I've been reading Johannes Greber's "communication with the Spirit World" - a fascinating book indeed. How much truth there is in his encounters with the
spirit realm, I don't know.
Some things however seem to make sense when you look at the whole picture.
Consider Odic force and energy:
The Laws Governing Spirit Communication with Material Creation
"You mortals," so the spirit began its teachings, "seem to assume that
only the world of matter is subject to laws. That is a mistake, for God is a
God of law and order in spiritual as well as terrestrial creation. In His
doings He Himself observes the laws He made, disregarding none of them.
"Thus we spirits too must observe the laws of nature ordained by God
whenever we wish to communicate with the material world. This is true for
the good as well as the evil spirit world."
"If you lift up a stone with your hand, the law of ‘gravitation’, as you
call it, acting on the stone is not thereby set aside, but it is overcome by the
greater force of your hand. If, however, a stone were lifted up
by a handinvisible to you, you would consider that a ‘miracle’ because you would not
see the force
, and hence would think the stone was rising of its own volition.And yet in both cases a force must be present
that causes the stone to belifted. Whether you can see the force or not does not affect the process
itself.
In either case the force of gravitation acting on the stone is overcomeby a stronger force.
"
Even God Himself, in consequence of the laws enacted by His Ownomnipotence, cannot make a stone raise itself.
He might indeed have madematter subject to different laws; but having made the laws governing all
earthly events as they are, He too must, when a stone is to be lifted,
implement a force that is greater than that of the gravitation acting upon the
stone.
The Law of "Odic Force" (Life Force)
"Because of their different natures, spirit and matter cannot act upon each
other directly. Not even your own spirit is capable by itself of activating a
limb or organ of your body. Not even I, who have taken possession of the
body of this boy, can make his body sit up or raise his hands or produce a
sound with his organs of speech by my own efforts alone. In order to do
these things, your own spirit and I as well require a
power current ."In the same way, the operator of a machine requires a constant
supply of power furnished by steam or electricity if his machine is to
function. If that supply is lacking or is inadequate, the machine will stand
still.
"In our case the spirit is the machinist. The machine is the body or
matter. If the matter is to be set in motion by the spirit, a power current is
necessary.
"The learned men of old called this power current in human beings the
‘soul’, as distinguished from ‘spirit’ and ‘body’. Thus they taught, quite
correctly, that man is made up of spirit, soul and body.
"The Bible calls the power current or vital energy the ‘breath of life’.
‘... and God breathed into man’s nostrils the breath of life; thus man became
a living being.’
(Genesis 2: 7)
"Scientists of today call the power current in man the ‘odic force’.
"This ‘odic’ or life force exists in and around all things created by
God. Every human being, every animal, every plant, every stone, every
mineral, all water, every heavenly body, every spirit and all other existing
things possess odic force. It is nothing material, but is spiritual and always
associated with a spirit. It is the life force of the spirit, which is therefore
always its conveyor. Hence, wherever there is life, there is od, and wherever
there is od, there is spirit. Since this odic force exists in and around all
things created by God and is always associated with spirit, it follows that
there is a spirit in everything created.
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"Any spirit associated with a material body possesses, first of all, the
odic force required
for its own existence as a spirit, and next, sufficientadditional odic force
to induce life, growth and activity in the earthly body.Similarly, to make use of an inadequate earthly parable, a locomotive
requires a certain amount of steam power to put itself in motion, and a
certain amount of additional steam to enable it to pull the cars that are
coupled onto it. The car coupled onto your spirit is your body, for which
your spirit requires special additional odic power.
"However, the od set aside for the body differs from that set aside for
the spirit, since anything that is to act upon matter must be assimilated and
adapted to it to some extent. Hence the od of earthly bodies is less spiritual
than that of the spirits inhabiting them.
"The physical od resembles your terrestrial power currents, which are
neither purely material nor purely spiritual. Their true nature is unknown to
you, although you experience their effect on a daily basis.
"For your terrestrial power currents you employ material conductors,
designed to carry a current of the strength best suited to your needs. You
have machines and equipment of all kinds, and plants whose operation
requires current of a certain strength. If the current is too powerful, it will
destroy your equipment. If it is too feeble, the equipment will stop running.
"In like manner the odic current of all physical beings is carried by a
conductor throughout the body with all of its wonderful units, which you call
organs, in the required strength. If the current exerts too powerful an effect
on a given organ, it will create disorder. If it is too feeble, the functions of
the organ will cease.
"
The blood is the conductor of the odic force .. If the conductor isdestroyed by loss or decomposition of the blood, the odic current also
ceases, just as your power currents cease to flow when your conducting
wires are damaged by outside agencies or by corrosion.
"Because blood is the conductor for the od, and hence physical life is
impossible without blood, the Bible calls blood ‘the seat of life’: ‘Blood is
the seat of life.’
(Deuteronomy 12: 23)"The
physical od is not created by the spirit of the respective body,but is derived from the food taken into that body.