COMMUNICATIONS SUSPENDED

 

Quite frequently the best medium utterly fails for the time to receive messages, or for a length of time loses his impressibility. It is the common experience to lose the capability, and have days and weeks go by without the least perception of spiritual influence. A circle that has for many seances been successful, has not a sign of spirit presence. A great many causes may contribute to this result. The medium may have overtaxed his strength. The spirits may have withdrawn for a purpose. Some unknown element of antagonism may have entered the circle. In all such instances the spiritual theory of the manifestations is strengthened, the absence of phenomena proving almost as much as their presence. If in a circle the manifestations are continuously withheld, new members should be added or old ones dropped out. The restoration of conditions which made mediumship possible in the first place, will restore it after loss by adverse circumstances, if the organization of the person remains the same.

 

It is somewhat rare for such cessation to take place, and when relieved of the depressing burdens, the old light will again burn as brightly as before.

 

A diversity of age in the members of a circle is desirable, but decrepit age, or the sick, should be most peremptorily debarred. Although such may receive great benefit from the circle it is at the expense of the vitality of the other members, for they act like sponges, absorbing the mesmeric current, and destroying thereby the essential means of spirit control.