Mediumship keeps being one of the subjects that more arouse interest in Spiritist environments, along with reincarnation and topics related to health. It is no wonder, though – despite the age of the Spiritist phenomenon in the world we live – it is still not quite understood and draws, because of that, people’s attention.

The Old Testament is prodigal in facts that attest the value of mediumship, prophetism in Israel, started with Moses, notable example. As we know, the origin of prophetism is told by imponent manifestation reported in the Scriptures, when Jehovah, one of the spiritual guides of the Hebrews, revealed his presence before the man chosen to lead the Israeli people to the promised land.

Moses was, according to all accounts, seeing and hearing medium, and thanks to those faculties he could see and hear Jehovah in the bush of Horeb and Mount Sinai. The mediumistic phenomena in his life were countless and expressive. The leader of the Hebrews heard voices whenever he bent towards the Ark of the Covenant. He received on Sinai, written onto a headstone, the commandments. Powerful magnetizer, he cast a fluidic discharge onto the Hebrews in the desert. Inspired medium, he chanted a beautiful song right after beating the Pharaoh and showed, a special kind of mediumship – luminous transfiguration – when, getting down from Sinai, he showed an aureole.

Samuel, another Biblical prophet, was many times, when he slept in the temple; awaken by voices which called him, talked to him and revealed future things.

Ezra recompiled the Bible, which had been lost, aided by a Spirit.

All the Book of Job is full of mediumistic inspirations and his own life, haunted by unhappy Spirits, is subject to in-depth study.

The history of mediumship in Israeli soil reached its peak with the coming of Jesus, whose time on Earth reveals, all the time, its constant interchange with the Superior Plan, either in conversation with the envoy sent by the high social class, or coming up to those desperate disincarnated, helping the obsessed ones, as well as in the team of companions, to which He appeared after his crucifixion. Later, the own disciples would live with the mediumistic phenomenon, especially after the extraordinary events that took place on Pentecost Day that was celebrated fifty years after the Easter of Resurrection.

Emmanuel says that on this day, according to the book of Acts -- chapter 2, verses 1 through 13 --, the apostles who kept loyal to the Lord turned into notable mediums, occasion when, having their strengths united, the spiritual envoys of Jesus produced, through them, physical phenomena in large quantities, such as bright signs and direct voices, besides psychophony and xenoglossy, in which the Gospel was dictated in several languages, simultaneously, to people from different locations.

Eighteen centuries after the crucifixion of the Master, on April 18th, 1857, with the advent of The Spirits’ Book, by Allan Kardec, mediumship was, again, the instrument in which Deity manifested to man to tell them that the earthly existence is transitional and short in the life of the human beings, the latter goes on, vibrating and magnificent, beyond the grave.