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CHAPTER XI.— Wrecks and Catastrophes · Invisible Helpers

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  Chapter eleven of Invisible Helpers. This is on LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings
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  LibriVox dot org. Invisible Helpers by c W Leadbeater, Rerex and Catastrophes.
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  Sometimes it is possible for members of the band of Helpers to avert impending catastrophes
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  of a somewhat larger order. In more than one case, when the captain
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  of a vessel has been carried unsuspecting far out of his course by some unknown
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  current or through some mistaken reckoning, and has thereby run into serious danger,
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  it has been possible to prevent shipwreck by repeatedly im pressing upon his mind a
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  feeling that something was wrong. And although this generally comes through into the captain's
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  brain merely as a vaguely warning intuition, yet if it occurs again and again,
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  he is almost certain to give it some attention and take such precautions as
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  suggest themselves to him. In one case, for example, in which the
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  master of a bar was much nearer in to the land than he supposed,
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  he was again and again pressed to heave the lead, and though he resisted
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  this suggestion for some time as being unnecessary and absurd, He at last gave
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  the order in a somewhat hesitating way. The result astounded him, and he
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  at once put his vessel about and stood off from the coast, though it
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  was not until morning came that he realized how very clear he had been to
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  an appalling disaster. Often, however, a catastrophe is karmic in its nature,
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  and consequently cannot be averted. But it must not therefore be supposed that
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  in such cases no help can be given. It may be that the people
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  concerned are destined to die, and therefore cannot be saved from death. But
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  in many cases they may still be to some extent prepared for it, and
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  may certainly be helped upon the other side after it is over. Indeed,
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  it may be definitely stated that wherever a great catastrophe of any kind takes place,
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  there is also a special sending of help. Two recent cases in which
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  such help was given were the sinking of the Drummond Castle of Cape Ushant and
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  the terrible cyclone which devastated the city of Saint Louis in America. On both
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  these occasions, a few minutes notice was given, and the helpers did their
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  best to calm and raise men's minds, so that when the shock came upon
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  them, it would be less disturbing than it might otherwise have been naturally.
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  However, the greater part of the work done with the victims in both these
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  calamities was done upon the astral plane, after they had left their physical bodies.
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  But of this we shall speak later. It is sad to relate how
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  often, when some catastrophe is impending, the helpers are hindered in their kindly
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  offices by wild panic among those whom the danger threatens, or sometimes were still
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  by a mad outburst of drunkenness among them those whom they are trying to assist.
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  Many a ship has gone to her doom, with almost every soul on
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  board mad with drink, and therefore utterly incapable of profiting by any assistance offered,
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  either before death or for a very long time afterwards. If it should
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  ever happen to any of us to find ourselves in a position of imminent danger
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  which we can do nothing to avert, we should try to remember that help
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  is certainly near us, and that it rests entirely with ourselves to make the
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  helpers work easy or difficult. If we face the danger calmly and bravely,
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  recognizing that the true ego can in no way be affected by it, our
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  minds will then be open to receive the guidance which the helpers are trying to
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  give. And this cannot but be best for us, whether its object be
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  to save us from death, or when that is impossible to conduct us safely
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  through it. Assistance of this latter kind has not infrequently been given in cases
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  of accidents to individuals, as well as of more general catastrophes. It will
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  be sufficient to mention one example as an illustration of what is meant. In
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  one of the great storms which did so much damage around our coasts a few
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  years ago, it happened that a fishing boat was capsized far out at sea.
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  The only people on board were an old fisherman and a boy, and
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  the former contrived to cling for a few minutes to the overturned boat. There
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  was no physical help at hand, and even if there had been, in
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  such a raging storm, it would have been impossible for anything to be done.
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  So that the fisherman knew well enough that there was no hope of escape.
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  And that death could only be a question of a few moments. He
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  felt great terror at the prospect, being especially impressed by the awful loneliness of
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  that vast waste of waters, and he was also much troubled with thoughts of
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  his wife and family and the difficulties in which they would be left by his
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  sudden disease. On passing, Helper, seeing all this, endeavored to comfort
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  him, but finding his mind too much disturbed to be impressionable, she thought
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  it advisable to show herself to him in order to assist him the better in
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  relating the story. Afterwards, she said that the change which came over the
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  fisherman's face at sight of her was wonderful and beautiful to see. With the
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  shining form standing upon the boat above him, he could not but think that
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  an angel had been sent to comfort him in his trouble, and therefore he
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  felt that not only would he himself be carried safely through the gates of death,
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  but his family would assuredly be looked after also. So when death came
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  to him a few moments later, he was in a frame of mind very
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  different from the terror and perplexity which had previously overcome him, and naturally,
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  when he recovered consciousness upon the astral plane and found the angel still beside him,
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  he felt himself at home with her and was prepared to accept her advice
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  as regards the new life upon which he had entered. Some time later,
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  the same helper was engaged in another piece of work very similar character, the
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  story of which she has since told as follows. You remember that steamer that
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  went down in the cyclone at the end of last November. I betook myself
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  to the cabin where about a dozen women had been shut in, and found
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  them wailing in the most pitiful manner, sobbing and moaning with fear. The
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  ship had to founder, no aid was possible, and to go out of
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  the world in the state of frantic terror is the worst possible way to enter
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  the next. So in order to calm them, I materialized myself, and
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  of course they thought I was an angel. Poor souls. They all fell
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  on their knees and prayed me to save them, and one poor mother pushed
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  her baby into my arms, imploring me to save that at least. They
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  soon grew quiet and composed as we talked, and the wee baby went to
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  sleep, smiling and presently they all fell asleep peacefully, and I filled their
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  minds with thoughts of the heaven world, so that they did not wake up.
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  When the ship made her final plunge downwards. I went down with them
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  to insure their sleeping through the last moments, and they never stirred as their
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  sleep became death. Evidently, in this case two, those who were thus
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  helped had not only the enormous advantage of being enabled to meet death calmly and
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  reasonably, but also the still greater one of being received on its farther shore
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  by one whom they were already disposed to love and trust, one who thoroughly
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  understood the new world in which they found themselves, and could not only reassure
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  them as to their safety, but advised them how to order their lives under
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  these much altered circumstances. And this brings us to the consideration of one of
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  the largest and most important departments of the work invisible helpers, the guidance and
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  assistants which they are able to give to the dead. End of Chapter eleven,
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  read by Maria Angela r Oragon, Chasm City, Metro Manila, twenty
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  fifth November twenty twenty three.