Chapter 12 - The Development of Mediums

"The only purpose of life is spiritual progress and thereby earning a place in Heaven."

"Anyone who is living their life with a materialistic mentality, thinking that acquiring money and spending it are the most important parts of life, is wasting a lifetime."

Whatever is intended to serve a particular purpose must first be suitably produced, prepared and adapted, as machinery and utensils are constructed to meet the ends for which they were designed.

Mediums are the instruments of the spirit world and are intended to make possible communication between the spirits and material beings. Therefore these mediums must be rendered capable of doing whatever may be necessary for attaining that object. This is accomplished by the development of their mediumistic powers.

Mediums are primarily sources of energy from which the spirits draw the motive power for their work. It is they who furnish the spiritual energy force.

To make the steps in the training of mediums as intelligible to you as possible, I will again make use of a comparison. To run your automobile, you require gasoline derived from petroleum. When opening up the sources of the latter, the first step is to obtain enough petroleum by drilling, to make its production profitable. But the crude oil as it flows from the wells can not be used as such. It must first be refined and undergo a number of forms of treatment to make it suitable for the various uses to which it is to be put.

In the same way the spirit world must provide for obtaining as great an amount of spiritual energy as possible from the mediums. This spiritual energy, however, is firmly united with the medium's body and it is essential that it be so treated that it can be liberated freely and lent to the spirit in the quantity required.

When dealing with artificial fertilizers, you speak of the solubility or ability of being dissolved of their components. You differentiate between total phosphorous, potassium, nitrogen and calcium contents and the soluble percentage of these elements. Only the latter portion is of value to you and it alone commands a price.

Similarly, only that spiritual energy is of value to the spirits that can be released by reason of its ability to detach itself from a terrestrial body. The more readily detachable a medium's spiritual energy, the greater the amount which can be liberated and the more striking and comprehensive the phenomena which the spirits can produce.

While speaking of the spiritual energy which is made available by the training of the mediums and which is used by the spirits concerned. I must not omit a very important observation. If the activity of a spirit relates to the execution of a special command of God, the spirit will have at its disposal more spiritual energy than is possessed by all creatures on Earth put together. In this case the spirit stands in a particular connection with the sources of all spiritual energy force, God Himself, and can draw upon this source to the extent required for carrying out the Divine mission assigned to it.

If, for instance, God commands a spirit to impart instruction to mankind, the requisite amount of spiritual energy is supplied to that spirit. The spirit will, however, make use of your spiritual energy also, because the spirit world employs this precious force as sparingly as you do your worldly valuables. In this case you reinforce the spiritual energy at the spirit's disposal with your own and enable the spirit to prolong its disclosures beyond the time originally planned. To make use of an illustration taken from your daily experience, it is like adding fresh water to the water of a cooling-jacket that has been cooled off already, in order to increase the efficiency of the cooling-jacket and the duration of the operation.

If, however, the good spirits are acting, not at God's command but upon their own responsibility, even though with His sanction, the work they can accomplish depends on the quantity of spiritual energy available from terrestrial sources, that is to say, from the mediums.

The amount of spiritual energy that can be liberated differs with each medium. With one, it barely suffices for the simplest tasks of the spirit world, with a second it permits of a much greater scope, while with a third it may be plentiful enough for the most difficult undertakings in this field. Among these is the corporealization of a spirit by means of a condensation of spiritual energy so pronounced, that the spirit stands before you as a complete body, differing in no respect from an ordinary human being. It was in a similarly embodied state that three of God's messengers appeared to Abraham, that the Archangel Raphael accompanied young Tobias, and that Jmmanuel stood before His Apostles after His resurrection.

It rests primarily with the medium to make his or her physical spiritual energy as readily detachable as possible. This he or she can accomplish by steadfast fixity of purpose, or by what you call "concentration." Only persons who are able to fix their minds on a given subject and to divert their thoughts from all worldly matters can become good mediums. Therefore your most powerful mediums are found among people in whose religious training concentration is an important feature. Of all nationalities, the Hindoos produce the most mediums because their religion exacts of them daily practice in concentrating their minds from childhood on. They call it "submersion of the spirit" and many of them attain great perfection in this direction. Since the human spirit employs only its own specific spiritual energy during such periods of concentration, the physical spiritual energy is allowed to rest in the meantime. No strain is put upon it and it may therefore be liberated all the more readily for the use of the spirit world.

The more often a person devotes time to such spiritual concentration, the easier it is for the person to release the quiescent spiritual energy and to surrender it by means of radiation. The proceeding is like the behavior of a magnet. The first time this is used, its power is very slight, not enough to attract even the smallest particle of iron, but the more the magnet is used, the stronger it grows and in the end becomes capable of sustaining relatively heavy iron objects.

It is the same with the spiritual energy force, in the early stages of a medium's development it is feeble, but the more often a person practices concentration, the more powerful does the spiritual energy radiation suitable for spiritual communication become.

Therefore, the primary object of the training of mediums is to develop their ability to release as much spiritual energy as possible by mental concentration. The amount or the strength of this terrestrial spiritual energy is of equal importance, both to all spirits good or evil.

A second problem in the training of the mediums is the adaptation of the mediums' spiritual energy to that of the spirit which works through them. To solve this problem is the task of the spirit world. The adaptation of the spiritual energy varies greatly, according to whether it is to be used by superior or by inferior spirits. A superior spirit must purify and refine all mediumistic spiritual energy, or filter it, so to speak, whereas an inferior spirit does not find this necessary, as its own spiritual energy is impure, and readily accommodates itself to the unpurified terrestrial spiritual energy.

With some mediums there is still a third purpose to be achieved by training. If, namely, a medium's entire physical spiritual energy is to be used by the spirits in their work, this is possible only provided the medium's spirit leaves his body, therefore, provision must be made for the liberation of his spirit. To accomplish this is not easy, and requires very difficult, time consuming labor on the part of the spirit world. During the process the medium's sensations are not unlike those of a dying person. In the case of the latter, death ensues from the separation of the spirit from the body, as you know. As to the difference between the body of a medium whose spirit has projected itself from it and a dead body, I have already explained this to you. You will remember that when the spirit of a "deep-trance medium" leaves his body, it still maintains connection with the same by means of a band or cord of spiritual energy, whereas in the case of the bodies of the physically dead, death has been caused by the breaking of this cord.

From what I have said you must have a clear idea of the objective pursued in the training given to mediums. This objective includes the liberation of the greatest possible amount of spiritual energy, the purification of the same for the tasks undertaken by the superior spirit world and finally, the release of the spirits of deep-trance mediums from their bodies.

The development of the faculties of clairvoyance and clairaudience likewise requires training. Here too, the spirit is released in part from the clairvoyant's body and the spiritual energy which surrounds his or her spirit must undergo an appropriate degree of purification, but such partial separation in the case of clairvoyants differs radically from that in the case of the spirit of a deep-trance medium. It is true that the clairvoyant's spirit is projected, nevertheless it remains bound to the entire physical spiritual energy and to all parts of the body. The spiritual energy merely expands, to use an everyday term and by its expansion allows the partial projection of the spirit. With a clairvoyant, a separation of the physical spiritual energy from the spirit does not take place.

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