Mediumship today is clearly an abnormalism. But the history of the
world has been that the so-called abnormalisms of one generation are
the accepted, commonplace realisms of the succeeding types. Sight, the
desire to see, existed first in the mind of the unfolding human brain;
the will joined its forces to aid the work of liberation and the visual
nerves began to form and grow. The imprisoned soul within kept pushing
on, until gradually the beautiful, complex organ of sight was evoluted
and the soul possessed a window through which it could see things for
itself. The evolutionary processes attending mediumship quite
correspond to this physical process. Man demands to know concerning
those things that have long been hid, and to understand the "deep
things of God," and so the soul of him is saying, "I, too, have visions
unspeakable," and closing up the avenues of his external sight, he sees
and apprehends truth, a light upon his path, of which in his previous,
darkened state he had never conceived. The intuitional faculties being
the true interpreters of the immortal soul, are capable of unlimited
cultivation, unlike those of the intellect which have always the
limitations of cerebral organization. These powers are as limitless as
God, and only through the expansion and recognized rational, practical
use and application of these faculties--now sometimes falsely named
supernatural--can the human race pass out from its present environment
of darkness, and crime, and reaching upward expand into a saving
knowledge of the truth, as made known by the Christs.