The dead shall come forth from the tombs

The messiahs of Spiritism: Saint Joseph. — Fénelon.

— Baluze.

— Lacordaire.

— The marked Spirits: Anonymous. — Saint Louis.

— Lamennais.

— Future of Spiritism: Erasto. — Montaigne.

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

— The dead shall come forth from the tombs:

John the Evangelist. — The Last Judgment: Erasto. — Clélie Duplantier.

THE DEAD SHALL COME FORTH FROM THE TOMBS.

Peoples, listen!… A voice makes itself heard from one end of the worlds to the other: it is that of the precursor announcing the coming of the Spirit of Truth, who comes to straighten the crooked ways by which the human spirit strayed into false sophisms. It is the trumpet of the angel come to awaken the dead so that they may come forth from their tombs. Many times you have read the revelation of John and asked yourselves: But, what does he mean? How will these astonishing things come to pass? And, confused, your reason plunged into a dark labyrinth, from which it could not emerge, because you wished to take literally what was written in a figurative sense.

Now that the time has come in which a part of these predictions is about to be fulfilled, little by little you will learn to read in that book where the beloved disciple recorded the things it had been given him to see. Meanwhile, the bad translations and the false interpretations will still trouble you a little, but with persevering work you will come to understand what, until now, had been a sealed letter for you. Only understand that, if God permits the seals to be lifted earlier for some, it is not so that this knowledge may remain sterile in their hands, but so that, tireless pioneers, they may clear the uncultivated lands; it is so that they may fertilize, with the gentle dew of charity, the hearts dried up by pride and hindered by worldly entanglements, where the good seed of the word of life has not yet been able to germinate. Ah! how many regard human life as something that ought to be a perpetual feast, in which distractions and pleasures follow one another without interruption! They invent a thousand trifles to enchant their leisure; they cultivate their spirit, because it is one of the brilliant facets that serve to set off their personality; they are like those ephemeral bubbles, reflecting the colors of the prism and swaying in space: they attract the gaze for a time, then you look for them… and they have vanished without leaving a trace. In the same way, these worldly souls shone with a light that was not their own, during their brief earthly passage, and from it nothing useful remained, neither for their fellow men nor for themselves. You who know the value of time, you to whom the laws of eternal wisdom are revealed little by little, be in the hands of the Almighty docile instruments serving to bring light and fecundity to those souls, of whom it is said: “They have eyes and see not, ears and hear not,” because, having turned away from the torch of truth and listened to the voice of the passions, their light is but darkness, in the midst of which the Spirit cannot recognize the road that makes it gravitate toward God. Spiritism is that powerful voice which already resounds even to the confines of the Earth; all will hear it. Happy are those who, not voluntarily stopping their ears, will come forth from their egoism, as the dead would come forth from their sepulchers, and from then on will accomplish the acts of the true life, that of the Spirit freeing itself from the fetters of matter, as Lazarus did from his shroud, at the voice of the Savior. Spiritism marks the solemn hour of the awakening of the intelligences that used their free will to linger on the muddy byways, whose deleterious miasmas infected the soul with a slow poison, which gives it the appearance of death. The heavenly Father has pity on those prodigal children, fallen so low that they do not even think of the paternal dwelling, and it is for them that he permits these brilliant manifestations, destined to convince them that, beyond this world of perishable forms, the soul preserves memory, power, and immortality. May they, those poor slaves of matter, shake off the torpor that has hindered them from seeing and understanding until today; may they study with sincerity, so that the divine light, penetrating their soul, may expel from it doubt and incredulity.

John the Evangelist. n Paris,

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Saint John the Evangelist.]