GONE WEST

THREE NARRATIVES OF
AFTER-DEATH EXPERIENCES

COMMUNICATED THROUGH THE MEDIUMSHIP OF

J. S. M. WARD

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CONTENTS

DEDICATION

FOREWORD

INTRODUCTION

PART I.—THE LOWEST DIVISION OF THE SPIRIT PLANE

CHAP.

1. The doorway opens.
2. Introduction of “The Officer.”
3. H.J.L. outlines his plan for this book.
4. Two strange incidents
5. “The Officer”
6. H. J. L. describes his death.
7. How the living appear to the departed.
8. A plan of the spirit plane.
9. The passing of a saint.
10. Describes the school to which he went and what he learnt there.
11. He attends his own funeral.
12. He goes to college.
13. Animals on the spirit plane.
14. Little Blanche sees H. J. L.
15. How H.J.L. met “The Officer”.
16. Guardian angels.
17. Blanche sees H. J. L. and Molly.
18. Men are self-judged.
19. The school for the regenerate in Hell.
20. He visits the school for the babes who knew not faith.
21. He visits the great house of Refuge in Hell.
22. The author visits H. J. L. at college.
23. Of their amusements and how the spirits inspire men on earth.
24. Art and Architecture on the spirit plane.
25. Music and the Drama.
26. Introduction to W.A.
27. How the college is organized, and of other like institutions.
28. A hospital on the spirit plane.
29. “Neither will they be persuaded though one rose from the dead”.
30. The author’s adventure in the park on the spirit plane.
31. The fate of children.
32. Of animals, and how they converse with men.
33. The astral and spirit planes compared.
34. A visit with H. J. L. to the astral plane. The dreamers.
35. The influence of the war cloud.
36. The war.
37. The band of spirit friends is dispersed. Conclusion.

PART II.—“THE OFFICER”

1. The first letter from “The Officer”. His passing over.
2. First experiences on the astral plane. The drinking den.
3. The denizens of the astral plane.
4. An incident in the life of “The Officer “ upon earth.
5. A séance.
6. He falls from the astral plane into Hell.
7. In Hell. The city of hate (Rome).
8. The Emperor. A theater in Hell.
9. A visit to the Emperor.
10. The attack on Danton.
11. A battle in Hell.
12. A second visit to the Emperor.
13. “The Officer” and the Wizard.
14. The evil that they wrought.
15. His punishment. The second division. Real devils.
16. He undertakes to recruit for the devils.
17. He falls into the lowest depth of Hell.
18. The bottomless pit.
19. The first upward step.
20. Back in the second division.
21. He rises to the third division. A library in Hell.
22. A “hospital” in Hell
23. Chaka. Athens.
24. The first messenger of light.
25. The fourth division. The lusts of the flesh. Corinth.
26. He is helped by another messenger.
27. He has to return to Corinth and rescue another soul.
28. A newspaper in Hell. Racing.
29. He meets his guardian angel at last.
30. The fifth division. The blatant materialists. Churches in Hell.
31. The sleepers.
32. The sixth division. A church and its vicar.
33. A debate in Hell as to whether there is a life after death.
34. He reaches the seventh division.
35. He escapes out of Hell at last.

PART III. — W. A.: THE ASTRAL PLANE

1. W. A. passes over.
2. How old friends behaved on learning of his death
3. Astral forests. The hunters and the hunted.
4. He determines to help men on earth that he may escape from the astral plane.
5. Types of beings other than men. Animal astrals, fairies, elementals.
6. He leaves the astral for the spirit plane.