Medicine and operations (first of all!) exist also in the spiritual world!
You will readily understand that the spirit world has varied and
difficult work to perform in developing and preparing the mediums. You
can, of course, form no conception of how costly – to use a worldly
expression – the development of mediums is for the spirit world. How much
spiritual power must be expended, how many precious remedies and other substances are consumed in the process! Spiritual operations, often much
larger and more difficult than those undertaken by your surgeons upon
terrestrial human bodies, are necessary. Some mediums have inner defects
that must first be cured before their development as a medium can begin.
“Just as your surgeons have a great variety of instruments and
medicines for the operations they perform, so do we, for we have a spiritual
counterpart for everything that you possess in material form. Of course we
spirits are never ill and never require operations or treatment. We use our
substantial knowledge and resources only on behalf of material creation, to
cure men and beasts and to develop mediums for the purpose of
communication with the spirit world. We have our specialists in all
departments, including the development of mediums. We have our chief
physicians and assistants, and most diverse trained help. We have a great
assortment of spiritual instruments, anesthetics, tonics and medicines, all of
which are used in the development of the mediums.
“Consequently, a great many spirits are involved in the development
of a medium to serve the good. Just as each assistant at an operation
conducted by human beings has a specific task, so, while a medium is being
developed, each spirit connected with the process has its special work to do.
Everything is beautifully organized. Your mediums in development are
therefore in good hands, provided that they place themselves at the disposal
of the good spirits, that they shun all evil and do everything with God.
“No one need, therefore, be alarmed at witnessing what goes on
during the development of a medium, especially a deep-trance medium.
Everything follows fixed laws. The good spirits are the best friends you
have, and you have nothing whatever to fear from them.