Is it possible for a doorkeeper to fail in his duty?

 Truly, not all doorkeepers are strong and some of them have great difficulty in managing their medium. For a complete co-operation there must be a response by the medium to the guidance of the spirit. Some doorkeepers fail because their mediums weaken the condition of the psychic body through unwise practices such as drinking excesses of alcohol, or taking into their person strange drug substances which the guardian spirit may not be able to manage, because these drugs create within the aura so strong an attraction to low-grade spirits that the guardian is unable to control them. Then, he or she may withdraw into the regions of the spirit, to gain fresh experience, new knowledge, and come again in an endeavour to guide or to guard another medium.

 All of us are gaining great benefit in listening to you; does the medium's spirit which is enwrapped gain benefit too, as she is not listening?

 I think not, but she gains benefit from the interflow of spiritual forces, the light and blessing which is being concentrated through the mortal brain by my own particular efforts at this time, because I do not come to speak to peoples such as yourselves only to speak in words. I come that I may release certain radiations of light, peace and love, indefinable spiritual radiations which I draw from a high spiritual plane, and therefore these more subtle radiations are left lingering around the mortal body and the mortal brain and the spiritual self, in this the medium gains benefit.

 How can I recapture the memory of what I have been doing during the sleep state?

 As you settle your body before going to sleep, try to take from your mind all the anxieties and the memories of the daily life. Say to yourself: “I wish to have a clear recollection�?and when you awaken from your sleep try to recall the last thought, or the last image, which was left in your mind and then slowly but surely you will be able to recall more and more, for it is a matter of training the mortal aspects of your consciousness to become attuned to your spiritual mind.

 Why do we need to have an aura, and what is its meaning?

 Its purpose is that you may be visible to the vision of those spirits who keep you within their care. It is also meant to be visible to you on the earth if you have developed a sufficiency of vision to see each other, not simply as the body of flesh, but as the whole person, so that as you see the light of the aura you may know the nature of the person you are beholding. For these lights and colours in the aura will show to you what are the desires, what are the feelings, what are the secret searchings of the person to whom you look, for the spiritual aura reveals the real inner spirit and the real nature of the persons whom you know and love.

 Furthermore, this energy force which is woven into the physical body is meant as a protection, so that as you move around in your world you are within the shield of this psychic protection which surrounds you like a shield of light, ensuring that you do not become unduly influenced by the aura or the spirit of those others whom you may meet day by day. But in your mortal world, especially in your English land, persons have become enclosed together, so that there is an interchanging and interweaving of the energies between the auras one of the other; this means that when you have travelled or walked together, either you will feel strengthened because you have exchanged energies with those others, or else you will feel weakened because you have given some of your energy into the aura of others who have a lesser understanding than yourself. When you are seeking the unfoldment of mediumship you should always seek for the company of others who have a similar understanding to yourself, and try to remain in the company of those who have love for you, so that there may be a strengthening in the interchange of the energies between your auras which will bring to you a strengthening of your inward powers.

 It is also essential that you shall learn how to draw around the outer edges of your aura the rings of light which bring to you protection against persons who are of a lower order than yourself, those who have not any spiritual endeavour. If you do not understand this when you endeavour to increase your sensitiveness, then you may pass through experiences which will be uncomfortable and difficult for you to understand. You need to know how to protect yourself against such persons and you need to know that you can, by an effort of your will and your thought, project towards such persons streams of light, golden energies, which you send directly from your aura, to lighten their darkness and bring them into a higher degree of development.

 From which sphere do the communicating spirits come?

 Some come from the seventh but most come from the third sphere, because the third sphere is the one which we call the ‘homely�?one, for it is ‘homely�?work that is being undertaken in this your Spiritualism; it is the ‘homely�?contact of spirit to spirit, the ‘homely�?reassurance which most persons are needing. But they may, from time to time, open themselves to the influence of others on higher spheres, for here in the spirit life we have our mediums (as you have in your earthly world); some of our spirit mediums may work with a medium in the earthly life, who is not of a high spiritual development but has good guides, and good teachings, because one of their spirit guardians is a medium for one who comes from the seventh sphere.

 Is service sometimes done from the wrong motive?

 Truly. We look deeply into the lights and colours of the aura of the beloveds and sometimes we see that, when the person is conscious of loneliness and isolation, it will say: “I must serve. I must help others that my loneliness may be filled with grateful companionship and my isolation may be healed by unity with others�? We say to you this is not the way. If the heart is empty turn unto the great Master Creator, unto the great Heart of Love, and ask that your empty heart may be filled with compassion, so that you may go forth and seek to serve each other, to heal each other, not to heal your own loneliness, but rather because you love those whom you serve. Once the barriers of the self are dissolved and broken down, then the soul expands; your sensitiveness unto spiritual influence increases and you become aware of the beauty of the spirit, of the communion of the spirit ones, and the radiant light of the spirit places can be unveiled to the inward vision.

 Why is communication with our spirit friends and guides not so easy as we would like it to be?

 Communication is always dependent upon the level of the thought upon which your request is expressed. If a thought goes like a speedy light from your higher consciousness, through the upper part of your brain, then this is swiftly seen and swiftly understood by those spirits who are working upon that level. But most of earth's people think that their communication has to take place through great effort of thought and visualisation, through the mind that is associated with the ordinary happenings of the mortal world. Because your spirit friends are not associated with these things, then sometimes your strongly concentrated thought may not be so easily seen or understood by them. But if there goes from your heart the remembrance of one who is near or loved by you, or you smell a perfume, or hear a melody, reminding you of such a dear one, which brings to you swiftly an emotional memory associated with that spirit, then there goes the thought which is more a feeling, like the speed of light, unto that loved one - then, yes, communication is swift and easy upon those special levels.

 Can a feminine spirit give guidance to a man?

 Truly, for here in the ways of the spirit the aspects of the male and the female are not so strongly accented as they are in your mortal life. Therefore, there may be a need for a spirit using a man's body in the earthly experience to develop a greater degree of gentleness or spiritual perception, and the particular energy force within his aura may match more completely with that of a female spirit.

 Sometimes it is difficult to know the difference between mediumship and intuition.

 I would say that mediumship consists of sight and of hearing, but intuition consists of the development of the inner awareness of the soul. Mediumship reaches out unto the great bringers of light, to hear and to see what is to be revealed in the spiritual world, but intuition reaches out and brings you into an awareness of what is going on in your own realm, in your own world. Therefore, to those of you who are reaching out your hands in helpfulness to those who are near to you, I would say: Develop the faculty of intuition; do not be deaf to its voice, and when you feel within yourself the need of another being, respond unto that need, obeying your intuition.

 Does the standard of spiritual unfoldment reached by mediums account for the differing teachings transmitted on a particular subject?

 Truly. The deeper the sense of honesty within the inner consciousness of a medium the clearer and the higher is the revelation that can be given. Some limit their mediumship by personal pride; some are limited by the desire for gain; some are limited by fears of failure or the fear of the weakness of the flesh or the fear of the criticisms of humankind. Often the consciousness may be cleared with the help of spirit of the more crude imperfections, the greed, the desires, the prides, which are of the earth, but the mediums may not always carry their honesty on to the more subtle and spiritual plane. Thus, sometimes, there is the mediumship which will not be sufficiently honest to admit “Today the spirit is not with me�? or “I have not this awareness which other people think that I should have�?- this we would call a dishonesty which is upon the more subtle, spiritual plane. As each medium goes forward honesty needs to be transferred from the plane of the earth into the inner planes.

 Has environment anything to do with the holding back of spiritual gifts?

 Yes. The environment surrounding you is just that state or place in which you should learn the spiritual lesson that is needful for the growth and unfoldment of your spiritual pathway at that time. Until that lesson is learned you will not get the blossoming of the gifts of sight or hearing, because true unfoldment always comes about from the deeper unfoldment and development of such gifts as the capacity of service, love, tolerance, self-sacrifice, forgiveness. With the strengthening of these spiritual gifts and the perfecting of them, there will come the unfoldment of the powers of the spirit. Therefore, do not resent the environment which surrounds you and feel that it holds back your development, but rather accept it as the step upon which you are climbing towards a fuller and deeper spiritual unfoldment, out of which the gifts of perception will come to their full blossoming and flowering.

 In ancient times were the priests and priestesses in the temples mediums and psychics?

 The priests and priestesses were invariably psychic or mediumistic, and they were chosen because of that faculty. Then there came the time in which the purer understanding of spiritual powers became supplanted by other priests who were simply performing rituals to gather to themselves wealth from the peoples. Each time the purer teaching became overlaid by the more ambitious or worldly priests, who continued performing rituals, simply by imparting fear into the minds of the people. So the present mediumistic activities of your world are simply trying to bring back the recollection of what used to be known in years gone by. In the Church today those who should be the revealers are simply upholding the ancient rituals, whereas the true teaching is being given through the mediumistic persons.

 Is there any significance in the green light which is seen clairvoyantly by many people nowadays?

 The green light is coming into manifestation on your earth just now and many who are developing may sometimes see the green ray in their circles, in their meetings, or in the aura of aspiring mediums. The green ray is, firstly, the greenness of tranquillity and peace, but even more, it is the colour that is stimulating man to seek for truth and causes people not to be content to accept what has been accepted as a truth in centuries gone by, but to think, search, question and desire new truth.

 This is the plan we are bringing into being, and as it comes there is the stimulation of thought, a starting of ideas, an awakening within the inner consciousness of a desire for truth. This you will find not only in the mediumship of people such as yourselves, but through the sound waves coming from your radios and from your ‘out-pictured boxes�?(television) which bring out ideas, stirring people to think. This is the plan and pattern for the New Age, whereby the spiritual consciousness of mankind can function more clearly through his purified intellect.