1 - The Spirit View of
Mediumship
With great peace I come
and entrance the being of this medium, and with love I come to
release radiations of spirit healing, spirit power and love into the
atmosphere of the children who are gathered in this room. As I take
control of the being of this medium I see that many brothers and
sisters gathered in the quietude of this room are clothed with the
greyness of weariness and have wounds sustained in the battle of
life. Each one has a need for the healing of spirit love and
tranquillity, for the healing known to earth’s peoples as peace, the
blessed, beautiful peace of the spirit which I draw from on high and
release here amongst you now. May it be a treasure and healing for
the soul and body which you retain into all the days which are still
to unfold before you.
In love and
peace I set in this room the sign and seal of spirit in the form of
a shining cross, the symbol of the human being incarnate in the
world of matter, forever surrounded by the gleaming, ever-expanding
circle of eternal life, ever-growing growth and every-expanding
consciousness. May this be a sign unto all who shall come and all
who shall go, that herein earth and spirit have joined together in
unity and love.
In peace do
I come, and in peace do I greet you one and all.
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Beloved brothers and
sisters, as I talk to you through the voice of this medium I try to
answer a question which has been raised in the consciousness of some
when they ask: “Is everyone a medium?” I would say, If you are to
understand this, you must first clearly understand what we of spirit
mean by a ‘medium’; this differs from what you in the earthly world
understand by this word. In the regions of spirit we mean by a
medium, a human being - or even intelligent animal - whom we may
entrance and through whom we may express that which we know as
spirit power, spirit wisdom, spirit light, spirit truth, spiritual
energy. But it would seem that you in your earthly bodies define
the meaning of a medium as anyone who sees a little vision, who
feels the presence of the unseen or may be aware of the thoughts of
others impinging upon their minds in telepathy.
I would
say, This is a degree of sensitiveness, but it is not necessarily
the full definition of a medium, for a medium is one who may be
impelled and moved at the will and desire of a spirit. The one who
is merely sensitive to thoughts may not be impelled or responsive to
the desires and wishes of spirit.
You should
learn and know that in your earthly world you have those who can be
defined as sensitive to spirit influence, and those who can be
defined as open and fully responsive to the power of the spirit.
Not all people in the human life can be known as mediums; but all
have the soul capacity of being aware of spirit powers and spirit
forces, and the power and ability to develop the inner soul
sensitiveness by means of which they may become certain that they
are spirits themselves - and through that certainty they may learn
how to be aware of the spiritual world surrounding them.
Those who
are true mediums have a special constitution in the linkage between
the ethereal body of the soul and the physical body of earth: it
could be likened to a loose mesh. Those who are not mediums have an
ethereal body which is more tightly composed and contains the
physical body more firmly. The ones who are the natural mediums
have an ethereal body which is linked loosely to the physical body
and through that looser linkage the spirit guardians, spirit
controls, spirit teachers, may intervene in the linkage between the
two to gain a control over the medium’s brain, the nervous and
circulatory systems.
When such a
control is established, the degree of mediumship can be increased by
skilled spirits who may be able to bring about a blending of
spiritual force with emanations of the aura so that an ectoplasmic
substance may be formed. Out of that ectoplasmic substance may be
created the semblance of a face which can be discerned upon the
medium’s features; or an artificial voice-box may be created
through which we whisper our words in such a fashion that you may
hear it as an audible voice. If the medium has a strong and
powerful physical and ethereal being, then we may sometimes extrude
such a quantity of ectoplasmic force that forms or materialised
hands may be seen, or materialised movement which portrays the will
and desire of spirit over the substance of earthly matter.
Where there
is such a degree of mediumship there may also be the possibility of
spirit entrancement as I am doing now – through control of the
nervous system the hands are moved at the impulse of spirit and the
voice speaks the words we desire. We control the brain cells and
centres of a medium in such a way that we compel the medium to say
what we desire rather than what the medium may think or wish; this
is the response of the medium to the compulsion of the spirit.
In a
similar degree we may also enter into a fusion with the personality
of a medium, take control of the hands and extrude through the hands
of certain mediums radiations of light and colour. When directed to
the bodies of those who are sick, these radiations will quicken the
life activity in the body of a sick person so that healing and
restoration is established - then you will say: “This is a healing
medium.”
Still would
I say to you, Not all persons who live the mortal life are able to
be full mediums in the complete meaning of the word ‘mediumship’.
Growing in your world at this time of earth’s history are souls
incarnate in their physical bodies who have a sensitiveness which is
so delicate that they are able to feel the radiations of life which
are in the earth and respond to radiations of light in the
atmosphere; they sometimes hear the messages or music which spirit
is trying to impart to them or see in their inner vision the lights
and colours brought by the ministering spirits. You call these
‘mediums’, but we do not call them mediums – we call them psychic
sensitives. We try to blend our influence with such sensitives to
increase their degree of sensitivity so they respond to the
telepathic thoughts which we impart to their minds; then you will
say that they are inspired. But we do not classify them as a full
medium who may be a channel for the full power of spirit.
Many of you
have studied the religious history of your past and will say that
the prophets and seers of the past were mediums. I would say, Yes,
this is true, for your prophets and seers were recorded in your
ancient books as being responsive to angelic influences. Is it not
true that many of them were entranced by the spirits who taught
through their mediumship? Is it not true that many were able to
produce the ectoplasmic formations by which spirit became visible
unto those who desired to communicate with them? And is it not true
that these seers and prophets of the past were fully aware of the
power of the spirits working with them?
So it is
true that your present spiritualistic revelations have blossomed
from the root of an ancient truth in which the seers and revealers
were themselves true mediums. Not mediums who saw a brief and
fleeting glimpse of which their minds had doubts, nor those who
sometimes felt just a fleeting impression of spirit so they were
uncertain as to the reality of their experience: they were true
mediums who could say with certainty: ‘The spirit of the Lord
appeared unto me - the spirit of the Lord said unto me - the spirit
of the Lord commanded me.’ This is the difference between the types
of the mediumship of which I am speaking to you now.
Some have
seen spirit and therefore know there is a reality of spirit and will
say: “I know.” But many of you have had only fleeting impressions
or thoughts gathered from the minds of your friends: therefore I
say, We do not class you as a medium but as a sensitive who may gain
a degree of certainty in the fullness of time. As you become more
certain in yourself, your ability to respond to the impulsions of
spirit will increase, deepen and grow. In the fullness of time the
full flowering and beauty of mediumship may evolve from your
sensitiveness.
I would say
even more to you, beloved ones, Do not think the abilities of
mediumship are the only aim before you in your spiritual search;
your sensitiveness to the things of spirit should and can and will
eventually blossom into an inner soul development. Your learning of
spirit truths should encourage you to enter into the silence of
meditation, sharpening the awareness of your mind so that you
respond to the feelings and thoughts of your brothers and sisters in
the earthly life as to your brothers and sisters in spirit. Your
spiritual development should lead you to a development of your
inward soul capacity; which is distinct and different to that
contained in the word ‘mediumship’, the control and co-operation
with spirits of light, spirits of power and goodness.
In these
words I try to clarify for your mortal minds that which we of spirit
understand as the meaning of mediumship.
Here within
the regions of spirit life, we also have and use those mediums whose
spiritual soul body has an ability to respond to the power and
control of the spirits of light. Before we may fully entrance a
human medium, frequently spirits of a lesser development control the
body, as is the case with this medium through whom I am speaking.
Ere her bodies were strong and clear enough for me to entrance her
in this present fashion we began her development with entrancement
by the spirit of a simple Red Indian who wished to serve in this
fashion. In his entrancement of her he began to strengthen her
mediumistic powers and later he would take control of her and I
would take control of him. Gradually through the course of years he
has moved forward in his work and now I am able to entrance this
medium directly.
In your
periods of development and unfoldment some of you may be aware of an
entrancement by one spirit, yet you may also know that there is a
higher spirit who desires to contact you and may gradually do so by
entrancing the spirit who is entrancing you.
All this
development of mediumship and unfoldment of the soul is undertaken
with love and understanding from these regions of light; it only
seems a blurred and confused pattern to you in your mortal and
earthly world because you are not yet able to give yourselves to the
quietude of meditation, that discipline of daily life which will
enable a clear and beautiful development of the powers and
capacities which you yourselves possess.
I come to
the closure of our little time of talking together and blending the
influence of spirit into earth. But as I come to the closure of
this time I would say to some who are here, Thank you beloved ones,
thank you for your thoughts, the creations of light which have been
emanated from your minds, not only as you have listened to my words
but as you read the words which have been transcribed and written.
Know the living emblems of your thoughts are received in this region
of spirit experience as little golden flames of appreciation,
glowing globes of colour and little blue emanations which go toward
the medium in blessing and through the medium to myself and the
group who combine with me.
In love I
bless your loving thoughts and combine them all into a great ring of
beautiful light. I uphold this ring of beautiful light created by
the love-thoughts of these beloveds and ask that it may be infused
with Your radiance, oh Great Giver of all light. As this little
ring is infused with Your greater radiance, may it reflect into the
soul, the consciousness, into the vision of the beloveds; may the
dazzling radiance of beautiful truth be with them today and remain
with them in all the times which are still to be.
May peace,
peace and peace be here and remain unto all the days that are still
to be.
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