- 5 - 2. 2. 2 Writing mediums When messages from the spirit world are conveyed through the writing of a human being, that person is called a ‘writing medium’. The manner in which the writing is accomplished differs widely among the writing mediums. • In one case, the thoughts are inspired into the fully conscious medium and written down by him (or her); he is therefore also known as an ‘inspirational medium’. • Another medium’s hand may be guided at the same time as the words he writes are inspired into his spirit. All the while he is fully conscious of his actions. (Semi-automatic writing mediums) Simultaneous inspiration is necessary in those cases where the medium offers too much resistance to the guidance of his hand. • Others know only that they are writing, but are quite unaware of the content of their writing. (Fully automatic writing mediums) • Still others write in a state of complete unconsciousness; they know neither that they are writing nor what they are writing. (Writing trance mediums) Moreover, it frequently happens that one and the same ‘writing medium’ will write in several of these ways. So-called ‛direct writing’ is substantially different from the above type of mediumistic writing, being produced by the spirit itself, which makes use only of the odic force of the medium and not of the latter’s hand. By means of the od it takes from the medium the spirit materializes its own hand, and with it writes upon a surface that is not in contact with the medium, like a slate, a sheet of paper, or something similar. The amount of od required for this method is significantly greater than when the medium’s hand is used in writing. You are familiar with two examples of ‘direct writing’ from the Bible. The tablets bearing the Commandments were written on Mount Sinai by the hand of God, as related in the books of Moses: Exodus 32: 16: ‘The tablets were the work of God Himself, and the writing inscribed on the tablets was God’s own writing.’ When King Belshazzar celebrated a great feast with his lords and drank out of the sacred vessels that his father had stolen from the temple in Jerusalem, while singing songs of praise to his idols. Daniel 5: 5: ‘The fingers of a human hand appeared and wrote on the whitewashed wall of the royal hall across from the chandelier, so that the king saw the back of the hand as it wrote.’ The medium’s hand may also be used for drawing or for painting instead of for writing. In this case the mediums are called ‘drawing or painting mediums’, the general process being the same as with the writing.
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