Is it permitted to evoke the dead, since Moses prohibited it?

Note. – This communication was given in a Spiritist group of Bordeaux, in response to the question above. Before knowing it, we had made the preceding article, on the same subject. In spite of this, we publish it, precisely because of the concordance of ideas. Many others, in diverse places, were obtained in the same sense, which proves the concordance of the Spirits on this respect. This objection will fall by itself, since it is no more sustainable than the others that oppose themselves to relations with the Spirits. Is man, then, so perfect that he judges it useless to measure his forces? and is his intelligence so developed that it can support all the light?

When Moses brought to the Hebrews a law that could draw them out of the state of enslavement in which they lived and revive in them the remembrance of their God, whom they had forgotten, he was obliged to grade the light according to their power of vision and the science according to the force of their intelligence.

Is man so perfect that he judges it useless to measure his forces? and his intelligence so developed that it can support all the light?

When Moses brought to the Hebrews a law that could draw them out of the state of slavery in which they lived and revive in them the remembrance of God, whom they had forgotten, he found himself obliged to grade the light for them according to their sight, and the science according to their capacity of understanding.

Why do you not also ask: Why did Jesus permit himself to remake the law? Why did he say: “Moses told you: Eye for eye, tooth for tooth ; but I say to you: Do good to those who wish you ill; bless those who curse you, forgive those who persecute you?”

Why did Jesus say: “Moses said: He who wishes to leave his wife, let him give her a writ of divorce. But I say to you: Do not separate what God has united?”

Why? It is that Jesus spoke to Spirits more advanced than in the incarnation in which they found themselves at the time of Moses. It is that one must adapt the lesson to the intelligence of the pupil. It is that you, who ask, who doubt, have not yet arrived at the point where you ought to be and still do not know what you will be one day.

Why? Then ask God why he created the grass of the field, of which the civilized man of the Earth came to make his food? why he made trees that should only grow in certain climates, in certain latitudes and which man managed to acclimatize everywhere?

Moses said to the Hebrews: “Do not evoke the dead!” as one says to children: “Do not touch the fire!”

Was it not evocation among the Egyptians, the Chaldeans, the Moabites and all the peoples of antiquity that, little by little, had degenerated into idolatry? They did not have the strength to support the science and they burned themselves; but the Lord wished to preserve some men, so that they could serve and perpetuate his name and his faith.

Men were perverted and predisposed to dangerous evocations. Moses forestalled the evil. The progress had to be made among the Spirits, as among men; but evocation became known and practiced by the princes of the Church. Vanity and pride are as old as Humanity; thus, the chiefs of the synagogue used evocation and, many times, used it badly; therefore, the wrath of the Lord often fell upon them. This is why Moses said: “Do not evoke the dead.” But the prohibition itself proved that evocation was usual among the people and it was to the people that he prohibited it.

Let them speak, then, those who ask why? Open to them the history of the globe, which they cover with their tiny steps, and ask them why, after so many accumulated centuries, they skate so much and advance so little? It is that their intelligence is not sufficiently developed; it is that routine constrains them; it is that they wish to close their eyes, in spite of the efforts made to open them. Ask them why God is God? Why the Sun illuminates them?

Let them study, let them search, and in the history of antiquity they will see why God wished that such knowledge should in part disappear, in order to be reborn with more brilliance, at the time when the Spirits charged with bringing it would have more strength and would not fail under its weight.

Do not trouble yourselves, my friends, with idle questions and objections without motive that are made to you. Always do what you have just done: ask and we will answer with pleasure. Science belongs to whoever seeks it and arises to show itself to whoever looks for it. The light illuminates those who open their eyes, but the darkness condenses for those who wish to close them. It is not to those who ask that one must refuse, but to those who make objections with the sole aim of extinguishing the light or because they do not dare to face it. Courage, my friends, we are ready to answer you every time that this becomes necessary. Simeon, by Mathieu.