Christmas Feast

This is the night on which, in the Christian world, the Nativity of the Child Jesus is celebrated. But you too, my brothers, must rejoice and celebrate the birth of the new Spiritist Doctrine. You shall see it grow like this child; like him, it shall come to enlighten men and to show them the path they must follow. Soon you shall see the kings, like the magi, come also to this doctrine to ask the help they no longer find in the old ideas. They shall no longer bring you incense and myrrh, but they shall prostrate themselves in heart before the new ideas of Spiritism. Do you not already see shining the star that is to guide them? Courage, then, my brothers, courage; soon you shall be able, together with the whole world, to celebrate the great feast of the regeneration of Humanity. My brothers, for a long time you have enclosed in your heart the germ of this doctrine; but behold, today it manifests itself in full light with the support of a stake firmly planted, which will not let its frail branches bend. With that providential support, it will grow day by day and will become the tree of the divine creation. From that tree you shall gather fruits, not only for yourselves, but for your brothers who hunger and thirst for the sacred faith. Oh! then present to them that fruit and cry out to them from the depths of your heart: “Come, come and share with us that which nourishes our Spirit and relieves our physical and moral pains.” But do not forget, my brothers, that God made you cause the first germ to ferment; that this germ grew and that it has already become a tree capable of bearing fruit. There remains something for you to use: these are the boughs that you can transplant; but first, see whether the ground in which you entrust that germ does not conceal beneath its apparent surface some gnawing worm, which could devour that which the Master entrusted to you.

Signed: Saint Louis. n [1]

[v. Saint Louis.]