Happiness

What is the aim of each individual on Earth? He wants happiness at any price. What is it that makes each one follow a different road? It is that each of us hopes to find it in a place or in a thing that pleases him particularly: some seek glory, others riches, others still honors. The greater number run after fortune, for at present it is the most powerful means of attaining everything. To everything it serves as a pedestal. But how many see this need of happiness realized? Very few. Ask each of those who arrive whether he has reached the aim he set for himself; whether they are happy. All will answer: not yet; because all desires increase in proportion to those that are satisfied. If today there are so many people who wish to take an interest in Spiritism, it is because, after seeing that everything is a chimera and, even so, wishing to attain it, they try Spiritism, as they tried riches and glory. If God has placed in hearts this so great need of happiness, it is that it must exist somewhere. Yes, have confidence in him, but know that all that God promises must be divine like him, and that the happiness you seek cannot be material.

Come to us, all you who suffer; come to us, all you who need hope, because, when on Earth everything fails you, we shall have here more than your needs require. Despairing mothers, who lament over a tomb, come here: the angel you mourn will speak to you, will protect you, will inspire in you resignation to the trials you have borne on Earth. All you who have an insatiable need of Knowledge, address yourselves to us, for we alone can give your Spirit the necessary nourishment. Come: we shall know how to find a relief for each wound and, however abandoned you may seem, there are Spirits who love you and are ready to prove it to you. I speak in the name of all. I desire that you come to ask us for counsel, for I am certain that you will return with hope in your heart. Staël. n Note. – An instant later, the Spirit wrote again, spontaneously:

Often the smile comes to the lips of certain listeners; and, if it escapes the mediums, it does not escape the Spirits. But fear not; it is those who have smiled the most who will believe the most afterward, and we forgive you, because one day you may repent of your irony. I am convinced that, ladies, if near each one of you there were to draw near a lost being whom you had loved, recalling to you a remembrance, you would exchange your smile of incredulity for a sigh, and you would be happy or anxious. Be tranquil, your day will come, and you will be touched in the heart, because, as I well know, it is your most sensitive cord. Staël.

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[see Madame de Staël.]