Communicating with God’s World of Spirit – its laws and its purpose | Pastor Johannes Greber

- 119 - than they felt before it. • The odic energy taken from the mediums and other participants at a séance is replaced by the good spirit world with fresh od. Furthermore, during a medium’s development, any inner afflictions that might interfere with or prevent the trance state are removed by the good spirit world, so that that individual is in a better state of health after being developed as a ‘deep-trance medium’ than before. On the other hand, spiritism is certainly harmful if God is disregarded in its pursuit, if everything is done under the influence of Evil, and you even find amusement in Evil and neglect prayer. In this case, you gradually fall into evil ways. This is so awful not only because you are led by the evil spirits to stray from the path of truth and righteousness, but because you suffer serious bodily harm. • The odic force taken from you by those spirits is not replaced. As a result, the health of all participants and particularly that of the mediums is greatly impaired and, in time, utterly ruined. There is, therefore, a grain of truth in the popular belief that he who makes a pact with the Devil must sacrifice his own life, for his odic force is gradually sapped by Evil and his body loses its power to sustain life. Many mediums who engage in the lower forms of spiritism suffer a mental and physical breakdown. Some end up in insane asylums or commit suicide. Spiritism is therefore harmful and dangerous only if it is pursued not for the sake of learning the Divine truth and of growing inwardly: • But merely to satisfy curiosity. • Have a craving for extraordinary experiences. • Or to obtain information relating to material affairs. • Or of purely scientific interest. Therefore, most seriously warn your fellowmen against participating in spirit communication that serves no higher ends. Teach them about spirit communication of a good, Divinely sanctioned nature. For this should be practiced by everyone! It is your only way to the truth, and the shortest way to God. Even those who have not yet found their way to a belief in God should practice spiritism in its good form, if they have honestly resolved to accept the truth as soon as it is convincingly presented to them. Truth seekers who follow this path in such a frame of mind will find the truth and the freedom that is the heritage of the children of God. They will come to know the true meaning of religion. It was about them that Christ said:

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