Immortality

How can a man, and an intelligent man, not believe in the immortality of the soul and, consequently, in a future life, which is none other than that of Spiritism? What would become of that immense love that the mother devotes to her child, those cares with which she surrounds it in infancy, that enlightened attentiveness that the father dedicates to the education of that beloved being? Would all that, then, be annihilated at the moment of death or of separation? Would we thus be like the animals, whose instinct is admirable, no doubt, but who care for their offspring with tenderness only until the moment when it ceases to have need of maternal care? When that moment arrives, the parents abandon their young and all is over: the body is created, the soul does not exist. But would man not have a soul, and an immortal soul! And the sublime genius, which can only be compared to God, so much does it emanate from Him, that genius which begets prodigies, which creates masterpieces, would it be annihilated by the death of man! Profanation! One cannot thus annihilate the things that come from God. A Raphael, a Newton, a Michelangelo, and so many other sublime geniuses still embrace the Universe in their Spirit, though their bodies no longer exist. Do not deceive yourselves; they live and will live eternally. As for their communicating with you, it is less easy for the generality of men to admit. Only through study and observation can they acquire the certainty that this is possible. Fénelon. n [1]

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François Fénelon.]