The Messiahs of Spiritism
1. - You have been told that one day all religions will merge into the same belief; well, this is how it will happen. God will give a body to a few superior Spirits, and they will preach the pure gospel. A new Christ will come; he will put an end to all the abuses that have been going on for so long, and he will unite men under one flag.
He's born, the new Messiah, and he'll restore the gospel of Jesus Christ. Glory to his power!
It is not allowed to reveal the place where he was born; and if someone comes to tell you, "He is in such and such a place," do not believe it, for no one will know until he is able to reveal himself, and by then great things must happen to smooth out the ways.
If God lets you live long enough, you will see the true gospel of Jesus Christ preached by the new Missionary of God, and a great change will be made by the preaching of this blessed Child; at his powerful word, men of different faiths will join hands.
Glory to this divine envoy, who will reestablish the misunderstood and badly practiced laws of Christ! Glory to the Spiritism that precedes him and that comes to shed light on all these things!
Believe, my brothers, that it is not only you who will receive such communications; but keep this secret until further notice.
Saint Joseph, Sétif, Algeria, 1861.
Observation: This revelation is one of the first of its kind that has been transmitted to us; but others had already preceded it. Since then, a large number of communications on the same subject have been given spontaneously in different Spiritist centers, in France and abroad, all of which agree on the basis of the thought; and as the need not to divulge them was understood everywhere, and since none has been published, they could not be the reflection of each other. This is one of the most remarkable examples of the simultaneity and concordance of the teaching of the Spirits, when the time for a revelation has come.
[1]2. - It is incontestably admitted that your time is a time of transition and general fermentation; but it has not yet reached that degree of maturity that marks the life of nations. It is to the twentieth century that the reorganization of humanity is reserved; all the things that are going to be accomplished by then are only the preliminaries of the great renovation. The man called to achieve it is not yet ripe to accomplish his mission; but he has already been born, and his star appeared in France marked with a halo, and was shown to you in Africa, not long ago. His route is marked in advance; the corruption of morals, the misfortunes that will be the result of the unleashing of passions, the decline of religious faith, will be the precursor signs of his advent.
Corruption within religions is the symptom of their decadence, as it is that of decadence of peoples and political regimes, because it is an indication of lack of true faith; corrupt men drag humanity down a fatal slope, from which it can only escape through a violent crisis. It is the same with religions that substitute worship of the Divinity with the worship of money and honors, and that show themselves greedier for the material goods of Earth than the spiritual goods of heaven. (Fénelon, Constantine, December 1861.)
3. - When a transformation of humanity must take place, God sends on a mission a Spirit capable, by his thoughts and by a superior intelligence, of dominating his contemporaries, and of imparting to future generations the ideas necessary for a civilizing moral revolution.
From time to time, we thus see beings rising above the common man, like beacons, guiding them in the path of progress, and making them cross the stages of several centuries in a few years. The role of a few is limited to a country or a race; they are like subordinate officers, each leading a division of the army; but there are others whose mission is to act on the whole of humanity, and which only appear in the rarer periods which mark the era of general transformations.
The role of some is limited to a country or a race; they are like subordinate officers, each leading a division of the army; but there are others whose mission is to act on the entire humanity, and that only appear in the rarer periods that mark the era of general transformations.
Jesus Christ was one of these exceptional envoys; in the same way you will have, when the time is come, a superior Spirit that will direct the whole movement, and will give a powerful cohesion to the scattered forces of Spiritism. God knows how to modify our laws and our habits, and when a new fact presents itself, hope and pray, for the Lord does nothing that is not according to the laws of divine justice that govern the universe. For you who have faith, and who have devoted your life to the propaganda of the regenerative idea, it must be simple and just; but God alone knows the one that is promised; I limit myself to saying to you: Hope and pray, for the time has come, and the new Messiah will not fail you: God will know how to designate him in time; and moreover, it is through his works that he will assert himself. You can expect many things, you who see so many strange things compared to the ideas accepted by modern civilization.
Baluze, Paris, 1862.
4. - Here is a question that is repeated everywhere: is the announced Messiah the very person of Christ? There are many Spirits with God who have reached the top of the ladder of pure Spirits, who have deserved to be initiated into his designs, to direct their execution. God chooses among them his superior envoys assigned to special missions. You can call them Christs: it's the same school; they are the same ideas modified according to the times.
Therefore do not be surprised with all the communications that announce to you the coming of a mighty Spirit under the name of Christ; it is the thought of God revealed at a certain time, and that is transmitted by the group of superior Spirits that are close to God, who receive from him the emanations to preside over the future of the worlds gravitating in space.
He who died on the cross had a mission to fulfill, and this mission is renewed today by other Spirits of this divine group, who come, I repeat to you, to preside over the destinies of your world.
If the Messiah of whom these communications speak is not the personality of Jesus, it is the same thought. It is the one that Jesus announced when he said: "I will send you the Spirit of Truth who must restore all things,” that is to say, bring men back to the sound interpretation of his teachings, for he foresaw that men would deviate from the path he had marked out for them.
It was necessary, moreover, to complete what he had not been able to tell them then, because it would not have been understood. This is why a multitude of Spirits of all kinds, under the direction of the Spirit of Truth, came to all parts of the world and to all peoples, to reveal the laws of the spiritual world of which Jesus had postponed the teaching, and to lay, by Spiritism, the foundations of the new social order. When all the foundations have been laid, then the Messiah will come who must crown the edifice and preside over the reorganization with the help of the elements that will have been prepared.
But don't think that this Messiah is alone; there will be several who will embrace, by the position that each will occupy in the world, the great parts of the social order: politics, religion, legislation, in order to bring them together towards the same goal.
Besides the principal Messiahs, superior Spirits will arise in all parts, and like lieutenants of the same faith and the same desire, will act in common accord under the impulse of the higher thought.
That is how the harmony of the whole will gradually be established; but certain events must take place first.
Lacordaire, Paris, 1862.
[1] Communications of this kind are innumerable; we only report a few here, and if we are publishing them today, it is because the time has come to bring the fact to the knowledge of all, and that it is useful, for the spiritualists, to know in which direction the majority of Spirits stand.
