Example 13 - Miss EMMA.

— As a consequence of accidents caused by fire, this maiden died after cruel sufferings. Someone had proposed to request her evocation at the Spiritist Society of Paris, when she presented herself spontaneously on July 31, 1863, a short time after her death.

“Here I am once more upon the stage of the world, I who believed myself buried forever in my veil of innocence and youth.

The fire of Earth would save me from the fire of hell — thus I thought in my Catholic faith, and, if I did not dare to glimpse the splendors of paradise, my timid soul clung to the expiation of purgatory, while it asked, suffered, and wept.

But who gave the downcast spirit the strength to bear the anguish? Who, in the long nights of insomnia and painful fever, bent over the bed of martyrdom? Who refreshed my parched, burning lips? It was you, my Guide, whose white halo surrounded me; and it was you others, dear and friendly Spirits, who came to murmur in my ear words of hope and of love.

“The flame that consumed my feeble body also stripped me of its chains, and thus I died, already living the true life.

I did not experience the disturbance; I entered serene and recollected into the radiant day that envelops those who, after having suffered much, knew how to wait a little.

My mother, my dear mother, was the last earthly vibration that resounded in my soul. How I wish she would become a Spiritist!

“I detached myself from Earth like a ripe fruit that falls from the tree before its time. I had not been touched by the demon of pride that stimulates unhappy souls, dragged along by the intoxicating and brilliant successes of youth.

I bless, then, the fire, the suffering, the trial, which were nothing but expiation.

Like those white and light threads of autumn, I float in the luminous torrent, and it is no longer the diamond stars that gleam upon my brow, but the golden stars of the good God.” Emma. n II.

At another center, in Le Havre, the same Spirit also gave, spontaneously, the following communication, on July 30, 1863.

“Those who suffer on Earth will be rewarded in the other life. God is full of justice and mercy toward those who suffer in this world.

He grants a happiness so pure, a happiness so perfect, that one should fear neither sufferings nor death, if it were possible for the poor human creatures to fathom the mysterious designs of our Creator.

But Earth is a place of trials, frequently very great, frequently strewn with very poignant sorrows.

Be resigned to all, if you are reached by them; bow to everything before the supreme goodness of God, who is All-Powerful, if He gives you a heavy burden to bear; 6 if He calls you to Him after great sufferings, you will see in the other life, the happy life, how little those sorrows and pains of Earth were, when you come to judge the reward that God reserves for you, if no lament, no murmur enters your heart.

Very young I left Earth; God willed to pardon me and to give me the life of those who respected His wishes.

Adore God always; love Him with all your heart; above all, pray to Him firmly — there is your support in this world, your hope, your salvation.” Emma.

[1] Miss Emma Livry.

[2] [In the edition of the Brazilian Spiritist Federation (38th edition) the supplement below is missing. We have taken it from the translation of the Institute for the Diffusion of Spiritism.]