Spiritist PoetrySpiritismSpiritism is the development of the Gospel,
the extension and expansion of life,
it is the truth! The loving shadow that follows
and comes to help and sustain the might
of my songs, casting an infinite joy
onto the happy space of my feelings.
Like a spark that involves my soul,
its noble Spirit, light spreading beams,
fulfills my days with an invisible glow
and my nights with enchanted dreams.
And when I scan the ages, from heavens
its breath delivers a memory that I nurture,
dissipating the clouds of the present,
transforming my past into my future.
“Child”, I hear, “abandon this Earth;
and your past shall be reborn,
and that father of yours is now by your
side, eternal love henceforth!”
Marie-Caroline Quillet
Member of the Writers Society
Pont-L’Évêque (Calvados)
Mrs. Quillet, author of Églantine, has just published as small and charming book with the title “Une heure de poèsie”, that will be certainly appreciated by those that love good verses. Since the work is alien to the Spiritist Doctrine, although absolutely not opposing it, its appreciation is beyond the scope of this Spiritist Review. We limit ourselves to say that the author demonstrates that, contrary to the opinion of some of her comrades in literature, one can have a Spirit and believe in the Spirits. Mrs. Quillet sent us the following words about the communications of Mrs. Foulon published in our March issue: “Mrs. Foulon believes that people would not understand the poetry of Spiritism. She must be right from her enlightened point of view. The winds of the poets certainly feel the weight of our dark atmosphere. But the instinct, the double vision that gifts them, come along to help their intelligence. I believe everyone is called to help the great task of regeneration of humanity according to one’s aptitudes: poets and philosophers, by the inspiration of the Spirits; the martyrs and workers by the invitation of the genius of the philosopher and the songs of the poets. Just sighs, it is true, but the basis and the complement of the concert is formed in the exile of the sighs.”
She adds the following verses to support the thoughts:
To the PoetsWake up, apostles and poets;
Hear now the oracles of time.
The breath of the prophets
like Hosannas, wings in flight!
The Sinai is covered in clouds;
The Etna roars the horrors of the fire;
The Almighty, however, dissipates darkness
casting on Earth the heavenly lights!
Truth rises from the parables;
we are touched by their pure gleam.
A new light is brought by the tales
that warms up the rays of our dreams.
Faith, love, the very spark of ourselves,
to the most hidden dark spots, shows clarity,
looks around and feeds the blazes
with work and charity.
Come now, martyrs of the sublime music;
Show your voice to the strange fighters.
In all corners and from the noble summits
go and plant the humble cross of Jesus.
Mrs. Quillet is right when she says that everybody is called to concur to the works of the terrestrial renovation. Nobody denies the influence of poetry but she is wrong with respect to Mrs. Foulon’s thoughts when she says: “My soul was taken by the enthusiasm and I hope it is a bit too late to entertain you with serious Spiritism and not with poetic Spiritism that is not good to humanity. People would not understand it.”
The Spirit here does not see the poetic Spiritism as the Spiritist ideas translated by poetry but the ideal Spiritism, the product of an enthusiastic imagination; and by serious Spiritism the scientific Spiritism, based on facts and logic, that is best suited to the positive nature of the people of our time and that is the object of our studies.
