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QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 343
in the Physical World. In the case of the hypnotist, he
is seen by his victim in the waking state, while the me-
dium does not see the spirit which hypnotizes her until
she has been driven out of her body. She is then clothed
in her desire body and therefore usually unable to bring her
experiences back.
All her experiences take- place while the physical body is
in a trance. It is the Ego clothed in the mind and desire
body which leaves the physical body behind, and the
same separation takes place then as in ordinary dreamless
sleep, with the difference, however, that the physical body
is not left tenantless upon the bed, but the spirit control
usually enters the physical body of the medium, taking
often to the
possession and using it according to pleasure,
great detriment of the medium. For when such a spirit
control has been a drunkard or libertine during earth
life, it will often use the medium's body to gratify its
craving for liquor or its base, sensual instincts. We cannot
too seriously impress upon people that this physical
body is our most valuable instrument, and that it is very
wrong for anyone to abandon it to the tender mercies of
either a hypnotist or a spirit control. In the case of
mediums, there is a still graver danger, for sometimes it
is not an ordinary human Ego which is the control, but
an elemental that cannot ordinarily function in the Physical
World. When the medium at death enters the Desire
World, the elemental has obtained such a power over the
desire body of the medium that it may rob the owner of
his vehicle. The desire body is the vehicle whence comes
the spring to action, and therefore when an Ego is deprived
of that vehicle there is nothing to cause it to reincarnate.
The elemental may keep this body
even for millions of
years, and so, while the rest of humanity is progressing,