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difference between
the Western medium and the
Estern adept, that the western medium is controlled, the other the controller. There are certain states in which we see more than we see under other conditions. However, taken as a whole, this difference is to be found always. I met a medium in one of the largest cities in this country, and I was invited by her to come a seance. She claimed to be controlled by a Hindu spirit, and the name given was a Hindu name, and when she began to say something to me she uttered some words in an unknown tongue, two of which were familiar to me; but they were not of the Hindu but of the Mahommedan tongue, of which no Hindu person, spirit or divinity would ever make use; these words are peculiar to the Mahommedans. The medium might have read these words somewhere as coming from India, and concluded that they were Hindu words. That solved the whole matter to me in her case.
The first need is to understand the real object of life which is not simply to multiply the wants and to create unnecessary cravings and necessities, but to eliminate them. The idea of the civilization here is to multiply the wants and cravings of the material life and to use all means for questionable ends. What are we going
A sitting for consideration; here a meeting of spiritualists and their dupes to receive their so called communications from the unseen world.
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