5.20 Supernatural Writing and Speaking

In writing under the control of evil spirits the same principle is manifested, i.e., the suspension of volitional and mental action:

1. The person writes what he hears dictated audibly in a supernatural way.
   
   
2. He writes what he sees presented to his mind supernaturally, sometimes with rapidity as if compelled.
   
   
3. He writes automatically, as his hand is moved, without any mental, or volitional action.
   

In descriptive writing, or writing from what is supernaturally presented to the mind, the words may pass before the mental vision as clearly as if they were seen by the physical eye, sometimes in letters of fire, or light. The same may take place in public speaking, when the speaker may describe what is presented to the mental vision - that is, if his mind is in a passive state - thinking that all is "illumination by the Holy Spirit."

This may take place in some, in such a refined degree, that the man is deceived into thinking that it comes from a "brilliant mind," "gifts of imagination," "delicate power of poetic description," whilst none of it is the real product of his own mind; for it is not the outcome of thought, but the seizing of subtly presented "pictures" given at the moment when writing or speaking. It can be tested by its fruits; being

1) empty of tangible results, and sometimes

2) mischievous in suggestion; certain sentences intermingled with words of truth, being subversive of the pure gospel;

whilst the whole has no spiritual substance at the back of the beautiful words, or any permanent result in the salvation of the unregenerate, or the building up of believers.

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