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QUESTION No. 119.
Is mediumship injurious to health?
Answer: That depends: Where a person becomes the
medium for a disembodied spirit which enters the body, as
in the case of the trance mediums, where it takes pos-
session of this body and uses it as the owner might do,
there is little if any harm done, provided the spirit control
does not abuse his privilege. In fact, there are some
cases where spirit controls have a better idea of caring
for a body than the- owner himself, and may sometimes
improve the health. But spirits of a high ethical nature do
not usually control a medium, it is rather earthbound and
low spirits such as Indians and others of a like nature
who obtain a control over mediumistic persons, and when
in possession of the body they may use it to gratify their
low passions for drink and sex. Thus they cause a dis-
turbance to the system and a deterioration of the in-
strument.
In the case of the materializing medium, we may say
that the influence is always injurious. The materializing
spirit entrances the victim and then draws the ether of
the vital body out through the spleen, for the difference
between the materializing medium and the ordinary per-
son is the fact that the connection between the vital body
and the dense body is exceedingly lax, so that it is possible
to withdraw this vital body to a very great extent. The
vital body is the vehicle whereby the solar currents which
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