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O human minds! Do you imagine that thought must sternly follow the ruts by the wheels of centuries?
Until now, all intellectual domains have been separated by walls and barriers - science on one side,
religion on the other. Philosophy and metaphysics have been bristling with impenetrable thorns. In the domain
of the soul, as in the domain of the universe, all is simple, vast, profound, but the system divined by man
rendered it complicated, restricted, and divided. Religion has ripened in a somber cavern of dogmas and
mysteries: science has been imprisoned in the lowest cellars of matter: that is neither true religion nor true
science. We must lift ourselves above these arbitrary classifications to comprehend and reconcile the two with
clear vision.
Do we not today, in even the elementary study of science, which relates to worlds in space, feel a
sentiment of enthusiasm and admiration, which is almost religious? Read the great works of astronomers and
mathematicians of genius; they will say to you that the universe is a prodigy of wisdom, harmony, beauty, and
that already in the penetration of superior laws is realized the service of science, art, religion, and the vision of
God through His works. Lifted to this height, study becomes contemplation, and thought is changed to prayer.
The serious study of spiritism accentuates and develops this feeling and gives the mind a clearer and more
precise understanding. On the experimental side it is only a science, but the aim of this research is to plunge
into invisible regions and to lift oneself to the eternal sciences, from whence flow all life and force. This unites
man with the Divine Power, and his study becomes a doctrine, a religious philosophy. It is the most powerful
tie, which can bind humanity together, and it is, too, the voice of spirits delivered from the flesh calling to
spirits still imprisoned in the body, and between them establishing a veritable communion.
We must not regard it, however, as a religion in the narrow acceptation of that word. The dogmas of
established creeds and the new doctrine do not agree; it is open to all seekers; the spirit of free criticism and
examination controls and presides at its investigations.
Dogmas, creeds, priests, and clergymen are nevertheless necessary to the world now, and will be for
some time to come. Many young and timid souls in their journey through earth are unable to find their way or
understand their own needs without direction.
The new spirituality, based on research and its proofs of life beyond the grave, addresses itself
particularly to evolved souls who wish to find for themselves the solution of the grand problems, and to
formulate their own creed. It offers to them a conception, an interpretation of truth and universal law, based on
experience, upon reason, and upon the teachings of heavenly spirits. Add to that the revelations of duties and
responsibilities, and you have a solid foundation for your instinct of justice. Then add to that the moral force,
the satisfaction of the heart, the joy of finding again the loved being that you believed dead. To the proof of
their survival is joined the certitude of joining them, and to live with them lives unencumbered, lives of
ascending happiness and progress.
So in this research, the most obscure problems become radiant with light. The Beyond opens, the
divine side of things is revealed; by the force of its teachings, sooner or later, the human soul mounts, and
from its high altitude it sees that all the different theories, contradictory and hostile in appearance, are but
various aspects of one truth. The majestic laws of the universe, for the enlightened souls are united in one
single law of intelligent conscientious force, the source of thought and action; and by that law all the worlds
and all beings are bound in one powerful verity, associated in one harmony, led toward one goal. The day will
come when all the little system of narrow thought will be melted into one vast synthesis, embracing all the
kingdoms of the mind. Sciences, philosophies, religions, today divided, will be joined together on this great
light of life, the splendid radiance of the spirit, in this reign of knowledge. In this magnificent accord, science
will furnish precision and method in the order of facts: philosophy, the vigor of logic and deduction: poetry,
the radiation of its light and the magic of its color. Religion will add the qualities of sentiment and elevated
aestheticism. So will be realized the beauty and force in the verity of thought. So will the human soul set
toward the highest summits while maintaining the relation of equilibrium necessary to regulate the rhythmic
march of intellect and conscience in their ascension toward the conquest of the good and true.
Physical research affirms and demonstrates the action of soul upon soul at all distances, without the
aid of physical organs, and this order of fact is not made less positive by opposition and ridicule. The
phenomena of telepathy and suggestion, of the transmission of thought observed and promoted everywhere
today by millions, confirm these revelations. The experience of such eminent men as F. Colavida, and E.
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