Spirits
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Getting Close to
the Divine...
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In my
previous church a member of the congregation told me of an incident she had had
while printing the Sunday bulletins. She said she had gotten to the church
about 9:30PM with her thirteen year old daughter, Starr. While standing at the
copy machine she said she felt a tug at her dress. She turned to her
daughter and asked, “Why did you do that?”
Her daughter gave her a blank
look and said, “I didn’t do anything.” Her mother realized that she was
standing too far away to have tugged at her dress, so she shrugged it off as
imagination and continued to run off copies of the bulletins.
Still standing at the copy
machine she felt something touch her arm and then a little while later, her
hair. She said it gave her the creeps and she just wanted out of there.
Confrontations with the unknown
always give us the willies and we’re not sure how to handle it. Often, we handle
it by running and then forgetting about it. The truth is, things exist
that we can’t see—at least the average person can’t see anything. There
are some who can.
Many people who think they’re very rationale with a logical mind tend to brush
these incidents aside as the workings of an overly imaginative and fragile
personality. They’re wrong. We’re not alone in the universe and there are
more thing on heaven and earth than are contained in their philosophy—to
paraphrase Shakespeare
(1.).
So, what tugged
at her dress, touched her arm and hair? Was it a ghost?
Probably not. Although many
people believe in ghosts, I do not. I do believe in something, but
not ghosts. When someone dies who has a very high and focused energy
level—think of a fanatic and you’ll understand the personality type—an essence
of that person seems to remain. However, that essence is non-thinking and
non-motivated. However, it may follow a routine established in life. These
“essences” can’t tug or touch—although you can feel them—but not in the same way
as being touched by a human...it's etherial. It’s more like a feeling of
coldness. Most of this type of essences have similarities: they were either
fanatical or died in a very dramatic and traumatic manner.
On the other hand, there are
some entities that are living beings who cannot normally be seen or touched.
A book called The Urantia Book mentions a being called a “midwayer.”
In Islam that same being is called a “jinn.” Christianity has no
counterpart other than angels, which are higher than midwayers or jinns.
According to the Urantia Book a midwayer is created slightly higher than a human
and not normally visible, but they can make themselves visible and are easier to
see than angels.
There’s no reason for a ghost to be in the church other than it is 73 years old and we don't know the actual history of all that happened there.
I am aware of
one event, however, that happened in that very room.
The room was situated out of sight, hidden by a
curtain, but behind the pulpit and off to the left (from the congregations point
of view).
This church used to be the largest in town with a
congregation over 100—it was a small town.
In the 90s the church got a new pastor who would
have communion in that room, out of sight.
Women were required to kiss him.
It's easy to see
why that church went from the largest in town to the smallest, with a
congregation of 13.
Communion is the holiest rite in the church.
We were asked by Jesus, himself, to “Do this in
remembrance of me.”
To defile it in that manner would have been a
satanic act by an unclean priest.
“There
are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your
philosophy.” (William Shakespeare)