Intuition of the future life

Note. – The medium writes in an old notebook, which had previously served another medium, in which was found a communication written long ago, signed by Delphine de Girardin. Such a circumstance explains the beginning of the following communication:

“I find traced precisely my name, and it will serve me as a signature before I have begun. “I want to speak here to all in general and to prove to you that you are spiritualists; for this, it suffices that I address myself to your reasoning. What are you going to do in a cemetery on the first of November, since it keeps only the remains of the beings you have lost? Why waste time bringing them a bouquet of flowers, a thought of friendship and a sweet remembrance? Why evoke their memory, if they no longer live? Why shed tears and ask them to wipe them away or to take you with them? Answer, all you who say — because those who do not say it aloud, think it softly — who say: matter is the only thing that exists in us; after us, nothing. Say: are you not in disagreement with yourselves? But rejoice, for you have more faith than you imagine. God, who created you imperfect, willed to give you confidence, in spite of yourselves, and without wishing to comprehend, without having consciousness of it, you speak to those beloved beings, you ask them to smell the flowers that you offer them, you implore from them friendship and protection. Mother! You call your daughter an angel and you ask her for prayers. Daughter! You ask for the protection of your mother and her counsel. Many among you say: I feel in my heart the truth of what you say, but it was in disagreement with what my parents taught me, and, timorous Spirits that you are! you shut yourselves up in your ignorance. Act, then, without fear, since the Spiritist faith is in agreement with all religions, since it says what all repeat: Love, charity, humility. See that if this alone results from your hesitation, you must believe.” Delphine de Girardin. n Observation. – The contradiction of which the Spirit speaks, at the beginning, is seen at every instant, even among the very persons who most strongly deny the future life. If everything ended with corporeal life, of what use would, in effect, be the commemoration of the beings whom we weep, if they no longer hear us? We were told of a gentleman imbued to the utmost degree with the most absolute materialist ideas; he has just lost his only son and the grief he felt was such that he wanted to kill himself in order to go and join him. Now, to go and join whom? The bones, which are no longer he, because the bones do not think. [1]

[see Delphine de Girardin.]