From the Unconscious to the Conscious 



Self will know all and have power over all. It will have 

 realised its diverse and unlimited potentialities. 



II. MEDIUMSHIP 



Mediumship puts great problems before us; but 

 these become relatively easy in the light of the preceding 

 ideas. 



The mechanism of mediumistic action may be 

 summed up as decentralisation of the individual grouping 

 of the medium and isolated manifestations of the 

 decentralised portions. 



Sometimes these isolated manifestations are carried 

 on in the grouping itself, intrinsically; sometimes they 

 take place extrinsically, by an actual exteriorisation. It 

 can be seen how vast is the field covered by mediumistic 

 action : 



Motor, sensorial, dynamic, and intellectual exteriori- 



sations ; 



Different kinds of automatism; 



An immense variety of manifestations of a psycho- 

 logical order; 



Isolated action of the cerebral psychism; mental 



disjunctions and personifications of very various 



natures and levels; Pythian or suggested 



phenomena; crypto-psychic or cryptomnesic 



manifestations, and those called supernormal. 



Thus understood, mediumship is a whole world; 



one that defies any partial and fragmentary exploration 



and is concealed from those who merely look into a few 



details, but which reveals itself to the high and clear 



vision that contemplates the sum total of the complex 



factors of Being. 



To seek to explain mediumship, as some psychologists 

 do, by a series of fragmentary hypotheses adapted 

 to a few of its phenomena, is useless. None of these 



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