Evocation of an Incarnate Deaf-MuteMr. Rul, member of the Parisian Society of Spiritist Studies sends us the following:
“In 1862 I knew a deaf-mute young man of twelve to thirteen years old. Wishing to make an observation I asked the protector Spirits if I it would be possible to evoke him. After having a positive answer I invited the young man to my room and made him sit on an armchair with a plate of grapes that he promptly devoured. As for myself I sat at a table, prayed and made the evocation as I customarily did. After a few moments my hand trembled and I wrote: I am here.
I looked at the boy and he was silent, eyes closed, calm and asleep with the plate on his knees. He was done with eating. I then addressed the following questions to him:
Q. – Where are you now? A. – In your bedroom, on your armchair.
Q. – Can you tell us why you were born deaf-mute? A. – An atonement of my past crimes.
Q. – Which crimes were that? A. – I was a parricide.
Q. – Can you tell us if your beloved mother had been your mother or your father in the existence that you mentioned, the object of our crime? I waited for the answer that did not come. My hand remained still. I looked at the boy again and he had just woken up and ate the grapes with appetite. I then asked the guides what had just happened; they responded: He gave you the teachings that you wanted and God did not allow him to give others.
I don’t know how the proponents of the exclusive communication of the devil would explain that fact. I came to my own conclusion that God sometimes allows us to evoke an incarnate Spirit and equally allows with respect to the discarnate when we do that with a spirit of charity.”
Observation: From our side we will make another observation about that. The proof of identity here results from the sleep provoked by the evocation and to the interruption of the writing at the moment of waking up. As for the silence that remained after the last question it demonstrates the utility of the veil that is cast upon the past. In fact suppose that the present mother of the boy had been his victim in another existence and that he wanted to repair his mistakes through the love that he dedicates to her. Wouldn’t the mother be strongly affected if she knew that her son had been her murderer? Wouldn’t her feelings be affected? He was allowed to reveal the cause of his disability as a matter of study and in order to give us another proof that the sufferings here have a previous cause when it is not in the present life and that everything is therefore established according to the justice. But the rest would have been useless and could have reached the mother’s ears and for that reason the Spirits woke him up at the very moment when he would likely respond. Later on we will explain the difference between the position of this boy and that of Valentina in our preceding report.
Besides, the fact demonstrates a point of capital importance: It is not only after death that the Spirit recovers the memory of the past. It may be said that it is never lost, even as incarnate, because during the sleep of the body, when the Spirit enjoys certain freedom, it is conscious of previous actions. The Spirit knows the reason for suffering and that suffers deservedly; the memory is only faded during the life of relationships. But, in the absence of a precise memory that could be painful and damaging to social relationships, the Spirit acquires new forces at the times of emancipation of the soul if she knows how to take advantage of them. Must it follow that every deaf-mute is a parricide? That would be an absurd consequence because God’s justice is not circumscribed to absolute limits like human justice.
Other examples demonstrate that the disability may sometimes result from the bad use that was made of the spoken word. But how come, some will ask. The same atonement to two different faults in their seriousness? Is that fair?
However, those that reason in that manner ignore the fact that the same fault may present infinite degrees of culpability and that God measures the responsibility by the circumstances? Besides, who knows that the boy, supposing an inexcusable crime, has not been severely punished in the spiritual world and if his regret and his desire for reparation have not reduced the earthly atonement to a simple disease?
Admitting hypothetically, since we do not know, that his present mother was his victim, if he did not maintain his resolution to repair the fault with her through his love it is certain that a terrible punishment would wait for him, be it in the world of the Spirits or in another existence.
God’s justice never fails and if it is sometimes late it loses nothing for the wait. But God in his infinite benevolence never condemns in a irremissible way and always leaves the door of regret open. If the guilty person takes a long time to take advantage of that suffering will last longer. Thus, it is always up to oneself to abbreviate her sufferings. The duration of punishment is proportional to the duration of the hardening. That is how God’s justice conciliates with his love and benevolence to his creatures.
