The messiahs of Spiritism

The messiahs of Spiritism: Saint Joseph.

— Fénelon.

— Baluze.

— Lacordaire.

— The marked Spirits: Anonymous. — Saint Louis.

— Lamennais.

— Future of Spiritism: Erasto. — Montaigne.

— The stars will fall from Heaven: Dupuch, bishop of Algiers.

— The dead will come forth from the tombs: John the Evangelist.

— The Last Judgment: Erasto. — Clélie Duplantier.

THE MESSIAHS OF SPIRITISM.

It has already been told you that one day all religions will merge into one same belief. Now, here is how this will come about. God will give a body to some superior Spirits, and they will preach the pure Gospel. A new Christ will come; he will put an end to all the abuses that have lasted so long and will gather men under one same banner. The new Messiah is born, and he will reestablish the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Glory to his power.

It is not permitted to reveal the place where he was born; and if someone comes to tell you: “He is in such a place,” do not believe it, because no one will know it before he is able to reveal himself, and from now until then great things must be accomplished, in order to smooth the ways. If God lets you live long enough, you will see the true Gospel of Jesus Christ preached by the new Missionary of God, and a great change will be wrought by the preaching of that blessed Son; at his powerful word, the men of the different beliefs will clasp hands. Glory to that divine envoy, who will reestablish the laws of Christ that were ill understood and ill practiced! Glory to Spiritism, which precedes him and which comes to enlighten all things!

Believe, my brothers, that you alone will receive such communications. But keep them secret until further order.

Saint Joseph. n Sétif (Algeria) 1861.

Remark. – This revelation is one of the first of this kind that were transmitted to us; but others had already preceded it. Afterward, a great number of communications on the same subject were spontaneously given, in different Spiritist centers of France and abroad, all in agreement as to the substance of the thought. And since everywhere they understood the necessity of not divulging them, and since none was published, they could not be a reflection of one another. It is one of the most remarkable examples of the simultaneity and the concordance of the teaching of the Spirits when the moment for a question has arrived. n

It is incontestably established that yours is an epoch of transition and of general fermentation; but it has not yet reached that degree of maturity which marks the life of nations. It is to the twentieth century that the remodeling of Humanity is reserved; all the things that are to be accomplished from now until then are but preliminaries of the great renewal. The man called to consummate it is not yet ripe to fulfill his mission; but he is already born: his star has appeared in France marked by a halo, and it was shown to you a short time ago in Africa. His route is marked out in advance. The corruption of morals, the misfortunes that will be the consequence of the unleashing of the passions, the decline of religious faith will be the precursory signs of his advent. Corruption within the bosom of religions is the symptom of their decadence, as it is that of the decadence of peoples and of political regimes, because it is the indication of a lack of true faith; corrupt men drag Humanity toward a fatal precipice, from which it cannot emerge except through a violent crisis. The same happens with the religions that replace the worship of the Divinity with the worship of money and of honors, and that show themselves more avid for the material goods of Earth than for the spiritual goods of Heaven. Fénelon. n Constantine, December 1861.

When a transformation of Humanity is to take place, God sends on a mission a Spirit capable, through his thoughts and through a superior intelligence, of dominating his contemporaries and of impressing upon future generations the ideas necessary for a civilizing moral revolution. Thus, from time to time, one sees rising above the common run of mortals beings who, like beacons, guide them on the path of progress and make them traverse in a few years the stages of several centuries. The role of some is limited to a country or a race; they are like subaltern officers, each leading a division of the army; but there are others whose mission is to act upon all Humanity, who appear only in the rarest epochs, which mark the era of the general transformations. Jesus Christ was one of those exceptional envoys; in the same way you will have, for the times that have come, a superior Spirit who will direct the movement as a whole and will give a powerful cohesion to the scattered forces of Spiritism.

God knows how to modify our laws and our habits at the right hour; and when a new fact presents itself, wait and pray, because the Eternal does nothing that is not according to the laws of divine justice, which govern the Universe.

For you who have faith, and who have consecrated your life to the propagation of the regenerating idea, this must be simple and just; but God alone knows the one who is promised. I limit myself to telling you: Wait and pray, because the time has come and the new Messiah will not fail you: God will know how to designate him in his time. And, moreover, it is by his works that he will affirm himself. You may expect many things, you who see so many strange ones in relation to the ideas admitted by modern civilization.

Baluze. n Paris,

Here is a question that is repeated everywhere: is the announced Messiah the very person of Christ?

Beside God are numerous Spirits who have arrived at the summit of the scale of the pure Spirits, who have merited to be initiated into His designs, in order to direct their execution. God has chosen from among them His superior envoys, charged with special missions. You may call them Christs: it is the same school; they are the same ideas modified according to the times. Do not, then, be astonished at all the communications that announce to you the coming of a powerful Spirit under the name of Christ; it is the thought of God revealed at a certain epoch, and which is transmitted by the group of superior Spirits who draw near to God and receive His emanations in order to preside over the future of the worlds that gravitate in space. He who died on the cross had a mission to fulfill, and that mission is renewed today by other Spirits of that divine group, who come, I repeat it to you, to preside over the destinies of your world.

If the Messiah of whom these communications speak is not the personality of Jesus, it is the same thought. It is the one whom Jesus announced, when he said: “I will send you the Spirit of Truth, who is to reestablish all things,” that is, to lead men back to the sound interpretation of his teachings, because he foresaw that men would stray from the path he had traced for them. Moreover, it was necessary to complete what he had not then told them, because it would not have been understood. This is why a multitude of Spirits of all orders, under the direction of the Spirit of Truth, came to all parts of the world and to all peoples, to reveal the laws of the spiritual world, the teaching of which Jesus had postponed, and to lay, through Spiritism, the foundations of the new social order. When all the bases have been laid, then the Messiah will come, who is to crown the edifice and preside over the reorganization, aided by the elements that will have been prepared. But do not believe that this Messiah will be alone; there will be many who will embrace, by the position each will occupy in the world, the great parts of the social order: politics, religion, legislation, in order to make them accord with the same goal. Besides the principal Messiahs, Spirits of the elite will arise everywhere who, like lieutenants animated by the same faith and the same desire, will act in common accord, under the impulse of the superior thought.

It is thus that, little by little, the harmony of the whole will be established; but it is necessary, first, that certain events take place.

Lacordaire. n Paris,

[See: Commentaries on the messiahs of Spiritism.]

[1]

[see Saint Joseph.]

[2] Communications of this kind are innumerable. Here we refer only to a few, and if we publish them today it is because the moment has come to bring the fact to the knowledge of all, and because it is useful for Spiritists to know in what sense the majority of the Spirits pronounce themselves. [3] [see Fénelon.]

[4] [see Baluze.]

[5] [see Lacordaire.]