Spiritist dissertationsThe three main causes of diseases Paris, October 25
th, 1866 – medium Mr. Desliens
What is man? … A compound of three essential principles: the Spirit, the perispirit and the body. The absence of any one of these three principles would necessarily entail the annihilation of the being in the human state. If the body is no more, there is the Spirit and no longer the man;
if the perispirit is missing or cannot function, the intangible cannot act directly on to matter, and thus being unable to manifest itself, there may be something like the cretin
[1] or the idiot, but there will never be an intelligent being. Finally, if the Spirit is missing, we will have a living embryo of animal life, and not an incarnate Spirit. If we then have the three principles present, these three principles must react one upon the other, and health or disease will follow, depending on whether there is perfect harmony or partial disharmony between them. If the disease or the organic disorder, as one would like to call it, proceeds from the body, the material medicines, wisely employed, will suffice to restore the general harmony. If the disorder comes from the perispirit, if it is a modification of the fluidic principle that composes it, that is altered, it will take a medication corresponding to the nature of the disturbed organ, so that the functions can resume their normal state. If the disease proceeds from the Spirit, nothing can be used to combat it other than spiritual medication. If, finally, as the most general case, and we can even say that it presents itself exclusively, if the disease proceeds from the body, the perispirit and the Spirit, the medication will have to combat all the causes of the disorder, by various means, to obtain cure. But what do doctors generally do? They treat the body, and they heal it; but do they cure the disease? No. Why? Because since the perispirit is a principle above matter, properly, it can become a cause relatively to that; and if it is hampered, the material organs, that are connected with it, will also be affected in their vitality. By healing the body, you destroy the effect; but since the cause resides in the perispirit, the disease will return when the care ceases, until it has been realized that it is necessary to turn the attention elsewhere, by fluidically treating the morbid fluidic principle. If, finally, the disease proceeds from the mind, from the Spirit, the perispirit and the body, placed under its dependence, will be hindered in their functions, and it is neither by treating one nor by treating the other that one will remove the cause. It is therefore not by putting the straitjacket on a madman, or by giving him pills or showers, that we will succeed in putting him back into his normal state; we will only appease his rebellious senses; we will calm his attacks, but we will not destroy the germ unless by fighting it with its similar, by doing homeopathy spiritually and fluidically, as we do materially, by giving the patient, through prayer, an infinitesimal dose of patience, calm, resignation, depending on the case, as he is given an infinitesimal dose of brucine, digitalis or aconite.
To destroy a morbid cause, one must fight it on its ground.
Dr. Morel Lavallée
[1] With the disease of cretinism (T.N.)
Parisian Society, January 5
th, 1866 – medium Mr. Leymarie
Will you give me hospitality in your first session in 1866? I wish, embracing you fraternally, to offer you friendly greetings; may you have a lot of moral satisfactions, a lot of will and persevering charity.
In this century of lights, what is most lacking is clarity! The half-scientists, the baddie of the press, have valiantly done the work of the spider to obscure, with the help of a so-called liberal fabric, all that is clear, all that illuminates.
Dear Spiritists, have you found, in all social strata, this force of reasoning that is the intelligent hallmark of successful beings? Are you not, on the contrary, certain that the great majority of your brothers are languishing in unhealthy ignorance? Heresies and bad deeds everywhere!
Good intentions, corrupted in its principle, fall one by one, like those beautiful fruits that a worm spoils at the heart and the wind throws to the ground. Clarity in the arguments, in knowledge, would it have made, by chance, the choice of residence in the academies, among the philosophers, the journalists or the pamphleteers? … It seems that one could doubt it, by seeing them, like Diogenes, with a lantern in hand, seeking truth under the sun.
Light, clarity, you are the essence of all intelligent movement! You will soon inundate, with your beneficent rays, the most obscure recesses of this poor humanity; it is you that will bring out of the mire so many dumbfounded, rude, unhappy earthlings that must be cleansed by education, by freedom, above all by the awareness of their spiritual value. Light will drive away tears, sorrows, dark despair, the negation of divine things, all bad will! By besieging materialism, it will force it to no longer take shelter behind this factitious, worm-eaten rampart, from which it awkwardly unleashes its darts against anything that is not its work.
But the masks will be torn off and we will then know whether pleasures, fortune and sensualism are indeed the emblems of life and freedom. Clarity is useful in everything and to everybody; both embryo and man need light! without it
everything gropes, and the groping soul seeks the soul.
May an eternal night be made! the harmonious colors will soon disappear from your globe, the flowers will wither, the great trees will be destroyed; the insects, the whole of nature will no longer produce those thousand sounds, the eternal song of God! The streams will bathe desolate shores; the cold will have mummified everything, and life disappeared! ...
It is the same with the Spirit. If you make night around it, it will be sick; the cold will petrify its divine tendencies; man, as in the Middle Ages, will go numb, similar in his soul to the wild and desolate solitudes of boreal regions!
That is why, Spiritists, that you owe yourselves all the clarity. But before you advise and teach, first start by illuminating the smallest folds of your soul. When, purified enough to fear nothing, you can raise your voice, your gaze, your gesture, you will wage an implacable war to the shadows, to sadness, to the absence of life; you will teach the great Spiritist laws to the brothers who know nothing of the role that God assigns to them.
1866, may you, for years to come, be that luminous star that led the wise men to the cradle of a humble child of the people; they came to pay homage to the incarnation that was to represent, in the broadest sense, the Spirit of truth, this beneficent light that transformed humanity. By this child, everything was realized! He is the one that perpetuates grace and simplicity, charity, benevolence, love, and freedom.
Spiritism, also a luminous star, must, like the one, eighteen centuries ago, that torn apart the dark veil of the iron centuries, lead the earthlings to the conquest of the promised truths. Will it be able to extricate itself from the storms, promised to us by human evolution, and the desperate resistance of science at bay? This is what all of you, my friends, and we, your brothers of erraticity
[1], are called upon to better accuse, by flooding this year with the acquired clarity.
To work for this purpose is to be followers of the Child of Bethlehem, it is to be children of God, from whom all light and all clarity emanate.
Sonnez
[1] Earthly spiritual world (T.N.)
Group Delanne, Paris, January 8th, 1865 – medium Mrs. Br…
The times have come when this word of the prophet must be fulfilled: “I will pour out, says the Lord, of my Spirit onto all flesh, and your children will prophesy, your elders will have dreams.” Spiritism is this diffusion of the divine Spirit, coming to instruct and moralize all these poor disinherited of spiritual life that, seeing only matter, forgot that man does not live on bread alone.
The body, a material organism at the service of the soul, needs food appropriate to its nature; but the soul, emanation of the Creative Spirit, needs a spiritual nourishment, found only in the contemplation of the celestial beauties, resulting from the harmony of the intelligent faculties in their complete development.
As long as man neglects to cultivate his Spirit, remaining absorbed in the pursuit or possession of material goods, his soul stays somehow stationary, requiring a great number of incarnations before it can, imperceptibly obeying, and as if by force of the inevitable law of progress, arrive at that beginning of intellectual vitality, taking over the direction of the material being to which it is united. That is why, despite the teachings given by Christ to advance humanity, it is still so behind, because egoism did not want to fade away, before the law of charity that must change the face of world, turning it into a place of peace and happiness. But the goodness of God is infinite, it surpasses the indifference and ingratitude of his children; that is why he sends them these divine messengers that come to remind them that God did not create them for the earth, where they are only for a short while, so that, through work, they develop the qualities deposited in their soul as a seed, and that, citizens of heavens should not take pleasure in a station inferior to their ignorance, where they are held back by their faults alone.
Thank the Lord, then, and greet the advent of Spiritism with joy, since it is the fulfillment of prophecies, the shining sign of the goodness of the Father of mercy, and for you a new call to this unravelling of matter, so desirable, since only that can give you real happiness.
Louis of France
