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- The Responsibilities of Mediumship
Oh, how wide is the
love we bring. How all-encircling is the radiance that we spread,
and how beautiful is the light of hope that we set here within this
room. How infinite is the peace we set in this quiet place of
inter-communion of earth with spirit: how great is the peace that
we release, for we come in the power and radiance of spirit and we
come with the silence of spirit that we draw from Thy great source.
Oh Thou
Great Giver of all good gifts, we draw from Thee the very gifts that
we would bestow upon the brothers and sisters of earthly experience
as they wait here in silence and prayer.
Beloveds, my brothers
and my sisters, as I bring you the gifts of spirit and share some
part of the influence of spirit, I would say, The responsibility of
your reception and use of what we give lies entirely within your own
hearts and understanding. Some of you will shelve your
responsibility; but some will take the influence I bring and hold
it within your heart as a precious reservoir of power and healing to
shed amongst earth’s sufferers as day by day you move through all
the multiple exercises of your own mind and thought and
understanding and amongst the multiplicity of the peoples whom you
meet.
Some of you
will go forth from this little meeting and say in the surface of
your thought: “It was an interesting meeting!” There your
responsibility will end because you have not as yet gained the
understanding that that which is given has to be wisely accepted and
widely used.
The
responsibilities of mediumship become greater as your understanding
becomes enlarged; the responsibilities are but small and slight
when your knowledge is small and your understanding is slight, for
as you grow with your mediumship so your mediumship grows with you.
We do not put heavy responsibility upon the babes of earth - neither
do we expect highly grown, wise and wonderful individuals to handle
the work that may be expressed through the child. If you are to
understand this subject and come to a realisation of knowledge
concerning this, then must you learn to look around your world and
see that there are mediums in varying states and stages of
unfoldment, and the responsibilities which they each hold is
according to their degree of knowledge and development.
To those
who are children in the understanding of mediumship we give nothing
more than a slight message such as that contained upon the postcards
you exchange with each other; the message from friend to friend
will say little more than: “I am well and I love you.” The
responsibility of posting such a message is a slender one: greater
responsibility lies in the faithful transmission of such a slender
message, and the reassurance that is created between the one who
sends such a slender message and the one who is able to receive it.
In the
Councils of Light we refer to such mediums as the ‘post men’ and
‘post women’ who are working between the spirit realm and earth’s
children. The responsibility which such posting people have is
surely the same as this within your earthly world: your postal men
and women must be faithful in the delivery of their messages for
amongst these slender greetings there may be one which has a greater
import, a more important revelation and meaning, such as that
exchanged between one who loves and one who is waiting for the
reassurance of love. Beloved ones, if your mediumship is of
such a nature, I would say to you, Learn the first lesson in the
responsibilities of mediumship - the faithful delivery of that which
is entrusted unto you. Deliver it in the simplicity of the one
word, or the four or five words in which the message has been given
unto you; for out of such slender foundations will be raised higher
steps leading to a greater mediumship which may affect the whole of
the unfoldment of this your earthly world.
I say to
you, We watch and consider the ways of our mediums. When we see the
faithfulness and faithful fulfilment of small things, then we know
we may unfold this one to greater fulfilment, we may rely upon such
a medium for the fulfilment of greater tasks and greater works.
In your
confusion of searching after truth, sometimes we hear you say: “To
whom should we give our faithfulness and our allegiance? Is our
responsibility to spirit or is our responsibility to earth? Are we
responsible to the people whom we love and the tasks we must
undertake in the ways of earthly life, or is our responsibility to
the high and shining forces of spirit who try to interpenetrate the
mediums with power, healing and wisdom?”
Beloved
ones, as true and unfolding mediums you must first understand that
you are spirit; you yourselves are spirit and all people
whom you meet and amongst whom you work and all to whom you speak,
these are spirits now as they will be spirit when they come to the
closure of earthly life. Your responsibility is always to
spirit: to spirit manifesting through the earthly body as
equally it is manifests through the ways of your mediumship. As a
medium you are spirit, standing between earth and spirit and
partaking of the nature of spirit spiritual as equally as you
partake of the spirit of earth, spiritual within itself.
Your
responsibility as a medium is always to stand between; to
stand with one half of your aura blended with those of spirit
spiritual and the other half blended with the spirit in earth,
though spiritual itself. You become a golden link in a great
inter-communicating chain which links you unto the highest who are
within the spirit and unto the lowest in consciousness within your
earth. Therefore, if you become a medium you are a golden link in a
great chain whose highest link is in the purest light, whose lowest
link is in the heaviest state of earthly matter that you yourself
can comprehend.
Because
this is so, you should learn to seek the right companionships. Do
not look to the companions who are rich in worldly goods, nor those
who are famous because of their worldly achievements, nor to the
companions who may advance you in your ways. Seek for the
friendships and companionships which evoke within your heart a
gentleness, a peacefulness of lovingness, who can exchange with your
thoughts their own wise wisdom and blend their auras with yours that
your mediumship may be strengthened and enhanced.
You may say
to me: “Ah, but this means that we must shun our other brothers and
sisters. How are we to serve, to help the needy and sick of the
world if we seek only those who strengthen our mediumship?” I would
say, When you learn to guard your mediumship and see the high degree
of its responsibility, then we are able to blend with you in such a
perfect fashion that you will know when you have to go forth upon a
mission of mercy; we make it clear to you when we desire you to
uphold or help your weaker brothers or sisters in the earthly
experience. Until you understand your responsibility, is it
not true that you go this way and that and allow yourselves to
become involved in the confusions of other people’s lives? You
allow yourselves to be thrust this way and that because you have not
yet learned how to be strong within yourselves by harmonising your
mediumship in spirit and in truth.
Discrimination and understanding are the jewels you need to develop
in your own soul; when you develop such jewels we are able to bring
you the impressions and visions, we are able to direct you with
spoken words saying: “Help this one; help that one; go here; go
there.” Out of the wise loving evolved in the understanding of your
mediumship you can evolve a strong and perfect link with ourselves
and I would say that this is the most delicate responsibility that
lies upon each and every one.
From time
to time, you cry aloud in your suffering and impatience and say:
“Why do you allow us to become involved in the confusions of earth
life? Why do you allow us to become injured and hurt within the
heart and soul and mind?” Beloved ones, we have to allow this until
you learn how to be responsible within yourselves for your own
mediumship. It is only from your hurt and the lessons you learn
that slowly but surely you learn to be wise and follow the teaching
that we seek to give to you.
Learn to be
wise and maintain your body upon the food which is best for your
mediumship: regulate the conditions of your life so that you drink
pure drink, breathe pure air and do not load your body with excesses
of unnecessary food which clog and soil the cellular texture of your
body. When you have learned to use your body as the tool of your
mediumship, then we can begin to go forward and perfect within each
one this sensitiveness of the soul by means of which we may begin to
blend our consciousness with yours. Through this blending we may
give earth’s children some of our guidance, some part of our
revelation, and the truth that earth’s children so urgently need.
Then your
responsibility ceases: you are not responsible for what your
brothers and sisters may take or do with the revelation given
through you. Your responsibility is to be a good tool, to have a
clear mind, a calm and loving heart, a pure and sensitive body.
This will enable us to give through you the best and wisest and
purest that we can. Do not weary yourselves with the feeling of
burdens which your mediumship may place upon you when we impart
words through your voice which another may hear: it becomes
their responsibility as to how they interpret what is given. It
is their responsibility as to how they use that which has
been transmitted through you. Your responsibility as a medium is to
be a good medium, to transmit that which is given; and then leave
this in the hands of earth’s children, or the hands of those wise
watchers of spirit who may water the seed that is sown or till the
soil that has been prepared or bring to fulfilment that which is
started in spirit and truth.
The use of
a medium to us of spirit is not only in the words that are spoken
nor the visions that are shown; earth’s children also need that
which is contained in the power which we give through our mediums -
therefore joy is transmitted, and simplicity and purity. These are
the healing qualities of spirit which we try to impart through our
mediums and healers, together with the quickening and renewing
magnetic life-giving force of healing.
I place
upon you beloved ones the responsibility of teaching others the wise
use of the body, the mind and heart, that the light of true
revelation may begin to shine and glow with a purer radiance
throughout your English land and all this beautiful world.
We who love
you, who love our mediums and want to work with you in beauty and
power, would that we no longer had to stand by silent and helpless
as we see our loved mediums lapsing into illness and weakness, into
despair, because they feel that we of spirit have forsaken them or
not fulfilled our responsibility to them. We can do much - we may
repair the ravages of the mortal and physical bodies of our mediums,
we may restore harmony and peace to strained and disturbed minds and
we may bring harmony and peace back again to the hearts of our
mediums. We may do all this - but only if they will let
themselves enter into peace, lie at rest and commune with the
healing forces of nature; only if they do not allow themselves to
feel the ambitions of the earthly minds and demands of earthly
people thrusting at them until they forget the responsibility that
they themselves have for the rest of the body, the peace of the mind
and harmony of the heart.
Remember
this: and you shall go forward from strength to strength, from joy
to joy, from unfoldment unto greater unfoldment until you become
true revealers and lovers of human kind - teachers, prophets and
seers going forward before your brothers and sisters, leading them
toward the light, in the power and spirit that we ourselves would
desire.
May peace
and peace be here.
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