The Mediums

I am pleased to see that you are punctual at the meeting I set for you. May the goodness of God extend over you, and may you be aided by your guardian angels, with their counsels, preserving you from the influence of evil Spirits, if you know how to listen to their voice and to close your heart to pride, vanity, and envy. God has charged me with a mission to fulfill among the believers whom he favors with the gift of mediumship. The more graces they receive from the Most High, the more dangers they will run; and these dangers are all the greater in that they are born of the very favors that God grants them. The faculties that mediums enjoy draw upon them the praises of men: congratulations, flatteries, behold the stumbling block. These very mediums, who should always keep present in their memory their primitive incapacity, forget it; they do more: what they owe only to God, they attribute to their own merit. What happens then? The good Spirits abandon them. Having no more compass to guide them, they become the plaything of deceiving Spirits. The more capable they are, the more they are led to regard their faculty as a merit, until at last, to punish them, God withdraws the gift, which can only be fatal to them. It would never be too much to remind you to commend yourselves to your guardian angel, that he may help you to keep watch against your most faithful enemy, which is pride. Remember that without the support of your divine Master, you, who have the happiness of serving as intermediaries between the Spirits and men, will be punished all the more severely the more favored you have been, if you have not made use of the light. It pleases me to believe that this communication, of which you will give knowledge to the Society, will produce its fruits, and that all the mediums there assembled will keep themselves on guard against the stumbling block that would destroy them. That stumbling block — I have said it to all — is pride. Joan of Arc. n Notice: We have the satisfaction of announcing to our readers the reprinting of the History of Joan of Arc, dictated by herself. This work will appear soon, at the bookshop of Mr. Ledoyen. We shall speak of it again.

Allan Kardec.

Paris. – Imprimerie de H. CARION, 64, rue Bonaparte.

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Joan of Arc.]