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from a violent headache at the base of the brain. On the next day I asked the cause, and the following
message was given, but much more quietly]
Your headache was the result of the intensity of the power, and the rapidity with which it was withdrawn
from you. We could not write on such a subject without displaying eagerness: for it is one of most vital
concern to those to whom we are sent. We would fain impress on you the paramount importance of
obeying ever those unalterable laws which God has laid down for you, and which you violate at your
own peril.
Wars are but the product of your lust for gain, your ambition, your angry, proud, vengeful passions. And
what is the product? God s fair works destroyed and trampled under foot: the lovely and peaceful
results of man s industry destroyed: the holy ties of home and kindred severed: thousands of families
plunged into distress: rivers of blood shed wantonly: souls unnumbered rent from their earth-body to rush
unprepared, uneducated, unpurified into the life of spirit. Bad, all bad! earthy! evil sprung from earth, and
resulting in misery. Till you know better than this, your race will progress but slowly; but you are
perpetually sowing seeds which produces a crop of obstables to our work.
Much there is in social knowledge and in the conduct of State affairs that you must unlearn: much that is
to be added to your knowledge.
For instance, you legislate for the masses, but you deal only with the offender. Your legislation must be
punitive, but it should be remedial too. Those whom you think insane you shut up fast lest they should
injure others. A few years ago, and you tortured them, and filled your madhouses with many whose only
crime it was to differ from the foolish notions of their fellows, or to be as many were, and are, whom
you have thought mad recipients of undeveloped spirit influence. This you will one day know to your
sorrow that to leave the beaten track is not always evidence of a wandering mind; and to be the
vehicle of spirit-teaching is not proof of a mind unhinged. From many the power of proclaiming their
mission has been taken away, and it has been falsely said that we have filled the asylums, and driven our
mediums to madness, because blind ignorant men have chosen to attribute insanity to all who have
ventured to proclaim their connection with us and our teaching. They have decided, forsooth, that to be
in communion with the world of spirit is evidence of madness; therefore, all who claim to be are mad,
and consequently must be shut up within the madhouse. And because by lying statements they have
succeeded in affixing the stigma, and in incarcerating the medium, they further charge on us the sin they
have invented of driving our mediums to madness.
Were it not ignorance, it would be blasphemy. We have brought nought but blessing to our friends. We
are to them the bearers of Divine Truth. If man has chosen to attract by his evil mind and evil life
congenial spirits who aggravate his wickedness, on his head be the sin. They have but tended the crop
which he has already sown. He was mad already; mad in neglect of his own spirit and body; mad in that
he has driven far from him the holy influences. But we deal not with such. Far more mad indeed are
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those besotted drunkards whom you deem not mad. To spirit-eye there is no more fearful sight than
those dens of wickedness and impurity where the evil men gather to steep their senses in oblivion, to
excite the lustful and sensual passions of their debased bodies, to consort with the degraded and the
impure, and to offer themselves the ready prey of the basest and worst spirits who hover around and
find their gratification in living over again their bodily lives. These are dens of basest, most hideous
degradation; a blot of your civilisation, a disgrace to your intelligence.
SM: What do you mean by living over again their base lives?
These earth-bound spirits retain much of their earthly passion and propensity. The cravings of the body
are not extinct, though the power to gratify them is withdrawn. The drunkard retains his old thirst, but
exaggerated; aggravated by the impossibility of slacking it. It burns within him, the unquenched desire,
and urges him to frequent the haunts of his old vices, and to drive wretches like himself to further
degradation. In them he lives again his old life, and drinks in satisfaction, grim and devilish, from the
excesses which he causes them to commit. And so his vice perpetuates itself, and swells the crop of sin
and sorrow. The besotted wretch, goaded on by agencies he cannot see, sinks deeper and deeper into
the mire. His innocent wife and babe starve and weep in silent agony, and near them hovers, and over
them broods, the guardian angel who has no power to reach the sodden wretch who mars their lives and
breaks their hearts.
This we shadow forth to you when we tell you that the earthbound spirit lives again its life of excess of
those whom it is enabled to drive to ruin. The remedy is slow, for such vices perpetuate themselves. It
can only be found in the moral and material elevation of the race; in the gradual growth of purer and truer
knowledge; in advanced education, in its widest and truest sense.
SM: This would prevent obsession such as you picture?
Yes, in the end; and nothing else will, so long as you keep up the supply at the rate you now do.
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