Industry

The enterprises that we see arise daily are providential acts and the development of germs deposited over the centuries. Humanity and the planet inhabited by it have one and the same existence, whose phases are linked together and correspond to one another. As soon as the great convulsions of Nature subside, the fever that impelled the wars of extermination passes, philosophy shines forth, slavery disappears, and the sciences and the arts flourish. Divine perfection can be summed up in the beautiful and the useful; and if God made man in His image, it is because He wished man to live by his intelligence, as He Himself lives in the bosom of the splendors of Creation. The undertakings that God blesses, whatever their proportions may be, are those that correspond to His designs, bringing their concourse to the collective work, whose law is written in the Universe: the beautiful and the useful. Art, daughter of repose and of inspiration, is the beautiful; industry, daughter of science and of labor, is the useful. [Without a name.]

Observation. – This communication is more or less the initiation of a medium who has just developed with admirable rapidity; it is to be agreed that, as an experiment, it promises much. From the first session he wrote, without interruption, four pages that are not unworthy of what has just been read, by the depth of the thoughts, which in him denotes an extraordinary aptitude to serve as intermediary to all the Spirits, for particular communications. In this regard, we need more studies on this particular point, since this flexibility is not given to all. We know some mediums who can serve as interpreters only to certain Spirits and for a certain order of ideas.

After this note was written, we came to verify the progress of the medium, whose faculty offers special characteristics worthy of the greatest attention of the observer.