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and disinterested minds we can realize harmony of thought, and the conquest of the greatest sum of truth
possible for man to assimilate on earth in this human history. A day will come when all will comprehend; there
is no antithesis between science and religion, there is only misunderstanding. The antithesis is between science
and orthodoxy. In bringing near to us the sacred doctrines of the Orient, touching the verity of the world and
the evolution of life, the recent discoveries of science prove this fact. That is why we affirm that in pursuing
their parallel march upon the grand route of the centuries, science and faith will meet one day forcibly, for
their aim is identical, and they will finish by a reciprocal penetration. Science will analyze religion, will
become the synthesis. In them the world of facts and the world of cause will unite. The true terms of
intelligence, human and divine, will become one. The veil of the invisible will be torn away, the divine work
will appear to all eyes in its majestic splendor.
The allusions that we have made to ancient doctrines might suggest another criticism, viz. that the
teachings of spiritism are not entirely new. No, certainly they are not! In every age of humanity rays of light
have flashed upon the pathway of thought, and the requisite truths have appeared to sages and seekers. Always
men of genius, as well as psychics and clairvoyants, have received revelations from Beyond appropriate to the
needs of human evolution. It is scarcely probable that the first men could have arrived of themselves, and
through their own resources only, to an idea of law and a form of early civilization.
Consciously, or otherwise, the communication between earth and space has always existed. So we find
easily in the doctrines of the past the greater part of the principle brought into full light by the teachings of
spiritism. But these principles, understood by a few, have never penetrated the soul of the masses. Their
revelations were spasmodic, in the form of isolated communications, and were usually regarded as miracles.
But after twenty or thirty centuries of silent gestation, the critical mind of man has developed, and reason has
grasped a concept of the highest laws. Spiritual phenomena, with all the instruction belonging to them,
reappear to guide a hesitating society along the arduous way of progress.
It is always in the troubled hours of history that the grandest conceptions form in the breast of
humanity. For there the old doctrines, with their voices enfeebled by age, and the philosophies, with their
abstract language, no longer suffice to console the afflicted, to raise the courage of the crushed, and to lead
souls to the summits. Nevertheless, they contain latent forces, and the light of their hearts can be reanimated.
We do not partake of the views of those who, in this domain, seek to demolish rather than to restore; this
would be wrong. Wisdom consists in gathering the portions of eternal life and the moral truths they contain,
while casting away the superficial and useless, which the ages and the passion of men have added.
This work of discernment, of sorting, of renovation, who can accomplish? Men are badly prepared for
it. In spite of the imperious wavering of the hour, in spite of the moral decadence of out time, no voice of
authority is lifted, either in the sanctuary or the academy, to say the strong and grand words for which the
world waits. The impulsion could only come from on high - it has come! All those who have studied the past
with attention, know there is a plan in the drama of the centuries.
The divine thought manifests itself in different fashions, and the revelation gradually unfolds in a
thousand manners, following the needs of society. When the hour of a new dispensation arrives, the Invisible
World comes out of its silence; in all parts of the earth flow communications from the departed, bringing
elements of a doctrine which give a foundation for the religions and the philosophies of two humanities.
The aim of psychical research is not to destroy, but to verify - to renew, to complete. It separates in the
domain of faith that which is living and that, which is dead. It gathers and assembles, from the numerous
systems by which until now, the conscience of humanity has been enclosed, the relative truths that they
contain, and unites them with the order of truth proclaimed by itself. In brief, this new spiritism attaches to the
human soul, still weak and uncertain, the powerful wings of wide space, and by this means elevates it to the
height where it can embrace the vast harmony of laws and worlds, and at the same time obtain a clear vision of
its destiny.
And that destiny it finds incomparably superior to anything, which has been murmured to it by the
dogmas of the Middle Age and the theories of other times. It is an immense future of evolution, which opens
for it, and leads it from sphere to sphere, from light to light, toward a goal always more beautiful, always more
fully illumined with rays of justice and love.
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