Prostration occurred, as the New Testament records, when our Lord cast a spirit out of some poor human frame. The liberated were restored by Him to normal health and vigour. St. Mark’s words are in strange contrast to the recurrent trance experiences of modern mediumship. “And the spirit cried, and rent him sore, and came out of him, and he was as one dead, insomuch that many said, He is dead. But Jesus took him by the hand and lifted him up, and he arose.”
Would He not lift up and restore and revitalise those who at the séance seem to ignorant onlookers to be invaded by some alien personality?
FOOTNOTES:
[3] “On the Threshold of the Unseen,” p. 124 (1918).
[4] ibid.
[5] “On the Threshold of the Unseen,” p. 257 (1918).
[6] May 10th, 1919.
[7] In the Introduction to Mr. Hill’s book entitled “Spiritualism, its History, Phenomena, and Doctrine” (Cassell).
[8] “Spiritualism,” pp. 127, 128.