First Preaching Tour of Galilee

146:7.1At En­dor Je­sus es­caped for a few days from the clam­or­ing mul­ti­tudes in quest of phys­i­cal heal­ing. Dur­ing their so­journ at this place the Mas­ter re­counted for the in­struc­tion of the apos­tles the story of King Saul and the witch of En­dor. Je­sus plainly told his apos­tles that the stray and re­bel­lious mid­way­ers who had of­ten­times im­per­son­ated the sup­posed spir­its of the dead would soon be brought un­der con­trol so that they could no more do these strange things. He told his fol­low­ers that, af­ter he re­turned to the Fa­ther, and af­ter they had poured out their spirit upon all flesh, no more could such semispirit be­ings—so-called un­clean spir­its—pos­sess the fee­ble- and evil-minded among mor­tals.

146:7.2Je­sus fur­ther ex­plained to his apos­tles that the spir­its of de­parted hu­man be­ings do not come back to the world of their ori­gin to com­mu­ni­cate with their liv­ing fel­lows. Only af­ter the pass­ing of a dis­pen­sa­tional age would it be pos­si­ble for the ad­vanc­ing spirit of mor­tal man to re­turn to earth and then only in ex­cep­tional cases and as a part of the spir­i­tual ad­min­is­tra­tion of the planet.

146:7.3When they had rested two days, Je­sus said to his apos­tles: “On the mor­row let us re­turn to Ca­per­naum to tarry and teach while the coun­try­side qui­ets down. At home they will have by this time partly re­cov­ered from this sort of ex­cite­ment.”