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Date Posted: 15:58:44 07/01/08 Tue
In reply to:
Maryse
's message, "From Spirit John C. Bundy: MENTAL MEDIUMSHIP—ITS USES AND ABUSES" on 12:29:25 06/29/08 Sun
LXXII
MEDIUMSHIP, ITS LAWS, CONDITIONS AND RESULTS
By JOHN J. INGALLS
I am delighted to visit here tonight with the dear personages who form this delegation of the Star Circle. I have been invited to give something of my observations on mediumship by your good teacher and leader, Professor William Denton.
While on earth I knew practically nothing of Psychology. But being a subject I was always very deeply interested in it, I have taken the opportunity which has so constantly and so graciously offered itself since my coming to this side of life. While I lived in the realm of earth, I often thought and pondered on the other life, and wondered greatly as to the attainment of souls after death, for I always believed in another life than that of earth, although I did not know it positively until I came over and became an inhabitant of the world that you call dreams.
I often meditated, too : if the dead did return to the living and have converse with them, how and by what means was it accomplished? I knew that if it was possible for a return and converse, there was a way and means of truth and science.
Gradually after the spiritual awakening after death, I began to be acquainted with many wonderfully intellectual spirits who seemed to come and go at will, to visit the different sphere, to even go to earth and returning, tell of their missions of mercy to those still lingering in the troubled way. At last, I asked them by what means they found their way back to earth, and the knowledge I gained by my simple question was that same knowledge which is today lifting thousands up out of the mire of destruction, want and deprivation !
I have learned that as the earth is governed and controlled by certain laws of Nature, so is the comings and goings of mortals and spirits in the earth and spiritual spheres. That each manifestation of spirit depends as much upon the potency of the medium or instrument, as the telegraphic message depends upon the tiny electric clicker which records so swiftly each intelligible message that is vibrated on its keys. Then, if the wires between stations are crossed or down from a storm in the elements, there can be no message received. Just so with the delicate sensitive who sits for you in any phase of mediumship whatsoever, and let him be ever so highly and finely attuned for the very recording of each spirit voice or vibration, and let him place himself in the best of conditions personally, he can receive no message whatever, though there were a hundred pouring in, if it so chance that the circle is crossed with inharmonious thoughts, or that there is a sudden break in that circle. For the circle surrounding him is the only wire he needs with which to vibrate, concentrate and fully grasp the waiting message.
So, you see, if this great current is broken by thought, action or spoken word, the little instrument will be inanimate as to giving off the messages you so anxiously wait to hear. In the more difficult phases of mediumship, known as physical phenomena, and more especially materialization, the spirit forms under these adverse conditions would not only fail to appear, but there is a possibility of injuring the medium, sometimes permanently. Many have really lost their earthly lives by some serious break of this nature, for when their inner sensitiveness is keyed up to its highest and most delicate pitch to receive the spiritual, there is danger of snapping their vitality in an instant unless perfect harmony is observed.
Mediums and more especially physical ones are, when in trance or spiritually negative conditions, very susceptible to all varying conditions of the elements. For instance, when there is an electric storm it has a direct effect on the materializing medium if he is in a trance at the time and many have received such swift and terrible shocks from lightning that it has proven their undoing. There are some mental mediums of such rare and sensitive development that they are able to forecast and prophesy the wars of the elements by the vibratory power which a storm carries before it. For whole days together, some of these sensitives will feel the great and wearying depression of a storm. Many of your greatest earthquakes, and disasters of every description have been forecasted by these valuable prophets.
Many men of state have kept a sensitive close at hand and through the advice of such has the important affairs of many a nation hung.
There is a certain phase of mediumship possessed by but very few in which the possessor is able at will, to grasp in his naked hands a bar of red-hot iron, without hurt or harm in any way. This explanation will take away some of the mystery of it. When a medium for this phase of manifestation wishes to perform his almost mystical wonders, he instantly fixes his thought on a strong band of spirits which are invoked by him and in the harmony of their thought and common natures, they are able to form a strong spiritual battery to you something similar to a wall, and then they place between their medium's hands and the red hot iron a veil of radiant matter which not only protects his hands from all harm but strengthens him and quickens all his faculties, and many repetitions of this feat only makes him much more physically and mentally powerful. But strange as it may seem, more especially mediums of this phase are naturally mentally weak and physically strong and rugged. They usually have no refined tastes whatever, are not attracted by the beautiful, are satisfied with a very little in life, and are somewhat lazy. In short they are dolts.
On the other hand, there is a class of mediums who live and move entirely in the ethereal the beautiful, the mystical, the purely ideal. These are the people of earth who move among their kind with majestic tread, daily sacrifice and kindness, and with the saintly countenances of the saints of old. Their material as well as their spiritual lives are blessed with almost constant revelations of spirit. They are ever fair and charitable to all humanity. Self sacrifice is their first virtue among many.
There are some physical mediums who are in trance condition so much of their lives that when they are normal, their manners are very eccentric and they give up their individuality so much that at last they lose the charm of it entirely. But each has a specific work to perform, a mission to accomplish, and they alone are able to do these labors.
As much as they are criticized by the cold and cruel hearts of the worldly minded, yet if they were entirely swept away, what would the heart of sorrowing humanity do without them? They are God's messengers to a sorrowful world to bring light where there is darkness, joy in place of sadness, happiness to fill full the heart which was void.
JOHN J. INGALLS
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