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Advices about the healing mediumshipI
Paris, March 12th, 1867 – Desliens group, medium Mr. Desliens
“As you have been told many times already, in various instructions, healing mediumship, together with the seeing faculty, is called to play a great role in the present period of revelation. These are the two agents that cooperate most powerfully in the regeneration of humanity, and in the fusion of all beliefs into one, tolerant, progressive, universal.
When, recently, I communicated in a meeting of the Society, where I had been mentioned, I said and I repeat it, everyone has more or less the healing faculty, and if everyone wanted to seriously dedicate themselves to the study of this faculty, many mediums that ignore each other could render useful services to their brothers in humanity. Time did not allow me to develop all my thoughts in this regard; I will take advantage of your call to do so today.
In general, those who seek the healing faculty want, as their sole desire, to obtain the reestablishment of their material health, to restore the freedom of action of a given organ, precluded of its functions by any material cause. But, know this well, that is the least of the services that this faculty is called upon to render, and you would only know it in its beginnings and in a completely rudimentary way, if you assigned it with this single role ... No, the healing faculty has a nobler and more extensive mission! ... If it can restore the vigor of health to the bodies, it must also give the souls all the purity of which they are capable, and it is only in this case that it could be called curative in the absolute sense of the word.
You have often been told, and your teachers cannot repeat it too often, that the apparent material effect, suffering, almost always has an immaterial morbid cause, residing in the moral state of the Spirit. So, if the healing medium attacks the illnesses of the body, it only attacks the effect, and since the primary cause of the illness remains, the effect can recur, either in its primordial form, or in any other form. This is often one of the reasons why such and such a disease, suddenly cured by the influence of a medium, reappears with all its accidents, as soon as the beneficent influence goes away, because there is nothing left, absolutely nothing to fight the morbid cause.
To avoid these relapses, the spiritual remedy must attack the disease on its base, as the material fluid destroys it in its effects; in a word, it is necessary to treat both body and soul.
To be a good healing medium, not only must the body be able to serve as a channel for restorative material fluids, but the Spirit must also possess a moral power that it can only acquire by its own improvement. To be a healing medium, one must, therefore, prepare for it, not only by prayer, but by the purification of one's soul, in order to physically treat the body by physical means, and to influence the soul by moral power.
One last thought. You were advised to preferably seek the poor who have no other resources than the charity of the hospital; I am not quite of this opinion. Jesus said that the doctor's mission is to treat the sick and not the healthy; remember that in matters of moral health there are sick people everywhere, and that the doctor's duty is to go wherever his help is needed.
Abbot Prince of Hohenlohe.”
“As you have been told many times already, in various instructions, healing mediumship, together with the seeing faculty, is called to play a great role in the present period of revelation. These are the two agents that cooperate most powerfully in the regeneration of humanity, and in the fusion of all beliefs into one, tolerant, progressive, universal.
When, recently, I communicated in a meeting of the Society, where I had been mentioned, I said and I repeat it, everyone has more or less the healing faculty, and if everyone wanted to seriously dedicate themselves to the study of this faculty, many mediums that ignore each other could render useful services to their brothers in humanity. Time did not allow me to develop all my thoughts in this regard; I will take advantage of your call to do so today.
In general, those who seek the healing faculty want, as their sole desire, to obtain the reestablishment of their material health, to restore the freedom of action of a given organ, precluded of its functions by any material cause. But, know this well, that is the least of the services that this faculty is called upon to render, and you would only know it in its beginnings and in a completely rudimentary way, if you assigned it with this single role ... No, the healing faculty has a nobler and more extensive mission! ... If it can restore the vigor of health to the bodies, it must also give the souls all the purity of which they are capable, and it is only in this case that it could be called curative in the absolute sense of the word.
You have often been told, and your teachers cannot repeat it too often, that the apparent material effect, suffering, almost always has an immaterial morbid cause, residing in the moral state of the Spirit. So, if the healing medium attacks the illnesses of the body, it only attacks the effect, and since the primary cause of the illness remains, the effect can recur, either in its primordial form, or in any other form. This is often one of the reasons why such and such a disease, suddenly cured by the influence of a medium, reappears with all its accidents, as soon as the beneficent influence goes away, because there is nothing left, absolutely nothing to fight the morbid cause.
To avoid these relapses, the spiritual remedy must attack the disease on its base, as the material fluid destroys it in its effects; in a word, it is necessary to treat both body and soul.
To be a good healing medium, not only must the body be able to serve as a channel for restorative material fluids, but the Spirit must also possess a moral power that it can only acquire by its own improvement. To be a healing medium, one must, therefore, prepare for it, not only by prayer, but by the purification of one's soul, in order to physically treat the body by physical means, and to influence the soul by moral power.
One last thought. You were advised to preferably seek the poor who have no other resources than the charity of the hospital; I am not quite of this opinion. Jesus said that the doctor's mission is to treat the sick and not the healthy; remember that in matters of moral health there are sick people everywhere, and that the doctor's duty is to go wherever his help is needed.
Abbot Prince of Hohenlohe.”
Advices about the healing mediumship
II
Parisian Society, March 15th, 1867 – medium Mr. Desliens
“In a recent communication, I spoke of the healing mediumship in a broader perspective than it has hitherto been considered, and I made it more of the moral treatment than the physical treatment of the sick, or at least I was combining these two treatments in one. I ask you to allow me to say a few words on this subject.
Suffering, disease, even death, in the conditions in which you know them, aren’t they more especially the attribute of the worlds inhabited by lower or less advanced Spirits? Isn't the main goal of moral development to lead humanity to happiness, by making it acquire more complete knowledge, by ridding it of imperfections of all kinds that slow down its ascension towards infinity? Now, by improving the Spirit of the sick, don’t we put them in better conditions to endure their physical sufferings? By attacking the vices, the evil inclinations, that are the source of almost all physical disorganizations, don’t we make these disorganizations impossible to reproduce? By destroying the cause, one necessarily prevents the effect from manifesting again.
Healing mediumship can, therefore, have two forms, and this faculty will not be at its peak, in those who will possess it, until they unite in themselves these two ways of being. It can comprehend only the material relief of the sick, and then it is addressed to the incarnates; it can include the moral improvement of individuals, and in this case, it is addressed to the Spirits as well as to men; it can finally comprehend moral improvement as well as material relief, and in this case both, cause and effect, can be fought victoriously. Is the treatment of obsessing Spirits anything more than a sort of influence like the healing mediumship, exercised in concert by mediums and Spirits on a disembodied personality?
Healing mediumship, therefore, embraces both moral and physical health, the world of the embodied and that of the Spirits.
Abbot Príncipe de Hohenlohe.”
“In a recent communication, I spoke of the healing mediumship in a broader perspective than it has hitherto been considered, and I made it more of the moral treatment than the physical treatment of the sick, or at least I was combining these two treatments in one. I ask you to allow me to say a few words on this subject.
Suffering, disease, even death, in the conditions in which you know them, aren’t they more especially the attribute of the worlds inhabited by lower or less advanced Spirits? Isn't the main goal of moral development to lead humanity to happiness, by making it acquire more complete knowledge, by ridding it of imperfections of all kinds that slow down its ascension towards infinity? Now, by improving the Spirit of the sick, don’t we put them in better conditions to endure their physical sufferings? By attacking the vices, the evil inclinations, that are the source of almost all physical disorganizations, don’t we make these disorganizations impossible to reproduce? By destroying the cause, one necessarily prevents the effect from manifesting again.
Healing mediumship can, therefore, have two forms, and this faculty will not be at its peak, in those who will possess it, until they unite in themselves these two ways of being. It can comprehend only the material relief of the sick, and then it is addressed to the incarnates; it can include the moral improvement of individuals, and in this case, it is addressed to the Spirits as well as to men; it can finally comprehend moral improvement as well as material relief, and in this case both, cause and effect, can be fought victoriously. Is the treatment of obsessing Spirits anything more than a sort of influence like the healing mediumship, exercised in concert by mediums and Spirits on a disembodied personality?
Healing mediumship, therefore, embraces both moral and physical health, the world of the embodied and that of the Spirits.
Abbot Príncipe de Hohenlohe.”
Advices about the healing mediumship
III
Paris, March 24th, 1867 – medium Mr. Rul)
“I come to continue the instruction I gave to a medium of the Society. Why did you doubt that I had come to your call? Don't you know that a good Spirit is always happy to help his earthly brethren in the path of improvement and progress?
Today you know what I said about the extended role reserved to the healing mediumship; you know that, depending on the state of your soul and the aptitudes of your organism, you will be able, if God allows it, to heal, either the physical pains, or the moral pains, or both. You doubt that you can do either, because you know your imperfections; but God does not ask for perfection, the absolute purity of men on Earth. From this point of view, none of you would be worthy of being a healing medium. God asks you to improve yourself, to make constant efforts to purify yourself, and he takes your good will into account.
Since you seriously desire to relieve your brothers who are suffering physically and morally, have confidence, and hope that the Lord will grant you this favor. But I repeat to you, do not be exclusive in the choice of your patients; all, whoever they are, rich or poor, believer or unbeliever, good or bad, all have a right to your help. Does the Lord deprive the wicked from the beneficent of the heat of the sun that warms, that encourages, that gives life? Is light denied to anyone that does not bow down to the goodness of the Almighty? Heal, therefore, whoever suffers, and take advantage of the good that you have brought to the body to purify the even more suffering soul, teaching it to pray. Do not be hurt by the refusals you will encounter; always do your work of charity and love, and do not doubt that the good, although delayed for some, will never be lost. Improve yourself through prayer, through the love of the Lord, of your brothers, and do not doubt that the Almighty gives you frequent opportunities to exercise your mediumistic faculty. Be happy when, after healing, you handshake with of your grateful brother, and both of you, prostrated at the feet of your Heavenly Father, pray together to thank and worship him; be happier still, when, greeted by ingratitude, after having healed the body, powerless to heal the hardened soul, you will raise your thoughts towards the Creator, for your prayer will be the first spark, destined to light, later on, the torch that will shine in the eyes of your brother, cured of his blindness, and you will say to yourself that the more a patient suffers, the more the doctor must give him care.
Courage, brother, hope and wait that the good Spirits that guide you, inspire you when you must begin, with your brothers that suffer, the application of your new mediumistic faculty. Until then pray, progress by moral charity, by the influence of the example, and never miss the slightest opportunity to enlighten your brothers. God is watching over each of you, and the one who is the most unbeliever today can be the most fervent and the most believing tomorrow.
Abbot Príncipe de Hohenlohe.”
“I come to continue the instruction I gave to a medium of the Society. Why did you doubt that I had come to your call? Don't you know that a good Spirit is always happy to help his earthly brethren in the path of improvement and progress?
Today you know what I said about the extended role reserved to the healing mediumship; you know that, depending on the state of your soul and the aptitudes of your organism, you will be able, if God allows it, to heal, either the physical pains, or the moral pains, or both. You doubt that you can do either, because you know your imperfections; but God does not ask for perfection, the absolute purity of men on Earth. From this point of view, none of you would be worthy of being a healing medium. God asks you to improve yourself, to make constant efforts to purify yourself, and he takes your good will into account.
Since you seriously desire to relieve your brothers who are suffering physically and morally, have confidence, and hope that the Lord will grant you this favor. But I repeat to you, do not be exclusive in the choice of your patients; all, whoever they are, rich or poor, believer or unbeliever, good or bad, all have a right to your help. Does the Lord deprive the wicked from the beneficent of the heat of the sun that warms, that encourages, that gives life? Is light denied to anyone that does not bow down to the goodness of the Almighty? Heal, therefore, whoever suffers, and take advantage of the good that you have brought to the body to purify the even more suffering soul, teaching it to pray. Do not be hurt by the refusals you will encounter; always do your work of charity and love, and do not doubt that the good, although delayed for some, will never be lost. Improve yourself through prayer, through the love of the Lord, of your brothers, and do not doubt that the Almighty gives you frequent opportunities to exercise your mediumistic faculty. Be happy when, after healing, you handshake with of your grateful brother, and both of you, prostrated at the feet of your Heavenly Father, pray together to thank and worship him; be happier still, when, greeted by ingratitude, after having healed the body, powerless to heal the hardened soul, you will raise your thoughts towards the Creator, for your prayer will be the first spark, destined to light, later on, the torch that will shine in the eyes of your brother, cured of his blindness, and you will say to yourself that the more a patient suffers, the more the doctor must give him care.
Courage, brother, hope and wait that the good Spirits that guide you, inspire you when you must begin, with your brothers that suffer, the application of your new mediumistic faculty. Until then pray, progress by moral charity, by the influence of the example, and never miss the slightest opportunity to enlighten your brothers. God is watching over each of you, and the one who is the most unbeliever today can be the most fervent and the most believing tomorrow.
Abbot Príncipe de Hohenlohe.”
Farewells
Parisian Society, August 16th, 1867 – medium Mr. Morin, in spontaneous somnambulism
Note. - Among the communications obtained in the last meeting of the Society, before the holidays, this one presents a particular character that differs from the usual form. Several Spirits, of those who are assiduous at the sessions, and sometimes manifest themselves there, came successively to address a few words to the members of the Society, before their separation, through Mr. Morin, in spontaneous somnambulism. It was like a group of friends coming to say goodbye, and to testify their sympathy at the time of departure. To each speaker who presented himself, the interpreter changed his tone, pace, expression, physiognomy, and by the language we recognized the Spirit who spoke before he was named; it was he who spoke, using the organs of an incarnate, and not his translated thought, more or less faithfully translated, by passing through an intermediary; so the identity was positive, and apart from the physical resemblance, we had before us a Spirit, as he was during his life. After each speech, the medium remained absorbed for a few minutes; it was the time of the substitution of one Spirit by another; then, gradually coming back to himself, he spoke again in a different tone. The first to show up was our former colleague Leclerc, who died in December of last year.
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“Some of your brothers who have left, come to take the opportunity to show you their sympathy, at the time of their separation. Death is nothing when it results in giving birth to a life that is much greater, much broader, much more useful than human life! ... It was confusion, followed by exhaustion (reference to the way he died), and I stand up freer and happier, by entering this invisible world that my soul had foreseen, that my whole being wanted! … Free! … to hover in space! … I saw, I observed, and my delirious joy was limited only by the exaggerated regret that my loved ones had for the absence of my material personality; but today that I was able to prove my existence to them, and that I showed them that if my body was no longer there, my Spirit was more than ever, today I am happy, very happy; for what the incarnate could not do, I was able to obtain in a state of spirituality. I am useful today, very useful, and thanks to the sympathetic affection of those who knew me, my usefulness is more effective.
How good it is to be able to serve our brothers, and thus to be useful to the whole humanity! How good, how sweet to the soul to be able to share with humanity the little knowledge that we have acquired through suffering! I, once imprisoned in this obtuse body, today I stand tall, and if it were not for the fear of your ridicule, I would admire myself; because you see, to be good is to be part of God; and this goodness, did I have it? Oh! answer me, your testimony will be one more happiness, added to the happiness I enjoy; but why do I need your words? Can't I read your hearts, and see your innermost feelings? Today, thanks to my dematerialization, can't I see your most secret thoughts?
Oh! God is great, and his goodness is sublime! My friends, like me, bow before his majesty; work towards the accomplishment of his purposes, doing more and better than I could do myself.
Leclerc.”
“For the soul that longs for freedom, how long time is on earth, and how long the longed-for moment is overdue! But also, once the link is broken, how quickly the Spirit flies and runs towards the celestial kingdom, that he saw in a dream during his life, and to which he ceaselessly aspired! The beautiful, the infinite, the intangible, all the purest feelings, this is the prerogative of those who despise human treasures, wanting to walk in the holy life of good, charity and duty. I have my reward and I am very happy, because now I no longer expect visits from those who are dear to me; now there are no more bounds to my sight, and that suffering, that long lasting thinning of the body is no more; I am happy, cheerful, full of vivacity. I no longer wait for visitors; I will visit them.
Ernestine Dozon.”
“Very happy are those that, on this day, can come without shame among you, to share with you their joy, their pleasure, by coming here! But I, who took the road of cowards to avoid the beaten path; I, who entered by surprise into a world that was not unknown to me; I, who broke the prison door, instead of waiting for it to be wide open for me, it is because of that shame that covers my face that I come to this table, because I find a way to tell you: Thank you for your sincere forgiveness, thank you for your prayers, for the interest you have lavished on me and that has shortened my sufferings! Thank you again, for the thoughts about the future that I see germinating in your hearts, for the fraternal community of your sympathies that I will benefit from!
Today, the barely glimpsed glow has become a luminous beacon, with broad and brilliant rays; from now on I see the road, and if your prayers support me, as I feel it, if my humility and my repentance are not contradicted, you can count on one more traveler on this broad road that is called good.
D.”
“I failed… I sinned… I sinned a lot! … And yet if God places intelligence in the brain of a man, and that beside it he puts desires to be satisfied, inclinations impossible to overcome, why would he make the Spirit endure the consequences of these obstacles, that he could not overcome? ... But I am lost, I blaspheme! ... because, since he had given me an intelligence, it was the instrument to help me overcome the obstacles… The greater that intelligence, the less I am excusable…
My own intelligence, especially my presumption, have lost me… I suffered morally from all my disappointments, much more than physically, and that says a lot! … By making these confessions to you, I suffer from the past and from all of the sufferings of my loved ones, that come to add to the baggage of the evils that already crush me… Oh! pray for me! Today is a day of indulgence; Well! I claim yours. May those whom I have offended and disregarded forgive me!
X.”
“Invisible spectator, I have been attending your studies for some time with great happiness! Your work absorbs my intellectual faculties even more than they did in my life. I see, I observe, I study, and today that my brain fibers are no longer obstructed by matter, I opened my spiritual eyes, and I can see the fluids that I had uselessly sought to see during my lifetime.
Well! if you could see this immense network, this fluidic entanglement, your visual glimmers would be so much annihilated that you would only see darkness. I see, I feel, I feel more! … And in these fluidic molecules, intangible atoms, I distinguish the different propulsive forces; I analyze them, I bundle them and use them to the benefit of the poor suffering bodies; I gather, I agglomerate the sympathetic fluids, and I will simply, at no charge, pour them on those who need them.
Ah! the study of fluids is a beautiful thing! And you would understand how valuable all these mysteries are to me, if like me, you had devoted your whole existence to understand them, in vain. Thanks to Spiritism, the apparent chaos of this knowledge has been put in order; Spiritism has distinguished between what is in the physical domain from what belongs to the spiritual world; it recognized two very distinct parts in magnetism; it made its effects easy to recognize, and God knows what the future holds!
But I noticed that I am absorbing all your time for my benefit, while other Spirits still wish to speak to you. I will come back, through writing, to continue to develop my ideas on these studies that I so loved to talk about during in my life.
E. Quinemant.”
“My dear children, the Spiritist social year has been fruitful to your studies, and I come with pleasure to show you all my satisfaction. Many facts have been analyzed, many misunderstood things have been clarified, and you have touched on certain questions that will soon be admitted in principle. I am, or rather, we are satisfied.
Despite all the ardor employed up to now, amidst you and by your enemies, against your good intentions, your phalanx was the strongest, and if evil has claimed some victims, it is because leprosy already existed in them; but the wound is already healing; the good comes in and the bad goes; and for the wicked that remain among you, remorse will be terrible later, for they add hypocrisy to their defects; but those who are sincere, those who join you today, those who bring their dedication to the truth and the desire to communicate it to all, those I tell you, my children, will be very happy, for they will bring happiness not only to themselves, but to all who listen to them. Look around your ranks, and you will see that the voids created by defections are very quickly filled, with advantage, by new individualities, and they will enjoy the benefits that will be the prerogative of the next generation.
Go my children! Your studies are still very elementary; but each day brings the means to go deeper, and for that, new instruments will be added to those you already have. You will have more extensive instructions, and that for the greater glory of God, and for the greater wellbeing of humanity.
There are among you several of these instruments that will take place at your table, at the start of the social year; they do not yet dare to declare themselves; but encourage them; bring to your side the timid and the proud who believe they are doing better than the others, and we will then see if the timid are afraid, and if the proud will not have to curb their pretensions.
St. Louis.”
The epidemic that comes to decimate the world, at certain times, and that you have conventionally called cholera, strikes again and with redoubled blows onto humanity; its effects are quick and its action rapid. Without any warning, man passes from life to death, and those, more privileged, spared by its lightning hand, remain stunned, trembling, before the appalling consequences of an unknown disease, in its causes, and for which the remedy is completely unknown.
Fear takes hold, in these sad moments, in those who only contemplate the action of death, without thinking beyond it, and who, by this fact alone, lend themselves more easily to evil; but since the hour of each of us is marked, one must leave, in spite of everything, if it is struck. The hour is marked for a good number of inhabitants of the terrestrial universe; from where one leaves every day; the plague is gradually spreading and will spread over the entire surface of the globe.
This disease is unknown, and it is perhaps even more so today; for, to its own constitution, other elements are added daily, confusing human knowledge and preventing the necessary remedy from being found, to stop its progress. Men, therefore, despite their science, must suffer the consequences, and this destructive scourge is quite simply one of the means to activate the renewal of humanity, that must be accomplished. But, don't worry; for you Spiritists, who know that to die is to be reborn, if you are reached and you go away, won’t you go to happiness? If, on the contrary, you are spared, thank God who will thus allow you to add to the sum of your sufferings and to pay more for the trial. On either side, whether death strikes you or spares you, you will always win, or don't call yourselves Spiritists.
Dr. Demeure.”
“This is for him (the medium speaks of himself in the third person). - You see, you were told that a time would come when he could see, hear, rest in his turn. Well! That moment has arrived, to you and not to others; at the start of the social year he will no longer fall asleep, except in a few exceptional cases where the utility will be felt; right now, he regrets it, but when he finds out later, when he is awakened, he will be very happy… the selfish!… However, he still has a lot to do; by then he will sleep; he will rarely congratulate and very often fustigate; that is his task. Pray that it will be easy for him; so that his word may carry peace, consolation, and conciliation, wherever it is necessary. Help him with your thoughts; on his return he will put all his good will to assist you, and he will do so with all his heart; but help him, for he is in great need of it. Moreover, the exceptional circumstances in which he will sleep, perhaps and unfortunately, will not be often motivated. Finally, say like him: May the will of God be done!
Morin.”
Note. - Among the communications obtained in the last meeting of the Society, before the holidays, this one presents a particular character that differs from the usual form. Several Spirits, of those who are assiduous at the sessions, and sometimes manifest themselves there, came successively to address a few words to the members of the Society, before their separation, through Mr. Morin, in spontaneous somnambulism. It was like a group of friends coming to say goodbye, and to testify their sympathy at the time of departure. To each speaker who presented himself, the interpreter changed his tone, pace, expression, physiognomy, and by the language we recognized the Spirit who spoke before he was named; it was he who spoke, using the organs of an incarnate, and not his translated thought, more or less faithfully translated, by passing through an intermediary; so the identity was positive, and apart from the physical resemblance, we had before us a Spirit, as he was during his life. After each speech, the medium remained absorbed for a few minutes; it was the time of the substitution of one Spirit by another; then, gradually coming back to himself, he spoke again in a different tone. The first to show up was our former colleague Leclerc, who died in December of last year.
…………….
“Some of your brothers who have left, come to take the opportunity to show you their sympathy, at the time of their separation. Death is nothing when it results in giving birth to a life that is much greater, much broader, much more useful than human life! ... It was confusion, followed by exhaustion (reference to the way he died), and I stand up freer and happier, by entering this invisible world that my soul had foreseen, that my whole being wanted! … Free! … to hover in space! … I saw, I observed, and my delirious joy was limited only by the exaggerated regret that my loved ones had for the absence of my material personality; but today that I was able to prove my existence to them, and that I showed them that if my body was no longer there, my Spirit was more than ever, today I am happy, very happy; for what the incarnate could not do, I was able to obtain in a state of spirituality. I am useful today, very useful, and thanks to the sympathetic affection of those who knew me, my usefulness is more effective.
How good it is to be able to serve our brothers, and thus to be useful to the whole humanity! How good, how sweet to the soul to be able to share with humanity the little knowledge that we have acquired through suffering! I, once imprisoned in this obtuse body, today I stand tall, and if it were not for the fear of your ridicule, I would admire myself; because you see, to be good is to be part of God; and this goodness, did I have it? Oh! answer me, your testimony will be one more happiness, added to the happiness I enjoy; but why do I need your words? Can't I read your hearts, and see your innermost feelings? Today, thanks to my dematerialization, can't I see your most secret thoughts?
Oh! God is great, and his goodness is sublime! My friends, like me, bow before his majesty; work towards the accomplishment of his purposes, doing more and better than I could do myself.
Leclerc.”
“For the soul that longs for freedom, how long time is on earth, and how long the longed-for moment is overdue! But also, once the link is broken, how quickly the Spirit flies and runs towards the celestial kingdom, that he saw in a dream during his life, and to which he ceaselessly aspired! The beautiful, the infinite, the intangible, all the purest feelings, this is the prerogative of those who despise human treasures, wanting to walk in the holy life of good, charity and duty. I have my reward and I am very happy, because now I no longer expect visits from those who are dear to me; now there are no more bounds to my sight, and that suffering, that long lasting thinning of the body is no more; I am happy, cheerful, full of vivacity. I no longer wait for visitors; I will visit them.
Ernestine Dozon.”
“Very happy are those that, on this day, can come without shame among you, to share with you their joy, their pleasure, by coming here! But I, who took the road of cowards to avoid the beaten path; I, who entered by surprise into a world that was not unknown to me; I, who broke the prison door, instead of waiting for it to be wide open for me, it is because of that shame that covers my face that I come to this table, because I find a way to tell you: Thank you for your sincere forgiveness, thank you for your prayers, for the interest you have lavished on me and that has shortened my sufferings! Thank you again, for the thoughts about the future that I see germinating in your hearts, for the fraternal community of your sympathies that I will benefit from!
Today, the barely glimpsed glow has become a luminous beacon, with broad and brilliant rays; from now on I see the road, and if your prayers support me, as I feel it, if my humility and my repentance are not contradicted, you can count on one more traveler on this broad road that is called good.
D.”
“I failed… I sinned… I sinned a lot! … And yet if God places intelligence in the brain of a man, and that beside it he puts desires to be satisfied, inclinations impossible to overcome, why would he make the Spirit endure the consequences of these obstacles, that he could not overcome? ... But I am lost, I blaspheme! ... because, since he had given me an intelligence, it was the instrument to help me overcome the obstacles… The greater that intelligence, the less I am excusable…
My own intelligence, especially my presumption, have lost me… I suffered morally from all my disappointments, much more than physically, and that says a lot! … By making these confessions to you, I suffer from the past and from all of the sufferings of my loved ones, that come to add to the baggage of the evils that already crush me… Oh! pray for me! Today is a day of indulgence; Well! I claim yours. May those whom I have offended and disregarded forgive me!
X.”
“Invisible spectator, I have been attending your studies for some time with great happiness! Your work absorbs my intellectual faculties even more than they did in my life. I see, I observe, I study, and today that my brain fibers are no longer obstructed by matter, I opened my spiritual eyes, and I can see the fluids that I had uselessly sought to see during my lifetime.
Well! if you could see this immense network, this fluidic entanglement, your visual glimmers would be so much annihilated that you would only see darkness. I see, I feel, I feel more! … And in these fluidic molecules, intangible atoms, I distinguish the different propulsive forces; I analyze them, I bundle them and use them to the benefit of the poor suffering bodies; I gather, I agglomerate the sympathetic fluids, and I will simply, at no charge, pour them on those who need them.
Ah! the study of fluids is a beautiful thing! And you would understand how valuable all these mysteries are to me, if like me, you had devoted your whole existence to understand them, in vain. Thanks to Spiritism, the apparent chaos of this knowledge has been put in order; Spiritism has distinguished between what is in the physical domain from what belongs to the spiritual world; it recognized two very distinct parts in magnetism; it made its effects easy to recognize, and God knows what the future holds!
But I noticed that I am absorbing all your time for my benefit, while other Spirits still wish to speak to you. I will come back, through writing, to continue to develop my ideas on these studies that I so loved to talk about during in my life.
E. Quinemant.”
“My dear children, the Spiritist social year has been fruitful to your studies, and I come with pleasure to show you all my satisfaction. Many facts have been analyzed, many misunderstood things have been clarified, and you have touched on certain questions that will soon be admitted in principle. I am, or rather, we are satisfied.
Despite all the ardor employed up to now, amidst you and by your enemies, against your good intentions, your phalanx was the strongest, and if evil has claimed some victims, it is because leprosy already existed in them; but the wound is already healing; the good comes in and the bad goes; and for the wicked that remain among you, remorse will be terrible later, for they add hypocrisy to their defects; but those who are sincere, those who join you today, those who bring their dedication to the truth and the desire to communicate it to all, those I tell you, my children, will be very happy, for they will bring happiness not only to themselves, but to all who listen to them. Look around your ranks, and you will see that the voids created by defections are very quickly filled, with advantage, by new individualities, and they will enjoy the benefits that will be the prerogative of the next generation.
Go my children! Your studies are still very elementary; but each day brings the means to go deeper, and for that, new instruments will be added to those you already have. You will have more extensive instructions, and that for the greater glory of God, and for the greater wellbeing of humanity.
There are among you several of these instruments that will take place at your table, at the start of the social year; they do not yet dare to declare themselves; but encourage them; bring to your side the timid and the proud who believe they are doing better than the others, and we will then see if the timid are afraid, and if the proud will not have to curb their pretensions.
St. Louis.”
The epidemic that comes to decimate the world, at certain times, and that you have conventionally called cholera, strikes again and with redoubled blows onto humanity; its effects are quick and its action rapid. Without any warning, man passes from life to death, and those, more privileged, spared by its lightning hand, remain stunned, trembling, before the appalling consequences of an unknown disease, in its causes, and for which the remedy is completely unknown.
Fear takes hold, in these sad moments, in those who only contemplate the action of death, without thinking beyond it, and who, by this fact alone, lend themselves more easily to evil; but since the hour of each of us is marked, one must leave, in spite of everything, if it is struck. The hour is marked for a good number of inhabitants of the terrestrial universe; from where one leaves every day; the plague is gradually spreading and will spread over the entire surface of the globe.
This disease is unknown, and it is perhaps even more so today; for, to its own constitution, other elements are added daily, confusing human knowledge and preventing the necessary remedy from being found, to stop its progress. Men, therefore, despite their science, must suffer the consequences, and this destructive scourge is quite simply one of the means to activate the renewal of humanity, that must be accomplished. But, don't worry; for you Spiritists, who know that to die is to be reborn, if you are reached and you go away, won’t you go to happiness? If, on the contrary, you are spared, thank God who will thus allow you to add to the sum of your sufferings and to pay more for the trial. On either side, whether death strikes you or spares you, you will always win, or don't call yourselves Spiritists.
Dr. Demeure.”
“This is for him (the medium speaks of himself in the third person). - You see, you were told that a time would come when he could see, hear, rest in his turn. Well! That moment has arrived, to you and not to others; at the start of the social year he will no longer fall asleep, except in a few exceptional cases where the utility will be felt; right now, he regrets it, but when he finds out later, when he is awakened, he will be very happy… the selfish!… However, he still has a lot to do; by then he will sleep; he will rarely congratulate and very often fustigate; that is his task. Pray that it will be easy for him; so that his word may carry peace, consolation, and conciliation, wherever it is necessary. Help him with your thoughts; on his return he will put all his good will to assist you, and he will do so with all his heart; but help him, for he is in great need of it. Moreover, the exceptional circumstances in which he will sleep, perhaps and unfortunately, will not be often motivated. Finally, say like him: May the will of God be done!
Morin.”