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Speaking on psychic facts, F. Myers says 19 : “these observations, experiences and inductions open the
door to a revelation.” It is evident that the day relationship with the Spirit world was established by the natural
force of events, the problem of the being and its destiny - with all its consequences and with new aspects - was
also immediately raised.
Say what they may, it was not possible to communicate with deceased relatives and friends and avoid
concerning ourselves with their way of existence, or without taking an interest in their views, forcibly
expanded and different from those they possessed while on Earth - at least for the souls already developed.
No time in History could mankind withdraw from the great problems of being, life, death, and pain.
Despite man’s inability to solve these problems, they have continuously worried him - returning with more
determination each time he tried to push them away - infiltrating themselves in all events of his life, lodging
deep into the recesses of his mind, knocking so to speak at his conscience’s door. How could he be indifferent
to a new source of teachings, consolation and moral force? How could he ignore the vast horizon that opened
to his thoughts? Isn’t it pertaining to both, our relatives and us? Isn’t it our future destiny and our tomorrow’s
fate that is in question?
Why! The torment, the anguish resulting from the unknown that has afflicted the soul through the
times; the confusing intuition of a better, forefelt and desired world. The anxious search for God and his justice
can be - in a new and more expansive approach - appeased, clarified, and satisfied. Could we ignore the
pathway to accomplish that? Isn’t the desire and need of our minds to inquire into that great mystery one of the
most beautiful privileges of the human being? Isn’t that what constitutes the dignity, the beauty, and the reason
for being in one’s life?
Have we not seen that every time we have ignored this right, this privilege; every time we have
momentarily renounced to turn our sights to the Beyond and to direct our thoughts towards a more elevated
life; or else when we have sought to restrict that horizon, have we not seen, concurrently, the moral miseries
aggravated, the weight of existence befalling heavier on the shoulders of the miserable, desperation and
suicide increasing its area of devastation and societies retreating back towards decadence and anarchy?
There is still another kind of objection: the spiritist philosophy, they say, has no consistency; the
communications upon which it is based originate most often from the mediums, from their own subconscious
mind, or else from the audience’s spirits. The medium in trance “reads from the consultees’ spirits the doctrine
accumulated therein, and that these eclectic doctrines are drawn from philosophies from all over the world, but
mostly from Hinduism.”
Did the author of these lines reflect thoroughly upon the difficulties that such a task could bring?
Would he be able to explain the process by which one could, at first sight, read the accumulated doctrines in a
person’s mind? If this is possible, then do it! As it stands, we have basis to see in his allegations nothing more
than words employed deceitfully and at the work of a passionate critic. Those who do not want to seem
mistaken with their sentiments are often cheated by their words. The systematic disbelief on a point, at times,
turns into naive credulity on another 20 .
Before proceeding we remind you that the opinions of the majority of the mediums, at the beginning
of the manifestations, were entirely opposite to those enunciated in their communications. Nearly all the
mediums had received a religious education and were imbued with ideas of a paradise and an inferno. Their
ideas concerning the future life, whenever they had them, differed significantly from those exposed by the
Spirits. The ideas of heaven and hell are still most frequently the case today. In fact, that was the case of three
mediums from our group, all practicing catholic women, who despite the philosophical teachings they received
and transmitted, never fully renounced their cultural habits, 21
19 F. Myers – La Personnalité Humaine, etc., pg. 417.
20 It is known that the suggestion and transmission of thought can only exert action in patients that have been prepared for a long time for that purpose
and only when it is done by people who exert some ascendancy over them. Up to now, these experiences do not go beyond words or a series of words
and were never able to constitute a set of doctrines. A thought-reader medium, inspired in the opinions of the spectators, if that were possible, would
take from them, not precise notions on any philosophical concept, but the most confused and contradictory data.
21 Russell-Wallace, the English academic, in his beautiful work The Miracles and Modern Spiritism, verbalizes it as follows:
“Having the mediums, in general, been educated in any of the usual orthodox beliefs, how can one explain that the notions of paradise are never
confirmed by them? The extensive brochures of spiritualistic literature do not show any trace of a Spirit describing angels with wings, golden harps, or
God’s throne, where most modest orthodox Christians believe they would be placed, if they were to go to heaven.
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