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Speaking In Tongues
In relation to the Balitang K episode on Speaking
in Tongues aired last February 26, please allow us to contribute our thoughts in
the hope that they will help increase your understanding of this phenomenon.
In teaching or raising consciousness, first we
need to call attention before the student will listen to our message. Thoroughly
engrossed in the affairs of this world, we find little interest in matters
relating to the World to Come except when we are jolted to attention by some
accompanying signs and wonders.
Much later on, when we are able to accept the
reality of the Unseen World and our curiosity regarding these phenomena has been
satisfactorily assuaged, then we are able to arrive at the next forward step.
Our fascination over, we begin to question and seek to understand what all the
fuss is about.
The end purpose being to communicate between
worlds, the utterances through mediums will become more intelligible, even if
garbled and unreliable in the early stages. This is pretty much what happened
during the development phases of the telegraph, telephone, radio and TV.
Everything new and undeveloped will undergo further improvements.
To convince skeptics initially, the psychic or
medium performs only during deep trance, receiving and delivering messages given
to him word for word, in a voice not his own, secretly and privately, under
cover of darkness. Upon returning to consciousness, he remembers nothing of what
transpired. Usually, the communications go far beyond the extent of his personal
knowledge and experience.
As acceptance grows, further proofs become
unnecessary and the medium is allowed to receive and relay information
consciously, interpreting pictures and thoughts during daytime and in public. He
can also recall everything that happened. Finally in the advanced forms of
mediumship, the medium’s eyes can be open and his body will exhibit no extra
physical exertions or rigidity. Telepathy most closely approximates normal,
unimpeded communication here on Earth.
As language improves and ideas are more
effectively concretized, the messages become more meaningful, rational and
better suited to the target audience, according to the audience’s capacity to
comprehend. At this advanced stage, the rules that apply in our evaluating
information coming from any and all sources, whether from an authorized source
or unauthorized, confirmed or unconfirmed, should at all times be observed
fully.
Now going back to speaking in tongues. The
purpose is to communicate not with God as opined by Mr. Eddie Villanueva, but
with each of us in our own language, one we can readily understand and relate
to.
In Jerusalem, on the Day of Pentecost, there were
present many devout and godly men from foreign lands who spoke different
languages (Acts, Chapter 2). To reach and convince them that the Apostles are
divinely inspired, the Holy Spirit (Spirits of Truth) communicated through the
disciples turned instruments of the Lord (mediums) and spoke directly to the
godly men in their own languages. It was primarily because of their wonderment
and awe that they were converted to the new faith.
Today, mainly due to ignorance of its purpose,
many mindlessly mimic what happened to the disciples during Pentecost by
mouthing gibberish thinking the act to be spiritual, and themselves, holy
instruments, when in fact, without a listener understanding what is said, the
practice becomes a useless and self-deluding activity, and questionable at that.
Still, this is allowed because it is generally harmless and, in its own small
way, contributes toward proving the existence of the Spirit World, bringing the
unenlightened a little closer to God. However, the higher forms of communication
and mediumship are rather to be preferred.
Our only purpose in writing to you is to let you
know that the deeper explanations to all supernatural phenomena are now being
made available to those who are open to them. However, we lay no special claim
to divine revelation, this being equally available to everyone. INNER
QUEST is just one source, one link in a chain, one small voice among
many that are helping to bring about the coming of the Age of Enlightenment.
If we can help to further your understanding of
the New Teachings, please just call us and let us know.
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