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The rise from the World
of Trials to those of
Regeneration is a
beautiful show
"The dead are the
invisible, but they are
not the absent." -
Victor Hugo
Léon Denis pays tribute
to glorious mediumship
in a journey through the
History of Humanity. Let
us accompany him1 in
the "(...) course of the
ages to witness the
expansion of mediumship
in the most diverse
means, uniform in its
principle, infinitely
varied in its
manifestations: the
history of the prophets
of Israel ended with the
appearance of Jesus. His
entire person and His
entire passage through
the Earth as well as His
entire existence are
wrapped in the mystery
of the Invisible. He
talked with Moses and
Elijah, and legions of
Souls attend Him. His
thought encompasses two
Universes; His word has
the sweetness of Angelic
Worlds; His gaze reads
into the recesses of
hearts, and with a
single contact, He makes
suffering cease.
These wonderful
faculties are partially
transmitted by Him to
His apostles. Moreover,
he says 2 to
them: "Do not worry
about what you will say,
because when the time
comes, you will be
inspired regarding what
to say. For it is not
you who speak, but the
Spirit of your Father
who speaks in you".
Centuries pass; the
scene is changed...
Beyond, in the East,
another imposing figure
appears. In the silence
of the desert, Mohammed,
the founder of Islam,
writes the "Quran",
under the dictation of a
Spirit... Singular
coincidence! His mission
begins like that of Joan
of Arc; it is revealed
to him through voices
and visions. Like Joana,
he too - for a long time
- had shied away; but
mysterious power drags
him against his will,
and the humble camel
driver becomes the
founder of a religion
that extends over a vast
region of the world; he
creates integrally a
great people and a great
empire.
In the Middle Ages, let
us mention two great
historical figures:
Christopher Columbus,
the discoverer of a new
world, impelled by a
superior intuition, and
Joan of Arc who obeys
her voices. In his
adventurous mission, an
invisible genius guided
Columbus. Joan of Arc's
life is already in
everyone's memory. We
know that, everywhere,
invisible beings
inspired and guided the
heroic virgin of
Domremy. All the
successes of his
glorious epic are
announced in advance.
Apparitions appear
before her; heavenly
voices whisper in his
ear. In it, inspiration
flows like the gushing
of an impetuous torrent.
As a medium and a
missionary, she would be
unique in History if
there had not been the
Martyr of Calvary before
her. It can at least be
said that nothing more
august has been seen
since the early days of
Christianity...
To these glorious names,
we have the right to add
those of the great
poets. After music,
poetry is one of the
purest sources of
inspiration; it causes
intellectual ecstasy,
which allows one to
enter into communication
with the Higher Spheres.
In it, all the voices of
Nature sing. The rhythm
of the Invisible Life
regulates the cadence of
its verses...
All the great heroic
poets begin their songs
with an invocation to
the gods or the muse;
and the inspiring
Spirits answer the call.
A thousand sublime
things whisper in the
poet's ear, a thousand
things that only he
understands, among the
sons of men.
Homer has songs that
come from higher than
the Earth.
Plato said: "(...) the
poet and the prophet, to
receive inspiration,
must enter a superior
state in which their
intellectual horizon is
dilated and illuminated
by a higher light".
According to
Pythagoras, "inspiration
is a suggestion of the
Spirits that reveal to
us the future and hidden
things".
Vergil was – for a long
time considered a
prophet - by virtue of
his "Messianic Ecogla of
Pollion".
Dante Alighieri is an
incomparable medium. His
"Divine Comedy" is a
pilgrimage through the
Invisible Worlds.
Ozanam, the main
Catholic author who has
analyzed this brilliant
work, recognizes that
his plan is based on the
main lines of initiation
into the ancient
mysteries, whose
principle, as he is well
known, was communion
with the occult.
At the age of 18, Tasso
composed his chivalrous
poem “Renaud”,
under the inspiration of
Ariosto, and later, in
1575, his main work, “Jerusalem
liberated”, a vast
epic, which he claims
was also inspired by
him.
Shakespeare, Milton and
Shelley were also
inspired; Goethe drew
extensively from the
sources of the
Invisible; the same can
be said of Klopstock and
his "Messiah", a poem in
which the breath of the
beyond can be felt; W.
Blake claims to have
written his poetry under
the direction of the
Spirit Milton, and to
recognize that all his
works were inspired by
him.
Closer to us, Alfred de
Musset saw visions, saw
apparitions and heard
voices. At all times,
these subtle
communications from
Spirits to mortals have
come to fertilize art
and literature.
In Rogerio Bacon's work,
"The Admirable Doctor",
"Opus majus", all
the great inventions of
our time are prophesied
and described. Jerome
Cardan, in "De Rerum
varietate" congratulated
himself on having the "gifts"
that allow him to fall
into ecstasy at will.
Schiller declared that
his most beautiful
thoughts were not of his
own creation; they
occurred so quickly and
with such energy that he
had difficulty grasping
them quickly enough to
transcribe them.
The mediumistic
faculties of Emmanuel
Swedenborg, the Swedish
philosopher, are
attested by
communications from the
Beyond, impossible to
contradict.
We could also mention
Chateaubriand and his
sister Lucilia; Balzac;
Edgard Quinet;
Lamartine; Michelet;
Henri Heine...
Victor Hugo writes 3 "Les
morts sont des vivants
mêlés à nos combats. Et
nous sentons passer
leurs flèches invisibles".
In the lives of the
saints, the mediumistic
sap with which the
primitive Church was
saturated by Christ and
His apostles resounds
exuberantly...
Thus, the phenomenon of
mediumship is evident at
all times, sometimes
shining with intense
brightness, sometimes
veiled and obscured,
according to the state
of soul of the people,
never ceasing to guide
humanity on its earthly
pilgrimage. All great
works are children of
the Beyond. Everything
that has revolutionized
the world of thought,
bringing intellectual
progress, was born from
an inspiring breath...
God sends His thought to
the world through
emissaries who
incessantly descend the
steps of the ladder of
beings and go to bring
divine communication to
men, as the stars send
their subtle radiations
to Earth through the
depths. Thus, everything
is connected in the
Universal Plan. The
Higher Spheres promote
the education of the
lower worlds.
The ascent from the
Worlds of Proofs to the
Worlds of Regeneration
is the most beautiful
spectacle that can be
offered to the thinker's
admiration.
(...) It is time for a
new influx to travel the
world to replace
weakened doctrinal
wrappings as well as
worn out and ankylosed
forms.
Only Science and
Revelation can give
humanity the exact
notion of its destiny.
An immense amount of
work in this direction
is currently being
carried out;
considerable work is
being done. The in-depth
and constant study of
the Invisible World,
which is also of causes,
will be the great
source, the
inexhaustible reservoir
in which thought and
life will be nourished. Mediumship
is your key.
Through this study, man
will arrive at true
science and true belief,
which are not mutually
exclusive. However, they
unite to fertilize each
other. He will establish
a closer communion
between the living and
the dead. In addition,
more abundant help will
flow to us from Space",
fulfilling the prophecy
recorded in the New
Testament: 4 "in
the last times, says the
Lord, I will pour out my
Spirit on all the flesh;
your sons and daughters
shall prophesy, young
men shall see visions,
and the old, dreams.”
Furthermore, Denis ends
in an auspicious
peroration: “(...) the
man of tomorrow will
know how to understand
and bless life; he will
cease to fear death.
Through his efforts, he
must bring about the
Kingdom of God on Earth,
that is, of peace and
justice, and, when the
journey is over, his
last night will be
luminous and calm like
the sunset of the
constellations, at the
time when the first dawn
spreads over the
horizon.
If he lived in our days,
Leon Denis would not
hesitate to affirm that
the most precious gem
sprang from Minas Gerais.
The most powerful
mediumistic antenna
where the effusion of
the Spirit is evident
and exuberant to spread
the lights of the Beyond
on the paths of humanity
through the unfading and
very simple creature
that for us is the late,
dear, gentle Candido
Francisco Xavier.
Jesus said 5 "if
my disciples are silent,
the stones will cry out",
and this happened in the
dark Medieval Night
where the harp, the
cleaver and the
inquisitorial fires
silenced the noble
expressions of the
Spirit.
That is why, in the
words of Camilo,6 the
Spiritual Guide of the
medium from Rio de
Janeiro, Raul Teixeira,
in the “Voices of the
infinite (which is
equivalent to saying:
the voices of the
Spirits). They resound
like trumpets, bursting
the tombstones” in a
loud invitation to the
creatures in the earthly
vines, showing them the
paths of Eternity,
restoring things to
their true meaning and
extracting the Christian
message from the impure
materials embedded in it
by the ambitious and
venal hand of the
immediate man with his
not confessable excuses
and subordinate
purposes.
According to the Spirit
of Truth's 7 expressed
wish, "in a sacred
hymn, we must make all
voices one, so that they
may resound from one end
of the Universe to the
other.
Notes:
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Matthews, 10:19 and 20.
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"Os mortos vivos são;
partilham nossas lutas.
E ouvimos sibilar suas
setas."
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KARDEC, Allan. The
Gospel according to
Spiritism. 129th ed.
Rio [de Janeiro]: FEB,
2009, Prologue.
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