Providential communication of the Spirits

The times have come in which this word of the prophet must be realized: “I will pour out, says the Lord, of my Spirit upon all flesh; and your sons will prophesy, your old men will have dreams.” n Spiritism is this diffusion of the divine Spirit, come to instruct and moralize all those poor disinherited ones of spiritual life who, seeing nothing but matter, forget that man does not live by bread alone. The body needs a material organism in the service of the soul, a nourishment appropriate to its nature; but the soul, an emanation of the Creator Spirit, needs a spiritual nourishment, which it finds only in the contemplation of the celestial beauties, resulting from the harmony of the intelligent faculties in their entire manifestation. As long as man neglects to cultivate his spirit and remains absorbed by the pursuit or the possession of material goods, his soul is in a certain way stationary, and a great number of incarnations are necessary for it before it can, obeying imperceptibly and as if by force the inevitable law of progress, arrive at that beginning of intellectual vitality which makes it the director of the material being to which it is united. It is for this reason that, despite the teachings given by the Christ to make Humanity advance, it is still so backward, for egoism has not been willing to efface itself before this law of charity, which must change the face of the world and make of it an abode of peace and happiness. But the goodness of God is infinite, surpassing the indifference and ingratitude of his children. This is why he sends them these divine messengers, who come to remind them that God did not create them for the Earth, where they are only for some time, in order that, through work, they may develop the qualities placed in germ in their soul, and that, citizens of the heavens, they should not take pleasure in a station inferior to their ignorance, where only their faults retain them. Give thanks, then, to the Lord, and greet with joy the advent of Spiritism, for it is the realization of the prophecies, the resounding sign of the goodness of the Father of mercy, and for you a new appeal to that detachment from matter, so desirable, considering that He alone can procure for you true happiness.

Louis of France. n [1] Translator's note: Acts of the Apostles, 2:17. The complete verse is conceived thus: “And in the last days, says the Lord, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters will prophesy, your young men will have visions, and your old men will dream dreams.” A more than explicit reference to the explosion of mediumship in the 19th century. [2] [There are many French kings with this name, but we believe it concerns Saint Louis of France.]