Spontaneous EssaysDifferent Orders of Spirits
Private communication obtained by Mrs. D…, member of the Society,
from her deceased husband.
Listen to me, dear friend, if you want me to tell you great things.
Don’t you see the direction taken by certain events and the progress that
the sacred works can achieve by that? Listen to the elevated spirits, but
watch out and do not confuse them with those who try to impose themselves
with a language that is more pretentious than profound. Do not
mix your thoughts with theirs. Would it be admissible that the inhabitants
of Earth could see things from the same standpoint as the spirits detached
from matter and who are obedient to our Lord’s laws? Do not mix
all spirits in the same group for they come from very different orders. The
study of Spiritism teaches you, but on this side, how much you still have
to learn! There is a multitude of individuals on Earth whose intelligences
are not similar. Some among them are closer to the animals than to human
beings, whereas there are others so much superior that one is tempted
to say that they are closer to God, a kind of blasphemy which must be
translated by the idea that they carry a spark from those celestial clarities,
planted into their hearts by our Divine Master. Well then! Whatever is the
diversity among all intelligences of the human race, be assured that such
diversity is still infinitely greater among the spirits. There are spirits in such a level of inferiority that you cannot find any similar among people,
however there are those sufficiently purified to get closer to God, contemplating
God in all God’s glory. Submitted to God’s will, their only wish
is to satisfy and please God. These are called upon to circulate around
the globes or to stop over according to the conveniences for the execution
of the great designs of the Creator, and to some God says: Go, reveal my
power to these elemental beings whose intelligences can now understand
it. To others God says: Travel around those worlds so that the superior beings
that inhabit them, guided by your teachings, may add new greatness
to the ones that have already been revealed to them. May all be instructed
and learn since there will come a day when the clarities from above will
no longer be shaded but will shine forever.
Your friend
The two messages below were obtained in a small and intimate circle
in Luxemburg, sent to us by our colleague Mr. Solichon, who was present.
We regret the fact that our activities have not allowed us yet to go to those
meetings, to which we were kindly invited. We will be happy to be able
to attend them since we know that they are presided by a feeling of true
Christian charity and reciprocal benevolence.
Remorse and Regret
I feel happy for seeing you all united by the same faith and by the love
of God Almighty, our Divine Lord. May God always guide you in the
good path and help you to become worthy of God’s benefits. Always love
one another like brothers and sisters; help one another and may the love
to thy neighbor never be a meaningless word. Remember that charity is
the most beautiful of all virtues and the most pleasing to God, not only
that charity which gives the two cents to the miserable ones, but the charity
which has pity on our brothers’ sufferings; that makes you share their
moral pains, alleviate the burden that oppresses them, thus relieving them
and making their lives easier. Remember that sincere repentance obtains
pardon to all faults; such is the greatness of God. Remorse has nothing
in common with repentance. Remorse, brothers, is already the prelude of
punishment. Repentance, charity and faith shall lead you to the happiness
reserved to the good spirits. Go and listen to the words of a superior spirit
loved by God. Pray and open your hearts to the lessons that you shall
learn from them.
A Guardian Angel
The Mediums
I am happy for seeing your punctuality to the meeting that I have scheduled
with you. God’s benevolence shall be upon you and our guardian
angels will always help you with their advice and will protect you against
the influence of the bad spirits, if you know how to listen to their voices
and to close your heart to pride, vanity and envy. God has tasked me with
a mission to be accomplished together with the mediums. The more grace
you receive from the Almighty, the more danger you incur. Such danger is
more significant the more it comes from the favors that you have received
from God. The faculties enjoyed by the mediums attract people’s praise:
the compliments, the flattery, those are the burdens. The very mediums
who should keep in mind their primitive condition, those are the ones
who forget it; they do more: they attribute to themselves a merit that in
fact is a God given gift. What happens then? The good spirits abandon
them; they become playful toys in the hands of deceiving spirits once they
no longer have the good compass to guide them. The more capable they
are, the more they are led to believe that their gift is their merit, up until
the time when God, in order to punish them, withdraws that gift which
can only be disastrous to them. It would never be too much to remind you
that you should entrust yourselves to your guardian angel, so that it can
help you to be on guard against the cruelest of your enemies: your pride.
Remember that without the support of your Divine Master, you who are
fortunate to serve as intermediaries between human beings and the spirits,
if you had not taken advantage of that light, the more favored you had
been, the more severely punished you shall be. I am glad because I believe
that this communication that you should take to the Society will yield
fruits, and all mediums who gather at the Society will be on guard against
the hurdle on which they would stumble. Pride is that hurdle, as I said.
Joan of Arc
Notice: We are pleased to announce to our readers the reprint of the
book “The Story of Joan of Arc”, dictated by her. This book will appear
soon in Mr. Ledoyen’s bookstore. We will talk about that again later.
Allan Kardec
