The Spiritist Review - Journal of Psychological Studies - 1863

Allan Kardec

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The rapping Spirit of Carcassone keeps his reputation demonstrated by the success achieved through the unquestionable merit of his excellent fables and poetry where he attends several contests as a candidate. After having already won the first prize, the Golden Eglantine of the Floral Academy of Toulose, he just received the bronze medal in the Nîmes contest. The Courrier of Aude writes: “This distinction is even more flattering considering that the contest was not only about fables and poetry but encompassed all kinds of literary works.”

This new success certainly illustrates how Spiritism will continue in the future. What will the unbelievers say about Mr. Jobert’s ability? What they have already said over the success in Toulose: that Mr. Jobert is a poet that entertains the fantasy of hiding himself under the mantle of a Spirit. Nonetheless, those who know Mr. Jobert know that he is no poet. Besides, if he were a poet, the means of obtaining the work through typology and in presence of witnesses keeps removes any doubt, unless one supposes that he does not hide under the table but in the table.

In any case, events like this call the attention of serious people and speeds up the time when the relationship between the visible and the invisible world will be admitted as one of the laws of nature. Once that law is acknowledged then philosophy and science will enter a new era.

Providence compels the victory of Spiritism because Spiritism is one of the great phases of human progress. It employs several means to make it achieve the spirit of the masses, means that are adequate to the tastes and dispositions of every one, considering that what convinces one person may not convince another. Here the academic successes of a poet Spirit; there the tangible and provoked phenomena or the spontaneous manifestations; elsewhere the purely moral phenomena; then the cures that in different times would have been considered miraculous, challenging common science, artistic productions created by persons strange to the arts. There are the cases of obsession and subjugation that demonstrate the impotence of science in such types of disease will lead the scientists to acknowledge the action of a force beyond matter. Finally, do we have the need to say that the adversaries of Spiritism constitute one of the most powerful means of promoting the Doctrine in the hands of the Providence? It is evident that Spiritism would be much less spread than it is without the repercussion of their attacks. By convincing of their impotence God wanted them to serve his triumph. (See Spiritist Review, June 1963)





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