Intellectual and moral progress

I come to tell you that moral progress is the most useful acquisition, because it corrects us of our evil inclinations and makes us good, charitable, and devoted to our brothers. Nevertheless, intellectual progress is also useful for our advancement, because it elevates the soul, makes us judge our actions more correctly, thus facilitating moral progress; it initiates us into the teachings that God has given us for so many centuries, through men of diverse merits, who came under all forms and in all languages to make the truth known to us, and who were none other than Spirits already advanced, sent by God to develop the human understanding. But in the epoch in which you live, the light that lights only a small number is about to shine for all. Labor, then, to comprehend the grandeur, the power, the majesty, the justice of God; to comprehend the sublime beauty of his works; to comprehend the magnificent rewards granted to the good and the punishments inflicted on the wicked; in short, to comprehend that the only goal to which you should aspire is that of drawing near to Him. Georges. n (Bishop of Périgueux and of Sarlat happy to be one of the guides of the medium.)

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[Jean-Baptiste-Amédée Georges-Massonnais. — 4 August 1840 – 20 December 1860.]