Chapter 2.2 - The mediums

- 35 - That is how Saul and his servant happened to go to the house of Samuel. • Samuel was not only a ‘medium’ himself, but he was the head of the ‘medium school’ in Ramah. In those days these schools were called ‘prophet schools’. When Saul had reached Gibeah on his way home, he came across a band of ‘mediums’ who were in a state of trance, and through whom spirits were sounding the praises of the Lord. Saul, too, fell into a trance, and a spirit came into him. (I Samuel 10: 10) Your translators of the Bible, who do not understand the meaning of this state, say: ‘He was overcome by prophetic inspiration’, an expression from which the reader will find it hard to get much meaning. It was not Saul’s spirit nor those of the mediums he had met that were inspired; good spirits from the Beyond had taken possession of Saul and the others. For this purpose, it was not necessary for the mediums to be in a ‘deep trance’. What you now call ‘partial trance’ or ‘semi trance’ was sufficient. The Bible further relates that David fled to Samuel at Ramah, where both of them lived at the ‘house of the prophets’ or, in other words, at the ‘medium school’.. When the messengers who had been sent by Saul to get David arrived, Samuel was engaged in a séance with the mediums, and these were in a state of trance. Your Bible translation reads: I Samuel 19: 20-24: ‘When the messengers saw the company of the prophets who were “inspired”, and they saw Samuel standing at their head, a spirit of God came over the messengers of Saul, so that they, too, were overcome by prophetic inspiration. When this was reported to Saul, he sent other messengers, and they also prophesied. The same thing happened with the third group of messengers Saul sent. Then he himself went to Ramah. When he came to the great well that is in Sechu, he asked: “Where are Samuel and David?” Someone answered: “In the house of the prophets in Ramah.” And so, he went from there to the house of the prophets in Ramah. While he was still on the way there, a spirit of God came upon him also, and he was in a constant state of “prophetic inspiration” until he arrived at the house of the prophets in Ramah. There he also stripped off his outer garments and in a state of “ecstasy” lay down in his underclothes all that day and all that night. That is where the expression “Is Saul also among the prophets?” comes from.’ There is much in this account that requires explanation. The circumstance that all of Saul’s messengers fell into a ‘trance’ so quickly can be accounted for by the fact that they were highly mediumistic. Amid a great and powerful odic current, such as is present at any gathering of mediums, developed or in the process of development, like the meeting at Samuel’s medium school at Ramah, it was not difficult for the spirit world to bring about a state of ‘semi trance’ in persons who were psychically inclined. Saul himself was a medium. Hence, in his case, no outside odic force was required to enable him to go into a semi trance. That is why he had entered this state while still on his way to Ramah.

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