The different orders of Spirits.

Listen to me, dear friend, if you wish me to tell you good and great things. Do you not see the direction given to certain events, and the advantage that can be drawn from it for the progress of the holy work? Hear the elevated Spirits and take care, above all, not to confound them with those who seek to impose themselves by a language more pretentious than profound. Do not mix your own thoughts with theirs. Would it be possible that the inhabitants of the Earth could envisage things from the same point of view as the Spirits detached from matter and obedient to the laws of the Lord? Do not confound in a single whole all the Spirits: they are of quite different orders. The study of Spiritism teaches you this, but, on this side, how much you still have to learn! There is, on Earth, a multitude of individuals whose intelligence does not at all resemble one another; some among them seem to approach more nearly the animals than man, whereas there exist others so superior that one is tempted to say that they approach God, a sort of blasphemy, which must be translated by the thought that they have within themselves a spark of those celestial luminosities, cast into their heart by the divine Master. Well then! Whatever be the diversity of intelligences in the human race, convince yourself that such diversity is infinitely greater still among the Spirits. On this point there are the inferior ones, who have no like among men, while there are some purified enough to approach God and to contemplate Him in all His glory. Submitted to His least orders, they aspire only to obey and to please. Called to circulate amid the worlds, or to fix themselves according to what suits the execution of the great designs of the Lord, to some He says: Go, reveal my power to those gross beings, whose intelligence it is already time to awaken. To others: Traverse those worlds, in order that, guided by your teachings, the superior beings who inhabit them may add new grandeurs to all those that have already been revealed to them. May all be instructed that the day will come when the luminosities from on high will no longer be obscured, but will shine eternally. Your Friend.

The two following dictations were obtained in a small intimate circle of the Luxembourg quarter, and are sent to us by our colleague Mr. Solichon, who attended them. We regret that our occupations have not yet allowed us to be present at those meetings, to which they were so good as to invite us. We shall feel happy when we are able to attend them, because we know that they are presided over by a sentiment of true Christian charity and of reciprocal benevolence.