When a medium’s faculty is developed it must not be unduly, or unwisely, exercised. The pleasure it gives to beginners sometimes excites in them an enthusiasm that needs to be moderated.
There is nothing more ridiculous than a lack of discretion by a medium. All mediums, however, novices or not, need to moderate their enthusiasm. A medium who keeps talking about his mediumistic experiences, inspires no confidence in those who listen to him.The medium who always talks about his own mediumship, reveals his personalism and a lack of maturity, and though he tries to disguise it , nevertheless it predominates over him.
A medium needs to be reserved with regard to his faculties, even among fellows from his group, avoiding to vulgarize the gifts that were given to him.A medium who states seeing spirits at every moment is, in fact, unbalanced, for from all kinds of mediumship the psychic vision is the one which most rarely manifests itself. Besides that, it depends much more on the desire of the spirit in showing itself than the medium seeing it. A medium who says that he has been hearing spirits at all times is, in reality, trying to call attention to himself, for there is no medium who can hear spirits without interruption.
The more a medium learns to moderate himself the more he will be respected. A well intentioned medium helps without flaunting it. That is to say, like his Spiritual Benefactors, he should try to be discrete in his work.
Mediumship should never be a way of personal promotion. A medium, as any other person, should promote himself by his moral values. Mediumship is not a certificate of spiritual
enlightenment. It is available to any person and therefore it is a work of commitment. Obviously, no medium should repress himself when showing a healthy joy coming from his soul. It is understandable that a medium, sometimes feels inclined to get problems off his chest, also talking about his innermost experiences within mediumship. In this case, it is fair enough that a most experienced medium’s advice can be pronounced . However, that does not give him any kind of superiority over the others.
The joy which all mediums should search for is one which carries out its duty. The enthusiasm that all mediums should show is the enthusiasm with the Doctrine, which, in fact, is a sublime focus of light illuminating our lives…Mediums, I repeat, should avoid talking about themselves. When there is such a need, then they may do it using few words.
Some mediums have a great desire for being praised when talking about themselves. The reason why I have been writing in a restrictive way is none other than to protect the novice mediums from disturbances, and the Doctrine of being wrongly understood by those who still haven’t learned how to comprehend things. There are many people who intentionally, or not, mix mediumship with Spiritism.
Spiritism cannot be held responsible for those mediums who are negligent and call themselves “spiritists”. May the novice, and more experienced mediums, moderate their excess of enthusiasm, so exercising mediumship with discretion. In the chapter of the Gospel where Jesus cured ten leprous people, He asked them not to tell anyone about it, but to show themselves to the priests, according to Moses’ Law. (Luke, 17:11-19). Well, if the Master was concerned about being discrete, and this was clear in various chapters of the Gospel, why should we be going out proclaiming ourselves? The dedicated spirits keep away from these mediums who lack in seriousness. They leave these mediums to become victims of those who stimulated their vanity.
This withdrawal is necessary for the benefit of their own mediums who, although warned, may try not to mprove themselves.Every indiscreet medium does not deserve credibility, in the same way that an egocentric spirit does not deserve to be trusted.
Let’s be attentive to this serious matter which, nfortunately, has been spoiled by the mediumistic task of any mediums along the spiritist pathway.
I wish all my brothers and sisters muchas bendiciones during these holidays and most of all the happiness you all deserve and should have, thanks for your comments and kind words of inspiration.
Luis angel
of MySanteria.com
