The dead will come out of their graves
11. - Peoples, listen! … A great voice is heard from one end of the world to the other; it is that of the precursor, announcing the coming of the Spirit of Truth who comes to straighten the tortuous ways where the human spirit strayed in false sophisms. It is the angel's trumpet coming to wake up the dead to come out of their graves.
You have often read the revelation of John, and you have asked yourself: But what does he mean? How then will these amazing things be accomplished? And your reason, mixed up, sank into a dark maze from which it could not come out, because you wanted to take literally what was rendered in a figurative style.
Now that the time has come for some of those predictions to be fulfilled, you will gradually learn to read in this book where the beloved disciple recorded the things he was given to see. However, bad translations and misinterpretations will still bother you a bit, but with perseverance you will come to understand what, until now, had been closed to you.
Understand only that, if God allows the veils to be lifted earlier for some, it is not so that this knowledge remains sterile in their hands, but so that, tireless pioneers, they clear the wasteland; it is so that they may fertilize, with the sweet dew of charity, hearts dried up by pride and hindered by worldly embarrassments, where the good seed of the word of life has not yet been able to sprout.
Alas! How many see human life as having to be a perpetual party, where distractions and pleasures follow one another without interruption! They invent a thousand things to charm their leisure time; they cultivate their mind, because it is one of the brilliant facets used to bring out their personality; they are like those ephemeral bubbles reflecting the colors of the prism, and swaying in space: they attract attention for a time, then you look for them… they have disappeared without a trace. In the same way these worldly souls shone with a borrowed brilliance, during their short earthly passage, from which nothing useful was taken, neither for their fellows nor for themselves.
You who know the value of time, you to whom the laws of the eternal wisdom are gradually revealed, be docile instruments in the hands of the Almighty, serving to bring light and fruitfulness to these souls of whom it is said : "They have eyes and do not see, ears and do not hear," because having turned away from the torch of truth, and having listened to the voice of the passions, their light is only darkness in which the Spirit cannot recognize the road that leads him towards God.
Spiritism is that powerful voice that is already echoing to the ends of Earth; all will hear it. Happy are those who, not voluntarily covering their ears, will come out of their selfishness, as the dead would do from their tombs, and henceforth accomplish the acts of true life, that of the Spirit freeing himself from the shackles of matter, as did Lazarus from his shroud, to the voice of the Savior.
Spiritism sets the solemn hour of the awakening of the intelligences, who used their free will to linger around in the muddy paths whose deleterious miasmas have infected the soul with a slow poison that gives it the appearance of death. The Heavenly Father has pity on these prodigal children, fallen so low that they do not even think of the paternal home, and it is for them that he allows these brilliant manifestations, intended to convince that beyond this world of perishable forms, the soul retains the memory, the power and the immortality.
May these poor slaves of matter, shake off the torpor that has prevented them from seeing and understanding until this day; may they study with sincerity, so that the divine light, penetrating their soul, cast out doubt and skepticism. (John, the Evangelist, Paris, 1866).
