Occupation of the Spirits

The occupations of the Spirits of the second order consist in preparing themselves for the trials they will have to endure, through meditations on their past lives and observations on the destinies of men, their vices, their virtues, that which can perfect them or lead them to fail. Those who, like me, have the happiness of having a mission, occupy themselves with it with all the more zeal and love, since the progress of the souls entrusted to them is counted to them as merit. Thus, they strive to suggest good thoughts to them, they assist their good impulses and drive away the evil Spirits, opposing their gentle influence to the harmful influences. This interesting occupation, especially when one is fortunate enough to direct a medium and to have direct communications, does not divert from the care and the duty of perfecting oneself. Do not believe that tedium can reach a being who lives only by the spirit and whose faculties all tend toward an objective, which he knows to be distant, but certain. Tedium results from the emptiness of the soul and the sterility of thought. Time, so heavy for you, who measure it by your puerile fears or your frivolous hopes, does not make its march felt by those who are subject neither to the agitations of the soul nor to the needs of the body. It passes still more quickly for the pure and superior Spirits whom God charges with the execution of His orders and who traverse the spheres in very rapid flight. As for the inferior Spirits, especially those who have grave faults to expiate, time is measured by their regrets, their remorse, and their sufferings. The most perverse among them seek to escape by doing evil, that is, by suggesting wickedness. Then they experience that harsh and fleeting satisfaction of the sick person who scratches his wound, only increasing the pain. Thus, their sufferings increase in such a way that they end up inevitably seeking the remedy, which is nothing other than the return to good.

The poor Spirits, who were guilty only through weakness or ignorance, suffer their inanity, their isolation. They lament their earthly envelope, whatever pain it may have caused them; they rebel and despair until the moment when they perceive that only resignation and the firm will to return to good can relieve them; they grow calm and understand that God abandons none of His creatures.

Marcillac. n Familiar Spirit.

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[cf. Marcillac.]