Her invisible spirit mate; a scientific novel

Front matter

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INDEX TO LESSONS Page

Introduction 3

Obsession and Its Cure 4

Scientific Healing* 11

Scientific Farming 14

Psychical Research 18

My Daily Prayer 33

Novel of Psychical Research 34

ILLUSTRATIONS

Author's (One a Spirit Picture) Frontispiece

Trix and Child 38

Augusta May 1 98

Contents

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I. The Voyage 36

II. Home Sweet Home 38

Introduction

This book is written under inspiration of my mother and Benjamin Franklin Burke, M. D. I dedicate the book to them and to my husband and daughter. These lessons and the novel are reports of true experiences of my invisible helpers and of my investigations in the great soul world. My experience will prove our glorious resurrection. I write this book to help make the world more beautiful. These lessons will teach you how to get in rapport with God and His Holy Angels. Dr. B. F. Burke, who has lived in Mars twenty-four years, was a graduate of Cooper College. This gentleman was the soul of honor on earth. I know he is on a very high plane. So is my angel mother. They have given up their lives to missionary work and hard study. They are respected among a host of angels. They were honest, good, sincere Christians here. My mother and Dr. Burke have the reputation of being the most perfect souls in Mars. I know it is a fact, that is the reason I can comfort others by giving this truth to the world. I was born a prophetess and psychic. When young I would get the future by dreams. After the wonderful phychic Mrs. Augusta Vail developed me I could give readings by mental telepathy, psychometry or clairvoyance. To practice the Golden Rule and do good is my religion. Most of the people in my novel have been dead for years. Angels have asked me many times to give these facts to a discouraged, war-stricken world. May this book be a light that w T ill shine in a world of darkness and bloodshed. May it help establish universal peace, love, prosperity, industry and harmony. I would give my life to see this accomplished, as I love humanity with all my soul. We all belong to God and are a part of Him, hence we are divine. Our mind is that which loves, thinks and lives forever. Soul and mind are the same.

Obsession and Its Cure.

These lessons are to help shed some light on the unseen world, and to teach my readers how to avoid getting in rapport with wicked, earth-bound spirits. The book is to help you to reach Heaven. Death does not change our individuality. Our forms alone are changed from old age to youth and happiness, if we are good ; then this mortal puts on immortality. If we die in sin and ignorance we remain ignorant and sinful after death. We can only progress by pure thoughts, hard study and love in any planet. It is knowledge that lifts us up, ignorance pulls us down. I know that wicked, ignorant, earth-bound demons come back to obsess innocent men and women. Habits cling to us after death. It pays us to form good habits now. I have known some of the finest psychics in the world to be obsessed by dark, cruel, lazy spirits. A dear, good Christian friend of mine had a sad experience with low demons whom we will call Lena, Bill, Al and their folks. Al's people lied to cover up his crimes. Al is lazy and has the appearance of a madman ; his wicked thoughts and crimes keep him ill and insane ; his laziness and deception keep him and his father poor and unpopular. Bill and Al often try to harm pure, helpless dying women or girls to make white slaves of them, even after death. They want to drift with the tide and keep up their old habits. Angels will not permit them to wrong pure, sweet girls as they did while living on earth. Their sins were not punished on earth, but now they must suffer for them.

They deceived the public and pretended to be good. They drank, lied, robbed and wronged good honest young women. They were very cunning and deceitful in all their wicked, heartless crimes, and they retain the same individuality now. Lena, Bill and Al are too weak and lazy to change their thoughts, hence they are still in darkness and oblivion ; they are living in Purgatory in filth and poverty. Women fear and hate them, men never speak to them. No woman is safe in their company. Disobedience to God's law has caused their poverty and insanity. Once Al had taken money from a woman to entice pure young girls on earth to a life of shame and suffering so that he could enjoy their hard-earned blood money. God forbid that we should ever wrong a soul. My invisible helpers can cast out demons and heal those that suffer. Sensitives, you must let wicked spirits alone unless you can help them, for they will cling to you and drag you down, if you do as they do. I am glad I have helped some out of darkness and despair. Lena and the Harris demons have hearts of stone ; they are too lazy to help themselves ; they have refused work and help from others. On January 8, 1917, these fiends tried to break up our class in psychology by lying to my pupils. I saw William James and Dr. B. F. Burke drive them out. As soon as they left, we received truth and names from our invisible loved ones. Jack London and B. F. Mills came with Daisy and my mother. They encouraged me to go on with my work. William Stead and Julia, his spirit mate, often come to help me and cheer me on. God bless their dear souls. Words cannot express how I love these angels of light and beauty. I would not take a million for my psychic powers. It is such a sweet comfort to hear angels whispering softly in my ear. I live for God and the angel world. My mission on earth is to do good, and cast out evil spirits in the name of Jesus and His Saints. I can teach others to detect good spirits from bad ones. I am in ecstasy as soon as I am in harmony with angels. I earnestly pray to God that I can give as much happiness to others as I have received from the angel world. With God's help, I will be kind and sweet to all I meet. I am here to love people and help them on their way. Those that live in the slums are my own kindred.

I keep demons away by prayer and fasting. I have learned how to make the conditions for my mother and other angels to come. I know my poor friend's terrible suffering is about over in that direction. She or I never wronged Lena or these low Harris men, but they have done so to us. They are in darkness now from constant drinking and adultery committed on earth. They try to continue the same life over there. Death does not change our desires or disposition in the least. Habit clings to us. Now is the time to form good habits. We make our future conditions in this world. The Harris boys' minds are weaker than animals on this plane, for Bill and Al continue to lie and impersonate my loved ones in Heaven. Their wicked, guilty consciences make their faces ugly and their lives miserable. I have developed for so long a time that my mind is like a telephone receiver. I hear songs and classical music on higher planes. I sense suffering and ignorance on lower planes. Purgatory is the first plane, Earth the second, Mars third, Venus fourth, etc. Our mental development takes us to these different planes after our transition. Good thoughts and education, not money or sin, take us onward and upward. It pays us well to think perfect thoughts now, not tomorrow. Live beautifully today. Do good and help make the world more beautiful. Any one that will not help in this war and darkness is a coward and a shirk. Work hard to crush out poverty, sin, white-slavery, ignorance, drunkenness, hate, war and selfishness. If we follow the Golden Rule and live perfect lives here, there will be no demons or darkness after death. Dr. Burke or my self have never wronged these wicked Harris men or Lena (he never knew them), and they blackmail us for his wealth; they are lazy and envy him. Poverty exists where there is sin and ignorance. On July 4, 1916, Al and Bill showed my friend a huge yellow and green snake and threw it on her back, after swearing at her and insulting her shamefully. The language was too coarse and too terrible to repeat. In her dreams, Bill and Lena tortured her constantly. For days they cruelly obsessed her. One day they would hypnotize her to think that she was alone in the world forever suffering eternal pain and sorrow. The next day she was insulted and beaten, then burned with hot irons. They threw poisonous snakes on her that seemed real and caused her to faint with fear. Satan is an angel compared to these Harris fiends and their deceitful companion, Lena. They were low, hardened demons and insane fiends. Their faces were ugly and old, their eyes wild and glassy. Al pulled out all his eyelashes. People never spoke to or thought of them, so they were lonely and despondent in awful darkness. They were eager to fight even among themselves. Ignorance or illness causes obsession.

Demoniacal possession is a scientific ancient and modern fact. The best way to get rid of evil spirits is never to think of them and keep very busy and cheerful. Sometimes a prayer in the name of Jesus and your angels, with a command to depart forever, will effect exorcism. In Purgatory and in this world the good and bad mingle together. As soon as the soul is developed and just as soon as we can read each other's thoughts, then there is a parting of the ways. I have heard very high angels say that Al would be insane many years yet. By my clairvoyance I find many helpless souls in darkness and sin. Their conditions are terrible. Sin in any form never pays. I know there are souls in Purgatory paying the penalty of former crimes. I have learned to deliver innocent sensitives here or anywhere of demoniacal possession. Often, prayer, diet and good pure thoughts will drive it away. Keep busy and in perfect health.

I have often heard Al's obscene language by mental telepathy or thought transference. It was too vile to repeat. I heard him tell Kate Burke, a sweet saint, that he would torment her forever, then beg her friends for money. I hate to hear or see these insane demons ; I see them and cannot help myself. I love to see my invisible friends. Our unjust laws send these poor, undeveloped souls over there before they are prepared to die. Often they return, after being executed, to do more harm than ever. Capital punishment is a crime. A very wicked person is a very ill person ; he should never be abused, but coaxed to work on our prison farms. Every prison should have a school and library. The prisoners should be taught music and every branch of study. All evil spirits should be educated and treated kindly if they show the least desire to do what is right. I have seen Al stagger and fall. This is because he was a dope fiend and drunkard. His father was drunk most of the time a year previous to his birth. Children should have a pre-natal education. Babes in other worlds have that birthright. Angels work like busy bees for perfection ; so should we. Honest missionary work of any kind is noble. We should encourage good workers. Yet these Harris fiends did all in their power to prevent the best psychic in the world from doing a great work. Kate Burke was a devoted Christian psychic, as pure and innocent as a child. She and other saints have been abused and shamefully persecuted by the Harris demons. Death tears the midnight mask from their faces ; their aura reveal their dark past. After death we cannot get away from our past; our sins cling to us like germs to a leper and infect our aura. I am working to develop a perfect character and radiant aura so that I can go to my mother and other loved ones at death.

I never saw a medium in all my life that was not obsessed by some ignorant or insane entity ; that is why I am doing all in my power for universal education. In my psychological classes I develop the mind so that my pupils can get in tune with Infinite Intelligence. It is heaven to be in rapport with God and His holy angels. Kate Burke was one of the most perfect spiritual missionaries I ever knew. She was a marvelous psychic. Yet these Harris demons abused and insulted her daily for ten years. They did all in their power to ruin her and they influenced others against her. In spite of these terrible persecutions, she kept in perfect condition and proved to thousands that there is no death, and that mind can overcome obsession, ignorance and sin. I know ignorance is a terrible thing that chains the soul in darkness and despair. It is a crime not to cultivate the mind. We must study and work here or live in poverty and darkness after death, until we progress out of that state. I saw Jennie Glass in my room, about four years after we buried her. I saw her cry because her son went to war and was surprised that such a sweet angel could suffer. After death our departed love us more than ever. In 1916 my soul floated again to Mars. I saw peach and almond trees in bloom. It was springtime and the country was a fairyland of beauty. In mars I found great wealth and gallantry among the Burke brothers. Ladies admired their chivalry. I am glad angels are extremely polite and Christlike. May God protect us from such demons as the Harris fiends as we pass on to Heaven.

Now is the time to prepare our souls for a higher plane. The most important thing in life is to prepare the soul for death. We are all architects building future conditions. Now is the time to build up a good foundation. I know Lena Bill and Al Harris obsessed Mrs. Burke by hypnotism for years and tortured her mentally. She was a ivonderful psychic and prophetess. Long ago at her private seances the table would move and answer our questions intelligently. She would foretell future events correctly. I saw a bee and a butterfly materialize on the table. I heard a song from her angels. I saw a man's arm and my mother's face materialize. Soon as the war broke out in Europe she said the allies would win. Her invisible helpers showed her beautiful poetry written in the air and bright lights in the night. The Harris fiends prevented her from being the greatest psychic in the world. These evil spirits used to insult and abuse this pure girl shamefully. They caused her great sorrow by impersonating her 'loved ones. No good person could realize their sly, cunning deception. I have seen Al crawl on the ground, too weak to stand alone. It is Divine justice, for he and Bill constantly hinder good sensitives from doing missionary work. They are now reaping the harvest of their awful crimes. Never live as they did. Never make the conditions for them to be happy near you. The best cure for obsession is to keep them out of your thoughts entirely. Keep cheerful ; fasting and prayer will keep demons away.

I cast out devils by prayer and science. I heal many by the same Divine law. I know it is ignorance to be ill or poor. God has given plenty for all. The greatest good we can do is to teach industry and cheerfulness. I love to help comfort those that suffer by proving to them there is no death or separation from loved ones. If you wish to attract your own to you, think of them. Thoughts are things. The power of thoughts is like magic. Good thoughts build up the soul and body; w r icked, cruel thoughts will tear it down. "As one thinketh, so is he," applies to health, harmony, love and wealth. "None but the pure in heart shall see God." If you wish to make money or win success, think and plan out your life work, then never deviate from those plans. In time, prayer and hard work will bring success in life. Money comes from doing the very best you can. Make your life beautiful ioday. Live as if you would die tomorrow. Make most of every opportunity. Of course, success means hard work — rightly applied — for prayer without work is in vain. All work is beautiful. No one should ever retire from work that they love. Folks past seventy should be paid one-half wages for manual labor, full wages for mental work, as the educated mind is stronger in old age. I love to work. All normal people do. Now is the time to work, because God needs us to be missionaries. I long to help lift the world above war, hate, sin and selfishness. Desert the cruel army for quiet, peaceful farm and home life. Leave the army at once so you can save your precious lives. .We must preserve the noble white race. "Thou shalt not Icillv" In refusing to murder our brother, we objsy God. - It, is our duty to plan and vote for universal peace' then demand it at once. I see clairvoyantly through this awful darkness a welcomed new light penetrating the night. The dawn of a glorious new scientific religion is shedding its light. When each dear soul has had a glimpse of Heaven, as I have, and heard the'angels whisper facts to them and know there is no death, then hate and war will be done away with. The world needs love for each other. Give to those that suffer your sincere love from the very depths of your beautiful Christlike soul. May we love as they do in stars above. Sincere love for others, is sublime. The reward of a perfect love for humanity, is Heaven. God is love. Love is an inspiration that leads us to Him.

Lessons on Scientific Healing

I heal through Dr. B. F. Burke, who gets his power from God. I cure people by prayer, suggestion and magnetism from my hands. I sent a red rose that I magnetised to a very sick boy. They placed it on his chest. He was then cured by absent treatment. I build up the body and mind through piy invisible doctor's scientific methods. The mini is divine and must be kept strong and in perfect condition, and so must the body. We should keep strong, young, cheerful and slender. It is our duty to live hygienically and economically at all times. We eat too much and wear too many clothes. Children should have fresh nourishing food morning and evening. Adults, only one meal a day at noon, with a pint of pure water every morning and night. Sleep out of doors, then you will not need so much to eat. Fresh air, sunshine, pure water and work make the high cost of living much lower. If taxes and food were reduced one-half it would help prevent war. A few days ago I was ill and discouraged. Dr. Burke and my mother told funny jokes all night; they kept me laughing constantly. Next day I was perfectly well and happy again. In order to heal another we must bury our sorrow, then give cheerful suggestion. Send out sunny, inspiring thoughts at all times to others. Wicked or depressed thoughts make you ill or insane. Prayer and noble thoughts will keep you well if you keep the laws of hygiene. What w r e eat builds the body ; what we do and think builds the soul. "As one thinketh, so is he. ,,

Smile and pray befqre you go to sleep. At sunrise welcome your angels with a smile and good thoughts. Keep sweet and cheerful under all conditions. Perfect happiness and love is health and wealth. Do all within your power to make your soul more beautiful. God dwells within our souls, and we are part of the whole. Our thoughts of today make our tomorrow. In order to retain your youth and health after forty, eat less, take a daily bath, study more, and work faster. Beautiful thoughts make a pretty face. Ladies should steam their faces twice a week. After taking off the hot compresses, rub the face with ice, then massage with cold cream. Keep slender by housework and diet. The- most nourishing foods are nuts, fruit, cream, raw vegetables. It ruins a wife's beauty to cook much and ruins her husband's health. RaAv eggs beaten well, served with rich pure cream, is a dainty, nourishing dessert. This builds up the system. A variety of food is essential to keep one in perfect health. Eat slowly and enjoy your meals. Never w^orry or get angry; it hinders digestion and makes wrinkles. Worry and over work causes gray hair. Hard study or any mental work, if enjoyed, makes the hair heavy and luxuriant. Make a habit of cheerfulness, if you wish to be attractive and young. Forget your age by keeping very busy and happy. Suggest to yourself that you are only sixteen in looks. Light farming in God's glorious sunshine will keep you in perfect health, if you diet and study good books. Music inspires one and helps to

. 12 keep you in perfect health. Melody makes the condition for harmony and romance. We need both in this practical, selfish, ignorant world. Hypnotism as a therapeutic resource should never be used until after all other remedies have failed. The mind must have perfect liberty in order to develop the soul. It is our duty to do away with all reform schools, insane asylums and prisons. The sooner the world is set free, and we place the utmost confidence in humanity, the greater and more beautiful it will be.

How young and radiant the people in Mars looked to me. I noticed electricity was used in every conceivable form in Mars. I saw an organ attached to a battery. Mama gave me a wonderful treatment by applying musical electricity to my hair and form. Electricity is life, and is used in Mars instead of drugs. What a piece of work is man ! How grand ! How noble in character ! He has the faculty to reason. In form, how beautiful; in thought and action, how like an angel ! How like a God after his transmission from Earth to Mars. The people in Mars are grand, radiant with life and energy. Great minds have constructed useful canals all over Mars and other worlds. Dr. Burke tells me we must have canals some day, and our large rivers should have small canals for irrigation. In order to advance we must keep the ten commandments and practice the following lines :

I will be true, pure and cheerful. I will smile while I work. I will study and gain health, strength, friends and success. I will work and pray. I will be contented and happy now, knowing there is no death. I will practice the Golden Rule.

These are elevating thoughts that keep you young and happy and build your health and mind up. In Mars, talent expressed is wealth. They worship God and love Jesus. So do I, too, admire His perfect mind and powerful, noble thoughts. He controls the atoms of space. Our Lord's mind brought substance out of ether and fed hundreds bread and fish. Dr. Burke and my mother love Him more than ever. At the wedding feast He made the sparkling waters blush and materialized unfermented wine, and money out from the mouth of the fish. He knew the seas held a wealth of gold. He demonstrated the truth and proved "thoughts are things." He was a great healer and psychic. I love Him. I have often seen Dr. Burke materialize jewels and other things out of ether. He is a grand, noble Christian and a popular resident in Mars. Years ago he died in California. He wants to make the w T orld more beautiful through my pen and psychic powers. May God help me to work for Jesus and the angel world.

Scientific Farming Please bear in mind, my dear readers, that my books are not referring to any living person or edifice on earth. This book is to comfort others. These lessons on farming are to alleviate poverty in our slums. My books are to make conditions better. Farming is delightful and should be encouraged in every way possible for the general good of humanity. It is our duty to make it attractive, beautiful and profitable. Hard study and work prolong life and beauty. Mental work develops the soul and keeps us cheerful and useful. No one should neglect his education. Future farmers must be educated or fail to make an honest living. If you cannot own a farm, make a garden in the back yard. Call it a miniature farm, keep it in perfect condition for the sake of your health. To be happy, our homes should be attractive, beautiful and healthful, surrounded by a little garden of Eden. A lawn in front, fruit, flowers, vegetables and a few profitable chickens in the rear. Prosperity is the result of industry and harmony. Save all seeds to exchange with your neighbors. Dry and can all fruit and vegetables that you cannot sell. Boil the juice of grapes, oranges, lemons, limes and grapefruit for ten minutes, and can in well sterilized jars. This will keep for years and makes a very nutritious drink. It is a great economy to have grapes hanging from your veranda or portico in front, and your back fence covered with berries. In this way you can save a little for taxes. Taxes should be one-half what they are now. Each man should own his home. All men should own the big trusts and corporations, and each work and share the profits alike. All w r orlds "belong to God and the fullness thereof." We' His children, own an interest in the whole. Farming, without any education or recreation, will bend the beautiful form and dwarf the mind. Love and variety are the soul of life. Homes should be builded on the highest and sunniest place on the farm, where it is dry and surrounded by pure air and sunshine. To be happy, we must have health. My invisible loved ones tell me there are happy homes, surrounded by wonderful farms, in all planets that can be cultivated. Anything that we need for health should be in reach of all (such as milk, grains, eggs, nuts, fruit, vegetables and salt). Some nations tax even the salt. That is cruel and unjust, for it causes blindness.

Extensive canals flowing through our land would save irrigation. Where there is fog, very little water is required for farming. Keep the surface of the soil well plowed, and free from weeds and stones. Until we are advanced enough to own canals, as they do in Mars, we can irrigate by making small trenches through each row. Grapes, figs, cactus, olives, apples, beans, etc., should be planted on the hillside or waste land that cannot be used for grain or vegetables and nuts. These do not need irrigation after the first year. Irrigate at twilight, never in the sunshine. Plan all your work. Intelligent preparation in anything brings success. Plan for a bountiful harvest. If you cannot sell your harvest, trade, exchange things. Our gold and silver should be made into useful things ; it is a waste of time to make it into money. Use checks or scrip to represent credit for so much goods. We need a grand exchange bureau in every town. In this terrible war age nothing should be wasted. We need more farmers and schools. Now is the time to be Godlike, to help the world out of the Gethsemane of despair and poverty., caused by selfishness and war. We could have Heaven on earth if each one of us should follow in the golden footprints of Christ and His holy angels. Earth could be farmed more extensively if we had canals in the deserts where the heat is intense. Canals cause rain, cool the atmosphere and keep the ocean from wearing away the valuable land. There are no waves on the sea in Mars ; canals take them off.

Canals should be very long and narrow ; they have waves. The gates must be perfect and made of steel. Iron would rust and so drown us all. Farming is beautiful and very profitable, for it brings health, wealth and happiness to those who love it. If land is poor, keep stock and chickens on it for a year or so to rest it. Farmers in Mars are radiant with youth and energy. We should be the same. Farming is the foundation of prosperity. Build little bird cotes among your vines and trees ; their inmates are dainty little helpers that we could not live without. I have seen tiny yellow canary birds in Mars about the size of my little finger, and a large green parrot I once owned. I had several pet canary birds die. A few months later I saw them clairvoyantly, alone in my home. I heard my parrot sing while my spiritual body was traveling in Mars. He laughed and talked the same there as I taught him on earth. His memory had improved. I understood all he sang. I enjoyed hearing him laugh once again. If God has resurrected my pet animals, I know He will take us home to Heaven some day. I saw Dr. B. F. Burke driving a dark horse, in a buggy w r ith his little adopted child, Kate Burke. She was a pretty little curly-headed blonde that died previous to her birth into this world. She is a little angel messenger of love that often helps me give tests. Her aunt, Mrs. K. Burke, who was a nurse on earth, comes with her to help me. I saw Dr. Burke and the child drive on and on through rich farm lands. I knew he could float, and wondered how he could enjoy that horse. I suppose it was because he loved horses, as most men do. Dr. Burke told me clairvoyantly that Mars was highly cultivated along the canals. I will be glad when God calls me to that marvelous country of love and liberty. Farmers are divine and kind ; they till the sod and live near to God.