICA.", "height": "2989", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "echoesfromspirit00kane_0002.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2989", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "echoesfromspirit00kane_0003.jp2"}, "4": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2989", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "echoesfromspirit00kane_0004.jp2"}, "5": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2989", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "echoesfromspirit00kane_0005.jp2"}, "6": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2989", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "echoesfromspirit00kane_0006.jp2"}, "7": {"fulltext": "B\\ncboes trom the\\nSpirit Morlb\\n1 /^t--\\nu\\nCrane Company, Printers\\nToPEKA, Kansas\\n1899\\nL", "height": "2989", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "echoesfromspirit00kane_0007.jp2"}, "8": {"fulltext": "TV^ro COPIES RECEIVED\\nLibrary\\nOffice f *Y.Q\\nDF;,\\n49544\\nCopyright 1899, ^7\\nCrane Co., Topeka, Kansas.\\neeccND COPY,", "height": "2989", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "echoesfromspirit00kane_0008.jp2"}, "9": {"fulltext": "2)c (cator?\\nTO OUR FRIENDS,\\nON BOTH SIDES OF LIFE, IS THIS VOLUME DEDICATED,\\nBY THE SPIRIT\\nJAMES THOMPSON,\\nthrough the mediumship of\\nAlice L. Kane.\\ntopeka, kansas,\\nseptember,\\n1899.", "height": "2989", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "echoesfromspirit00kane_0009.jp2"}, "10": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2989", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "echoesfromspirit00kane_0010.jp2"}, "11": {"fulltext": "mote\\nThe only apology I have to offer for\\nsending this little missionary to the public,\\nis that it was given to me for this purpose.\\nA. L. K.", "height": "2989", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "echoesfromspirit00kane_0011.jp2"}, "12": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2989", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "echoesfromspirit00kane_0012.jp2"}, "13": {"fulltext": "]\u00c2\u00a3cboc5 from tbe\\nSpirit MorK)\\nChapter I.\\nLaugh, you who never had\\nYour dead come back but do not take from me\\nThe harmless comfort of my foolish dream\\nThat these, our mortal eyes,\\nWhich outwardly reflect the earth and skies,\\nDo introvert upon eternity\\nAnd that the shapes you deem\\nImagination s, just as clearly fall,\\nEach from its own divine original,\\nAnd through some subtle element of light,\\nUpon the inward spiritual eye.\\nAs do the things which round about us lie,\\nGross and material, on the external sight.\\nAlice Cary.\\nHow often would we be glad to give to\\nmortals, on their plane of existence, our ex-\\nperiences, for their benefit as well as ours,\\n7", "height": "2989", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "echoesfromspirit00kane_0013.jp2"}, "14": {"fulltext": "ECHOES FROM THE\\nTo US it is an opportunity to do to those\\nstill left in the flesh, a good they cannot\\nwell now appreciate.\\nWe say for the benefit of all, on both\\nsides of life, that the passing is an experi-\\nence fraught with much joy, and also, of\\ncourse, as you may readily realize, some\\nsorrow. Sorrow at parting with the loved\\nfriends, and especially if they are not cogni-\\nzant of the laws which govern our transi-\\ntion to the Spirit-life, or Spiritual Sphere\\nfor then we know the door of communica-\\ntion is shut, and we must reach them as best\\nwe can.\\nWe are fortunate if we have a friend, who\\nis so far developed in the Spiritual life as to\\nbe able to extend to us a helping hand, and\\nthus enable us to speak to those we love\\nmost and best, who are still in earth-life.\\nIt is my purpose to give, through this\\n8", "height": "2989", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "echoesfromspirit00kane_0014.jp2"}, "15": {"fulltext": "SPIRIT WORLD.\\nfriend, a series of experiences, which can-\\nnot fail to convince the most skeptical that\\nwe do exist outside of the material, and after\\nthe great change called death, which is only\\nbirth into the Spiritual kingdom of Nature,\\nwhere our possibilities for growth and de-\\nvelopment are limitless.\\nSurely, many have found the truth, and\\nmany more are seeking, they know not what,\\nbut a satisfaction for their souls. To such I\\nwill now address myself.\\nImmediately upon my transition out of\\nthe body (which I will now state was pain-\\nless), I found myself surrounded by bright\\nand shining ones, some of whom I knewj\\nothers seemed to have come out of sympathy\\nfor the new-born soul. They wafted to me\\nfragrance from spices so sweet, and fanned\\nme with the delightful breezes peculiar to\\nthe upper stratum of air just beyond the\\n9", "height": "2989", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "echoesfromspirit00kane_0015.jp2"}, "16": {"fulltext": "ECHOES FROM THE\\ncurrents of earth s magnetism. In this de-\\nlightful condition I had a sense of reflection,\\nand felt not a little sad at the loss, which\\njust now seemed to be permanent, of my\\nnearest and dearest.\\nA trifle homesick, I said to my guide,\\nHave I left them for always? Far\\nfrom it, was his reply; but for the pres-\\nent, I wish you to be perfectly passive and\\nsubmissive, that more good may come to\\nyou.\\nFeeling intensely the happiness with which\\nI was blessed, it soon took form in my try-\\ning my powers in the new life by which I\\nwas surrounded, for up to this point I was\\nas one cared for; but now I felt new desires\\nfor motion, my body feeling light, and young\\nagain; for I will say I had reached my fifty-\\nfifth year on earth, and as is quite common\\nto people of that age, my mortal body had", "height": "2989", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "echoesfromspirit00kane_0016.jp2"}, "17": {"fulltext": "SPIRIT WORLD.\\nsometimes seemed a burden to me; but now\\nall that was past, and I felt well and young,\\nwith renewed energy and vigor of mind. I\\nlonged to try what I could do in my new\\nsurroundings, so I expressed to my guide\\n(all have guides).\\nHe kindly acquiesced, and agreed it was\\nnow time for me to try my flight.\\nHe gently grasped my waist, and we\\ncommenced an upward motion which was\\nremarkable indeed.\\nI feared I would grow dizzy, and said as\\nmuch to my friend who had me in charge;\\nbut nothing of the kind occurred to mar my\\notherwise delightful experience. It seemed\\nwe were borne on the wings of the wind,\\nbut my friend said magnetic currents.\\nOn, on, we went, past cities and villages\\nas real as ever greeted my mortal sight. I\\nbegan to wonder when this would cease,\\nII", "height": "2989", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "echoesfromspirit00kane_0017.jp2"}, "18": {"fulltext": "ECHOES FROM THE\\nwhen I was told that was enough for this\\nlesson, and now we would return. I con-\\nfess to having some doubt as to my ability\\nto maintain an equilibrium on the return,\\nbut when I thought fear my guide simply\\nlet go his hold, and I found it superb sailing\\non magnetic currents, perfectly natural, with\\nno attendant danger.\\n12", "height": "2989", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "echoesfromspirit00kane_0018.jp2"}, "19": {"fulltext": "SPIRIT WORLD.\\nChapter II.\\nAlas for him who cannot see\\nThe stars shine through his cypress tree,\\nWho hopeless lays his dead away,\\nNor waits to see the breaking day\\nAcross the mournful marbles play.\\nWhittier.\\nSurrounded as I was at this time by\\nscenes of my release from bondage to the\\nflesh, I looked about to see if I recognized\\nany familiar faces. Ah yes, there was my\\never -loving and faithful wife, bowed in\\ntears and my son, on whom his father had\\nhoped to lean as a prop and stay in his old\\nage. They were, however, looking philo-\\nsophically upon the occurrence, and my wife\\nremarked, It is the way all must go, yet it\\nis hard very hardP\\n13", "height": "2989", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "echoesfromspirit00kane_0019.jp2"}, "20": {"fulltext": "ECHOES FROM THE\\nI sought in vain to inform them of my\\n.presence, as no matter what my gestures\\nwere, they paid no attention to me.\\nI would fain have comforted their sad\\nhearts with the assurance that I still lived\\nand loved, but no thought or movement of\\nmine seemed to attract any attention.\\nAt last, worn with this thought, I passed\\non into the familiar room where the lump\\nof clay that had once encased my entity lay\\nas one asleep.\\nI looked lovingly at the temple I had in-\\nhabited so many years, and with a good-by\\nthought, left the room to seek more con-\\ngenial air outside. I wondered what time\\nit was, as the lamps were not yet lighted.\\nI could not even guess the time of day.\\nAfter looking upon familiar scenes in and\\naround my home, I decided to try the street.\\nHere I found all was clear to my mind, and\\n14", "height": "2989", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "echoesfromspirit00kane_0020.jp2"}, "21": {"fulltext": "8PIRIT WORLD.\\nmany familiar forms greeted my sight, but\\npaid no attention to me, in fact, walked\\nright on in their course turning not to the\\nright or left, consequently passing right\\nthrough me. It did not disconcert me in\\nthe least, and only gave me a feeling of\\nloneliness, not to be recognized but I be-\\ngan to fully realize the novelty of my new\\nsituation, and thought this is to be endless.\\nThis only added to my burden of sorrow,\\nfor now I must seek new associates in ac-\\ncordance with my new environment.\\nFinally, my mind was drawn to business,\\nwhich had engrossed a greater part of my\\nlife and here it will be different. Here^ I\\nthought, I shall at least be recognized, and\\nsome deference paid to the senior partner of\\nthe firm but alas no one paid any atten-\\ntion to me. This was the crowning point\\nof sorrow, and I resolved never to make a\\nIS", "height": "2989", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "echoesfromspirit00kane_0021.jp2"}, "22": {"fulltext": "ECHOES FROM THE\\nsecond attempt, as it evidently was useless.\\nSo, turning my back upon that room, which\\nin the past held so many busy hours for me,\\nI resolved to learn what the great future\\nhad in store, as evidently the haunts which\\nhad known me so long, now would know\\nme no more forever.\\nThus I glided out unnoticed, and when\\nagain in the air felt freer, as while in the\\nold environments I felt the same sense of\\nanxiety for the welfare of the business,\\nwhich to me was becoming oppressive but\\nonce free, I decided it was best for me not\\nto return.\\nAt this point I began to experience a\\nsense of great loneliness. There they were\\nmy friends, but I could not make them\\nknow or feel my presence. At this, a friend\\nin spirit came and spoke to me. Divining\\nmy situation, he sought to lead my mind to\\ni6", "height": "2989", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "echoesfromspirit00kane_0022.jp2"}, "23": {"fulltext": "SPIBIT WORLD.\\nthe new surroundings, enough of which I\\nhad seen to throw some light upon my way.\\nGladly I accepted his advice, and we with-\\ndrew from the old haunts, where now there\\nwas nothing but disappointment, to an up-\\nper current, which was very invigorating.\\nCome with me to my home, said he\\nsee what a veritable paradise we possess.\\nSurely enough we were borne along a\\nshort distance, then there appeared what\\nto me seemed an enchanted isle, with trees\\nof spice perfume, and these words recurred\\nto my mind\\nJust over there is an isle so fair,\\nWith spice and sweet perfume.\\nNow, said my friend, just beyond the\\ntallest tree you can discern is where my\\nhouse and my dear Mary are.\\nIt was a long distance, but I took sight at\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00942 17", "height": "2989", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "echoesfromspirit00kane_0023.jp2"}, "24": {"fulltext": "ECHOES FROM THE\\nwhat seemed the tallest tree, and we steered\\nstraight for it.\\nAll this was accomplished in a few sec-\\nonds. Arriving at the place, I inquired,\\nWhere did you obtain material to con-\\nstruct so beautiful a dwelling\\nYou see, I spoke after the manner of the\\nflesh, as I had not yet learned to adjust my-\\nself to this new situation. He answered at\\nonce:\\nThat is the beauty of this life. We do\\nnot have to work here for years before we\\nmay have our hearts desire accomplished.\\nWe have only to desire with intense ear-\\nnestness, and we receive at once^ not next\\nyear, or at the end of a series of years of\\ntoil and waiting, but soon. One must settle\\nin his mind the plan of the house, and the\\nthought forms a tangible dwelling, at least\\nig", "height": "2989", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "echoesfromspirit00kane_0024.jp2"}, "25": {"fulltext": "SPIEIT WORLD.\\nAs this conversation was going on, we\\nhad drawn close to the dwelling, and my\\nfriend said, We will now enter, for here\\nwe dwell in love and perfect peace.\\nI wondered to myself if this were entirely\\ntrue, as so many times in the old life I had\\nbeen made heart-sick and weary over the\\nattempts at perfect peace and I thought,\\nReally, can this be true? I remembered\\nwhat Jesus had said My peace I leave\\nwith you, my peace I give unto you, not as\\nthe world giveth, but now. I thought,\\nThis is not that world, and I wonder if\\nthis is the peace spoken of However, we\\nentered the dwelling, there to greet the loved\\none of his choice, who had been in spirit\\nlife many years, and whose angelic ways\\nwere sure to win all in her presence. The\\npair made me feel perfectly at home, and I\\nwas invited to tarry with them at my will.\\n19", "height": "2989", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "echoesfromspirit00kane_0025.jp2"}, "26": {"fulltext": "ECHOES FEOM THE\\nUrged to recline upon one of the many\\nluxurious sofas, and rest, I did so, for I was\\nby this time greatly fatigued, and accepted\\nthe kind hospitality of my friend and his\\nnoble mate and I felt I was indeed blessed.\\n2\u00c2\u00ab", "height": "2989", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "echoesfromspirit00kane_0026.jp2"}, "27": {"fulltext": "8PIBIT WORLD,\\nChapter III.\\nIf our dead return not, then is Christ not risen\\nyour preaching is vain, and your faith is also vain.\\nFinding myself wholly given up to mus-\\nings of the past, present, and future, my\\nmind wandered back to the loved, and, to\\nme for the time being, wholly lost, or ob-\\nlivious to me in my present whereabouts;\\nyet my companionship was so delightful\\nthat I could not long dwell upon unpleasant\\nthings.\\nThey strove to entertain and bear my\\nmind aloft to many scenes which were yet\\nto come into my present life.\\nKnowing myself now to be a living entity,\\nI began musing with myself as to my future\\npossibilities. However much I had already\\nlearned, there was vastly more to be learned.", "height": "2989", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "echoesfromspirit00kane_0027.jp2"}, "28": {"fulltext": "ECHOES FROM THE\\nAppearing at m}^ side soon after these so-\\nliloquies, was a friend whom in earth-life I\\nhad called father. Well, father, I said,\\nyou have come, and I am very, very glad\\nto see you. It is many, many years since\\nwe parted, and I have often wondered how\\nit was with you, where you might be, and\\nif I would be so fortunate as to ever behold\\nyou again sit down and tell me all about\\nit.\\nMy dear son, it gives me great pleasure\\nto embrace you, and I freely confess, this is\\na very pleasurable meeting to me. Have\\nyou been long on the spirit side\\nNot long, I think, but just how long I\\ncannot tell, as I have not yet learned to\\nmeasure eternity.\\nIt makes no difference. I learned in\\npassing, you were being kindly cared for\\nby our good friend.\\n22", "height": "2989", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "echoesfromspirit00kane_0028.jp2"}, "29": {"fulltext": "SPIRIT WORLD.\\nNow, my son, there is much for you to\\nlearn, and very much you must understand,\\nbefore you can develop those faculties of the\\nsoul which will be your inherent right. You\\nmust let go your hold upon earth for a time,\\nneither directing your thought nor affections\\nnadirward and I will help you to master\\nsome of the difficult lessons, and with your\\npermission will now take you out for a little\\nflight.\\nAcceding joyously to his request, we pro-\\ngressed finely, for his grasp was so firm,\\nthere was no sense of dizziness nor fear that\\nI experienced in my first lesson. Then the\\nthought of confidence that what my father\\nthought best for me was best, made me very\\nhappy.\\nUp to this time I had formed no idea of\\nthe magnitude of space, but now we seemed\\ndrowned in azure blue, and were struggling\\n23", "height": "2989", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "echoesfromspirit00kane_0029.jp2"}, "30": {"fulltext": "ECHOES FROM THE\\nwith space. We met and passed many peo-\\nple on some mission bent some going earth-\\nward, others overtaking and passing us,\\nbound for the Celestial realm.\\nFather, said I, whither are we going?\\nTo God, my son.\\nBut to-day right now\\nOh, no it will take an indefinite space\\nto be able to reach Him.\\nWell, what in the meantime?\\nI wish to show you some of the glories\\nof this life, the habitations not made with\\nhands, eternal in the heavens.\\nYou have already seen a sample of the\\nglory of God s love, in the home you just\\nleft, and I wish to show you other homes,\\njust as real, just as tangible, as this one.\\nBut father, how is it it seems so far.\\nWhy did you not stay nearer earth, and thus\\nsave all this travel\\n24", "height": "2989", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "echoesfromspirit00kane_0030.jp2"}, "31": {"fulltext": "8PIBIT WORLD.\\nAre you growing weary If so, we will\\nrest at the next inn, where all are well re-\\nceived.\\nI do feel fagged out, and believe it is\\nbest to rest.\\nAccordingly in a very short space (I do\\nnot mean time, as over here there is no\\ntime, but everything is measured by space\\ntraveled over, or to be traveled we came\\nwithin sight of one of these resting-places,\\nwhich we greeted gladly upon our arrival,\\nand were refreshed by our rest, and by par-\\ntaking of the aroma and essence of food,\\nwhich is all the spirit requires for its sus-\\ntenance, and which it must have occasion-\\nally, for complete health and enjoyment.\\nWe have the counterparts in essence of all\\nfoods in earth-life, and therefore have a\\nchoice, according to our various tastes and re-\\nquirements, as our natures are not changed,\\nand we retain our own individuality.\\n25", "height": "2989", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "echoesfromspirit00kane_0031.jp2"}, "32": {"fulltext": "ECHOES FROM THE\\nIt was indeed a delightful experience, as\\nthis was my first in imbibing these delicious\\naromas. In earth-life there are those sen-\\nsitives who experience within their spiritual\\nsenses these aromas, either of herbs, per-\\nfumes, or food but I had not been blessed\\nwith this inner sense, and only now, for the\\nfirst time in my existence, was strengthened\\nby spirit power.\\nI found that here, as before, we met peo-\\nple of all shades of belief. The future was\\nstill in advance, and at every step it seemed\\nas far away as ever. I could not realize\\nthat I was 7tow in the future, or what it\\nseemed to me, when I trod the mundane\\nsphere. Now, it all seemed endless, bound-\\nless space, with habitations and resting-\\nplaces.\\nCome, said my father, let us be go-\\ning. I wish to reach home by nightfall.\\n26", "height": "2989", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "echoesfromspirit00kane_0032.jp2"}, "33": {"fulltext": "SPIRIT WOELB.\\nNightfall! said I; I thought there\\nwas no night in Heaven. Are we not in\\nHeaven?\\nNot yet. There is, I am told, a place\\nwhere it does not grow dark, but we have\\nnot reached that realm.\\nWe must be patient, and not seek to\\nunderstand all God s ways at once. We\\nhave enough to make us supremely happy\\non the way, and we ought to be content\\ntherewith, and not strive to advance beyond\\nour comprehension. As we progress we\\nshall understand all. Your dear mother\\nwill be awaiting us, and it is Heaven to\\nher to have you with us, and I wish you\\nto stay some little space, as we have a very\\ncommodious dwelling, and will be so pleased\\nto have you with us again.\\nOn, on we went, past a small star.\\nFather, is not thia a world\\n27", "height": "2989", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "echoesfromspirit00kane_0033.jp2"}, "34": {"fulltext": "ECHOES FROM THE\\nYes, my son. I have visited some of\\nthem. They have inhabitants, and each its\\nuse but to spirits is given the v^orld of\\nspace outside. We are almost there. You\\ndiscern, like a speck, the tallest spire in our\\nlittle village. That is the place.\\n28", "height": "2989", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "echoesfromspirit00kane_0034.jp2"}, "35": {"fulltext": "SPIRIT WORLD.\\nChapter IV.\\nHow shall I know thee in the sphere which keeps\\nThe disembodied spirits of the dead,\\nWhen all of thee that time could wither sleeps\\nAnd perishes among the dust we tread\\nShalt thou not teach me, in that calmer home,\\nThe wisdom that I learned so ill in this,\\nThe wisdom which is love, til I become\\nThy fit companion in that land of bliss\\nWilliam Cullen Bryant.\\nNearing home I thought, just as when,\\nso many years before, I would be absent for\\na time, and my dear mother would come to\\ngreet me and my thought in rapturous\\nthrills was borne ahead to this meeting,\\nwhich now seemed imminent.\\nSure enough she caught sight of us, and\\ncame with wide-open arms to receive the\\nwanderer and to me it was like the old life.\\n29", "height": "2989", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "echoesfromspirit00kane_0035.jp2"}, "36": {"fulltext": "ECHOES FROM THE\\nOh, mother you are not changed, but are\\nthe same loving, kind and faithful mother.\\nHow do you enjoy this life How have\\nyou been, and where are all the rest of us,\\nthat you had so long in your keeping Are\\nthey not with you\\nMy dear son, I will answer your ques-\\ntions directly but now let me say, I am so\\npleased to see you and have you at home\\nonce more. Here you know you are wel-\\ncome not only to come, but to stay. I have\\nplenty and to spare. There is no privation\\nhere, and no worry as to how we are to get\\nalong, as is the case with humanity. There,\\nit is one constant struggle to provide the\\nnecessities, but not so here. All we do is to\\nsee the necessity and the thought forms the\\nelement. It is grand. So many times I\\nwould have loved to send you word of all\\nthis life, but I could not reach you. I tried\\n30", "height": "2989", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "echoesfromspirit00kane_0036.jp2"}, "37": {"fulltext": "SPIBIT WORLD.\\nmany times, but finally gave it up and as\\nyou were the last to come of all my chil-\\ndren, I felt you would find the way as all\\nthe rest had done. There are none of them\\nhere just now, but some will return after a\\nlittle space, as this, as you have already\\nlearned, is our method of defining the inter-\\nval of absence.\\nWell, on the whole I like this life better\\nthan the old life. I find the faculties of\\nmindhsive renewed vigor; and, then, we al-\\nways feel w^ell. No pain, you understand.\\nWe grow weary, of course, but the rest is\\nso sweet that it is only a cheerful change.\\nBut tell me of yourself how have you\\nleft the dear ones at home Are they rec-\\nonciled\\nHardly, I think. Do you know, mother,\\nI have not had the heart to return since my\\nleave-taking after my first flight I was\\n31", "height": "2989", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "echoesfromspirit00kane_0037.jp2"}, "38": {"fulltext": "ECHOES FROM THE\\nnot noticed or any attention paid to me, and\\nit was useless for me to remain there. I\\nhave no desire to return again would rather\\ngo on, and find what the future has in store\\nfor me.\\nI felt just so too, but then at last I found\\na way to reach the mortal world, though\\nnot my nearest and dearest. Prejudice in\\nthe minds of the people deters many from\\ntrying to communicate with their friends\\nand, as one of old exclaimed, they would\\nnot believe though one should rise from the\\ndead. This, I think, is the cause of many\\nin Spirit-life becoming discouraged, feeling\\nthey will not be recognized or believed.\\nI tried many times, my son, to reach you\\nwith mother-love, but failed, in that I got\\nno response, as of course you were not edu-\\ncated along these lines, and were not look-\\ning for anything from me.\\n32", "height": "2989", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "echoesfromspirit00kane_0038.jp2"}, "39": {"fulltext": "SPIRIT WOBLB.\\nBut come, I have many things to show\\nyou, now that you have come to this life.\\nWe will first survey our premises, then\\nthose of our adjoining neighbors some of\\nthem you know. You see, we are content\\nwith our traveling for a space, and located\\nin this beautiful valley, that we may enjoy\\nall the beauties vouchsafed to the children of\\nGod. I cannot give up my faith in that\\nsame loving Heavenly Father who was my\\nstaff and stay through so many years of my\\npilgrimage in earth-life. But come let us\\nlook around.\\nAt this my mother arose; I followed. We\\npassed out upon a broad portico, which was\\ndecorated with exquisite taste in Grecian\\narchitecture, the carvings and engravings\\nalone forming a display of decorative art\\nthat was inclined to dazzle the eye and mind.\\nBeautiful beautiful I exclaimed.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00943 33", "height": "2989", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "echoesfromspirit00kane_0039.jp2"}, "40": {"fulltext": "ECHOES FROM THE\\nThis is enchanting. These broad porticos,\\nfilled as they are with rare and tropical\\nplants, are nearly all the room you need.\\nMy mother smiled as was her wont when\\ngreatly amused.\\nThis is the outside, she remarked\\ncome, let us pass around to the side en-\\ntrance.\\nSuiting the action to the word, we entered,\\nthrough a maze of bewildering sweetness,\\nand when once inside, this vision of loveliness\\nwas still continued, more in the matter of\\nbeautiful plants than in any other particular,\\nthough the furnishings were most luxurious.\\nMany elegant mirrors reflected my image\\nback to my astonished vision. As this was\\nmy first look at myself in spirit-form it gave\\nme great happiness to know I looked\\nyounger by twenty years than in the body I\\nhad laid aside. I knew that I felt so, but\\n34", "height": "2989", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "echoesfromspirit00kane_0040.jp2"}, "41": {"fulltext": "8PIBIT WOBLD.\\nhad not thought about how I looked until\\nthis moment when I beheld myself.\\nMother, I said, this is entrancing,\\na veritable paradise Do you not find it\\nfatiguing to care for so much bric-a-brac,\\ntapestries, etc.\\nNo, my son; that is the grand part of\\nit, there are no moth and rust here, no dust\\nand decay, and our belongings may be\\nchanged at will. But come, I wish to show\\nyou our imbibing-room.\\nWe moved as it were among a sea of\\ncrystal, silver, and gold.\\nBut, I said, certainly these dishes\\nnever contain food, as none is needed.\\nThey may, my mother replied instantly.\\nHave you not already been refreshed\\nCertainly; but the viands were dispensed\\nfrom urns on the air to guests at an inn, to\\nwhich we repaired for rest.\\n35", "height": "2989", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "echoesfromspirit00kane_0041.jp2"}, "42": {"fulltext": "ECHOES FROM THE\\nYes, I know there are various ways; but\\noccasionally the old life returns with such\\nforce that we sit at table with a display of\\nwhat you see here, and gratify our tastes\\nfor whatever is uppermost in our minds:\\nstrawberries and other delicious fruits, and\\nvegetables after our own thinking. Thus\\nyou see we are not wholly detached from\\neverything of earth, but likely the next time\\nwe locate for a space we will be farther up\\nthe valley, or wholly removed from it.\\nIndeed this is all very wonderful to\\nme. But where are my companions of\\nother years, my sisters, and my brother\\nMy mother s face grew thoughtful as she\\nsaid: John comes often, very often. The\\ngirls are here occasionally, and I think will\\nbe here in a short space, but they never\\nstay long. Their mission is to the darkened\\nminds of earth, as they can reach earth s\\n36", "height": "2989", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "echoesfromspirit00kane_0042.jp2"}, "43": {"fulltext": "SPIRIT WOBLD.\\nchildren with messages of love, to prepare\\nthem for a transit to this beautiful world.\\nThey are much interested in their work,\\nand except for their long flights, would be\\ngone a shorter space; but they are sent long\\ndistances, many times, to reach all the mem-\\nbers of one family.\\nJohn, as you already know, was of a sci-\\nentific turn of mind, and here he has oppor-\\ntunity to investigate to his heart s content.\\nHe has been a student since coming here,\\nand is nearly always away from me, either\\nexperimenting with the elements, or attend-\\ning classes for the prosecution of his studies,\\nor at the centers of learning where profound\\nknowledge upon these subjects is to be ob-\\ntained, or attending convocations of the wis-\\ndom of earth, which is now the wisdom of\\nthe spheres. Thus you see he has little\\nspace to spend in idleness. But here he\\ncomes. I thought he would be here soon.\\n37", "height": "2989", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "echoesfromspirit00kane_0043.jp2"}, "44": {"fulltext": "ECHOES FROM THE\\nMy dear, dear brother! and my hands\\nwere both grasped in his warm clasp. It\\nis so good to see you, that we may have an\\ninterchange of thought and flow of soul.\\nHow often would I have let you know\\nwhat to expect, but ye would not but\\nwhen we meet here we are kin, for all the\\nworld beside is as naught to us, v/hen we\\nhave found our own. When did you ar-\\nrive and who was your guide Were\\nyou sick long and how are the dear ones\\nat home\\nAll of which I answered as best I could\\nafter which, conversation turned to the future\\nof each.\\nI had not thought much about what\\nwould do, when asked the question.\\nI had spent my earth-life in a struggle\\nwith the world for a living, and now\\nwhither was I drifting, while my brother\\n38", "height": "2989", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "echoesfromspirit00kane_0044.jp2"}, "45": {"fulltext": "8PIBIT WOULD.\\nwas only continuing what he began on\\nearth? There was no cessation to his\\nclimbing; he was steadily progressing, I\\ncould readily see that. Had chosen what\\nto him would be congenial throughout all\\neternity, and, I thought, he has chosen the\\nbetter part. Many mysteries he will ex-\\nplore, many truths will bring to light, and\\nall the while brought in contact with bril-\\nliant minds, and the learned of all ages.\\nHow fortunate to have chosen so wisely!\\nWhile these reflections were present, my\\nbrother seemed absorbed in some deep prob-\\nlem. At length he said, Do you know,\\nArchie, I believe it will yet be possible to\\nbuild a line of communication with our dear\\nones on earth, that they may know, f/iem-\\ns elves, that we do still live?\\nThe girls in their experience often find\\npeople they may communicate their thoughts\\n39", "height": "2989", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "echoesfromspirit00kane_0045.jp2"}, "46": {"fulltext": "ECHOES FROM THE\\nto, though have not been so fortunate.\\nAll my visits to earth have been failures, so\\nfar as convincing any of my return; but\\nthere is a theory now being discussed by our\\nchemists, that there will be many who will\\nreceive this knowledge, through their opera-\\ntions. They have not the elements fully un-\\nder subjection, but when they do any may\\nappear to his friends who will.*\\nThis you are telling me is all quite won-\\nderful, and I think I would like to begin the\\nstudy of chemistry even at this late day.\\nFinding my brother thoroughly satisfied\\nwith his vocation, and as it seemed to afford\\na great many advantages to the inquiring\\nmind, I decided to start, and learn what I\\ncould of the wonderful chemistry of Nature.\\nHere, of course, we are not dealing with sol-\\nids, but with their counterparts.\\nIt took me some space to adjust myself to\\n40", "height": "2989", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "echoesfromspirit00kane_0046.jp2"}, "47": {"fulltext": "SPIRIT WORLD.\\nthe new situation, so different from anything\\nI had ever experienced, but I was compelled\\nto begin at the foundation.\\nMy brother took me with him, in his re-\\nsearches after scientific truth, which was in-\\ndeed an aid to me; but I was associated\\nmostly with persons who, like myself, had\\nnot given any thought to this study before.\\nOur teachers were the sages and learned,\\nwho were fully competent to instruct us.\\nWe made good progress, and found it\\nvery interesting. This line of action was\\nfar different from any that I should have\\nthought of, yet I feel it was right, for I had\\nall through my being a love of knowledge,\\nwhatever the department, and here might\\nbe the opportunity to do some good to\\nothers. This thought is uppermost here\\nWhom, of all the struggling ones, can we\\naid or benefit? With this in view it was\\n41", "height": "2989", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "echoesfromspirit00kane_0047.jp2"}, "48": {"fulltext": "ECHOES FROM THE\\neasy to direct all my energies in the one\\nchannel.\\nFinally, after a certain point in progress\\nwas reached, we were told we would now\\ngo on an exploring tour. This was hailed\\nwith glad delight by me, as it would break\\nthe monotony of constant study. However,\\nwe were to take a short vacation for rest,\\nand each to pursue the even tenor of his\\nways but when coming together again we\\nwere to immediately set out on our mission.\\nAs may be readily supposed, my space was\\nenjoyed in the home of my dear mother, as\\nhere I was always certain of a hearty wel-\\ncome this time becoming acquainted with\\nthe villagers, and renewing the acquaint-\\nance of a number of persons. This was in-\\ndeed a happy space, spent with my sisters\\nand friends. They told me of their work\\nand progress, and all seemed very wonder-\\nful to me.\\n42", "height": "2989", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "echoesfromspirit00kane_0048.jp2"}, "49": {"fulltext": "SPIRIT WORLD.\\nIn the alchemy of science we have what\\nis called the known law. This is the cen-\\ntral point, and from this the unknown is de-\\nduced. As in the material world, the laws\\nof growth are the known law, and are ca-\\npable of explanation, yet the real element of\\nlife in that growth is the unkno\\\\vn law, and\\ncannot receive a satisfactory solution. We\\nhave learned that this element has its being\\nat the center of the universe, and is induced\\nby thought, as that is the only tangible\\nthing in this whole universe of being.\\nThere must be an Entity to direct that\\nthought, but as yet I have not beheld it.\\nI with others have seen a display of power,\\nbut it is not the thing itself.\\nFully alive to my privileges, I joined the\\nclass on their tour of investigation, finding\\nmany strange and wonderful experiences as\\nthe result of research. We were aided by\\n43", "height": "2989", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "echoesfromspirit00kane_0049.jp2"}, "50": {"fulltext": "ECHOES FROM TEE\\nchemists of earth (unconsciously to them, of\\ncourse), and many subjects treated scientif-\\nically in the upper stratum, now were ca-\\npable of full demonstration. The compounds\\nof air, on the surface of the earth, afforded\\ndifferent elements from those we had been\\ndealing with.\\nOur professors were well pleased with\\nour showing and, encouraged by their en-\\ncomiums, which were not withheld, we were\\ninduced to employ every visible means to\\nfurther our profession, as this had now\\nreallv come to be to me.\\n44", "height": "2989", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "echoesfromspirit00kane_0050.jp2"}, "51": {"fulltext": "SPIRIT WORLD.\\nChapter V.\\nAnd can I see this light It may be so\\nBut see it thus and thus, our fathers said.\\nThe living do not rule the world. Ah, no!\\nIt is the dead, the dead.\\nJean Ingelow.\\nPursuing these lines of thought, we were\\noften given to deep, intricate study, such as\\nrarely comes to mortal life, all of which I\\nenjoyed with a zest only known to the\\nhungry, famishing soul. I often met my\\nbrother in our journeyings, but as yet had\\nnot reached his high plane of development.\\nNow I feel is the time for me to relate an\\nincident fraught with more than ordinary\\ninterest\\nWe were just returning from one of our\\nexploring tours, when we were amazed to\\n45", "height": "2989", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "echoesfromspirit00kane_0051.jp2"}, "52": {"fulltext": "ECHOES FROM THE\\nfind an obstruction in our way, which hin-\\ndered our further progress. To surmount\\nthe barrier seemed impossible, and the only\\nway out for us seemed to be to solve the\\nproblem. We set to work with wills not\\nto be daunted, and in a brief space had\\nbrought to perfect order what at first seemed\\nchaos and impending danger. However,\\nwe resolved not to magnify our discovery,\\nbut limit it to the rules governing such irreg-\\nularities; consequently our lesson was more\\nthoroughly demonstrated, and henceforth\\nwe profited by what to us was a valuable\\nlesson.\\nMany, very many times we were brought\\nin contact with persons of inquiring minds,\\nwhich was an aid to us, for here, as on\\nearth, minds of the same degree are associ-\\nated. There are ignoble souls struggling\\nwithin the limits and confines of earth s\\n46", "height": "2989", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "echoesfromspirit00kane_0052.jp2"}, "53": {"fulltext": "SPIRIT WORLD.\\nsphere, but they are content with these sur-\\nroundings of their kind, and only as the\\nmind wishes to progress out of these condi-\\ntions is it enabled to do so.\\nHardly had we found our bearings upon\\nthe time in question, when our minds were\\ndrawn to a former circumstance of such\\nmagnitude as to almost confound the wis-\\ndom of our teachers. So we knew we were\\nreaching the end of what might be learned\\nin this sphere for us; and as we were told\\nwe must go on, we marveled within our-\\nselves what we would do for instructors.\\nBut this did not last long, for there appeared\\nothers, whose missions were to look after\\nus. And so we went on and on in the pur-\\nsuit of knowledge, hoping, believing we\\nwould reach the end, but as yet none in\\nsight. We rest often and have relief from\\nthe constant strain that the mind must en-\\n47", "height": "2989", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "echoesfromspirit00kane_0053.jp2"}, "54": {"fulltext": "ECHOES FROM THE\\ndure when brought in constant contact with\\ndeep subjects, such as the astronomical and\\nphilosophical life of worlds, for there are\\nmyriads of them in the universe of being,\\nwhich demand consideration at the hands of\\na scientist. Many scientists believe all life\\nwill be developed, in every portion of the\\nuniverse, and where now only arid and bar-\\nren wastes exist, finally conditions will be\\nfavorable for propagation.\\nI would like to relate many circumstances\\nwhich gave me great pleasure, but must\\nconfine myself to a few sketches of this\\nperiod of my progress. Many times I met\\nold friends who were climbing to a higher\\nplane, and we passed happy spaces together,\\nrecalling old scenes and reviewing the life\\nalready spent, and giving to earnest thought\\nour problems for the future. The present\\nwe knew to be one of actuality, and we\\n48", "height": "2989", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "echoesfromspirit00kane_0054.jp2"}, "55": {"fulltext": "SPIRIT WOBLD.\\nwould often speculate as to what the future\\nmight bring, as we are realizing the fact\\nthat we are endowed with life that seems to\\nbe endless.\\nFrom force of habit, more than from any-\\nreal necessity, I longed to keep in touch\\nwith the old life. The dear ones that I had\\nleft helped to recall me to my once earth\\nconditions, and I often longed to communi-\\ncate to them the good news of my actual\\nexistence, and how it was with me, but so\\nfar had utterly failed.\\nAbout this time I concluded to try once\\nmore, and thought that with the chemical\\nknowledge I now possessed, I might be able\\nto reach some of them. Hearing of a medi-\\natress in the same town with them, I re-\\nsolved to pay a visit to this person and\\nascertain if I might not send to my dear\\nones a message. Should I fail in this, I\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00944 49", "height": "2989", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "echoesfromspirit00kane_0055.jp2"}, "56": {"fulltext": "ECHOES FROM THE\\nwould then try to impress or control them.\\nAccording to my thought, I found myself\\nin the apartment of a refined and intelligent\\nlady, whose guide promised me that he\\nwould give through her hand anything I\\nmight wish to communicate to my loved ones.\\nAccordingly, I formulated my message, and\\nhad the great pleasure of knowing it was\\nwritten down, with my own name signed to\\nthe document; and it gave me great satis-\\nfaction, for now^ I thought, they will surely\\nknow have been here. The guide prom-\\nised to see that it was delivered to my wife.\\nSo now I must await the result. Therefore\\nI took my departure from this place, and\\nentered my own home. Everything was\\nthe same as when on that eve I went out\\nfrom my home, as I thought, forever; for I\\ndid not then know the law of return, or\\ncommunication with those in earth-life, or\\n50", "height": "2989", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "echoesfromspirit00kane_0056.jp2"}, "57": {"fulltext": "SPIRIT WORLD.\\nin fact one single spiritual law; but in my\\nstudies of the chemical laws of matter and\\nspirit, had learned that spirit may become\\ncognizant to spirit, through spirit in matter.\\nHow natural all seems! Here is my wife,\\njust the same; looks the same, only with\\nhere and there a line of care I had not no-\\nticed before, and a few more silver threads\\nmingled with the once golden hair; and\\nnow I see her walk, her step is not as firm\\nas was her wont. Oh, Emma! Emma!\\nI thought, have they been good to you\\nsince I have been away, or what has caused\\nyou to sigh so often Can it be that she\\nthinks me dead, and as not caring for her\\nThis thought for the first time pierced my\\nsoul, and I exclaimed, am not dead I\\nam here by your side At this it seemed\\nto me she saw me, for she raised her head\\nand looked straight at me, but I could see\\nshe directed her gaze to something beyond.\\n51", "height": "2989", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "echoesfromspirit00kane_0057.jp2"}, "58": {"fulltext": "ECHOES FROM THE\\nTurning, I saw the object of her gaze.\\nMy son had entered, and she joined in con-\\nversation with him, and I realized he was\\nthe man of a family and had reached mid-\\ndle life whereas when I left him he was\\nbut a lad of twelve summers. And I said,\\nHow long I must have been gone No\\nwonder the light has faded out of Emma s\\neyes, and her steps are slow. She has had\\nmuch to contend with.\\nWhile I yet wait, a ring at the door sends\\nmy wife out of the room. When she re-\\nturned she bore in her hand the paper upon\\nwhich my message was written. Let me\\nhere say this medium is noted for delivering\\nall messages given to her, not only to those\\nwho have actually demonstrated this truth\\nto their own satisfaction, but to those who\\nknow nothing, as yet, of these spiritual laws\\nas well.\\n52", "height": "2989", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "echoesfromspirit00kane_0058.jp2"}, "59": {"fulltext": "8PIBIT WORLD.\\nUnfolding and reading, what to her was\\nwonderful, she reads to the son. Poor hun-\\ngry heart she is ready to accept, as coming\\nfrom one so long gone, a message of love\\nand greeting but the son said, Mother,\\ndo not be deceived. Is it not likely father\\nwould come directly to us if he had any-\\nthing to reveal to us, instead of this person,\\nto whom he was a stranger, and who could\\npossibly know nothing of him\\nNo, my son, this to me is proof positive\\nthat it is your father. This is a lady, I am\\ntold, of gifted powers, an honest, upright\\nwoman, a person of fine endowments, kind\\nand loving, possessed of this gift of com-\\nmunion with the other world and she could\\nnot possibly have known some of the things\\ncontained in this message. I have long\\nwished for something from this source, and\\nnow my heart-longing is gratified. I will\\nnot turn away from it.\\n53", "height": "2989", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "echoesfromspirit00kane_0059.jp2"}, "60": {"fulltext": "ECHOES FROM THE\\nWell, mother, I had no idea you enter-\\ntained these views upon this subject, or for\\na minute believed the gone were here.\\nBut I do, my son. Once I would not\\nhave admitted as much to you, but I feel\\nthat the time has come when each one must\\nbelieve for herself and himself, and, if she\\ngets evidence which to her is convincing,\\nshe ought to accept it and be thankful for\\nit. If our loved ones are really living, they\\nmust be loving and thinking of us still, and\\nthis message is an evidence that it is a\\ntruth.\\nWell thought you had changed your\\nviews upon this subject since I last heard\\nyou talk. We will look forward to many\\nsuch scenes, if this is your belief.\\nThe son, always wise, said no more upon\\nthe subject, and remarked he had run in of\\na little errand, which done, he must return,\\n54", "height": "2989", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "echoesfromspirit00kane_0060.jp2"}, "61": {"fulltext": "SPIRIT WORLD.\\nas they would be waiting dinner. Said\\nthe children were well, and all was going\\nsmoothly, which was the first intimation,\\nthat I was grandpa. How proud I felt,\\nand with what vanity did I walk with my\\nson to see those grand-babies\\nWell, it was a delight to my soul, yet no\\none noticed my arrival or departure, and in\\nthis home I did not feel the same exultant\\njoy that possessed me in the home of my\\nwife. As may be readily seen, here was a\\ngerm that would grow, and in this growing\\nI was yet to find much satisfaction. Hear-\\ning the message read gave me great hope\\nthat my wife, who seemed deeply interested,\\nwould make an effort to come in contact\\nwith this person, through whom I could\\nreach her. At last, after due deliberation, I\\nsaw the resolve forming in her mind, that\\nshe would investigate this subject, and be\\n55", "height": "2989", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "echoesfromspirit00kane_0061.jp2"}, "62": {"fulltext": "ECHOES FROM THE\\nconvinced, for herself, whether this message\\nwas of earth or Heaven as she called it.\\nThe one test in the message helped to form\\nthis resolve, and accordingly she repaired to\\nthe home of this medium.\\nHer experience was much the same as\\nthat known to all persons who for a time\\ngive themselves up to the study of the oc-\\ncult now hope, now disappointment but\\nfinally triumph was hers. She came to the\\nfirm conclusion that the messages were au-\\nthentic, and that her husband was their\\nauthor.\\nHow happy this made me, only those\\nwho have had a like experience can know.\\nI sent long and loving messages, and re-\\nceived the same in return. When I told her\\nI was constantly with her, she could not re-\\nalize this; so I did not puzzle her brain with\\nthe thought, but would wait for this knowl-\\n56", "height": "2989", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "echoesfromspirit00kane_0062.jp2"}, "63": {"fulltext": "SPIRIT WORLD.\\nedge to come in its own good time. I did\\nnot have to wait long, however, for within\\na very short space my utmost wish was to\\nbe gratified. My wife had now formed\\nmany acquaintances among those who were\\nstudents of the laws of the occult, and this\\nhelped to lead her mind on in the direction\\nin which it at this time was inclined and\\nanxious to go.\\nHearing of the arrival in the city of a re-\\nnowned medium, my wife very properly re-\\npaired to the home of this party. As to my-\\nself, I was usually found at the place where\\nthere was any hope of manifesting to her,\\nwho as yet was the only one of my friends in\\nearth-life that I had succeeded in reaching.\\nThinking to add another testimony of my\\npresence, I strove to make her know by\\nstroking her hair. This was not successful.\\nThen I stood before her in my brightest cos-\\n57", "height": "2989", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "echoesfromspirit00kane_0063.jp2"}, "64": {"fulltext": "ECHOES FROM THE\\ntume, but all to no purpose, evidently, as she\\npaid no attention to me. So I must content\\nmyself with a message to my best beloved,\\nand bide the space when I might come\\nnearer to her consciousness.\\nMy mind was for the present absorbed in\\nthis one sole object of making my individual\\npresence known to her, the soul of my being,\\nwhom I loved and longed, oh, so eagerly to\\nimpress with my veritable presence\\nAt this point, my mind was drawn to\\nthe position that I occupied in the soul of\\nuniverse, and it occurred to me that I had\\nalready been absent from my studies and\\nteachers as long, perhaps, as my vacation\\nwould permit that I must return to pursue\\nthat boundless line of progress that is never\\nending during the infinitude of space.\\nMingled thoughts of gladness and sorrow,\\nas upon that first eve when I took my de-\\n58", "height": "2989", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "echoesfromspirit00kane_0064.jp2"}, "65": {"fulltext": "SPIRIT WORLD.\\nparture, possessed me. To leave Emma,\\ncaused me a thrill of sadness. Would I\\ncould take her with me but this cannot be,\\nnow. I will come often, I thought, and\\ngive her a message, regardless of the long\\nflights that are tiresome and cause exhaus-\\ntion. And with this I bade my dear one\\ngood-by for a space.\\n59", "height": "2989", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "echoesfromspirit00kane_0065.jp2"}, "66": {"fulltext": "ECHOES FROM THE\\nChapter VI.\\nShe is not dead, the child of our affection,\\nBut gone unto that school\\nWhere she no longer needs our poor protection,\\nAnd Christ himself doth rule.\\nIn that great cloister s stillness and seclusion,\\nBy guardian angels led,\\nSafe from temptation, safe from sin s pollution.\\nShe lives whom we call dead.\\nLongfellow.\\nIn the boundaries of life, we are often led\\nto understand the intricate problems which\\nto us were simply appalling at first, and out\\nof the usual routine; but with due familiarity\\nwith any subject, the im.possible is borne away\\non the wings of the probable. Thus it was\\nwith my wife as she became accustomed\\nto receiving my messages, her mind was con-\\nvinced of the truth of my being in her at-\\n60", "height": "2989", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "echoesfromspirit00kane_0066.jp2"}, "67": {"fulltext": "SPIBIT WOBLD.\\nmosphere, and all went well with her. Yet\\nmy son was not at all certain that this could\\nbe. The old teachings still held his mind\\nin abeyance, and whether he would or not,\\nhe could see nothing in the idea of per-\\nsonal contact with spirit existence. He and\\nhis mother held long conversations upon the\\ntheme, which to her was fast becoming a\\njoy but he could not look beyond the veil\\nof flesh and behold the operations of spirit.\\nThough willing to be convinced, he said, he\\ncould not be.\\nMeanwhile, I was busy between the two,\\nin my intervals of respite from study and\\nexploration. Finally, the time came when\\nI could give him a prophecy. Ere two\\nweeks, his darling Edith, the lamb of his\\nflock, would be with me. Thus I wrote,\\nand my wife delivered the naessage. What\\ncould it mean Heretofore, he had feared\\n6i", "height": "2989", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "echoesfromspirit00kane_0067.jp2"}, "68": {"fulltext": "ECHOES FROM THE\\nfor his mother s mind, and now he was cer-\\ntain she was becoming unbalanced. What\\nshould he do This was certainly an evi-\\ndence of its unsoundness, as Edith was in\\nperfect health. So he reasoned, but he did\\nnot have long to wait, to see the message\\nverified. The little life went out to the\\ngreat sea of infinite life, and her grandpa\\nmet and comforted her in her loss, for only\\nas each one comes can he realize the hungry\\nlonging to communicate with those he leaves\\nbehind. If all mortals understood this law\\nby which we can come, what a benediction\\nit would be to both the arisen and the re-\\nmaining spirits\\nIt was not easy to make the little girl of\\nthree years comfortable, as she would grieve\\nlong at not being recognized by mamma\\nand papa but I told her that sometime I\\nthought they would know she was there. It\\n62", "height": "2989", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "echoesfromspirit00kane_0068.jp2"}, "69": {"fulltext": "SPIRIT WORLD.\\nwas indeed a trial to me, as she could not\\ncomprehend the meaning of the changed\\nlife, and it was very hard to reconcile her.\\nShe would mourn for the love and care which\\nwas part of her life. I was an utter stranger\\nto her, yet, by the ties of nature, very near.\\nBut she could not understand this so I\\nthought, I will bear her away and place\\nher with other children then her little\\nheart will be satisfied and it was, in a\\nmeasure. She joined in their merry sports,\\nand for a time forgot her loss.\\nI was much relieved at what seemed to\\nbe a reconciliation to her present environ-\\nments. I carefully looked after her in-\\nstruction, and selected her teacher with the\\nutmost care, one who was in every way\\nfitted to discharge the duty assigned for\\nhere there are souls whose sole love is to\\nguide and guard the little children who pass\\n63", "height": "2989", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "echoesfromspirit00kane_0069.jp2"}, "70": {"fulltext": "ECHOES FROM THE\\nin infancy. These children are Angels of\\nLight, and may behold His face. They\\nare taken long flights, and their purity es-\\ntablishes their right to come into the pres-\\nence of Infinite Spirit, conveyed thither by\\nangels who like themselves have passed in\\nthe stage of purity, before the blighting dis-\\neases of the soul have entered into their or-\\nganisms. Thus Edith is being trained for\\nher mission, and I am watching with a pride\\nwhich I am sure will be pardoned by those\\nwho have had the life of a little sinless child,\\ntouch their being.\\n64", "height": "2989", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "echoesfromspirit00kane_0070.jp2"}, "71": {"fulltext": "SPIEIT WOELD.\\nChapter VII.\\nThank God for dreams When nothing else is left,\\nWhen the sick soul, all tortured with its pain,\\nKnowing itself forevermore bereft.\\nFinds waiting hopeless, and all watching vain.\\nWhen empty arms grow rigid with their ache.\\nWhen eyes are blinded with sad tide of tears.\\nWhen stricken hearts do suffer yet not break,\\nFor loss of those who come not with the years,\\nThank God, thank God for dreams\\nElla Wheeler Wilcox.\\nThe events of the last chapter produced a\\nprofound impression upon my son s mind,\\nand he thought it strange, very strange.\\nHow w^as this thing Could his father\\nreally talk to him and give him direction, or\\nwas it merely a coincidence But, thought\\nhe, they do not often happen as accurately\\nas this event was portrayed and fulfilled.\\nWhat was he to do He formed in his\\n-5 65", "height": "2989", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "echoesfromspirit00kane_0071.jp2"}, "72": {"fulltext": "ECHOES FROM THE\\nown mind a resolution to investigate for\\nhimself, and in this he was upheld by his\\nnoble wife, who was inclined from the first\\nto credit the messages; and now that her\\ndarling was borne from her sight, she\\ngrasped at what might be an opportunity\\nto hear from her.\\nThe time was well spent, for it was my\\nprivilege to give him hope and encourage-\\nment, with now and then substantial tests,\\nwhich more firmly bound his life to that of\\nthe real being, and many, very many times\\nEdith accompanied me on these missions of\\nlove to the dear ones of earth, and her little\\nlife was made glad that papa and mamma\\nknew now that she could come. Dear, pa-\\ntient little Edith! I cannot now recall all\\nthose scenes without a throb of joy and a\\nmoist eye, as I beheld her rapture at being\\npermitted to caress her loved ones; but she\\n66", "height": "2989", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "echoesfromspirit00kane_0072.jp2"}, "73": {"fulltext": "SPIRIT WORLD.\\nwas becoming more reconciled to her situa-\\ntion, and had come to look upon me as her\\nguardian. All went well, and we were\\nboth very happy, glad to be able to give\\nthe light regarding the place we were in,\\nand to relieve the minds so filled with anxi-\\nety. Many times we lingered near our homes\\non earth, finding sweet solace, and again re-\\nturning to our work, which was fast be-\\ncoming very important to us.\\nMaking an effort one day, we were noting\\nthe action of the planetary system, and find-\\ning the unknown supersedes the known.\\nOur solution of the solvent problems greatly\\nastonished us, as they were so out of propor-\\ntion to all relative essence. Here etherial\\nessence predominates, and our calculations\\nare based upon this instead of solids.\\nFeeling a longing to further demonstrate,\\nit was proposed by some member of the\\n67", "height": "2989", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "echoesfromspirit00kane_0073.jp2"}, "74": {"fulltext": "ECHOES FROM THE\\nclass that we make a tour, and that in con-\\nnection with the reflex action thus produced,\\nwe would eliminate the discrepancy. Good!\\nNo sooner thought of than done. Off we\\ngo. Mars is passed, Mercury in sight. Ah!\\nwe see thy light is the refracting power\\nthat caused the dense glow to our obstruc-\\ntion. Now we note the space, now the re-\\nfracting pow^er; now we know the whole\\nlaw. It is much greater to discover and\\nmaster a law than to travel in the old beaten\\nlines. Theories are good, but actual dem-\\nonstration is better.\\nHearing by my sister that my mother was\\nanxious to see me, I had for the space no\\nrest until I repaired with little Edith to her\\nhome. How joyfully I related to her the\\nevents of my experience! She received with\\nglad delight the beautiful child, whom to\\nknow was a joy unspeakable. Always a\\n68", "height": "2989", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "echoesfromspirit00kane_0074.jp2"}, "75": {"fulltext": "SPIBIT WORLD.\\nlover of little children, with their innocent,\\npretty ways, my mother was inclined to\\nidolize this pet of our household, who had\\nso early been transplanted to the Garden of\\nParadise, as it was to my mother. Here she\\ncould indulge her esthetic taste to the fullest\\nextent without in the least infringing upon\\nthe rights of another. My father, too,\\ngreeted us with the affectionate kindness of\\none becoming his relationship, and bade us\\nto be perfectly at home. Edith soon learned\\nto love her great-grandparents, and her little\\nheart clung in fondness to my mother, who\\nused her utmost endeavors to interest and\\nentertain the little girl. She was greatly\\ninterested in the beautiful things she saw in\\nmy mother s home, and declared she never\\nhad seen anything so grand before. The\\nrare and beautiful plants claimed most of her\\nattention, as there was a fine variety of rare\\n69", "height": "2989", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "echoesfromspirit00kane_0075.jp2"}, "76": {"fulltext": "ECHOES FROM TEE\\nexotics of all climes. My mother had in\\nearth-life cultivated and cared for numberless\\nplants, as she was a great lover of plant-\\nlife, in fact, of the beautiful in every form.\\nWe w^ere most happily entertained, and\\nupon the eve of our departure many of the\\nvillagers gathered to bring us cheer in our\\nfuture work.\\nMingled joy and sorrow is the sum of\\nhuman existence, no less out of the physical\\nbody than in it. What seems progress to-\\nday may in a few short spaces be a low con-\\ndition; so it is necessary to keep striving, to\\nkeep journeying on in pursuit of knowl-\\nedge, lest we arrive not at what most would\\ngratify our insatiate love of learning. Who\\naims at the stars will surely attain to greater\\nheights than he who casts his thought upon\\nearth. In the sublimial sphere, mind finds\\ngreatest power, attains to its most perfect\\n70", "height": "2989", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "echoesfromspirit00kane_0076.jp2"}, "77": {"fulltext": "SPIRIT WOBLD.\\npossessions, is master of all supplemental\\nanalogies, and creates its own aphorisms.\\nStudents of science deal in correct forms,\\nthoroughly imbued with correlating sub-\\nstance.\\nEtherial ethics is the base from which all\\ndeductions are made.\\nStriving to undo the wrongs perpetrated\\nwhen the mind was in a puissant state, is one\\nof the sorrows of the upper spheres. Be it\\nknown that it is very hard. We have passed\\nfrom that stage of existence, and no more are\\ncorrelated to it hence it is out of our micro-\\ncosm for us to be obliged to induce our minds\\nto correspondence in the altruistic sense,\\nhence it is better, grander, to so do in the\\nfirst step of our existence, that we shall not\\nbe obliged to retrace our acts and correct our\\nlives.\\nWe should do as our best judgment dic-\\n71", "height": "2989", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "echoesfromspirit00kane_0077.jp2"}, "78": {"fulltext": "ECHOES FROM THE\\ntates then there will be no inharmony in\\nour being, but all vibrations will be on the\\nsame plane, and this equalization of our be-\\ning will produce perfect power. All power\\nis given unto men, and when rightly under-\\nstood is the direct result of our own actions.\\nHow important, then, that we act wisely, as\\nwe are subject to this inexorable law, whether\\nwe will or no.\\nIn being compelled to act out of harmony,\\nor in other words, upon two planes of being,\\nwe are retarded in our progress, as it is not\\nalways easy to find a mediator to act through,\\nas you understand we must now act through\\nthe mind of another, and if we can reach our\\nfriend, and undo the wrong, we are fortu-\\nnate, and find we can then progress.\\n72", "height": "2989", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "echoesfromspirit00kane_0078.jp2"}, "79": {"fulltext": "SPIBIT WORLD.\\nChapter VIII.\\nWhatever scene\\nNature revealed to me, she never caught\\nMy spirit humbled by surprise. My thought\\nBuilt higher mountains than I ever found\\nPoured wilder cataracts than I ever saw\\nDrove grander storms than ever swept the sky\\nPushed into loftier heavens and lower hells\\nThan the abysmal reach of light and dark\\nAnd entertained me with diviner feasts\\nThan ever met the appetite of sense.\\nG. Holland.\\nClearly, I see now my space has been oc-\\ncupied with prosperous results.\\nPondering the past, I longed to revisit the\\nhome of my childhood, where so many happy\\nhours were spent with loved ones now scat-\\ntered, filling the missions designed by the\\nCreator and Preserver of the vast sea of\\nlife for all is boundless life, there is no\\ndeath. Simply desiring a thing is equal to\\n73", "height": "2989", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "echoesfromspirit00kane_0079.jp2"}, "80": {"fulltext": "ECHOES FROM THE\\nthat thing. So I found myself walking the,\\nto me, then familiar streets, but now very un-\\nfamiliar. There are some places I recognize\\nas not having undergone much change; they\\nseem quite natural, very much as they used\\nto be; but in the main, the hand of progress\\nstamps the onward march of my native town.\\nFine straw-colored bricks take the place\\nof the wooden structures that once inclosed\\nthe public square. An air of prosperity\\npervades the place, and now they can boast\\nthe possession of the electric cars to convey\\nthem about the streets, which present the\\nappearance of business prosperity. I passed\\nin and out of the various places of business\\n(unobserved, of course) in search of a famil-\\niar face, but failed for some space to recog-\\nnize any of the inhabitants, but finally,\\npassing a familiar corner, came fully face\\nto face with one who in my young man-\\n74", "height": "2989", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "echoesfromspirit00kane_0080.jp2"}, "81": {"fulltext": "SPIRIT WORLD.\\nhood I remembered as the Widow Brown s\\nyoungest child, Charles. There was no re-\\nsemblance between the gray-haired, bent\\nold man that I beheld, and the laughing\\nlittle child that I remembered yet we know\\nby intuition. Here is where this faculty\\nhas the largest play. The years have dealt\\nhardly with you, my friend, as evidenced\\nby your measured step, but you have not\\nmany years. The kind angel will call ere\\nlong, and usher you into immortal life, for\\nmany times this change is kinder than life\\nin a suffering body.\\nBut I will pass on, will turn down the\\nstreet that once held for me all my dear\\nones in the home nest.\\nThe scenes are changed, and I am not\\ncertain as to the very location, but think\\nthat fine brick there in the middle of the\\nblock has taken the place of the small\\n75", "height": "2989", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "echoesfromspirit00kane_0081.jp2"}, "82": {"fulltext": "ECHOES FROM THE\\nwooden structure, where my kind father\\nand mother were wont to hover their brood.\\nWe were not a large family, yet it kept my\\nfather busy to supply the wants of four\\ngrowing girls and boys. I felt a little sad\\nin contemplating the scene, but thought,\\nwhy should I We are so much greater\\nthan our environments, and we have all of\\nus outgrown our old conditions.\\nI did not care to linger here, as all seemed\\nstrangers, and unrecognizable.\\nI thought, I will repair to the edge of\\ntown, where we boys used to have such fine\\nfun coasting. Ah yes, the hill is there,\\nthat is unchanged, and the fence and the\\nmeadow hard by. This is the same, and I\\ngave a sigh of relief that I had at last found\\none spot unchanged. Here was where we\\ncapsized with sleds into the snowdrifts, and\\nhad such fun digging our way out. Ah\\n76", "height": "2989", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "echoesfromspirit00kane_0082.jp2"}, "83": {"fulltext": "SPIRIT WORLD.\\nthose were happy days we spent in this old\\ntown. But hark I hear the shrill whistle of\\na locomotive, and I look across the meadow\\nand there in the distance I discern the smoke\\nof the monster of iron and flame, and I\\nthought, this playing-ground too is changed\\nand with a sad heart I left my reveries of\\nchildhood days, to return to Edith, whom I\\nwas sure longed to see me by this time.\\nStanding on the brink between two worlds,\\none feels an utter longing to fathom the\\nheights and depths of the one in which his\\nenvironments are cast. The one he has left\\nstill holds a hallowed place in his memory.\\nThe scenes of former years come more viv-\\nidly before his mind, and all is treasured with\\ntender affection. The mind receives the\\nevents as they are unrolled as from a scroll.\\nMany, very many happy scenes are borne\\nin upon my life, and I treasure them as pre-\\n77", "height": "2989", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "echoesfromspirit00kane_0083.jp2"}, "84": {"fulltext": "ECHOES FROM THE\\ncious mementoes of friends long since passed\\nto upper spheres, where I hope some day to\\narrive. Remember, progress in spirit-life is\\nin one respect the same as earth-life slow.\\nNature is never in haste in unfoldment. All\\nlife develops its forms to maturity with great\\ncaution and deliberation, hence the assured\\nfact of perfection. Since physical finds per-\\nfect development in physical life, mind will\\narrive at a perfect state in spiritual life.\\nMy wife next claimed a thought from\\nme, and I repaired to her home.\\nMy dear, dear Emma! How have you\\nbeen It seems to me you look careworn\\nand weary. Would I could fold you in my\\narms and bear you away with me, no more\\nto be parted but this may not be yet, and\\nI must be patient. She receives my mes-\\nsages, and her eyes brighten at the sound of\\nmy name, and her cheeks wear the roses as\\n78", "height": "2989", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "echoesfromspirit00kane_0084.jp2"}, "85": {"fulltext": "SPIRIT WORLD.\\nin the long ago when she was young. Ah,\\nlove! thou greatest element to beings given,\\nthou leveler of all ranks At thy magic\\ntouch we become new creatures. What do\\nwe not owe to thy entrancing power! If\\nwe have not love, we are most miserable\\nindeed. So my heart s longing was grati-\\nfied when in the presence of her I loved.\\nWe are not changed in these respects; if\\none is so fortunate as to have a soul-mate,\\nhe clings with the same affectionate fond-\\nness to that one. Love is an emanation of\\nthe soul, and only such ties should be formed\\nas will be enduring. So it will be seen that\\nI had loved wisely, for there was the same\\nunion of soul that there had been through\\nthe many years of wedded life; and now\\nthat I could reach her with my thought, it\\nwas greater pleasure to me than to converse\\nwith her in the old way. My son, too, now\\n79", "height": "2989", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "echoesfromspirit00kane_0085.jp2"}, "86": {"fulltext": "ECHOES FROM THE\\ntook more interest in these messages, and\\nreceived much comfort from believing that\\nwe could come in touch with them. He\\nwas quite a mediator, and got some good\\nproofs himself. His wife possessed the gift\\nof clairvoyance, and often told him she\\ncould see little Edith. Thus affairs went\\non, until their development was marvelous.\\nMy son had succeeded me in the store, and\\nstood now where I had stood a few short\\nyears ago. This troubled me much, as I had\\nhoped he would choose a literary work, as\\nthat would better have fitted the mind for\\nits future fulfillment, for I learned to my\\nsorrow after my transition, that whatever ef-\\nfort put forth in the right direction is not and\\ncannot be lost, but all efforts looking solely\\nto mercenary gain are as time wasted to the\\nsoul.\\nI sent long messages to my son, explaining\\n80", "height": "2989", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "echoesfromspirit00kane_0086.jp2"}, "87": {"fulltext": "SPIRIT WORLD.\\nthese things, and begged him to change his\\noccupation to one that would be a stimulant\\nto the mind, and in which the mind would\\ndevelop its faculties, and bring it to its full-\\nest fruition. This is one of the important\\nelements in development of soul. It must\\nall be evolved from the inner. The king-\\ndom of heaven is within you, but it requires\\nthat we disseminate and bring to the surface,\\nbefore it becomes visible. It comes not\\nwith observation.\\nOh, how easily I now understand the say-\\nings of the Great Teacher, who labored so\\nassiduously to enlighten the people with re-\\ngard to the spiritual truths.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00946 8i", "height": "2989", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "echoesfromspirit00kane_0087.jp2"}, "88": {"fulltext": "ECHOES FROM THE\\nChapter IX.\\nLike the swift moon that slides from cloud to cloud,\\nWith only hurried space to smile between,\\nI pierce the phantoms that around me crowd,\\nAnd glide from scene to scene.\\nI clasp warm hands that long have lain in dust,\\nI hear sweet voices that have long been still,\\nAnd earth and sea give up their hallowed trust\\nIn answer to my will.\\nAnd now, high-gazing toward the starry dome,\\nI see three airy forms come floating down\\nThe long- lost angels of my early home\\nMy night of joy to crown.\\nG. Holland.\\nWith what pleasure does the absent mari-\\nner arrive in sight of home, and just in the\\nsame proportion do we journey upward, only\\nwith greater alacrity, as all our faculties are\\nintensified. We yearn for glimpses of the,\\nto us, still beyond, and hope fills the breast,\\nthat we may reach the Celestial Realm.\\n82", "height": "2989", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "echoesfromspirit00kane_0088.jp2"}, "89": {"fulltext": "SPIBIT WORLD.\\nYet I cannot say that, to me would be satis-\\nfactory while I have dear ones on earth, as\\nthis, I am told, is a bar to completeness, for\\nthe mind is divided, and we are supposed at\\nthis point to be only capable of going for-\\nward, not wishing to turn back. It is only\\nwhen we have reached the ultimate that we\\never become satisfied.\\nDuty well done to others in earth-life is an\\naid to our progress here, and it is very nec-\\nessary to our well-being that we cultivate the\\ngraces of heart and mind, which are the di-\\nrect adjuncts of purity.\\nOne cannot so fully realize these things as\\nwhen he has crossed the boundary, and be-\\nholds the mass of spiritual life struggling\\nwith former error. Perverted teaching is\\nlargely to blame for much of the misery\\nthey are compelled to endure. Wrong-\\ndoing brings its own punishment, is a law\\n83", "height": "2989", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "echoesfromspirit00kane_0089.jp2"}, "90": {"fulltext": "ECHOES FROM THE\\ntruthful, and must be endured with what\\ngrace we can muster. Wrong to others,\\npersisted in, is the cause of much heart-\\nrending misery on this side and I wish\\nhere to utter a note of warning, to those\\nwho will hear, that the soul cannot rid itself\\nof these stains, or of the sins against the uni-\\nversal laws of life. To wantonly disrupt\\nand sever the spirit from the body, is a\\ndisastrous occurrence to the individual, as\\nin the case of suicide. It is mournful to be-\\nhold the remorse depicted on these spirits.\\nChained by a law as forcible as the law of\\ngravitation, they must remain in this condi-\\ntion until some kind earth-friend will permit\\nthem, through them, to undo the wrongs\\nthey have committed, and work in right di-\\nrections, until this condition is gotten out of,\\nand sometimes it takes aeons of space.\\nAgain I say to children of earth, be con-\\n84", "height": "2989", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "echoesfromspirit00kane_0090.jp2"}, "91": {"fulltext": "SPIRIT WORLD.\\ntent in your environment, until the good\\ntime comes when Nature, the kind mother,\\nwill release you, with your work all accom-\\nplished then there will be nothing in the\\nway of sure development. It is better to\\nbear the ills you have for a season, as time\\nis short.\\nWith these reveries, I will leave you,\\nreader, to your own reflection, hoping you\\nwill accept as truth, what one who has\\npassed beyond has found true, and gives\\nto you through this agency for your ben-\\nefit, that you may avoid the misery so many\\nare obliged to endure.\\n85", "height": "2989", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "echoesfromspirit00kane_0091.jp2"}, "92": {"fulltext": "ECHOES FROM THE\\nChapter X.\\nAll houses wherein men have lived and died\\nAre haunted houses. Through the open doors\\nThe harmless phantoms on their errands glide,\\nWith feet that make no sound upon the floor.\\nWe meet them at the doorway, on the stair,\\nAlong the passages they come and go,\\nImpalpable impressions on the air,\\nA sense of something moving to and fro.\\nThere are more guests at table than the host\\nInvited the illuminated hall\\nIs thronged with quiet, inoffensive ghosts,\\nAs silent as the pictures on the wall.\\nLongfello w.\\nJudging from outward circumstances, is\\ncertainly a very erroneous judgment. Many\\ntimes the mind conveys to its recipient\\nthoughts clothed w^ith elegant language,\\nyet the instrument is not in proper condi-\\n86", "height": "2989", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "echoesfromspirit00kane_0092.jp2"}, "93": {"fulltext": "8PIBIT WOBLD.\\ntion to convey this message to the world\\nhence the mind is charged with blame, when\\nreally the cause lies beyond, and in the hid-\\nden labyrinth.\\nMind can never attain to its fullest fru-\\nition while hindered by its environment,\\nand thus it becomes absolutely necessary\\nto provide a way for its release from the\\nbondage to the flesh, to give freedom to its\\npowers.\\nTo the freed spirit all the operations of\\nnature become wonderfully perfect.\\nThe wisdom of all the manifold arrange-\\nments is appreciated mere fully than can\\npossibly be while limited environments sur-\\nround us.\\nThe absolutely freed spirit, after all\\nearth -conditions have been laid aside, (as\\nnone are free until this point is reached,)\\nfinds its possibilities boundless. Positively\\n87", "height": "2989", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "echoesfromspirit00kane_0093.jp2"}, "94": {"fulltext": "ECHOES FROM THE\\nno limitations exist to such an one. Not\\nhow much of life you have lived, previously,\\nbut how well^ is the only passport required\\nhere. Have you been thoughtful, loving\\nand kind, willing to lay down your life, if\\nneed be, for those given into your keeping\\nfor greater love hath no man than this.\\nWe know the teachings of this spiritual\\nguide are true, and the only rules by which\\nour lives can be ordered, this much, for\\nsome say they do not know what is right.\\nThis is only an error of mind, the soul\\nknows. No one can go wrong if he looks\\nwithin for a few seconds. The inner soul-\\nsense, or conscience, is the true guide. It\\ncannot be perverted. The mind may be\\ndrawn away, and judgment impaired, but\\nthe soul is the same, to be relied upon al-\\nways. There are doubts in the minds of\\nsome, others know for a surety but it is to\\n88", "height": "2989", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "echoesfromspirit00kane_0094.jp2"}, "95": {"fulltext": "SPIBIT WOULD.\\nthose who do not know that I am talking,\\nand would fully impress with the duties of\\neach hour in passing.\\nDo not neglect opportunities. Experience\\nin the first stage is wrought and then mis-\\ntakes are magnified to your vision. This is\\nthe cause of remorse that will fill the soul,\\nand retard your future progress, as all mis-\\ntakes must be corrected before one step in\\nadvance can be gained. This is why it is so\\nimportant that the events of each moment\\nin time be looked to carefully. I could fill\\nyour hearts with anguish, should I relate to\\nyou the despair of many souls I have met\\nin spirit, who seem utterly hopeless and\\ntheir lives wholly given over to the revel-\\nries and debaucheries of their favorite haunts\\non earth. No ray nor spark of soul seems\\nto illuminate their darkened minds, and thus\\nthey grovel on. You have them on your\\n89", "height": "2989", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "echoesfromspirit00kane_0095.jp2"}, "96": {"fulltext": "ECHOES FROM THE\\nplane, and they remain the same. It is not\\ntrue that at transition the soul leaves these\\nelements behind. It only leaves the dis-\\neased body the mind is the same, and pur-\\nposes and inclinations are the same. We\\ncan do nothing for them here. The work\\nmust be done on earth. Now I appeal to\\nall readers to do whatever they can to alle-\\nviate the sufferings of these souls, by point-\\ning them to the better way, the way of\\npeace and purity and especially do I ap-\\npeal to the mediators who do so well know\\nthis truth, to pity them, and permit them\\nto come and through their aid undo the\\nwrongs of the past. Many are aroused to this\\nnecessity, and are groping around in their\\npoor weak way, trying to reach those on\\nearth, whom it is necessary for them to do.\\nI feel my utter inability to make these\\ntruths forcible enough. They should be\\n90", "height": "2989", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "echoesfromspirit00kane_0096.jp2"}, "97": {"fulltext": "SPIEIT WORLD.\\nproclaimed from every housetop and in all\\nthe byways and hedges, until\\nThe echo of every mountain,\\nThe murmur of every rill,\\nProclaim the tender message.\\nOur loved are with us still.\\n91", "height": "2989", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "echoesfromspirit00kane_0097.jp2"}, "98": {"fulltext": "ECHOES FROM THE\\nChapter XI.\\nThe spirit world around this world of sense\\nFloats like an atmosphere, and everywhere\\nWafts through these earthly mists and vapors dense\\nA vital breath of more etherial air.\\nLongfellow.\\nMoving in circles, we find our paramount\\nexistence. We tend to straight lines only,\\nwhen reflex action is greatest thus our move-\\nments are circumscribed, and only that we\\npersevere in these laws, we would become\\ndiscouraged. We must ever strive to master,\\nas in earth-life. You know that there, only\\nas we learn the laws of perfect physical be-\\ning, and adhere to them, are we said to be\\nin perfect health. So it is here. There are\\nlaws of our spiritual being which are as in-\\nexorable, and must be mastered. It is not\\n92", "height": "2989", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "echoesfromspirit00kane_0098.jp2"}, "99": {"fulltext": "SPIBIT WORLD.\\npossible that the spirit-man can understand\\nthese things while wrapped in the body of\\nflesh, nor was it intended that he should.\\nMind travels in advance of its limitations\\nalways this is why it is said to grow. It\\nexpands and develops. How important that\\nit be in the right direction, for its own good!\\nMillions have chosen the wrong road, and\\nfind too late that they have mistaken the\\ntenacity with which they are bound to their\\nload. They cannot shake off this burden,\\nneither can they flee from it. It must be\\nborne with what grace they can muster, un-\\ntil the way is found to redeem themselves\\nfrom these wrong acts.\\nNow do not say in your mind as you read\\nthis, it may be so. I say positively, it is so.\\nAnd now that we can come in communica-\\ntion with you on the mortal plane, it be-\\ncomes our duty to warn you, lest you fall\\n93", "height": "2989", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "echoesfromspirit00kane_0099.jp2"}, "100": {"fulltext": "ECHOES FBOM THE\\ninto these pitfalls. If I shall have caused\\none soul to realize this, and look well unto\\nhis ways lest when he thinks he stands he\\nshould fall, the mission of this little book\\nwill be accomplished. Our business here is\\nto do good, and of course the greatest good\\nto the greatest number; the better for us,\\nthe more contentment is ours.\\nComing events cast their shadows be-\\nfore, and I felt something was going to\\nhappen.\\nI visited my wife, and found her ill. She\\ndid not seem to be conscious of things go-\\ning on around her, and I said, Now, I\\nmust not leave you, but be present to usher\\nyou into your new experience for such\\nwould be the case before many days. Kind\\nfriends and neighbors did what they could\\nto supply temporal needs, and make com-\\nfortable the body. My son was constantly\\n94", "height": "2989", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "echoesfromspirit00kane_0100.jp2"}, "101": {"fulltext": "SPIRIT WORLD.\\nat his mother s side, with only now and\\nthen a little respite for rest and nourish\\nment. Clearly, he knew his mother was\\npassing from his sight, and he with his\\nfaithful wife granted her every wish, as\\nthough it would be the last.\\nFinally, I was pleased to see the golden\\nchord severed, that bound her to her body,\\nand she floated out with me into broad\\nspace.\\nI took her at once from the scene of her\\nrelease, as this is much the best. She real-\\nized at once the full capacity of her free-\\ndom, and her pleasure at finding me was\\necstatic. It is all so new to her, she can\\nscarcely believe her senses, yet does not\\nfear for the old conditions. She has builded\\nher house well, much better than I had done,\\nand will have less regret. But we must\\nfind Edith and mother, with all the dear\\n95", "height": "2989", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "echoesfromspirit00kane_0101.jp2"}, "102": {"fulltext": "ECHOES FROM THE\\nones on this side, and tell them the good\\nnews.\\nThere are times in our existence when we\\nfeel the rapid flow of vitalizing force. We\\nmay not know what to name it, but it is\\nthe life designed by Infinite Mind. Many\\ntimes, however, this force is brought to us\\nby a power designated messenger, sent by\\nInfinite Mind. Are they not all minister-\\ning spirits? I would answer, No, not\\nall, as some are not qualified for this office\\nbut many times mortals receive help through\\nthis source, to them unknown.\\nIt is accepted as a matter of course, and\\nno thought is given to the source, which\\nmay be some of the near and dear de-\\nparted, as is their wont to say, though\\nnot departed in any sense, but living and\\nnear you still. This of course cannot be\\nrealized unless you have investigated these\\n96", "height": "2989", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "echoesfromspirit00kane_0102.jp2"}, "103": {"fulltext": "SPIRIT WORLD.\\nlaws. Let me tell you, it is very easy to\\nbecome cognizant of these facts yourselves.\\nSit down passively in the silence, and let\\nthe inner or spiritual nature be revealed\\nthen, when your mind is passive, those\\naround you make themselves known. If\\nnot the first time, then persevere a second,\\nand so on, until you know what you get is\\nnot your own thought. Enter into your\\ncloset, and there receive instruction from\\nInfinite Mind.\\nI wonder now, that I did not learn these\\nthings when in earth-life. Had I done so,\\nit would have aided me in reaching my loved\\nones. But now that I have my wife with\\nme, my thought is often given to my son.\\nUpon reaching her home (as one was\\nfashioned for her by my thought), my wife\\nagreed that all was very wonderful. She\\nhad never dreamed of the delights in store\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00947 97", "height": "2989", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "echoesfromspirit00kane_0103.jp2"}, "104": {"fulltext": "ECHOES FROM THE\\nfor her, and at once became content, not\\nseeming to care for further progress. Of\\ncourse this was in a measure due to her\\nhaving found me, and as she said, that was\\nall she wanted. But after becoming accus-\\ntomed to the change, she looked around for\\nemployment. This is one of the redeeming\\nelements of being; action, continual action.\\nThis adds zest to life on any plane. The\\nsoul is not happy without means of devel-\\nopment, and to this end must be constantly\\nemployed.\\nShe went to see Edith, and kept in her\\ncompany for some time, but decided that\\nthe child was happier with those of her\\nown age, so did not disturb the plan I had\\nadopted in regard to her. She went with\\nme on my explorations, but did not enjoy\\ntraversing the long distances, and did not\\nseem inclined to adopt this as her work. I\\n98", "height": "2989", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "echoesfromspirit00kane_0104.jp2"}, "105": {"fulltext": "SPIRIT WORLD.\\ndid not press the matter, as here each one\\nfollows his or her own inclinations.\\nFinally, after my return one day, she\\nsaid: I have it! I will accept the call as\\nmessenger to earth. Your sisters have been\\ninstructing me in their lines of work, and I\\nthink I should like it.\\nVery well, said I; you are capable of\\nmuch good in that direction, and I feel you\\nhave chosen very wisely. When will you\\ncommence your work\\nShortly. I shall want to go to our son\\nfirst, and then to other of my dear friends.\\nShall you need company or assistance\\non your first journey But she thought\\nnot; so I subsided, and mused with my own\\nthoughts, until she broke the silence with\\nT do not see how your mother can pos-\\nsibly content herself to do as she does, just\\nstay with the surroundings of home.\\n99", "height": "2989", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "echoesfromspirit00kane_0105.jp2"}, "106": {"fulltext": "ECHOES FROM THE\\nWell, Emma, you know mother was of\\na very domestic turn of mind always, and\\nnow she has enjoyment to its fullest extent\\nin that home.\\nBut how does her mind develop with\\nthis mode of doing?\\nYou do not realize that my mother does\\nmuch good in that home. Many a weary\\nspirit seeks her broad verandas for rest and\\nencouragement. She refreshes them with\\naromas of her best viands, and recuperates\\ntheir fagged-out condition.\\nYou know she is well on to the Celestial\\nRealm, and many, very many pass that way.\\nYes, mother does a work none of us could\\ndo. With her love of the beautiful, and\\nsurrounding herself with these elements,\\nher home is permeated with the very es-\\nsence of repose. How long will I remem-\\nber my first visit there You know here it\\nlOO", "height": "2989", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "echoesfromspirit00kane_0106.jp2"}, "107": {"fulltext": "SPIBIT WORLD.\\nis not, how much we do, but how well, the\\nsame as before this law is not changed.\\nYes, I see it now, my wife replied;\\nand I see I must leave off judging, for\\nwith what judgment I judge, I shall be\\njudged, and after choosing my work, if\\nsome one should be unkind enough to judge\\nme, how badly I should feel Now I see\\nthis is the place to fulfill these laws of life, I\\nshall be careful to make a practical applica-\\ntion of them to myself. But come, let us be\\ngoing.\\nOh! I thought you wanted to try alone\\nyour first effort.\\nNo I believe, upon further considera-\\ntion, I prefer that you accompany me, as\\nthe lines cross so many times I may become\\nentangled.\\nShe referred to the magnetic line, that, as\\nshe said, seemed to be crossed yet there is\\nlOI", "height": "2989", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "echoesfromspirit00kane_0107.jp2"}, "108": {"fulltext": "ECHOES FROM THE\\nno danger whatever. A mother s Hne to\\nher child would be exact, and she could not\\nmiss it. However, I will accompany her on\\nthis, her first errand of mercy.", "height": "2989", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "echoesfromspirit00kane_0108.jp2"}, "109": {"fulltext": "SPIRIT WORLD.\\nChapter XII.\\nBe silent in that solitude\\nWhich is not loneliness for then\\nThe spirits of the dead who stood\\nIn life before thee are again\\nIn death around thee, and their will\\nShall overshadow thee be still.\\nEdgar Allan Poe.\\nRejoicing ever in the thought that we\\nare wholly cognizant of the forms manifest\\nin space, we grow toward our ideals; we\\nmerge our thought into being, triumphant\\nin energy. Thinking is merely living on\\nthe higher planes. Acting is carrying our\\nthought out in visible form.\\nMomentarily we expand an idea, evolved\\nfrom the inner or soul sense, and broaden\\nthe idea into waves of infinity. Much of\\n103", "height": "2989", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "echoesfromspirit00kane_0109.jp2"}, "110": {"fulltext": "ECHOES FROM THE\\nthis logic you cannot understand while in\\nyour present sphere, but I have endeavored\\nto give you only that which you may ap-\\npropriate and practice now. All time is\\nnow. There is a future time, only as it is\\ncorrelated to the past; but when it arrives,\\nit is the present. So it is in this sphere: all\\nspace is the present and now. Each inter-\\nval lived is correlated to that behind and\\nbefore, so that, strictly speaking, there is\\nonly the present. The possibilities of future\\nspace are ours, but farther than that, we\\nknow not.\\nThe soul retains all its possessions. This\\nis why it is so needful to make those ac-\\nquirements carefully; to sift its privileges\\nand select the choicest, that there be no need\\nfor weeding here. Mark well your course.\\nListen to the still small voice, which will\\never guide aright.\\n104", "height": "2989", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "echoesfromspirit00kane_0110.jp2"}, "111": {"fulltext": "SPIRIT WORLD.\\nMonumental sacrifice is well rewarded.\\nThe soul who has borne patiently, is sweet\\nwith loving thought for others here, and\\nsuch have a radiance of spirit much to be\\ndesired. Their light follows them, and\\nkindness ever awaits their coming. Who\\nwould not endure a few short years of\\nprivation, to be enabled to reap such a re-\\nward? Remember, it is their own doing.\\nWhat ye sow, that shall ye reap. If you\\nsow to the spirit, you shall be benefited in\\nspiritual things. This may not have been di-\\nrectly the object, the reaping, but it is the\\ndirect outcome, of well-doing. Who does\\nnot know this? and yet, every day we are\\npained with the iniquity that abounds. Life\\nis a flower garden, which if rightly cultiva-\\nted not only gives the mortals much pleas-\\nure, but the aroma extends to us beyond\\nyour ken. Let me admonish you to good\\n105", "height": "2989", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "echoesfromspirit00kane_0111.jp2"}, "112": {"fulltext": "ECHOES FROM THE\\ndeeds, before it is too late, for then it will\\nbe a great deal harder for you.\\nI think right here I will relate a little cir-\\ncumstance that has come under my observa-\\ntion.\\nOne bitter cold day a son became enraged\\nat his parents, and left the parental roof to\\nwander he knew not whither, only led by\\nblind passion. With nowhere to go and\\nno protection, he soon succumbed to cold and\\nhunger. This was many years ago, but that\\nsoul is yet seeking a way to reach that father\\nand mother, to ask forgiveness for the wrong\\nhe did them, and not one step in advance of\\nthat can he get until this is accomplished.\\nYou say this is an extreme case. My good\\nfriends, it is a very mild case, only one of\\nan almost infinite number, who are strug-\\ngling and striving to undo the wrongs they\\nhave done, upon the first plane of existence.\\n1 06", "height": "2989", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "echoesfromspirit00kane_0112.jp2"}, "113": {"fulltext": "SPIRIT WORLD.\\nIt is not enough that some one has done us a\\nwrong, we may not return a wrong. We\\nshould accept favors in the kindly spirit in-\\ntended, lest we do harm to that soul. The\\nway is very narrow. Walk ye in it.\\n[07", "height": "2989", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "echoesfromspirit00kane_0113.jp2"}, "114": {"fulltext": "ECHOES FROM THE\\nChapter XIII.\\nO thou, by winds of grief o erblown\\nBeside some golden summer s bier\\nTake heart Thy birds are only flown,\\nThy blossoms sleeping, tearful sown,\\nTo greet thee in the immortal year.\\nEdna Dean Proctor.\\nNearing the time for our perennial en-\\ntrance into the labyrinths of Nature s se-\\ncrets, we journey from our chosen work to\\nrealms beyond, in search of these truths that\\nwill reveal to us the key to many acts of\\nours. This is the place for finding the rea-\\nson why.\\nMany times in mortal life we were taken\\nthrough seasons of mysterious leading, from\\nwhence we knew not; but supposing all\\ncame from God, we did not seek to unravel\\n1 08", "height": "2989", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "echoesfromspirit00kane_0114.jp2"}, "115": {"fulltext": "SPIEIT WOELD.\\nthe many threaded mazes of earth-life.\\nHere, we explain every step as we advance,\\nand many times learn the causes of things\\nwhich happened many spaces ago. We re-\\ntrieve our lost acts with more than double\\nenergy, and they count many times our\\nformer strength.\\nHearing we were to remove our head-\\nquarters, I journeyed thither to learn more\\nconcerning it. Finding the Professors in\\nconsultation with regard to it, I waited to\\nlearn the result. Now we move to the\\nright, and upward. Good! Some progress\\nmade, which is truly encouraging. Though\\nwe have put forth great effort, but remem-\\nber it is slow.\\nLittle Edith is growing to be a fine spirit\\nin her work, and does not so often wish to\\nreturn to her home on earth; is becoming\\nmore and more attached to the new sur-\\n109", "height": "2989", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "echoesfromspirit00kane_0115.jp2"}, "116": {"fulltext": "ECHOES FROM THE\\nroundings. She and her grandma make\\nlong journeys together, and she says she\\ndoes not feel a bit tired. She is of a very\\nsympathetic nature, and is much distressed\\nat many things she sees.\\nI have an idea that as she matures, she\\nwill be forced into work in the direction of\\nrelieving suffering; yet it remains to be\\nseen what she will choose. We establish\\nourselves in the realm of being by our\\ndeeds. The universe of mind recognizes\\nevery effort put forth, while we merge into\\nbeing every thought or will. The w^ill is\\noften taken for the deed, so in what measure\\nwe grow is left with us. Meaningless are\\nthe lives whose barren fruits follow. Better\\nthat a millstone were hanged about their\\nnecks. We cannot prosper without good\\ndeeds.\\nStrictly speaking, there is but one life,\\nno", "height": "2989", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "echoesfromspirit00kane_0116.jp2"}, "117": {"fulltext": "SPIRIT WORLD.\\nand what seems to be the end is only a con-\\ntinuation in another state of existence. We\\nmany times feel this within our own being,\\nthe intense desire for life, that it is inherent,\\nand self-preservation, the first law. The un-\\ntutored savage knows this law. When we\\nhave arrived at the second stage, we of course\\nsee this law so fulfilled that it is no more a\\nterror to us. We are alive. We will no\\nmore feel death. My experience is one of\\ngreat satisfaction, and of gratitude to Infinite\\nMind, the preserver of all the multiplicity of\\nuniverses, for the wonderful goodness dis-\\nplayed. My field of observation has been\\nincreased, and now I find millions of beings\\nstriving to reach the Mecca for which they\\nsigh. There is great opportunity for you of\\nearth to help these struggling souls. It must\\nbe accomplished that way. Some have been\\nhere for ages, and have only just begun to\\nIII", "height": "2989", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "echoesfromspirit00kane_0117.jp2"}, "118": {"fulltext": "ECHOES FROM THE\\nseek, for seeking, they will find. We can\\npoint them to the way, but that is all we\\nare powerless to cross the boundary of soul.\\nWe are firmly bound by laws as invincible\\nas can be framed. This is so important for\\nearth-souls to know ere they cross the line,\\nI would emphasize this truth, and write it in\\nglowing letters across the tablets of your\\nmemory, that you may have your earth- work\\ndone and well done. Happy is the one who\\nrecognizes this fact. Many regrets are saved\\nand his future is assured success. This is the\\nonly reward, and it is not in the power of\\nanyone to give, it must be earned. This is\\nright, otherwise we would become a universe\\nof sloths and evil-doers. Whereas, now, such\\nas these have no part in the glory, and are left\\nfar in the rear, while the seeking soul goes\\nmarching on.\\nI cannot leave this point without an admo-\\n112", "height": "2989", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "echoesfromspirit00kane_0118.jp2"}, "119": {"fulltext": "SPIRIT WORLD.\\nnition to good works while it is yet your\\nprivilege. This will redound to your honor,\\nwill be so engrafted into your being by this\\nlaw of compensation, that good will come to\\nyou. It is mainly for your good that I tell\\nyou these things, knowing so well how they\\nwill be appreciated by you when you have\\nhad more experience, for it is this that goes\\nto make up existence. How often would\\nI have gathered you as a hen gathereth her\\nchickens, but ye would not.\\nHow plain and forcible seem all the say-\\nings of our Great Teacher, now that we see\\nclearly. Only for the unbelief of the peo-\\nple. He could have convinced them all of\\nthe spiritual light within but because their\\nminds and hearts were so given to worldly\\nthings, they could not see what He tried so\\nhard to have them know. Thus much of\\nHis effort was lost, and not until He came\\n-8 113", "height": "2989", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "echoesfromspirit00kane_0119.jp2"}, "120": {"fulltext": "ECHOES FROM THE\\nforth in His spiritual body (which is like\\nunto the natural body. Cor.), did they ap-\\npreciate or realize what a Divine messenger\\nHe was. But then, only ?ifew of the popu-\\nlace could see it; and so it is to-day on mor-\\ntal plane: the teachers are here, yet for the\\nunbelief of the people only the few receive.\\nMore than anything else would we im-\\npress upon the minds of those who read, the\\nimportance of keeping in touch with the\\nupper strata of thought. Do not allow im-\\npure or shallow thoughts to permeate your\\nbeing, for in so far as this is heeded will lie\\nmuch advancement. It is not possible to\\nreach the acme of success at one bound, but\\nround and round the circle runs; so it is by\\nslow degrees we reach the heights. Know-\\ning full well the discouragements in your\\npathway, I would lay stress upon this fact:\\nwith slow progress take heart. Only that\\n114", "height": "2989", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "echoesfromspirit00kane_0120.jp2"}, "121": {"fulltext": "SPIBIT WOULD.\\nyou are not retrograding, you are surely\\ngoing forward. There is no standing still.\\nThe perfect life can and will be reached,\\nand is well worth the striving.\\nMy wife says she had no idea that she\\nwould be so blessed, and is delighted with\\nthe prospects for future good. Her mission\\nto the sorrowing and suffering ones of earth\\npleases her much. She thinks that soon\\nshe may reach some in a more tangible way,\\nthough she is sure some have felt her pres-\\nence. She says it is glorious work, and one\\nshe has every hope of continuing. She is\\nbecoming accustomed to the long distances,\\nand often has congenial companionship on\\nthe way. All seems very wonderful to her\\nyet, but she is learning to accept as good\\nwhat has come to her. You ask if we are\\nalways on the go, and never rest Far\\nfrom it. On the contrary, we spend much\\n115", "height": "2989", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "echoesfromspirit00kane_0121.jp2"}, "122": {"fulltext": "ECHOES FROM THE\\nspace in one another s society, and in rest,\\nto recuperate for further action.\\nHaving now grown unto my work, I hold\\nthe place assigned me with assiduity, never\\nonce doubting the reasons given to be supe-\\nrior essence, that has been evolved in all the\\ncountless ages of previous history. Much to\\nour gratification, we mastered these problems\\nwith slight difficulty, for as a schoolboy on\\nearth, I had been disciplined in perseverance,\\nand now I found former lessons of much\\nvalue. My father had been a man of great\\nwisdom along these lines, and though very\\ncareful not to require more than his child\\ncould accomplish, yet it was the law of his\\nbeing to expect the fulfillment to the very\\nletter. This had aided me all through life\\nto surmount difficulties, so that in my make-\\nup I have a vast amount of tenacity, which\\njust now is valuable.\\nIi6", "height": "2989", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "echoesfromspirit00kane_0122.jp2"}, "123": {"fulltext": "SPIBIT WORLD.\\nLight travels faster than sound so does\\nmind travel in advance of being. Mind is\\nthe quintessence of all the universes, the\\nruling power, creative wisdom. My mind\\nwas drawn to upper space. I went thither.\\nThere I find laws fulfilled no defect, but\\nperfect in their fulfillment. Then I return,\\nand wish to instruct mortals Behold, how\\ngreat a thing is life All nature is filled\\nwith it, nothing else. Life and love, the\\ntwo important elements. How necessary\\nthat we cultivate both. They last endlessly,\\nand redound to our happiness. Many times\\nwe feel a longing to know the beyond. It\\nshall be revealed. There is no mystery,\\nbut beautiful, true fulfillment. All the pure\\nelements of the mind shall be. You do\\nnot prize the angel by your side. He can\\ngive perfect knowledge, perfect love, and\\npeace. Only trust, and be guided. You\\n117", "height": "2989", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "echoesfromspirit00kane_0123.jp2"}, "124": {"fulltext": "ECHOES FROM THE\\nwill then in nowise go wrong. It is only\\nwhen you trust your own poor human judg-\\nment that you fail but now you have the\\ncomforter, which is no more nor less than\\nthe loved friend who left your sight. He\\nwill direct your steps aright, and care for\\nand protect you in all seasons. Do not grieve\\nthe spirit. There are times when you might\\nbe tempted to doubt this truth, but do not for\\none minute believe that the dear one will be\\nany the less diligent. Here good works are\\nour passport to higher conditions, and the\\nonly passport. There is no element or com-\\nmodity but love and duty. No silver nor\\ngold can in the least benefit us it must be\\nright deeds and loving thought for others.\\nSelf is secondary here. They who learn\\nthis early are nearer the Victor s realm.\\nMany times we withhold our love until too\\nlate. Let me admonish you to good works.\\nii8", "height": "2989", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "echoesfromspirit00kane_0124.jp2"}, "125": {"fulltext": "SPIRIT WORLD.\\nMingling joy and sorrow, doubt and fear,\\n\\\\ve hope ever for the best. This element\\nin our natures is largely due to merest cir-\\ncumstance.\\nWe fail to glean from life s great lessons\\nthe fullest meaning, and many times despair\\novertakes. This too often is the cause of\\nmuch grief, after the mortal life has been\\npassed, and the soul cries out, Oh, why\\ncould I not have seen what was so kindly\\nmeant for my best good! The hand that\\nsmites can heal, and I \\\\vould impress upon\\nyour minds the importance of believing;\\nthat whatever the intricate paths, there is\\ngood to follow. Who that does not know\\nthe dross must be burned away In nearly\\nevery instance it is a perfect work. It is\\nthose who will not heed who must suffer\\nmuch here, regrets, and remorse.\\nMy mother had sent for me, as she in-\\n119", "height": "2989", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "echoesfromspirit00kane_0125.jp2"}, "126": {"fulltext": "ECHOES FROM THE\\ntended having a family reunion. Such oc-\\ncasions are very pleasant, when we renew\\nthe old companionships and plan for the\\nfuture. My father had hitherto been very\\nreticent when interrogated as to his work,\\nalways evading the direct question, and\\nputting one so at his ease that he made no\\nfurther inquiry, but knew he was not any\\nmore enlightened upon the subject.\\nUpon this occasion, he made known to us\\nhis plans. Finding he had gifts in several\\nlines, it was necessary to choose. He liked\\nmost the line followed in earth that of\\ncaring for the sick, as that was a joy to\\nhim. Now he found it doubly pleasant, for\\nthere was need of counsel on both sides of\\nlife, and this made him very happy.\\nMy father had possessed much wisdom,\\nand when in earth-life he had been so many\\ntimes confronted with problems in his work", "height": "2989", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "echoesfromspirit00kane_0126.jp2"}, "127": {"fulltext": "SPIRIT WOELD.\\nthat would be solved in sleep or when sit-\\nting in a passive state in his office, he always\\ngave credit to a higher power, but did not\\nunderstand this power; but now he knows\\nit was some kind spirit, who like himself\\nhad given heed to the solution of the mys-\\ntery of life, and loved to aid mortals in their\\nefforts to preserve this life, upon the first\\nplane. So to this noble calling my father\\nstill adheres, and finds plenty of opportunity\\nfor the exercise of his gifts.\\nHe related to us many incidents of his\\nexperience, which gave zest to his profes-\\nsion. Many times he finds spaces to view\\nearth s treasures, and withal is quite a trav-\\neler. My mother often accompanies him\\nupon his errands, and always upon his tours\\nof investigation.\\nWithal, we are happy, as we are kept\\nbusy, and have no space for selfish idleness.\\n121", "height": "2989", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "echoesfromspirit00kane_0127.jp2"}, "128": {"fulltext": "ECHOES FBOM THE\\nChapter XIV.\\nWhere hast thou been this year, beloved?\\nWhat hast thou seen,\\nWhat visions fair, what glorious life,\\nWhere thou hast been?\\nNot dead, not sleeping, not even gone,\\nBut present still.\\nAnd waiting for the coming hour\\nOf God s sweet will.\\nHarriet Beecher Stowe.\\nThere are times when you feel a lacking\\nof the vital force. This may be owing to\\nvarious causes, but it is necessary to recuper-\\nate. This may be done by calling to your\\naid the spirit forces, who are ever about you.\\nThey will come, if asked, into your immedi-\\nate presence, and with a gentle flow of mag-\\nnetism from their being will replace this\\n122", "height": "2989", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "echoesfromspirit00kane_0128.jp2"}, "129": {"fulltext": "SPIRIT WORLD.\\nelement of your being, which has become\\ndepleted, with new and vital power, which\\nwill give you comfort and ease. Pain they\\ncan relieve best through the hands of a\\nhealer, who can transmit a portion of\\nearth-force, which is ever necessary to\\nsustain you while in earth-life. Many\\ntimes you feel pain when it is only the\\ncondition of the atmosphere. This they\\ncan readily relieve. The mind s energy is\\nmany times deflected from its direct course,\\nand drawn to realms beyond its pres-\\nent being, in which stage it may prosper,\\nbut is out of established harmony with its\\nbeing. Fulfilling the laws laid down is the\\nonly safe plan in any stage of existence.\\nWe must first seek to understand those laws.\\nThe intricate web of life is two-fold in its\\nimport kindly seek and rightly act. This\\nis all there is to it, yet enough to require the\\n123", "height": "2989", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "echoesfromspirit00kane_0129.jp2"}, "130": {"fulltext": "ECHOES FROM THE\\nthoughtful diligence of us all. There are\\nno two paths it is only the one path, but\\ndifferently outlined. To some it is fraught\\nwith much care and toil, while to others it\\nseems a high-road of pleasure. However\\nwe view it, whatever we make of it, it is the\\none Royal Road of Life. One receives the\\nsuccess deserved, and this is the pleasant thing\\nconnected with being. No striving in vain.\\nIt may appear so for a season, but many ap-\\npearances are delusive, as you have already\\nlearned.\\nEdith, oh, Edith I thought, you have\\nescaped many hard lessons, and yet the ben-\\nefit derived from those lessons is denied you,\\nwhich detracts from thus early leaving the\\nfirst state. They are pure and innocent,\\nbut ignorant as well, have missed the first\\nchapter, and cannot so well understand the\\nsecond. This is truth. It is to be deplored\\n124", "height": "2989", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "echoesfromspirit00kane_0130.jp2"}, "131": {"fulltext": "8PIBIT WOBLD.\\nthat some are deprived of this first experi-\\nence. It fits the mind for future usefulness.\\nThoroughly imbued with strictest honesty,\\nI watched the growth and development of\\nmortal mind with greatest satisfaction.\\nWe have yet to know the good we may\\naccomplish. The seeming good is not al-\\nways the result; as many times the influence\\nmay extend over many spaces of existence,\\nso the sum of our acts may not at once be\\ndetermined. Unwisely, some reason from\\nanalogy; but this method on the whole will\\nnot bear the test.\\nWe must strive to live to the highest\\nlight we have, and keep striving to attain to\\nmore resplendent rays, until we reach the\\ncentral sun. It is the privilege of all, only\\ngive your thought. The requirements along\\nthis line are very meager, only a little of\\nyour time and a passive will. This last is\\n125", "height": "2989", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "echoesfromspirit00kane_0131.jp2"}, "132": {"fulltext": "ECHOES FEOM THE\\nquite hard to attain, but when once discov-\\nered you will wonder why you never knew\\nthis before.\\nThis point reached, the guides can come\\ncloser, can manifest to you, and through\\nyou to others. This is the sum total. Put\\nyourself en rapport with spirit-forces; then\\nyou have discovered one of the great laws\\nof the universe; then mind can act on mind,\\nand give to you knowledge from the life\\nbeyond, so that when you come to lay down\\nthe mortal all will not be so new to you, but\\nyou will have known and felt this life in\\nadvance, thereby making you feel more at\\nease when you cross the boundary. There\\nis no such thing as going out into nonentity,\\nas some suppose; no sleeping in the grave\\nuntil the resurrection. No, no! It is life,\\nbeautiful life prolonged. Beautiful if we\\nmake it so. Why toil for the meat that\\n126", "height": "2989", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "echoesfromspirit00kane_0132.jp2"}, "133": {"fulltext": "SPIRIT WOBLD.\\nperishes when only to open unto the spir-\\nitual world your wants may be supplied\\nAre ye not more than food and raiment\\nThe earthly things are well enough, but\\nthe spending a whole lifetime in pursuit of\\nthem, to the detriment of the soul, is what I\\nobject to. Spare a little time to learn the\\nlaws of being around you, and thereby ben-\\nefit yourselves throughout the endless aeons\\nof space. Greatly to be deplored are the\\nlives whose only aim and object is merce-\\nnary gain, who do not give attention to\\nthe deeper meanings of life. They arrive\\nat this stage of existence shorn of their\\nidols, and powerless to direct the further\\ninvestments. They are miserable, because\\nthe commodity here is out of their line.\\nThe disappointment with which they view\\nthe situation is not easy to describe, and\\nonly as they may influence those left behind\\n127", "height": "2989", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "echoesfromspirit00kane_0133.jp2"}, "134": {"fulltext": "ECHOES FROM THE\\nand in possession of their wealth, are they\\nenabled to maintain any degree of forbear-\\nance. You will observe this, that Infinite\\nMind has taken into account and provided a\\nway whereby such souls may be pacified,\\nuntil they grow unto their state. It takes\\ncountless periods of space to grow out\\nof these conditions, as all erroneous ideas\\nmust be eradicated before one step in\\nadvance can be gained. Following ever\\nonward are the measures with which we\\nmeasure, and it shall be measured to us\\nagain. This is a truthful law of being,\\none which cannot be ignored. Happy is he\\nwho heeds. Winnowing our hearts best\\nhappiness, we are oblivious to evil tempta-\\ntions. Undeveloped good is ever within\\nour reach, but we must learn to decry the\\npresence of any element which could possi-\\nbly persuade us from the right path. This\\n128", "height": "2989", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "echoesfromspirit00kane_0134.jp2"}, "135": {"fulltext": "SPIRIT WORLD.\\nwe must do, if we would be blessed. And\\nwho does not strive for happiness? All are\\nbent on the one object, and determined to\\nreach, sometime, through their ideals, the\\nenchanted state. Yet with what vastly dif-\\nferent minds do they strive! Choose wisely,\\nfriends.\\nThoroughly imbued with life s great mis-\\nsion, and alive to its responsibilities, pain\\nand toil, I find my mind wandering to you\\nof earth, wishing to impart somewhat to\\nyou that may help to alleviate that part of\\nyour journey.\\nThe first steps are the most important,\\ntherefore it is the more necessary that great\\ncare should be taken. What will you think\\nof me, when I say all other experience is de-\\npendent upon this one? This is true. Not\\nthat you w411 not exist, but as to how you\\nwill exist in the sum total. You have it\\n9 129", "height": "2989", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "echoesfromspirit00kane_0135.jp2"}, "136": {"fulltext": "ECHOES FBOM THE\\nlargely within your own power to say what\\nshall be. Environment has much to do, and\\nyet you are supposed to surmount environ-\\nment. All life is an integral part of the\\ngreat universe of life, much the same as\\neach member is a part of the body. The\\nhand cannot say, Because I am not the eye,\\nI am not of the body, neither can it say, I\\nam of no use. Each part is needed to make\\na complete whole. So in the Life of Being,\\nno part can be lost, no particle dissolved.\\nFinding my work is growing easier for\\nme, I feel gratified that I may spend more\\nspace in converse with mortals. As you by\\nthis time understand, I can in nowise neglect\\nthe pursuit of knowledge along the lines I\\nhave chosen, which is a delight to me.\\nWhen you are guided to this plane, I\\nshall be pleased to convey to you the\\n130", "height": "2989", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "echoesfromspirit00kane_0136.jp2"}, "137": {"fulltext": "SPIRIT WORLD.\\nmeaning of the work I have in hand, but\\nyour business now is to bide your time, car-\\ning, to the best of your ability, for the tem-\\nples of the bodies in which you dwell, that\\nyour time may be prolonged and your work\\nwell done. I would above all things em-\\nphasize this admonition Do not seek in any\\nway to destroy life mortal existence), but\\nbuild up and prolong your probationary pe-\\nriod. It is of great importance that you do\\nso, and thereby increase your likelihood for\\ngood, for right deeds.\\n131", "height": "2989", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "echoesfromspirit00kane_0137.jp2"}, "138": {"fulltext": "ECHOES FROM THE\\nChapter XV.\\nThere is no death. An angel form\\nWalks o er the earth with silent tread\\nHe bears our best-loved things away,\\nAnd then we call them dead.\\nBut ever near us, though unseen,\\nThe dear immortal spirits tread\\nFor all the boundless Universe\\nIs life there are no dead.\\nJ. L. McCreery.\\nMyriads of whirling systems of worlds\\ncomprise the countless number of universes,\\nand it is not commensurate with human\\nknowledge to form a basis from which to\\nsolve the stupendous problem as to their ex-\\nistence. It must be taken as fact, and the\\nreasonableness of the idea that Creative\\nMind had a wise purpose in thus planning\\nfor future habitations. We can but gaze\\nand wonder at the wisdom displayed. Per-\\n132", "height": "2989", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "echoesfromspirit00kane_0138.jp2"}, "139": {"fulltext": "SPIBIT WORLD.\\nhaps this is the time for me to relate what\\nmay seem an improbabihty.\\nThinking to reach my dear ones of earth,\\nI set out in good season. Full many spaces\\nhad passed, and I was anxious to know if\\nanything had happened to my son, or to his\\nfamily. You will discover we are not pos-\\nsessed of all knowledge, and must jour-\\nney to our friends if we would know about\\nthem. Consequently, I went in quest of\\nevidence to quiet my mind. Arriving at\\nthe home of my son, I found all well, and\\neverything seemed to be about as usual. He\\nwas not at home; so I directed my steps to\\nhis place of business, knowing well the way.\\nHere I found him bent over his books, much\\nas I had been in years gone by, puzzling\\nover the long lines of figures. Well, I\\nthought, you must be successful. The\\nplace wore an air of prosperity, and I could\\n133", "height": "2989", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "echoesfromspirit00kane_0139.jp2"}, "140": {"fulltext": "ECHOES FROM TEE\\nnot help feeling a degree of pride in the\\nthought, Well, after all, there is satisfac-\\ntion in doing well whatever we do at all.\\nMy attention was drawn to the improve-\\nments and late inventions for conducting\\nthe business with greater ease, and I was\\npleased to note the prosperity that seemed\\nto be displayed; and my only son was at\\nthe head of this vast establishment. My\\nheart burned within me for pride at his\\nsuccess; but yet I knew it would be much\\nharder for him to change his vocation when\\nthe time came, as there would be no profit\\nin lingering here. I had once thought\\nwould never return, but now it was differ-\\nent: the old care did not affect me, and I\\nwas simply as one entertained; consequently\\nI could view the progress unobserved, and\\nat my leisure.\\nI found the appliances for abbreviating\\n134", "height": "2989", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "echoesfromspirit00kane_0140.jp2"}, "141": {"fulltext": "SPIRIT WORLD.\\nlabor were numerous, much to my astonish-\\nment. I had not even dreamed of the rapid\\nstrides in wealth and intellectual attainments.\\nI was as one who had been oblivious to this\\nform of advancement. Having never had\\nmy mind drawn to this branch of knowl-\\nedge, as on my last entering this place I had\\nresolved never to return, I had dismissed the\\ncare and labor connected with it, and had\\nretreated from the place. Now I felt an\\ninterest for my son s sake, and though feel-\\ning it would not be exactly best for him, yet\\ncould not advise at this point a change, as\\nhe was very content.\\nAfter looking until thoroughly satisfied,\\nI took my departure, intending to return\\noften to see my son, who was now the dear-\\nest of all my friends left on earth; though\\nI could not at this time reach him with my\\nthought, as his mind was too much absorbed\\n135", "height": "2989", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "echoesfromspirit00kane_0141.jp2"}, "142": {"fulltext": "ECHOES FEOM TEE\\nto pay any attention to me. I will now say,\\nif the mortal does not look within, but is ab-\\nsorbed in outward thought, we cannot speak\\nto his mind.\\nAll-absorbing as this topic is, I must leave\\nit for now, to relate a strange experience.\\nAfter leaving my son s store, I passed down\\nthe familiar street, which was very little\\nchanged. Stopping in front of one of the\\nestablishments that I had been very much\\ndrawn to in times past, I gazed intently upon\\nwhat was going on around me. Many\\nstrange faces were passing, and I felt like\\none in a foreign land. Presently I noticed\\nthe people stopping in their course, and di-\\nrecting their gaze toward me. Well, I\\nthought, for once I have an audience\\nWhat can it mean I stood on the sunny\\nside of the street, and I could not understand\\nwhy the people crowded around me. I stood\\n136", "height": "2989", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "echoesfromspirit00kane_0142.jp2"}, "143": {"fulltext": "SPIRIT WORLD.\\nperfectly still, wondering not a little as the\\nnumbers increased, and there was no mis-\\ntake, was the object of attraction. Fi-\\nnally one approached me with the cry of O!\\nfather father I beheld my son and he\\nhis father, and I left them with the knowl-\\nedge that the chemical laws of spirit are\\nperfect, and under proper conditions one\\nmay manifest to mortal eye.\\nYou ask, what was the agency? I an-\\nswer, the media around me reflected from\\nhumans passing.\\nThis was great happiness to me. Owing\\nto various reasons I made my exit from the\\nscene just described with feelings of grati-\\ntude and pleasure, glad to have proven an-\\nother law complete, and also gratified to\\nhave reached my son and others in a tangible\\nway. He was inclined to accept as proof\\nthis manifestation of being, and hastened\\n137", "height": "2989", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "echoesfromspirit00kane_0143.jp2"}, "144": {"fulltext": "ECHOES FROM THE\\nhome to inform his wife of the wonderful\\nthing that had happened. The throng of\\npeople who witnessed the apparition, as\\nthey called it, had various opinions. The\\nsuperstitious thought the city was doomed\\nwhile others believed it to be a genuine spir-\\nitual manifestation. Withal, it stirred pub-\\nlic sentiment and gave subject for discussion\\nfor many a day. Seeming only to know is\\nno real knowledge, so after the occurrence\\nwas past, many questioned whether it had\\nbeen, but those who had witnessed were\\njust as tenacious in their declarations. Thus\\ntime passed, and I leave them to their own\\nconclusions. It was enough for me that my\\nson had taken heed.\\n138", "height": "2989", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "echoesfromspirit00kane_0144.jp2"}, "145": {"fulltext": "8PIBIT WORLD.\\nChapter XVI.\\nLet the old life be covered by the new:\\nThe old past life, so full of sad mistakes,\\nLet it be wholly hidden from the view\\nBy deeds as white and silent as snow-flakes.\\nEre this life melts in the eternal Spring,\\nLet the white mantle of repentance fling\\nSoft drapery about it, fold on fold.\\nEven as the new snow covers up the old.\\nElla Wheeler Wilcox.\\nLooking within, finding the forces per-\\nfect, you are led to contemplate with satis-\\nfaction the field of work laid down. Often\\nthe mind is filled with longing to reach the\\nhighest point from which to survey its at-\\ntainments. This is perfectly commensurate\\nwith its realistic condition, and hope gives\\nbirth to flights of fancy which may be real-\\nized.\\nWe pursue our ideals no less in this life,\\n139", "height": "2989", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "echoesfromspirit00kane_0145.jp2"}, "146": {"fulltext": "ECHOES FROM THE\\nand, if we reach ever outward, are sure\\nsooner or later to become merged into their\\nsubstance, for such they become when once\\nwe have appropriated and absorbed their es-\\nsence. How important that we entertain\\nexalted ideals, as while this is taking place\\nwe are becoming engrafted into the life of\\nall life. Furthermore, our business is not\\nonly to exist, but to fulfill the highest state\\nof existence then we shall have accom-\\nplished much whereby we may be blessed.\\nWe may not, and can not, receive a bless-\\ning unless we have fulfilled the law by which\\nthis state may be vouchsafed to us. Let me\\nrepeat, for it can not be too often reiterated,\\nthere is no reward without right-doing, and\\nit is best to start right on the first plane.\\nDo not put off what you are convinced is\\nright for you to do now. Each day will\\nbring its labors and anxieties, so do not\\n140", "height": "2989", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "echoesfromspirit00kane_0146.jp2"}, "147": {"fulltext": "SPIRIT WORLD.\\nneglect a single opportunity to develop the\\nsoul. This is what you are to depend upon\\nthroughout eternity, and is of vastly more\\nimportance than houses and lands, or any\\nelement of physical life. Ultimately the\\nphysical man will appropriate these spirit-\\nual truths, when the world shall have be-\\ncome more enlightened. Just now the need\\nof teachers is great. All who hear the word\\ndo not appropriate it. Ye should be doers\\nalso, and in this way the light is spread, the\\ntruth disseminated. The field is now ripe,\\nbut the laborers are few, comparatively.\\nWe on the spirit side stand ever ready to\\ngive of our knowledge for your benefit.\\nBelieve true, the words I have brought to\\nyou, for they are truth. I have no wish to\\ndeceive, but simply enlighten upon this sub-\\nject with which every soul is connected.\\nThe time for this light is now; the world\\n141", "height": "2989", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "echoesfromspirit00kane_0147.jp2"}, "148": {"fulltext": "ECHOES FROM THE SPIRIT WORLD.\\nis now ready. There has never been a time\\nwhen there has been more deep thinking.\\nThe people are awake to scientific investi-\\ngation. Tlie masses are inquiring. This\\nis the encouraging feature to us, and as we\\ncan, will do our work. It is pleasant to\\ncontemplate, and happiness abounds. Like\\nthe little bird in its native forest on a bright\\nMay morning, trilling its sweetest lay, so\\nwe sing in grateful thankfulness when we\\nsee the mortal finding the right way.\\nNot many spaces ere we will find many\\nmore thinking seriously along these lines,\\nand little by little the power of mind will\\nbe acknowledged, until this knowledge\\nshall fill the whole earth.\\nFINIS.\\n142", "height": "2989", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "echoesfromspirit00kane_0148.jp2"}, "149": {"fulltext": "Contents\\nChapter. Page.\\nI Passes from earth to spirit-life, 7\\nII Departs from the surroundings of home, 13\\nIII Finds father, mother, brother, and sisters, 21\\nIV Begins the study of chemistry, 29\\nV Returns, and visits his wife, 45\\nVI Little Edith passes away, 60\\nVII He and Edith visit his mother, 65\\nVIII Goes to the home of his childhood, 73\\nIX Philosophy of life, 82\\nX Philosophy of life (continued), 86\\nXI His wife passes away, 92\\nXII No time but the present, 103\\nXIII His wife finds her work, 108\\nXIV Spirit forces assist mortals, 122\\nXV Appears to his son, 132\\nXVI Spiritual light being accepted, 139", "height": "2989", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "echoesfromspirit00kane_0149.jp2"}, "150": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2989", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "echoesfromspirit00kane_0150.jp2"}, "151": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2989", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "echoesfromspirit00kane_0151.jp2"}, "152": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2989", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "echoesfromspirit00kane_0152.jp2"}, "153": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2989", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "echoesfromspirit00kane_0153.jp2"}, "154": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2989", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "echoesfromspirit00kane_0154.jp2"}, "155": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2989", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "echoesfromspirit00kane_0155.jp2"}, "156": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3336", "width": "1980", "jp2-path": "echoesfromspirit00kane_0156.jp2"}}