Spiritist Review — 1863 · Allan Kardec

Chapter 107 of 118

The new Tower of Babel

Spiritism is the Christianity of the modern age; it must restore to the traditions their spiritualist meaning. Formerly the Spirit made itself flesh; today the flesh makes itself Spirit to develop the gigantic idea that must renew the face of the world. But the festival of Spiritist creation will be followed by the disturbance and the pride of the various systems which, despising wise teachings, will raise a new Tower of Babel, a work of confusion, soon reduced to nothing, because the works of the past are the pledge of the future and nothing is dissipated from the treasure of experiences amassed by the centuries. Spiritists, form an intellectual tribe; follow your guides more docilely than the Hebrews did; we too have come to deliver you from the yoke of the Philistines and to lead you to the Promised Land. The darkness of the first ages will be followed by the dawn and you will be marveled to understand the slow reflection of the previous ages upon the present. The legends will be reborn energetic as reality and you will acquire the proof of the admirable unity, guarantee of the alliance contracted by God with His creatures. Saint Louis. n [1]

[v. Saint Louis.]