Christianity

What is to be observed in Spiritism is Christian morality. For centuries there have been many religions, diverse schisms, and numerous supposed truths. And all that was erected outside of Christianity has fallen, because the Holy Spirit did not animate it. The Christ sums up what the purest and most divine morality teaches man, concerning his duties, in this life and in the other. Antiquity, in what it has of most sublime, is poor before this morality so rich and so fertile. The halo of Plato pales before that of the Christ, and the cup of Socrates is very small beside the immense chalice of the Son of Man. Is it you, O Sesostris! despot of powerful Egypt, who can measure yourself, from the top of your colossal pyramids, against the Christ in a manger? Is it you, Solon? Is it you, Lycurgus, whose barbarous law condemned the malformed children, who can compare yourselves to Him who said face to face with pride: “Let the little children come unto me”? Is it you, sacred pontiffs of the pious Numa, whose morality demanded the living death of guilty vestals, who can compare yourselves to Him who said to the adulterous woman: “Rise, woman, and sin no more”? No, no longer with those tenebrous mysteries that you practice, O ancient priests! No longer with those Christian mysteries which are the foundation of this sublime religion, which is called Christianity. Before Him you all bow down, human legislators and priests; bow down, for it was God himself who spoke through the mouth of that privileged being who is called Christ. Lamennais. n [1]

[cf. Lamennais.]