APPENDIX 293 



Mediumship 



" Nature can teach everything belonging to Nature ; 

 she derives her knowledge from the Spirit. But Spirit 

 and Nature are one, for Nature is a light that comes from 

 the Spirit. If Nature learns from the Spirit, the one 

 becomes divided into two : the disciple asks questions, 

 and answers them himself. In a dream the dreamer and 

 the person he dreams of are one ; and in temptation the 

 tempter and the tempted are one." 



" The light of Nature is the light that comes from the 

 Spirit. It is in man — is born with him, and grows up 

 with him. There are some persons who live in this 

 interior light, but the life of others is centred in their 

 animal instincts, and they grope in darkness and error. 

 There are some who write wiser than they know, but it 

 is wisdom that writes through them, for man has no 

 wisdom of his own ; he can only come into contact with 

 wisdom through the light of Nature that is in himself." 



" Those who live in their animal instincts are not wise, 

 and that which they write is inspired by their animal 

 reason. Some animals are murderous and others are 

 greedy ; some are thievish and others are lewd ; but all 

 the elements of the animal kingdom are in the soul of 

 man, and whenever such elements become alive in him 

 they dominate over his reason, and man becomes like a 

 reasoning animal, and writes as dictated by his animal 

 reason." 



" That which a man writes is not created by him, 

 but it existed before him, and will exist after him ; he 

 only gives it a form. Therefore that which he writes is 

 not his but another's ; he is only the instrument through 

 which truth or error expresses itself. There are those 

 who write mechanically, and such writing may come from 

 three causes ; intellectual writing may come from over 

 fifty-seven causes, and the writing of the Word of God 

 may come from ten causes. A person who writes should 



