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1these circumstances it will invariably transpire that when a person, who possesses a positive opinion, consults a medium upon any given subject, the answer he receives will correspond to his thoughts, whether it be correct or otherwise. The same thing will happen when the client asks the advice or the opinion of a medium upon worldly matters. The answer will always respond to the secret desire which the animal elemental perceives in the mental sphere of the inquirer. This “con¬ trol” cannot be charged with fraud any more than a pet dog can be charged who fulfils his master’s desire. The benighted ignorance of both medium and client is the only cause for the apparent fraud. Mediums who become the instruments of this class of intelligences arc* generally those of unbounded personal egotism. They formulate the idea that their spirit guides cannot be any other than the most exalted personages. Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Moses, Aaron and the whole of the prophets have in turn been claimed as their inspiring guide's by this class of mediums. Such is not the case, except in the most rare instances. The obliging imitative soul of the animal elemental feels the full force of the medium’s egotistical thought desire and immedi¬ ately responds thereto and fulfils this mental idea. Even Jesus Christ and Buddha have been thus personated by impersonal controls who easily deceive the medium. But no matter who they claim to be they will always correspond to the ideal image of the personage existing in the medium’s mind. If the medium be ignorant of the life, times and circumstantial surroundings of their ideal guide, when he lived on earth, then their ideal guide will be equally ignorant of himself. The writer has frequently met with spirits claiming to be Pythagoras who did not comprehend the first principles of Occultism, and who had entirely forgotten the order he instituted or the country he belonged to. We have met with Roger Bacon spooks who had never heard of alchemy and knew nothing of monastic life: with Ben Tonsons, who knew nothing of the times in which he lived on earth; with Shakespeares, who had forgotten their own plays, and the humble circumstances of the poet's early life. Nearly all these instances occurred where the mediums were actually con¬ trolled by the astral souls of domestic animals, chic-fly dogs. Tins class, and also the cosmic elementals, are the chief agencies in all physical phenomena as they act under the control of human souls. The reason we assert that they were dogs is because, having
2evolved the lucid state, we ourselves could see the thoughtless impersonal creature responding to every latent thought in their medium’s mind. When we formulated the positive thought that the control was not what he represented himself to be, he would generally confess that he was not, whereupon the medium would commence blaming “the conditions” for the poor report. Our per¬ sonal investigations, extending over a series of years in England, France, Germany, Austria and the United States, with various types and phases of mediums, prove most conclusively that nearly half of that class of mediums who style themselves “business clairvoyants” and “test mediums” are controlled by various kinds of animal elementals, or “spooks.” The third class in the scale of intelligence is the magnetic elementals, corresponding to the seven planetary divisions of Nature. These intelligent creatures are too bright and ethereal to be guilty of fraud. They are generated by the life forces of the planetary chain existing within each orb, and are the intermediate agents of the physical results of planetary influences manifested on the earth. They are the attendant familiars of certain classes of mystical students, especially those devoted to alchemy and astrology. It is these beings that usually produce the visions in crystals, magic mirrors, or vases of water, and in conse¬ quence of this they have often been wrongly termed planetary angels by certain schools of magical research. They are indeed planetary in nature, but they do not belong to the physical planet to whose nature they correspond except by affinity. They pertain to our own orb equally as much as man himself, and can give much information regarding the orb under whose dominion they act. If any deception transpires through them, it is but the reflection of deception (misunderstanding) existing in the minds of those who use them. They do not and cannot control mediums by mesmerism or by trance. Their sole influence is manifested in the impressional and clairvoyant phases of mediumship.
3II. Disembodied Human Elementaries. This class is made up of the animal souls of depraved, wicked mortals who have sunk beneath the human plane and thus caused the separation of their divine soul from their conscious individuality. Those who fall so low as this are generally evil magicians and sorceresses, who are far more numerous than civilized society has any conception of. iy Google MEDIUMSHIP—ITS NATURE AND MYSTERIES 85 This class are really magnetic vampires who prolong their vicious existence by sapping the life blood of their mediumistic victims. They will personate anything and everything. Their only aim is to completely demoralize the mediums and plunge them into all kinds of depravity. The chief characteristic of the Human Elementary is obsession, and nearly all those who go insane through religious excitement are the victims of elementary obsession. It is needless to add that these vampires are lost to all that is redemptive and good; they have gravitated to the lowest realms of brute animality in Nature upon the descending arc, and ultimately they become indrawn within the death whirl of that magnetic orb known as the dark satellite, and are swept to their final doom, extinction.
The source text as printed, transcribed diplomatically. Where the source language uses a non-Latin script that reaches us only through a Victorian romanisation, this layer is labelled transliteration, because that is what we hold.
1these circumstances it will invariably transpire that when a person, who possesses a positive opinion, consults a medium upon any given subject, the answer he receives will correspond to his thoughts, whether it be correct or otherwise. The same thing will happen when the client asks the advice or the opinion of a medium upon worldly matters. The answer will always respond to the secret desire which the animal elemental perceives in the mental sphere of the inquirer. This “con¬ trol” cannot be charged with fraud any more than a pet dog can be charged who fulfils his master’s desire. The benighted ignorance of both medium and client is the only cause for the apparent fraud. Mediums who become the instruments of this class of intelligences arc* generally those of unbounded personal egotism. They formulate the idea that their spirit guides cannot be any other than the most exalted personages. Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Moses, Aaron and the whole of the prophets have in turn been claimed as their inspiring guide's by this class of mediums. Such is not the case, except in the most rare instances. The obliging imitative soul of the animal elemental feels the full force of the medium’s egotistical thought desire and immedi¬ ately responds thereto and fulfils this mental idea. Even Jesus Christ and Buddha have been thus personated by impersonal controls who easily deceive the medium. But no matter who they claim to be they will always correspond to the ideal image of the personage existing in the medium’s mind. If the medium be ignorant of the life, times and circumstantial surroundings of their ideal guide, when he lived on earth, then their ideal guide will be equally ignorant of himself. The writer has frequently met with spirits claiming to be Pythagoras who did not comprehend the first principles of Occultism, and who had entirely forgotten the order he instituted or the country he belonged to. We have met with Roger Bacon spooks who had never heard of alchemy and knew nothing of monastic life: with Ben Tonsons, who knew nothing of the times in which he lived on earth; with Shakespeares, who had forgotten their own plays, and the humble circumstances of the poet's early life. Nearly all these instances occurred where the mediums were actually con¬ trolled by the astral souls of domestic animals, chic-fly dogs. Tins class, and also the cosmic elementals, are the chief agencies in all physical phenomena as they act under the control of human souls. The reason we assert that they were dogs is because, having
2evolved the lucid state, we ourselves could see the thoughtless impersonal creature responding to every latent thought in their medium’s mind. When we formulated the positive thought that the control was not what he represented himself to be, he would generally confess that he was not, whereupon the medium would commence blaming “the conditions” for the poor report. Our per¬ sonal investigations, extending over a series of years in England, France, Germany, Austria and the United States, with various types and phases of mediums, prove most conclusively that nearly half of that class of mediums who style themselves “business clairvoyants” and “test mediums” are controlled by various kinds of animal elementals, or “spooks.” The third class in the scale of intelligence is the magnetic elementals, corresponding to the seven planetary divisions of Nature. These intelligent creatures are too bright and ethereal to be guilty of fraud. They are generated by the life forces of the planetary chain existing within each orb, and are the intermediate agents of the physical results of planetary influences manifested on the earth. They are the attendant familiars of certain classes of mystical students, especially those devoted to alchemy and astrology. It is these beings that usually produce the visions in crystals, magic mirrors, or vases of water, and in conse¬ quence of this they have often been wrongly termed planetary angels by certain schools of magical research. They are indeed planetary in nature, but they do not belong to the physical planet to whose nature they correspond except by affinity. They pertain to our own orb equally as much as man himself, and can give much information regarding the orb under whose dominion they act. If any deception transpires through them, it is but the reflection of deception (misunderstanding) existing in the minds of those who use them. They do not and cannot control mediums by mesmerism or by trance. Their sole influence is manifested in the impressional and clairvoyant phases of mediumship.
3II. Disembodied Human Elementaries. This class is made up of the animal souls of depraved, wicked mortals who have sunk beneath the human plane and thus caused the separation of their divine soul from their conscious individuality. Those who fall so low as this are generally evil magicians and sorceresses, who are far more numerous than civilized society has any conception of. iy Google MEDIUMSHIP—ITS NATURE AND MYSTERIES 85 This class are really magnetic vampires who prolong their vicious existence by sapping the life blood of their mediumistic victims. They will personate anything and everything. Their only aim is to completely demoralize the mediums and plunge them into all kinds of depravity. The chief characteristic of the Human Elementary is obsession, and nearly all those who go insane through religious excitement are the victims of elementary obsession. It is needless to add that these vampires are lost to all that is redemptive and good; they have gravitated to the lowest realms of brute animality in Nature upon the descending arc, and ultimately they become indrawn within the death whirl of that magnetic orb known as the dark satellite, and are swept to their final doom, extinction.
The source text as printed, transcribed diplomatically. Where the source language uses a non-Latin script that reaches us only through a Victorian romanisation, this layer is labelled transliteration, because that is what we hold.
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