Foundations of the social order

Note. – This communication was obtained in a private session, presided over by Mr. Allan Kardec.

Behold, you gather to see Spiritism at its source, in order to look this idea in the face and to appreciate the great waves of love that it lavishes on those who know it.

Spiritism is moral progress; it is the elevation of the Spirit on the road that leads to God. Progress is fraternity at its birth, because complete fraternity, such as the Spirit can imagine it, is perfection. Pure fraternity is a perfume from on high, an emanation of the infinite, an atom of celestial intelligence; it is the basis of all moral institutions and the only means of elevating a social state that can subsist and produce effects worthy of the great cause for which you fight. Be, then, brothers, if you wish the germ cast among you to develop and become the tree you seek. Union is the sovereign force that descends to Earth; fraternity is sympathy in union; it is poetry, the charm, the ideal in the positive.

You need to be united in order to be strong and to be strong in order to found an institution that rests solely upon truth, made so moving and so admirable, so simple and so sublime. Divided, forces annihilate themselves; reunited, they are ever stronger.

If we consider the moral progress of each creature, if we reflect on the love and the charity that springs from each heart, the difference will be much greater. Under the sublime influx of that ineffable breath, the bonds of family tighten, but the social bonds, so vaguely defined, take shape, draw near, and end by forming a single sheaf of all those thoughts, of all those desires, of all those aims of diverse nature. What is it that you see without fraternity? Egoism, ambition. Each one has his aim and on his side each one pursues it; each one marches in his own way and all are fatally dragged toward the abyss in which, for centuries, all human efforts evaporate. With union there is but one aim, for there is but one thought, one desire, one heart. Unite, then, my friends: it is what the voice of our world ceaselessly repeats to you. Unite and you will reach your aim much more quickly. It is principally in this so congenial gathering that you must take the irrevocable resolution to be united by the thought common to all the Spirits of the Earth, in order to offer the tribute of your gratitude to him who opened for you the path of the supreme good, who brought happiness to your heads and to your hearts, and faith to your Spirits. Your gratitude is the present reward; do not refuse it and, offering it in a single breath, you will give the first example of true fraternity. Léon de Muriane, Protecting Spirit.

Remark. – This name is completely unknown, even to the medium. This proves that to be an elevated Spirit there is no need to have one’s name inscribed in the calendar or in the annals of History and that, among those who communicate, there are many whose names are unknown.