Reincarnation

Note. – At the session of the Society at which the preceding dictation was received, the Spirit of Mrs. de Girardin, asked to give another on reincarnation, replied: “Oh! I think of nothing else. The medium is accustomed to seeing me do what does not always please her, and you are right.” This last phrase is an allusion to certain particular ideas of the medium concerning reincarnation.

“Reincarnation is a logical thing; it touches our senses. Thus, then, it is only a matter of reflecting, of being willing to examine carefully around us. You will have only to look within yourselves to find the proofs of reincarnation. You see at this table a good family man; he has several lovely children, some of remarkable intelligence, others in an almost abject state. Whence comes, then, this difference? Same father, same mother, same education, and nevertheless, how many contrasts!

“Attend to your memory; do you not find in it the intuition of facts of which you have no knowledge whatsoever and which, nevertheless, depict themselves to you absolutely as if they had existed? Are you not struck, on seeing a being for the first time, because it seems to you that you have known him? Yes, is it not so? Well then! this proves to you a former life, to which you belonged; this proves that the intelligent child must have traversed several existences and, through them, was purified, whereas the other is perhaps in its first; that the person you meet was perhaps intimate with you, and that the fact you remember was personal to you in another life. It proves, finally, that to enter into the kingdom of God you must be perfect. Come now! do you think that so little remains for you to do, as to believe that after your death some three or four months in the Spheres will suffice you? n No. I do not believe in such pretension. To acquire, one must work, and moral fortune is not bequeathed like material fortune. To purify yourselves, you must pass through several bodies which carry away with them, at each stripping-off, a part of your impurities. “If you reflect, you cannot fail to yield to the evidence.”

Delphine de Girardin. n [1] Allusion to the opinion of some persons regarding the future life.

[2] [see Delphine de Girardin.]