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In 1959, the Swedish filmmaker
and painter Friedrich Jurgenson
played back tapes of bird calls he
had recorded in a Swedish forest.
To his astonishment, he heard what
he believed to be his dead mother's
voice on the tape! This began a
series of experiments to record
spirit voices. Hundreds of voices
have appeared on bis tapes.
Other researchers have claimed
to have recorded the spi rit voices of
Churchill, Hitler, Stalin, Tolstoy
and many other famous men and
women of history. ·
Many years of such research
and experimentation have now
produced the two-way machine
previously mentioned. The device
tunes in on certain ra–
dio frequencies that
provide a channel
over which "those in
the higher planes"–
t he reputed dead–
can convey their mes–
sages.
count for the messages of mediums
in séances.
Many other explanations have
been suggested for this and other
spirit phenomena-all of which
at
times
have probably played a role.
But again,
not a/1
spirit phenomena
can be adequately explained away
by such theories. There remain
certain manifestations for which no
entirely satisfactory explanation
has been offered--other than
ac–
tual spirit contact.
But has contact been made with
the dead?
Or might there be
an–
other
explanation?
No lmmortal Soul
From time to time
The Plain
and New Testaments, that the dead
"sleep" in insensibility in their
graves until a future resurrection–
a rising from the dead.
Readers often write in, inquiring
how one can explain "ghosts,"
séances, spirit photography and re–
·Iated phenomena.
If
these are not
the spirits of
the dead-what are
they? The explanation is found in
the Bible!
World of Spirits
The Bible reveals that there
is in–
deed
a world of spirits! But they
are
not
the spirits of the dead–
though sorne may
masquerade
as
spirits of the dead! This spirit
world is the world of
angels- and
demons
(fallen angels).
Angels were created
by God eons ag<>-long
before the creation of
the earth. The
archangel whom we
call Lucifer and one
third of these created
angels ultimately .re–
belled against God
(Isa. 14; Ezek. 28; II
Pet. 2:4; Rev. 12:4).
The disobedient Lu–
cifer became
Satan,
"the Adversary." The
angels who followed
him in rebellion be–
carne
demons.
There is no appar–
ent reason to doubt
the sincerity or the in–
tegrity of those who
have worked on this
project or of other re–
searchers in the field
of EVP (electronic
voice phenomena).
It
is unlikely that the
voices have been faked
in any way. There are
no indications of fraud
or hoax.
lt
is apparent
that the researchers
are in actual voice
contact with spirit en–
tities.
Spectators view tbe reputed materialization of a long-dead
woman during a Pbiladelpbia séance
in
1874.
Satan and his
demonio cohorts exert
enormous influence on
this world. The Bible
calls Satan " the god of
this world" (II Cor.
4:4). In that role, he
has sucoeeded in
de-
By what means does
the device work?
"It
does work,"
remarks one of its inventors, "but
we don't fully know those underly–
ing laws yet." He also admits that
mediumship is involved to some
degree.
"lt
[the device] requires an
operator with a very special type of
psychic energy."
Are
these the voices of the dead?
Sorne investigators have sug–
gested that these reputed "mes–
sages from the dead" might actu–
ally be coming somehow from the
subconscious
of the machine's op–
erator himself, and not from the
"other side." The same explanation
has often been put forward to ac-
September
1986
Truth
publishes articles cballeng–
ing tbe widely held belief in an
"immortal soul." Tbe age-old be–
lief in the separate existences of
the body and the soul can be
proved to be
without support
in
the Bible!
We explain what is the true
scriptural definition of the word
soul,
demonstrating that "soul"
designates man's
physical
life–
that a soul is what man
is,
not
what he
has.
Man has no
inher–
ent
immortality. The soul is
mortal
and can
die
(Ezek. 18:4,
20).
Tbe Bible shows, in both Old
ceiving
the whole
world (Rev. 12:9).
Satan and his demons pretend
to bring light (Il Cor. 11:14-15).
Demons have, for millennia,
been turning mankind from
truth into spiritual darkness,
falsel y calling that darkness
"ligbt." The Bible warns of the
dangers of humans dabbling in
tbe world of spirits.
Notice just a few of these pas–
sages:
"Regard not them tbat have fa–
miliar spirits [the ..control" or
"guide" that associates itself with a
witch or medium] , neither seek
af-
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