Peace to men of good will

My dear friends, life is short; great is that which precedes it, great is that which follows it. Nothing happens without the will of God. Consequently, everything is nothing but legitimate and lofty justice. Your misery, when it grips you, is a deserved ill, a punishment, doubt it not, for previous faults. Face it with bravery and lift your eyes on high with resignation: the blessing and the relief will descend. At times your sorrows are the trial requested by your own Spirit, desirous of reaching promptly the final goal, always glimpsed in the disincarnate state.

At the moment when the world agitates itself and suffers, when societies, in search of what is true, writhe in a laborious childbirth, God permits Spiritism, that is, a ray of the eternal truth, to descend from the high regions and to enlighten you. Our objective is to show you the way, but to leave you the liberty, that is, the merit and the demerit of your actions. Listen to us, then, and be assured that your happiness is, for us, a living preoccupation. If you knew how much your evil actions afflict us! how much your efforts toward the law of God fill us with joy! The Lord said to us: “Servants of my empire, devoted apostles of my law, carry my word to all; explain to all that the eternal life will be that of those who practice the Gospel; make all men understand that the good, the beautiful, the great, steps of my eternity, are contained in one word: Love.” The Lord said to us: “Swift Spirits, run to all: to the most unhappy and to the most happy; from the king to the artisan; from the Pharisee to the one who burns in ardent faith.” And we go to all sides and we cry: to the unhappy, resignation; to the happy: charity, humility; to the kings: love for the peoples; to the artisan: respect for the law! My friends, on the day when you do more than listen to us, that is, on the day when you practice our precepts, no more egoism, no more envy. From that point, no more miseries, no more of that luxury, which is the worm that gnaws society and weakens it; no more of those moral errors, which trouble consciences; no more revolutions, no more blood! No more of that sad prejudice which made the princely families believe that the people were their own property and that they themselves were of another blood; no more anything, but happiness! Your governments will be good, because governors and governed will have profited from Spiritism. The sciences and the arts, borne on the wings of divine charity, will rise to a height that you do not suspect; your climate, made wholesome by agricultural labors; your harvests more abundant; those words so profound of equality and fraternity, at last interpreted without any dream of despoiling the one who possesses, will realize, I affirm it to you, the promises of your God. “Peace, said your Christ, to men of good will!” You have not obtained peace because you have not had the good will. The good will, both for the poor and for the rich, is called charity. There is moral charity, as there is material charity; and you have not had it; and the poor was as guilty as the rich!

Listen well to me: Believe and love! Love: much will be forgiven to him who has loved much. Believe: faith moves mountains. Prudence and gentleness in the new apostolate: your best exhortation will be good example. Pity the blind: those who do not wish to see the light. Pity, but do not reproach! Pray, my friends, and the blessing of God will be with your souls. The torch of life radiates; from all the corners of the horizon lighthouses are kindled; the storm is going to shake and perhaps break the boats! But the navigator who, upon the furious wave, looks always at the lighthouse, will moor to the shore and the Lord will say to him: “Peace to men of good will; be blessed, you who have loved; be happy, for you have labored for the happiness of your neighbor. My son, to each according to his works!” F. D., former magistrate.