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4 Nothing that is genuine is used to deceive. The Holy Spirit is incapable of deception, and He can use only genuine abilities. What is used for magic is useless to Him. But what He uses cannot be used for magic. There is, however, a particular appeal in unusual abilities that can be curiously tempting. Here are strengths which the Holy Spirit wants and needs. Yet the ego sees in these same strengths an opportunity to glorify itself. Strengths turned to weakness are tragedy indeed. Yet what is not given to the Holy Spirit must be given to weakness, for what is withheld from love is given to fear, and will be fearful in consequence.
It’s very clear that psychic abilities, when they are genuine, are useful to our awakening, but they are useful only if given to the Holy Spirit, Who will guide their use. If we ask Him to be in charge we don’t have to worry that they will be misused. Everything can be used by the Holy Spirit to help us awaken if that is our choice, but if it is not used for that purpose, then it will be used by the ego to keep us in fear.
I’ve had a fascination with astrology for a long time, and recently with numerology to a lesser degree. In both cases I was amazed at how accurate the readings have been. I have never been confused about how to use this information. I read my personality traits and I don’t see them as a box that limits me in any way. Instead, I see what I came here to work on, as well as the tools I can use to do the work. It’s interesting to me to read those traits now and note the ones that used to be true, but that I have left behind.
I used to be conflicted about psychic readings. I wanted them, but I approached the whole thing with skepticism. I wanted this person to give me something they had and I did not. I sought to have my special needs to be met by someone with special gifts. It was a special relationship in which I was trying to fill a lack in myself by taking what the other person had to offer, thus making it another sad exercise in defense and attack. When approached in this way, it was just another way to reinforce separation, and it was never as helpful as it could have been.
Now when I receive a reading from a psychic I first ask the Holy Spirit to bring forward what will be most useful. I approach this as two brothers joining for a single shared purpose so the encounter will be a holy one. I don’t see the psychic as special and me as lacking. We are aspects of the same holy Self, joining, sharing, giving and receiving equally. Everything is simple when I realize that all things have only one purpose, and that is to help us all to awaken from the dream that we are separate.
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