Mediums

Taken from Communication with the Spirit World of God by Johannes Greber

“Many were forms and fashions in which God spoke of old to our fathers by the prophets” Hebrews 1:1

In the days when men sought after God from their inmost hearts, their communication with His spirit-world was a direct one. Each individual possessed by nature most of the qualifications needed for such communication. His own spirit, attuned to lofty and divine thoughts, was capable of receiving messages from the spirit-world through a spiritual sense of sight, hearing and feeling. This was what you call nowadays ‘clairvoyance’, ‘clairaudience’, and ‘clairsentience’. No intermediaries were needed for the messages sent from the Beyond.

This gift disappeared as mankind fell away from God and began to devote all its thought and care to worldly things. In their reckless race after money and other worldly goods, men forgot God. This not only weakened the communication with the good spirit-world, but brought about the disappearance of those gifts which had made it possible theretofore. Today the majority of mankind goes so far as to disbelieve altogether in the possibility of such communication. There are relatively few people today who possess the gifts in question and who are in touch with the world of good spirits after the manner of God-fearing folks of old.

But the time is coming when things will again be as they were in this respect, that is to say, when each individual can communicate by spirit-sight and hearing with the Beyond.

Until that time, however, those who still believe in God may converse with spirits through another channel, and many who do not believe may witness the workings of the spirit-world with their corporeal senses and thereby be aroused to return to a belief in the Almighty and in survival after the death of the body.

For this purpose God has given mankind of today mediums. The meaning of this term has already been made clear to you, but since a correct understanding of the nature of mediums is among the most important points connected with spirit communication. I must not fail to instruct you minutely in this particular. In so doing I shall confine myself to discussing human mediums, omitting those cases in which animals may serve as such.

Mediums are intermediaries or human instruments employed by the spirit-world to make itself manifest to man. Inasmuch as the spirit-beings require odic power for the purpose, mediums are persons who serve the spirit-world as sources of odic power.

It is chiefly their own od (energy) which mediums surrender to the spirits manifesting themselves. The mediums are however, at the same time points for collecting the od liberated by the non-mediums in attendance at the so-called spiritistic seances, and private readings. Exactly as sometimes happens in building an aqueduct, when the water from the main spring is supplemented by that of many smaller springs, so the medium’s capacity to supply od is increased by his collecting with himself or herself, the feebler odic power of the other persons present.

While all people possess odic power, in most cases this is too closely bound to the body to be surrendered readily. Hence it is not available to the spirit-world in adequate strength.

People qualified to function as mediums are highly sensitive. This means that because of the ease with which they can part with their od, the impressions made upon them are deeper than in the case of other people. This is not a morbid condition as your scientists think, and has nor elation with nervousness, hysteria or lack of will-power; on the contrary, good spirits cannot use nervous, irresolute or sick persons as mediums. A good medium must have more will-power, stronger nerves and better physical health than the average person.

Mediums are divided inti different groups according to the purpose for which their odic power is employed by the spirit-world.

If this power is used to raise or lower a table or to cause the same to emit raps, the medium employed in this connection is called a medium for table-communication. (side note from Spirit Connection – today this type of mediumship is no longer practised.) This is the lowest form of spirit-communication for the spirits which appear at table-tipping seances are almost without exception those of a low order. Spirits of the superior kind do not select this way in which to manifest themselves. Thus it happens that at such gatherings the low spirits which appear often carry on much mischief, occasionally assisted by the tricks of the spectators. Unfortunately, table-tipping with its manifestations which are either ridiculous or mendacious, does much to discredit the higher forms of spirit-communication. Seekers after God and lovers of the truth will therefore shun communication of this kind and choose only those methods which are worthy of the high ends in view.
Whenever messages from the spirit-world through writing are set down by a person, you speak of him or her as a writing medium. The manner in which the writing is accomplished differs widely in the case of the various writing mediums. In one instance the thoughts may be inspired into the medium and written down by him or her – he/she is therefore sometimes known as an inspirational medium. Another’s hand may be guided at the same time that the words he/she writes are inspired into his mind. All the while he/she is fully conscious of his/her actions. Contemporaneous inspiration is necessary in those cases in which the medium offers strong resistance to the guidance of his/her hand. Others again know only that they are writing, but are quite ignorant of what they set down. Still other write in a state of utter unconsciousness; they know neither that they are writing nor what they are writing
The most important of the mediums for communicating truth are the speaking mediums as soon as they have been trained to act as deep-trance mediums’. A medium is said to be in a deep trance when his spirit has left his body entirely. In this state he resembles a corpse, the only difference being that the spirit, which has gone forth from him, is still connected with its body by a band of od. Through this band of od the medium’s body receive enough vitality from the spirit to keep its organs functioning. It is along this band of od also that the spirit finds it way back into the body of the medium. In the place of its own spirit, another spirit-being enters the body and delivers its message by means of the medium’s organs of speech. In so doing it makes use of the odic energy remaining in the medium’s body after his spirit has left it.
Apport mediums are generally deep-trance mediums whose odic force is used by the spirit-world to transfer tangible objects into enclosed spaces from without, or from within such spaces to the outside. The deep-trance state is here necessary in most cases, since the spirits require all of the medium’s physical od in order to make those ‘apports’ as the objects apported must be disintegrated into od in one place and re-materialised into substance in the other. (again this something that is no longer practised)