Formation of Spirits

God created the human seed, which he scattered in the worlds, as the husbandman casts into the furrows the grain that must germinate and ripen. These divine seeds are molecules of fire that God makes spring forth from the great focus, center of life, where his power shines resplendent. Such seeds are to Humanity what the germs of plants are to the earth; they develop slowly and ripen only after a long sojourn on the mother-planets, where the beginning of things is formed. I speak only of the principle; having arrived at his condition of man, the being reproduces and the work of God is consummated.

Why, the point of departure being common, are human destinies so diverse? Why are some born in a civilized milieu and others in the savage state? What, then, is the origin of demons? Let us take up again the history of the spirit in its first eclosion. Barely formed, hesitant and stammering, souls are, nevertheless, free to incline toward the good or the bad side. From the moment they lived, the good separated from the bad. The history of Abel is naively true. Barely come out of the hands of the Creator, the ungrateful souls persist in the revolt of crime; then, during the succession of centuries, they wander, harming others and, above all, themselves, until they are touched by repentance, which happens infallibly. Thus the first demons are the first guilty men. God, in his immense justice, never imposes sufferings that are not those resulting from bad acts. The Earth was to be entirely peopled, but it could not be peopled equally; according to the degree of progress obtained in the earthly migrations, some are born in the great centers of civilization, while others, uncertain spirits, still in need of initiation, are born in the remote forests. The savage state is preparatory. Everything is harmonious, and the guilty and blind soul of a demon of the Earth cannot revive in an enlightened center. Nevertheless, some venture into that milieu which is not their own. If there they do not march in unison, they offer the spectacle of barbarism in the bosom of civilization. They are expatriated beings. The embryonic state is that of a being who has not yet undergone migration. It cannot be studied apart, for it is the origin of man. [See:

Preliminary Observations.]

Georges.