The hereafter - Addendum

-2 - These earthbound spirits are the ‘devils’ people always believed in; devils of human origin, products of human egotism, false doctrines and ignorance and they arrive on the spiritual plane completely blind to then be detained there through the bond of their ignorance! The influence of these disembodied beings is the cause of many unexplained and mysterious events here on Earth and it bears the blame for most of the misery in this world. Purity of lifestyle and principles or a high degree of mental insight is absolutely no guaranteed protection against possessions! – Only the gradual acknowledgment of the meaning of this question and indoctrination, as well as elucidations about it, is protection against it! The physical conditions that favour the infiltration of people by spirits are various. Such impairments are often ascribed to the natural disposition towards psychic receptiveness, an exhausted nervous system or a sudden mental shock. Purely physical disorders can also promote possessions. When the natural life force is weakened, the organism offers less resistance and pushy spirits are granted easy access, even though the mortal being or the departed soul are aware of the presence of the other! This impairment through spirits changes the character of the affected. This certainly brings about a self-evident change of the personality, whereby a number of alien personalities are personated, respectively imitated simultaneously or sharply defined one after the other. This type of influence through spirits often causes the most varied grades of insanities, from simple mental bewilderment to all forms of madness, running amok, hysteria, falling sickness, melancholia, shell shock, kleptomania, idiocy, religious and suicidal delusion as well as loss of memory, mentally induced physical infirmity, alcoholism, right down to the uncontrollable addiction to immorality and cruelty, perversity and other forms of serious criminality. Millions of disembodied spirits who have not yet grasped the meaning of life mill around mankind and influence people’s thoughts! If one acknowledges this as fact, a plethora of occurrences are clearly explained like unwanted thoughts, unfounded emotions, strange intuitions, moods, irritability, extreme excitability, unreasonable emotional outbursts, uncontrollable mental bias and numerous other derailments of thought and mind. We have countless reports of cases of spiritual influences and possessions from the distant past to the present. Dr. Tyler , the well-known English anthropologist, wrote in his book ‘Primitive Culture’ (Culture’s genesis): ‘It is not unreasonable to claim that the belief in demonic possession, the fundamental theory of explaining fundamentally kindred facts, has remained in tact with half the population. All advocates of this belief have been standing on the shoulders of their ancestors since time immemorial!’ We find the following comment in Müller’s ‘Original religions’ (Urreligionen): ‘Native tribes still entertain the general view these days that such maladies like epilepsy, hysteria, delirium, mental retardation and insanity are cause by spirits that have taken possession of the physical body.’ Homer repeatedly referred to demonic influences when he said: ‘An ill person that simply wastes away is somebody that looked at an evil spirit.’

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