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Rh 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 is to this belief, and the tongue grows mute which before was eloquent.

Mind is not necessarily dependent upon educational is 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.

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