Debauchery

The choice of good authors is very useful, and those who exercise their dominion over you, exciting your imagination through the mad human passions, do nothing but corrupt the heart and the spirit. Indeed, it is not among the apologists of orgy, of debauchery, of voluptuousness, and of those who advocate material pleasures that one can draw lessons of moral improvement. Consider, then, my friends, that if God gave you passions it was with the aim of making you contribute to His designs and not to satisfy them like an animal. Be assured that if you consume your life in mad pleasures, which leave only remorse and emptiness in the heart, you will not be acting according to the purposes of God. If it is granted to you to reproduce the human species, it is because thousands of wandering spirits await in space the formation of the bodies they need in order to begin their trials anew, and that, using your forces in ignoble voluptuousness, you go against the designs of God and great will be your punishment. Banish, then, those readings, from which you draw no profit, neither for your intelligence nor for your moral improvement. Let the serious writers of all times and of all countries make known to you the beautiful and the good; let them elevate your soul through the charm of poetry, teaching you the useful employment of the faculties with which the Creator endowed you. Felícia.

Daughter of the medium.

Observation. – Is there not something profound and sublime in this idea, which gives to the reproduction of the body so elevated an objective? The wandering spirits await these bodies, which they need for their own advancement, and which the incarnate Spirits are charged with reproducing, as man awaits the reproduction of certain animals in order to clothe and feed himself.

From this results another teaching, of high gravity. If it is not admitted that the soul has already lived, it is absolutely necessary that it be created at the moment of the formation and for the use of each body; whence it follows that the creation of the soul by God would be subordinated to the caprice of man, and is most often the result of debauchery. What! All the religious and moral laws condemn the depravity of morals, and God would take advantage of this to create souls! We ask every man of good sense whether it is admissible that God should contradict Himself to such a degree? Would it not be to glorify vice, since it would lend itself to the realization of the most elevated designs of the Almighty: the creation of souls? Let them tell us whether such would not be the consequence of the simultaneous formation of souls and bodies; and it would be still worse if the opinion of those who claim that man procreates the soul at the same time as the body were admitted. Admit, on the contrary, the pre-existence of the soul, and all contradiction disappears. Man procreates only the matter of the body; the work of God, the creation of the immortal soul, which one day must draw near to Him, is no longer submitted to the caprice of man. It is thus that, outside of reincarnation, insoluble difficulties arise at every step, and one falls into contradiction and absurdity when one wishes to explain them. The principle of the uniqueness of corporeal existence, to decide without return the future destinies of man, loses ground and partisans daily. We can, then, say with assurance that, in a short time, the contrary principle will be universally admitted, as the only logical one, the only one in conformity with the justice of God, and proclaimed by Christ Himself, when He said: I tell you that it is necessary to be born several times before entering the kingdom of heaven.