The Boy Who Saw True by Anonymous

Author:Anonymous [Anon]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Ebury Publishing
Published: 2005-08-03T22:00:00+00:00

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Jan. 17.

Mater came home on Saturday, and pater is coming sometime this week. The Patmores left, and I was sorry when they went, because I had such a nice time when they were here. I have started lessons again to-day. Mr. P. was fairly pleased with the story he asked me to write in the holidays, but gave me some tips. He told me that good writers didn’t always use the same word for the same thing, but went in for varigations, and that I mustn’t always say “he said” and “she said”, but sometimes I must put “he replied”, “she answered”, and the like. These are called synonyms, he said, and told me how to spell it. Then he gave me a whole crowd of synonyms for “said” because I could only think of answered, replied, intermated and a few more. I wrote them all down as he gave them out, so now I know . . . The mater is not all she should be, and looks as if something was upsetting her. But I don’t know what, and daresn’t ask her. I only (merely) get the feeling that she and pater have started squabbling about some bone of contention. If that’s a fact, I wish one’s parents wouldn’t do it, it’s so mortifying, and turns the feel of the whole place upside down.

Jan. 24.

That nice pupil of the E B’s turned up this morning for a bit at our 11 o’clock repast, and told us a few things. He asserted that some souls who were far enough on, and didn’t want to have to come back to earth again, could become dayvas (devas) or sort of gods or what we imagine are angels. He argued that each country (nation) has it’s (national) deva, (I have corrected the spelling here, though the word is pronounced as I originally spelt it) and sort of looked after things, but in a way it would be hard for us to understand. He avowed that Lord Nelson, who won the battle of Trafalgar and said “Kiss me, Hardy,” (evidently my own elaborations) was now a (national) deva, and if ever I went to London, I would see him on top of the Nelson monument in Trafalgar Square. (10) (Somewhat badly stated. The Nelson Column is merely his focussing point.) He told us some other things too. He affirmed that some devas who were devas to start with got so attached to a body (viz: a human being) that they didn’t want to be a deva any more, and became a person on earth instead, so as to be near the body they loved. He contended that stories about fairies becoming ordinary people like we are and you meet with in fairy tales, are not all flapdoodle (but contain a certain amount of occult lore.) Then he told us the queerest thing of all. He stated that ages ago, I had been a deva, and I (had) so loved the E.B. that he

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