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eternal journey group together to receive us; not as pale shadows – vague phantoms animated with fain life,
but in the fullness of their accumulated faculties. Active beings, interested in the things of earth, participating
in the universal work, co-operating in our efforts, in our labors, in our progress. The ties of the past are
renewed with fresh force. Love, friendship – real relationship in multiple existence now cemented newly, are
augmented, and given supreme power, which unites them again to those known and love on earth. The sadness
of temporary separations, the apparent disappearance of souls caused by death, all melt in effusions of
happiness and in the ineffable joy of reunion. Have no faith, then, in the somber doctrines which speak to you
of brazen laws of condemnation, or of hells and heavens which separate you from those you love forever.
There is no abyss love cannot bridge. God, who is all love, would not extinguish the most beautiful and noble
sentiments in the human heart. Love is immortal, as is the soul. In the hour of suffering and anguish rouse
yourself, and with an ardent appeal attract to you those beings who were once human like you, and who are
now celestial spirits, and unknown forces will penetrate you, and will aid you to bear your miseries and
sorrows. Man – sad voyager who painfully climbs the sorrowful mountain of existence, search everywhere
upon your route for invisible beings, powerful and good, who are traveling beside you. In the difficult passage
their mighty vibrations will sustain your trembling steps. Open your soul to them – put your thoughts in accord
with their thoughts, and soon you will feel the joy of their presence. An atmosphere of peace and benediction
will envelop you, and sweet consolation will descend upon you.
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In the midst of trials, the truths which we have just related do not enable us always to dispense with
emotion or tears. That would be contrary to nature, but these truths teach us at least not to murmur, not to be
crushed under the blows of sorrow. They drive away impotent ideas of revolt – of despair – of suicide, which
often haunt the brains of materialists. If we continue to weep, it is without bitterness and without blasphemy.
Even when a young soul, carried away by mad passion, leaves earth by the door of suicide, the
immense sorrow of a mother can find hope in the new spiritual philosophy. By unremitting prayer, by ardent
thoughts, remains the hope of helping the unfortunate soul which floats in space, between earth and heaven,
awaiting its natural hour of liberation. There is nothing irreparable – no evil without an end: all evolution takes
its course upward, when the culpable one has paid his just debts. In all things this doctrine offers us a point of
view from which the soul takes its flight toward a brighter future, and consoles itself in the present by that
perspective. The faith in our destiny projects an illuminating light before us, our ideas of duty enlarge our
sphere of action, and teach us to work for others. We feel that there is in the universe a force – a power – a
wisdom incomparable; but also that we ourselves make part of the force, and this power from which we have
issued. We comprehend that the source of all things is in God’s love. God wishes good for us, and pursues it
for us through ways sometimes clear, sometimes mysterious, but constantly appropriate to our needs. If we are
separated from those we love, it is to make us find more vivid joys in the reunion. If He permits us to suffer
disappointments, sorrows, sickness, reverses, it is in order to oblige us to detach our regard from earth, and to
elevate them to Him – to seek higher joys than those we can find in this world. The universe is justice and
love, and in the spiral of infinite ascension the divine alchemist changes our sufferings into waves of light and
sheaves of felicity.
Sometimes a soul struck by great sorrow sees a great light shine as from an unknown source, more
brilliant than the disaster is great. With one leap sorrow lifts it to heights which would have required twenty
years of study and effort for it to attain. I cannot resist from citing two examples among many others known to
me. Two men of my acquaintance, fathers of two lovely girls, their sole joy in life were suddenly bereaved by
death. One was an officer in the East. His oldest daughter possessed all the gifts of intellect and beauty; of a
serious character, she disdained the pleasures of youth, and shared the work of her father, a military writer of
talent. In a brief time the young girl was attacked by a fatal malady and died. In her papers was found a
notebook with this heading – ‘To my father, when I am no longer here.’ Although in seeming perfect health
when she traced the pages, she had the presentiment of approaching death, and addressed consoling words to
her father. Thanks to a book which he found in his daughter’s desk, we became friends. Little by little,
proceeding with method and persistence, he became a clairvoyant medium, and today he has not only the favor
of being initiated into the mysteries of survivance, but also that of often seeing his daughter near him, and
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