Attacks on the new idea.

As you see, they are beginning to comment on the Spiritist ideas even in the courses of theology, and the Catholic Review, Revue catholique - Google Books, has the pretension of demonstrating ex professo, as they say, that present-day Spiritism is the work of the demon, as is to be gathered from the article Satanism in modern Spiritism, published in that review. Ah! let them speak and let it happen. Spiritism is like steel, and all possible serpents will use their teeth to bite it. Be that as it may, there is a fact worthy of note: it is that formerly they disdained to occupy themselves with those who moved chairs and tables, whereas today many occupy themselves with these innovators, whose ideas and theories have risen to the height of a doctrine. Oh! it is because this doctrine, this revelation, opens a breach in all the old doctrines, in all the old philosophies, insufficient to satisfy the needs of human reason. Thus, priests, scientists, journalists descend into the arena wielding the pen to repel the new idea: progress. Well! what does it matter! is it not an irrefragable proof of the propagation of our teachings? Ah! one does not discuss, one does not combat any but the ideas that are truly serious and sufficiently shared, that cannot be taken for utopias, for chimeras emanating from a sick brain. Besides, better than anyone you can observe with what rapidity Spiritism recruits adepts daily, and this even in the enlightened ranks of the Army, among officers of all arms. Do not be disturbed, then, by all those wretches who howl to no purpose, since they no longer know where they are: they have lost the stirrups! Their certainties, their probabilities vanish before the torch of Spiritism, because, in the depths of their consciences, they feel that we alone are with the truth. I say we because today, whether Spirits or incarnate, we have but one objective: the destruction of materialistic ideas and the regeneration of faith in God, to whom we owe everything. Erastus.

(Medium: Mr. d’Ambel.)

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[v. Thomas Erastus.]