If I wish to understand Spiritual truth, no man or medium can be a medium for me, and I can not be a medium for…
- Date of account
- Published 1910 from earlier writings
- Source
- The Astral World—Higher Occult Powers Clairvoyance, Spiritism, Mediumship, and Spirit-Healing Fully Explained
- Reference
- The Astral World—Higher Occult Powers Clairvoyance, Spiritism, Mediumship, and Spirit-Healing Fully Explained · selected passage 26
- Rights
- public_domain
- Language
- English
- Record updated
- 2026-08-24
Record summary
If I wish to understand Spiritual truth, no man or medium can be a medium for me, and I can not be a medium for you
Published source text
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Source passage
Source text · mention onlyIf I wish to understand Spiritual truth, no man or medium can be a medium for me, and I can not be a medium for you. Jesus of Nazareth can not be a medium for one of you, nor can God himself. Every individual who would understand the truths of the Spiritual world must be his or her own medium. God must write his law upon your understanding, and put it in your affections. If you want to become mediums for interior communications, you must become absolutely true in every thought, feeling, and affection—become absolutely pure in every desire and aspiration of your souls—become absolutely just in all your relations of life, so that morning, noon, and night you shall be inquiring and thirsting after righteousness. Such an individual will not need any outward signs to convey truth to him. But the person disposed to live in the outward world, to live in the enjoyment of his appetites and lustful affections, will require representations, if he ever believes in Spirits. He has to be addressed as a physical or sensuous being. If he ever believes in a future life, the Spirits have got to come and rap him over his head.
Historical context
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Modern context
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