On the death of Spiritists.

For some time now, death has carried off a very large number of fervent and devoted Spiritists, whose assistance could have been useful to the cause. What conclusion is to be drawn from this fact?

This question was prompted by the recent death of Mr. Geoffroy, of Saint Jean d’Angely, honorary member of the Spiritist Society of Paris.

(Society of Paris, May 26, 1865. – Medium: Mrs. B…)

As your president has just said, a great number of adherents of our beautiful doctrine have lately left your world. Do not mourn them; after having traced the first furrows in that field which you are going to break up, they have gone to rest for a few hours, in order to prepare themselves for a new labor; they have gone to retemper their virile soul at that fountain of life and progress which, more and more, must pour its beneficent waves upon your Earth. Soon, new athletes will appear in the field with new forces and a more perfect charity. For the soul that has glimpsed the splendors of eternal truth cannot turn back; but, faithful to the divine attraction that wishes to draw it nearer to the focus of justice, of science and of love, it follows its path without straying further. Oh! my friends, how beautiful is this dwelling that is prepared for you! Make yourselves worthy of it as soon as possible; free yourselves, then, from those unworthy susceptibilities, which are often still found in your midst; they are remnants of the roots of pride, so difficult to extirpate from your world and yet, it was to destroy it that the Christ came among you; for as long as it subsists among humans, they will not be able to attain happiness. My friends, for eighteen centuries the admirable doctrine of the Christ has been preached to you, and it has not yet been understood; but Spiritism, coming to teach you to develop your intellectual faculties and to give them a good direction, opens a new era in which the gap that existed in the primitive teaching will be filled. Thus, study in a manner serious and worthy of so grave a subject; but, above all, modify what is imperfect within you, because the master says to all: “Make yourselves perfect, as your heavenly father is perfect.” Then your purified soul will rise gloriously toward the splendid regions where evil no longer has access and where everything is harmony. Saint Louis. n [1]

[v. Saint Louis.]