The Hidden Evils
I feel that God requires me to write my experience I have had with Spiritualism. I have been a medium controlled by the spirits that claim to be the spirits of our departed friends, and I thought that they were at that time; but I found to my sorrow that they were not. I could recognize their voices as that of my friend's voices and they could hold a conversation with me as completely as if it had been somebody talking with me. They talked to me about the same things that my friends talked to me about while they were living; but I find they are "seducing spirits of the devil."
The devil knows all about our folks and just how they look and just waht they talked about while in this life; therefore, he knows just what to say to make us believe it is our friends, for he can represent them completely to us. Then they began to tell me how I should live, and it is not the way the Bible says to live; but of course, anyone believing them to be angels from heaven think it is true what they say; but as the devil deceived Eve in the beginning by misrepresenting God's word to her, he is now misrepresenting the Scriptures to us by deceivable lies through Spiritualism. (II Pet. 2:1-2.) I believe it is what the Scripture calls "doctrine of devils" and many are now following after their pernicious ways. The Bible tells us that there would be false prophets who should deceive many, and I can say that it is true, for I was deceived by one of them, and it was in the form of a spiritual medium.
Judging by the wonderful things that are coming to pass, I believe that we are living in the latter days. The Scripture tells us that they are the "spirits of devils" working miracles and wonders. (See Rev. 16:14.) And I know when I was a medium I could do wonderful things just by those spirits, some of which are as follows: I could tell fortunes, and in telling them I would take hold of the person's hand and tell them to look into my face. My face would draw into the shape of their friend's face that the spirit claimed to be and my voice would change and sound just like their voice, and I had never seen the person in my life that the spirit claimed to be. The spirit controlled my tongue and I could hold the same conversation with them that they talked on when they were together. They confessed that it was true what I said, but it was the spirit controlling my tongue, and I did not know what I was going to say until I would hear what I had said. One spirit said it was the spirit of Christ and said that when he was going to talk to me that my eyes would turn cross-eyed. It said that that represented the cross on which Jesus was crucified; then in a short time my eyes turned cross-eyed just for a moment. The spirit then began to talk so religiously to me that I thought that it was surely Jesus talking to me, but I know now that it was not. I also had hand writings written by the spirit with my own fingers. I would hold the pencil very loosely in my fingers, then the spirit would begin moving my hand as fast as a sewing machine needle bar when sewing-so fast that I could not see that I was making any letters at all until my hand would stop; then there would be a message written in as nice, plain business hand writing as anyone could write, and composed as good as if I had known just what I was going to write, but I did not know until I would see what I had written.
I had been practicing Spiritualism quite awhile, when one day it seemed to me that part of the heavens opened and Jesus revealed Himself to me and there seemed to be a multitude of angels robed in white with Him, and he said to me, "This is not the spirit of your friends that is talking to you; it is the seducing spirits of the devil you are possessed of." His power was so mighty that He made an open show of those spirits to me, and I could see the spirits in my body. The moment that Jesus exposed them to me they began to cry to me and say, "Oh, you are lost now, for you have been a good Christian for nine years and now you have been possessed with our spirits and us, the spirit of the devil." So that was them, confessing to it themselves that they were the spirits of the devil. They knew they could not make me believe any longer that they were my friends, even though they could make their voices sound just like them. But they never tried that any more. If I had never heard the name of Jesus I would have known then that the Saviour's name was Jesus, when He exposed those spirits to me, for it was all made known to me than. The majority of the spiritualists don't believe that Jesus is the So of God and that He is the Saviour, but if I had no other evidence but that, I would believe that Jesus is the Son of God and the Saviour, for I know He is the one that cast those spirits out of me when I called upon Him to; although at the very time that He called me out of that delusion of the devil I was believing very wicked things about Him that those evil spirits had told me. That is why those spiritualists do not believe in Him, because those evil spirits claiming to be the spirit of a friend that is already dead, say that they had found that it was not true the way the Bible teaches. Many people are now believing those lies instead of God's Word.
Oh, praise the dear heavenly Father and the blesses Son Jesus for loving me so much as to take me out of this terrible trap of the devil, when I was so unworthy of His love. I had been converted nine years before this happened and sanctified four years before. But they came in such religious forms that I thought that it was God's will or I never would have gone so deep into it. Oh, I do wish I could expose it to everyone upon the earth, as there are so many being misled by it now, that would be true children of Christ if it were not for that hidden evil that none but Jesus can break the delusion of; but, praise His dear name, He can. None can see that these is any sin in it until they are already under the power, and many never see it until death exposes it to them to their sorrow and horror, to find that they have accepted the devil instead of the precious Saviour who died to save us from so great a punishment and was willing to make them joint heirs with Himself in the kingdom of heaven, with an everlasting life of happiness, if they would only accept God's Word, the Bible way. I found I had to come back to the Bible way before I could be saved, and plead to God to save me for Jesus' sake, and save me only for the price Jesus paid Him for my sins-which was His own blood. Oh, I do praise His dear name.
After I found I was possessed of the devil, I said to those spirits: "Satan, I will not serve you." And I sat down and wrote a piece for the newspapers to warn the people not to go where there was anyone under the influence of those spirits, as there is danger of becoming defiled by them. So when I began to write, the spirits began to shake my hands again (that was before Jesus had cast the spirits out of my body) and the Lord impressed me to just let the spirit write the message and see what he would write since he had been exposed to me. My hand was moved so fast, just as I have already explained to you. I could not see what I was writing and the message read as follows: "O, yes, I know I am in the way of a great many of you good Christians," and signed his name "Devil," at the close of it. I sat and looked at the message in great astonishment, to think how true it is that there is a devil and he is wise and has so much power to deceive us.
I believe the way he deceives most people is by making them neglect their salvation, for the scripture says, "How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation?"
Dear reader, if you are not already saved, awaken to your opportunity in Christ. Repent and be baptized that you can be saved, for it is just the same old devil that is causing you to neglect your salvation. For no doubt the Holy Ghost has often put it into your heart that you ought to get saved, then the old devil would just spring up and say, "O, I would not tonight; there is plenty of time yet." He may know then that death is not far from you, so awaken and don't be deceived by him any longer. He may try to make you believe that Jesus would not save anyone like you, for he often brings such thoughts to anyone whoe is thinking of getting saved, but Jesus will save you if you ask Him in faith.
After Jesus took me out of Spiritualism, He impressed me to warn others, because I had had a thorough experience with it and knew about it. I was considered the greatest medium in Indianapolis, Indiana at that time. The Lord impressed me this way to write my experience and send a copy to each and every minister of whom I can find the name and address, and let them warn the people from the pulpit; to give them out to anyone I can; and do any thing I can to expose it. Please help me to do so by giving this your attention, for it is God who has brought it about so as to have it reach you. Tell them to take warning from one who has been so unfortunate as to have had this sad but true experience; for my tongue could not explain the most horrible things which I experienced with those devils after the Lord exposed them to me until He cast them out of me. I could feel them leaved me as plainly and completely as I could feel myself breathe.
Please read what the Scriptures say about these spirits. I will give you the scriptural references to this subject and you can plainly see that my experience and the Scriptures both agree that it is the work of the devil. I call Spiritualism, (which I was in) "The trap door of hell, covered over with flowers." Beware of it! Also beware of the Ouija boards, as they are moved by the same spiritual power as is Spiritualism.
Please read very carefully II Pet. 2:1-3; I John 4:1, 3; Jude 1:15-25; Rev. 16:14; I Tim. 4:1-5; Acts 16:16-18; I Chron. 10:13, 14; Rev. 19:20. -Rosa Bevill
Desiring personal testimony regarding the truthfulness of the above, we wrote to the author, who replied: "This is my own true experience, every word of it. I am sorry to say so, but it is. Please do all you can to help expose it to others. -Truly, Rosa Bevill."
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