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can tell what the unaided medium is incapable of knowing
or uttering? This phenomenon only shows that the
beliefs of mortal mind are loosed. Forgetting her ignorance
in the belief that another mind is speaking through
her, the devotee may become unwontedly eloquent. Having
more faith in others than in herself, and believing
that somebody else possesses her tongue and mind, she
talks freely.
Destroy her belief in outside aid, and her eloquence
disappears. The former limits of her belief return. She
says, "I am incapable of words that glow, for I am
uneducated." This familiar instance reaffirms the Scriptural
word concerning a man, "As he thinketh in his heart,
so is he." If one believes that he cannot be an orator without
study or a superinduced condition, the body responds
to this belief, and the tongue grows mute which before
was eloquent.
(Scientific improvisation)
Mind is not necessarily dependent upon educational
processes. It possesses of itself all beauty and poetry,
and the power of expressing them. Spirit,
God, is heard when the senses are silent. We
are all capable of more than we do. The influence or
action of Soul confers a freedom, which explains the phenomena
of improvisation and the fervor of untutored lips.
(Divine origination)
Matter is neither intelligent nor creative. The tree is
not the author of itself. Sound is not the originator of
music, and man is not the father of man. Cain
very naturally concluded that if life was in the
body, and man gave it, man had the right to take it away.
This incident shows that the belief of life in matter was
"a murderer from the beginning."
If seed is necessary to produce wheat, and wheat to
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