Example 3 - A BORED SPIRIT.

This Spirit presents itself spontaneously to the medium, asking for prayers.

What leads you to ask for prayers? — A. I am weary of wandering without purpose. 2 — Have you been in such a situation for long? — A. For about a hundred and eighty years. 3 — What did you do on Earth? — A. Nothing good.

What is your position among the Spirits? — A. I am among the bored ones. 2 — But that does not form a category… — A. Among us, everything forms a category. Each sensation finds its like, or its affinities, which gather together.

Why did you remain stationary for so long, without being condemned to suffer? — A. It is because I was given over to tedium, which among us is a suffering. All that is not joy is pain. 2 — Were you, then, forced into erraticity against your will? — A. These are things far too subtle for your material intelligence. 3 — In trying to explain these things to me, perhaps you will begin to benefit yourself. — A. Lacking terms of comparison, I shall not be able to do so.

A life lived without profit, as it is extinguished, bequeaths to the Spirit that incarnated it the same as fire can bequeath to paper when it consumes it: sparks, which recall to the still-compact ashes their origin, the cause of their birth, or, if you wish, of the destruction of the paper.

Those sparks are the memory of the earthly bonds that bind the Spirit, until it scatters the ashes of its body. Then, and only then, does it, an etherealized essence, have knowledge of itself, desiring progress.

What could have been the cause of this boredom of which you accuse yourself? — A. The consequences of existence.

Tedium is the child of inaction; because I did not know how to make use of the long period of incarnation, the consequences came to be reflected in this world.

The Spirits who, like you, have been seized by tedium, can they not free themselves from such a contingency once they so desire? — A. No, not always, because tedium paralyzes their will.

They suffer the consequences of the life they led, and, as they were useless, devoid of initiative, so too they find no assistance among themselves.

Left to themselves, they remain in that state, until the weariness arising from such neutrality stirs them in the opposite direction, at which moment their least act of will shall find support and good counsel, and shall second their effort and perseverance.

Can you tell me something of your earthly existence? — A. Oh! You must understand that little is granted me to say.

Tedium, nullity, and inaction come from idleness, which, in turn, is the mother of ignorance.

And did your previous existences not profit you? — A. Yes, all of them, but only sparingly, since they were reflections of one another.

Progress always exists, but so imperceptibly that it becomes unappreciable to us.

While you await a new incarnation, would it please you to repeat your communications? — A. Evoke me so as to oblige me to come, for in so doing you will render me a benefit.

Can you tell us why your handwriting varies so frequently? — A. Because you question much, which moreover fatigues me, when I have need of help.

— The medium's guide. It is the intellectual labor that fatigues him, obliging us to lend our assistance so that he can give an answer to your questions.

This is an idle one in the spiritual world, just as he was on the planet.

We brought him to you so that you might try to draw him out of this apathy, this tedium, which constitutes true suffering, at times more painful than acute sufferings, because it can be prolonged indefinitely. Imagine the prospect of an endless tedium.

Most often it is the Spirits of this category who seek earthly lives merely as a pastime and to break the monotony of spiritual life; thus it happens that they frequently arrive there without definite resolutions for good, obliged to begin again successively, until they attain the understanding of true progress.