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60 Ellen G. White -- Messenger or Medium?

Mrs. White -- you failed again!

Now that we have examined a number of Ellen G. White's visions and found them wanting
and NOT "in harmony with YEHOVAH God's revealed word and commandments," let us take a
close look at her "visions" or "trances" themselves, and see if they resemble those received by
TRUE prophets of YEHOVAH God in the Bible.

A Blow to the Head

Jacob Brinkerhoff, a Church of God leader and one time editor of the Bible Advocate, com-
mented that Mrs. White's visions "were the product of an unhealthy mind and body." There is some-
thing to that.

According to Richard Nickels, in his book A History of the Seventh Day Church of God,
there is a definite link: "From her childhood, when she was struck in the head by a rock and was in a
coma for days, until later life, Mrs. White suffered nervous and physical disorders. Later, when her
health improved, her visions were LESS FREQUENT and not as intense" (1988. Page 13).

We find a similar experience in another enigmatic woman -- British born Dorothy Eady,
later known by the Egyptian name of Omm Sety. In 1907, when she was three years old, Dorothy
Eady fell down a flight of stairs in the family's flat in the London suburb of Blackheath. She ca-
reened down the steps, ending up motionless on the floor below. "Rushing down after her, Mrs.
Eady lifted up her daughter -- her only child -- and saw she was UNCONSCIOUS. The frantic
mother immediately sent for the doctor, who examined the girl with a stethoscope, held a mirror,
then a feather up to her mouth, AND PRONOUNCED HER DEAD" (The Search for Omm Sety:
Reincarnation and Eternal Love, by Jonathan Cott. New York, 1987. Pages 11-12).

The doctor left the home to get a death certificate, and upon his return went straight to Doro-
thy's bedroom. "Instead of finding a corpse, however, [he] saw a fair-haired, chocolate-smeared
child, sitting up and playing on her bed...Soon after the accident Dorothy began to have
RECURRING DREAMS in which she saw a huge building with columns, a garden filled with fruits
and flowers, and tall trees nearby" (The Search for Omm Sety).

One day the following year -- when Dorothy was four -- her parents and one of her mother's
sisters took her to the British Museum, where a frightening occurrence took place:

Upon entering the Egyptian galleries...Dorothy suddenly let go of her parents' hands and
went running crazily through the rooms, kissing the feet of all the statues that she could
reach...the little girl walked right up to a mummy in a glass case, sat down on the floor
beside it, and refused to budge...When they returned a half hour later to the mummy room
and called out to Dorothy that it was time to go, she just remained where she was,
IMMOBILE AND OBLIVIOUS TO THEIR VOICES...Mrs. Eady bent down to pick her
up. As she did so, the girl grabbed the side of the glass case and, IN AN
UNRECOGNIZABLE VOICE THAT SOUNDED TO HER MOTHER EERILY LIKE
THAT OF A STRANGE OLD WOMAN RATHER THAN THAT OF A LITTLE GIRL,
announced: "Leave me...these are my people!" Mrs. Eady was so surprised and horrified

The Berean Voice November-December 2002