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gain a knowledge of the characters of symbols of a language not your own. Thoughts being
motions of the mind, assume specific and definite forms, and when distinct in the mind, can
be clearly perceived and understood by any spirit who is in sympathy with the mind in which
they are generated.
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CHAPTER XXIII FUTURE OF A CHILD
THE orthodox teachings make no attempt to tell us what becomes of children who go out of
the earth-plane in infancy. How many millions of mothers have had babies too young for
speech, boys and girls just able to talk and walk, sink into a dreamless sleep, and having
kissed for the last time the lips of love, have seen the little bodies lowered with tender hands
into the grave, and as the earth fell upon the casket have heard from the lips of ignorance
"ashes to ashes, and dust to dust." With hearts without hope they have gone back to the house
of sorrow, the toys, the little bed, the vacant chair, the ache in the heart, the tears that fall in
countless thousands of homes, and the cries that go out in the night to know where in the vast
universe the baby is, if it lives at all.
"What becomes of those who go out in infancy, you ask? "Do they develop in mind and
body? Shall we know them and meet them again? Will they know us? Is there any one to
comfort and care for them, and teach them?
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Do they miss and seek the mother love?" These and a thousand more questions have been
asked in the countless ages that have gone, and are being asked in every desolate home in the
world today.
Let me tell what I have learned of those conditions through many years of speech with those
in the afterlife.
I repeat what I have said before and shall say again, for it is the key to comprehension, that
the infant at conception possesses an etheric form, at that moment clothed in a physical
garment or flesh body. This etheric form is material, composed of matter, and as matter
cannot be destroyed; it follows that etheric child-body cannot by any possibility be
annihilated.
The infant etheric form by the process of dissolution passes out of the physical garment which
it took on at the moment of conception, the same garment that it wore at birth, and becomes
an inhabitant of the next plane of consciousness, where all is etheric, where nothing physical
can enter. This change may be likened to an earth-birth. There are thousands of childless
women, who never in earth-life found expression for the mother-love. These, with countless
others who find their greatest happiness in doing good together with those of blood relation,
attend at such a time and take and care for the little stranger in the new environment.
Let me give an instance that came under my personal investigation. It is a well known fact
that children up to about three years of age are able to, and do see spirit people; some have
spirit playmates. The instance I am about to relate was the passing of a little boy, only one
week old, who had a sister a little under three years of age, with whom I was privileged to
make an experiment. This little girl night after night saw the baby boy, and described him; he
was in the same room with two spirit nurses in attendance, while another woman was from
time to time described as being present. Again, this three year old sister often saw the spirit-
baby when she was away from her home. On various occasions I verified these statements by
inquiry from those in the afterlife during our investigation, and found that what the little sister
related had actually taken place. The woman who appeared from time to time was the
grandmother; she, assisted by two nurses, cared for the little stranger, and on several
occasions, before he could articulate plainly, prior to his fourth birthday, I heard him speak to
me. This was a most valuable experience.
Children in the afterlife are cared for very much as they are here. There are those who find
their greatest delight in mothering the motherless, and teaching them words of speech and
wisdom; so under such unselfish care the children reach mental and bodily maturity just the
same as they would if they had remained in this world.
The etheric process of development is interesting; children need mother-love no less in spirit
than in earth life, and as the mother sleeps, those in charge place the etheric baby-form close
to her heart, where it rests absorbing the love so necessary to its existence. We little know
how close the afterlife is, how close its inhabitants come to us, the influence they exert on us,
or the result of our thought vibrations upon them. Then again, as the children grow, they keep
in touch with us from day to day, and when we go out into the afterlife, they know and greet
us as we enter the life that has no night.
There are in the next life kindergartens, schools, colleges, and universities of learning just as
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