Excerpt from An Inspired Message

There are then other forms of spirit non-intelligent, but docile, in the world and within its people that in the out-of order condition of the world have long been guided by the corrupt spirits in it; they are very numerous, and taught and guided by the corrupt spirits have had a very blinding and injurious bearing upon people. The brute of every kind in Spirit in one general expression Should be ordered fromwithin and from around the person. Of itself its tendencies are obedience to the Creator. But through deception upon it, for in spirit it is quick to obey;' it has been obeying the corrupt spirits, looking to them as of the Creator's Power. But severed from people and other moving substances it will be directed and lifted by a Power of the Creator from the world to where of His Order it belongs.

Lest, however, that disobedience should for a while occur and attempts at deception be persevered in, for the corrupt Spirits, long adepts in crime, have in the past when discovery was near them resorted to many devices, questions should be consistent and short, and answers of guidance accepted with cautious care, examining closely the import of every word that appears at the point of the pen. For being within the body, side by side with the nerves of the system and working power of the mind, they form expressions within the structure of the mind that draw the person's own thoughts in less or more force to work along with them. It might, therefore, be difficult at first to discern the right from the wrong, or the truth from falsehood; for the action upon the hand which should be felt corresponding with expressions rising in the mind would in interruption sometimes be found differing widely. The bearing, therefore, to the formation of words upon the hand, while it clearly tells of the existence of in telligent life within the person and around the body which is of entirely separate existence, should be carefully examined and the truth of the writing by it put under inte'rrogatory test. For the corrupt spirits, the cause of every illness and irregularity that are in the world, being numerous to the extent that one or more of them, with deluded aid, are within every person of corporeal substance in it, and, by causing falsehood to be blindly seen, would draw, in an unseen into way, the working power of the mind from the aiding power within the person, and cause pe0p1e, unconsciously to them selves, to aid in developing thoughts that might retard for a while the rectifying work going on within them.

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