True recollection

If you could see the recollection of the Spirits of all orders who attend your sessions, during the reading of your prayers, you would not only be touched, but ashamed to see that your recollection, which I qualify merely as silence, is far indeed from approaching that of the Spirits, a good number of whom are inferior to you. What you call recollecting yourselves during the reading of your beautiful prayers is to observe a silence that no one disturbs; but if your lips do not move, if your body is motionless, your Spirit wanders and sets aside the sublime words that you should pronounce from the deepest part of your heart, assimilating yourselves to them by thought. Your matter observes silence; certainly, to say the contrary would be to insult you; but your chattering Spirit does not observe it and disturbs, at this moment, by your diverse thoughts, the recollection of the Spirits who surround you. Ah! if you saw them prostrate before the Eternal, asking for the realization of each of the words you read, your soul would be moved and, regretting its scant past attention, would make an examination of conscience and would ask God, with all its heart, for the realization of those same words, which it pronounced only with the lips. You would ask the Spirits to make you docile to their counsels, and I, the Spirit who speaks to you, after the reading of your prayers and of the words I have just repeated, could point out more than one who will leave here very little docile to the counsels I have just given and with sentiments very little charitable toward his neighbor. Perhaps I am a little harsh; but I believe I am so only toward those who deserve it, and whose most secret thoughts cannot be hidden from the Spirits. Thus, I address myself only to those who come here thinking of something other than the lessons they should seek here and the sentiments they should bring here. But those who pray from the depths of their soul will also pray, after the reading of my communication, for those who come here and depart from here without having prayed.

Be that as it may, I ask those who have the kindness to listen to me to continue to put into practice the teachings and the counsels of the Spirits; to this I invite you in your own interest, for you do not know all that you may lose by not doing so.

De Courson.