- 34 - Genesis 15: 12+17: ‘As the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abraham; a dread and great darkness came over him.... When the sun had gone down, and it had become very dark, what passed between the pieces of meat was like a smoking furnace and a blazing torch.’ The deep sleep was not a normal sleep, but what you call, also today, a ‘mediumistic sleep’, in which the medium’s od is set free to be used by the spirit world for its manifestations. The dread and the great darkness mentioned here, which often overcome a medium serving the good cause, are produced by the evil spirit world in its attempts to prevent the messages of the good spirits. • Seeing that the sensation of fear will interfere with the surrender of any medium’s od, making spirit communication impossible. The forces of evil had earlier tried to exert their pernicious influence upon Abraham. At the Lord’s command, he had slaughtered animals and divided them up into pieces. ‘Birds of prey’ had descended upon the carcasses, but Abraham had driven them away. The purpose of the animal slaughter was to open up a source of od in addition to Abraham’s, namely the od of the slain beasts. What the Bible here calls ‘birds of prey’ were not natural birds of prey, but evil spirits materialized as such. Only in materialized form could they carry off the pieces of meat. Now you can understand what they had in mind. They first tried to remove the source of od that had been made available by slaughtering the animals, and then they tried to stifle the human source of od, the medium Abraham, by instilling in him a sense of dread. The time chosen for Abraham’s mediumistic activities was after dark, because, according to the familiar laws, light and heat have an adverse effect on the required condensation of od. You will recognize that the ‘smoke’ and the ‘blazing torch’ mentioned in this passage were manifestations of od. • Also, Moses was a medium. It was the od liberated by him that shone in the ‘burning’ bush like a flame. It was strengthened by the od supplied by the herd he was tending, which rested close by. This incident also occurred at night. The odic condensation took place in a thorn bush because its many branches acted somewhat like a curtain that held the odic mass together, much like the curtain of the ‘Tabernacle’ or the ‘cabinet’ used in today’s spiritistic séances. The thorn bush also possessed od of its own, which combined with the other od. In very ancient times ‘mediums’ were called ‘seers’ because they generally possessed the gift of clairvoyance in addition to their other mediumistic abilities. The word ‘prophet’ is a later coinage. “Such ‘seers’ or ‘prophets’ were found everywhere. When Saul and his servant were looking for his father’s donkeys that had strayed, the servant said to him: I Samuel 9: 6-9: ‘There is a “seer” in this town. Let us go to him. Perhaps he can tell us something.’ And at this point the Biblical account adds, by way of explanation: Formerly, in Israel, when one went to consult God, one used the expression: Come, let us go to the “seer”, for persons now called “prophets” were formerly called “seers”.
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