Chapter 2.2 - The mediums

- 26 - Naturally, people who devote themselves to a low form of spiritism are spared these challenges. This is easy to explain, for low spiritism is the connecting link with Evil, so Evil has no reason to hold people back from pursuing it. When the evil spirits are at work, this is a time of testing for the participants, and above all for the mediums. Everyone undergoes a special test, and always at his weakest point. Only those who can meet this test will receive the mediumistic gifts. Those who fail will either abandon their search altogether, or fall wholly under the sway of the evil spirit world. Therefore, everyone should pray for HELP and STRENGTH, so that they will successfully resist the temptations of the evil spirits. • As for the duration of the séances, they should not be unduly prolonged. Generally speaking, one hour should be enough. As soon as spirits manifest themselves through mediums, they usually decide when the meeting should be adjourned. For God is a God of order, and His spirits are spirits of order. This is also made evident in such a wondrous way at those meetings that are held under God’s protection, in that there is always a controlling spirit that directs everything. • The controlling spirit decides what the participants must do to facilitate the development of the mediums. • The controlling spirit tells them how to work on their own inner progress, what faults to correct and what virtues to cultivate. • The controlling spirit often decides upon the passages to be read from the Holy Writ at the beginning of the séance. • The controlling spirit occasionally alters the order of seating of the participants as may be required for obtaining an increase of odic energy. • The controlling spirit furthermore determines what spirits are to be admitted into the mediums, the nature of the messages they may deliver and how long they may stay in the medium. • The controlling spirit may also admit evil spirits into the medium, so that the other persons present shall come to know such spirits by their dispositions and actions, and thereby acquire practical experience in how to behave in their presence. • The controlling spirit is especially pleased to admit into the mediums spirits that are in deep distress but whose intentions are fairly good, in order to give these spirits an opportunity to be taught and directed to turn to God by those present. This is a great act of brotherly love that those in attendance at such meetings can do for their suffering brethren in the Beyond. Sometimes the controlling spirit will later explain its reasons for admitting the various spirits. • The controlling spirit is the first of the spirits to arrive at each séance, and it always comes with a greeting that makes reference to God.

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