Spiritual electricity

— Man is, at the same time, a very singular and a very weak being. Singular in the sense that, amid the phenomena that surround him, he nonetheless continues his ordinary course, spiritually speaking; weak because, after having seen and admired, he smiles because his neighbor smiled and thinks no more about it. And note that here I speak, not of vulgar beings, without reflection, without knowledge. No; I speak of intelligent and, for the most part, enlightened people. Whence comes this phenomenon? Because, reflecting well, it is a moral phenomenon. Well then! The Spirit began to act upon matter through magnetism and electricity; next it entered into the very heart of man and he does not perceive it! Strange blindness! Blindness, not produced by a strange cause, but voluntary, originating from the Spirit. Then comes Spiritism, producing a commotion in the world, and man published very learned books, saying: it is a natural cause, it is simply electricity, a physical law, etc.; and man was satisfied. But, believe it, man will still have many books to write before he can understand what is written in the book of Nature: the book of God. Electricity, that subtlety between time and what is no longer time, between the finite and the infinite, man has not yet been able to define. Why? Know it: you will only be able to define it through magnetism, that material manifestation of the Spirit. For now you know only material electricity; later you will also know spiritual electricity, which is nothing other than the eternal reign of the idea. Lamennais. n

Developments of the previous communication.

Would you have the kindness to give us some clarifications on certain passages of your last dictation, which seem to us a little obscure?

Answer. – I will do what is possible for me at the moment.

You say: electricity, that subtlety between time and what is no longer time, between the finite and the infinite; this phrase does not seem very clear to us. Would you have the kindness to set it forth in more detail?

Answer. – I explain myself thus, in the simplest manner I can. For you time exists, is it not so? But it does not exist for us. Thus I defined electricity: that subtlety between time and what is no longer time, because this part of time of which you formerly had to make use in order to communicate from one extreme of the world to the other, this portion of time, I say, exists no more. Later will come electricity, which will be nothing other than the thought of man, traversing space. Indeed, is it not the most comprehensible image between the finite and the infinite, the small medium and the great medium? I mean to say, in synthesis, that electricity suppresses time.

Further on you say: You do not yet know anything but material electricity, later you will also know spiritual electricity. By this do you understand the means of communication from man to man, by mediumistic means?

Answer. – Yes, as average progress; another thing will come later. Give aspirations to man: at first he divines; then he sees.

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[see Lamennais.]