The present time

You are guided by the true Genius of Christianity. It is that Christ himself presides over the works of every kind that are in the course of realization, in order to open the era of renewal and improvement that your spiritual guides foretell. Indeed, if you cast your eyes, outside the Spiritist manifestations, upon contemporary events, you will recognize without any hesitation the precursory signs that will prove to you in an incontestable manner that the predicted times have come. Establishing themselves among all peoples, communications overthrow the material barriers; the moral obstacles that oppose their union, the political and religious prejudices will quickly be effaced, and the reign of fraternity will at last be established, in a solid and lasting manner. Observe, from now on, the sovereigns themselves, impelled by an invisible hand, taking – a thing incredible to you – the initiative of reforms; and the reforms that spontaneously come from above are far more rapid and lasting than those that proceed from below and are wrested by force. Despite the prejudices of childhood and of education, in spite of the cult of nostalgia, I had a presentiment of the present age. I am happy for this and happier still to come and tell you: Brothers, take courage! Work for yourselves and for the future of your own; work, above all, for your personal improvement, and you will enjoy, in your next existence, a happiness that is as difficult for you to imagine as it is for me to make you understand it. Chateaubriand. n [1]

[see François-René de Chateaubriand.]