Everything comes in its time

Question – Reading the magnetic experiments in the Vérité of 1866, I was marveling and thought inwardly that this force so admirable might perhaps be the cause of all the marvels, of all the beauties, incomprehensible to us, of the superior planets, and the description of which the Spirits give us. I ask the good Spirits to enlighten me on this subject.

Answer – Poor men! The eagerness to know, the devouring impatience to read the book of Creation, deranges your head and dazzles your eyes accustomed to darkness, when they fall upon some passages that your spirit, still a slave to matter, is not capable of understanding. But have patience, the times have come. The great architect already begins to unroll before your eyes the plan of the edifice of the Universe, already raises one corner of the veil that hides the truth from you, and a ray of light enlightens you. Be content with these premises; accustom your eyes to the gentle clarity of the dawn, until they can bear the splendor of the Sun in all its vigor. Give thanks to the Almighty, whose infinite goodness spares your weak sight, gradually lifting the veil that covers it. If He lifted it all at once, you would be dazzled and would see nothing; you would fall back into the doubt, the confusion, the ignorance from which you are only just emerging. You have already been told that everything comes in its time: do not anticipate it through your great eagerness to know everything. Leave to the Lord the choice of the method He judges most suitable to instruct you. You have before you a sublime work: “Nature, its essence, its forces.” It begins with the ABC. Learn first to spell, to understand the first pages; progress with patience and perseverance and you will reach the end, whereas, skipping pages and chapters, the whole appears incomprehensible to you. Besides, it is not in the designs of the Almighty that man should know everything. Conform, then, to His will: it has for its object your good. Read in the great book of Nature; instruct yourselves, enlighten your spirit, be content to know what God judges fitting to teach you during your passage on Earth; you will not have time to reach the last page and you will read it only when you are detached from matter, when your spiritualized senses allow you to understand it.

Yes, my friends, learn and instruct yourselves and, above all, progress in morality through love of neighbor, through charity, through faith: this is the essential, this is the passport at the sight of which the doors of the infinite sanctuary are opened to you.

Humboldt. n [1]

[see Humboldt.]