The mediums and the Spirits

No one will be able to become a good medium if he does not succeed in stripping himself of the vices that degrade Humanity. All these vices have their origin in egoism; and as the negation of egoism is love, every virtue is summed up in this word: charity.

The charity taught by this precept: Quod tibi non vis, etc. n God not only engraved it indelibly in the heart of man, but sanctioned it by his own fact, giving us his Son as a model of charity and of abnegation. If it must be the guide of each one, whatever his social condition may be, it is, above all, the sine qua non condition of every good medium. Any man can become a medium. But the question is not to be a medium; it is to be a good medium, which depends on moral qualities. It is true that the Spirits communicate with men in all conditions, but with the mission of perfecting them, if their qualities are good. They operate this perfecting by submitting them to the hardest trials in order to purify them, trials that the man of good bears without belying the moral sentiment of his conscience and without allowing himself to be diverted from the good path by temptation. To those whose qualities are bad, the Spirits communicate in order to guide them by the hand and lead them to a conduct more conformable to reason and more in harmony with the goal toward which every man must tend who is persuaded that his existence in this world is nothing but an expiation. When there is a mixture of good and evil, the Spirits bring about the improvement by intermediate processes. Many will be abandoned by their Spirits, for not wishing to understand that charity is the only means of progressing. And then, woe to him who has not wished to hear the voice of truth! God pardons the ignorant, but not him who does evil consciously. The goal of our mission is your moral improvement and your duty is equally to improve yourselves. But do not expect improvement of any kind without charity. Dante. n [1]

[Quod tibi non vis, alteri ne facias. “Do not do to another what you would not wish to be done to you” — sine qua non “without which not”.]

[2] [see Dante Alighieri.]