Angele

Bordeaux, 1862. A spirit named Angèle came on her own. She had lived a lazy, empty life and neglected her husband, her children, and her responsibilities.

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AllanDo you repent of your faults?

AngèleNo.

AllanThen why do you come to me?

AngèleTo try to do so.

AllanAre you not happy?

AngèleNo.

AllanAre you suffering?

AngèleNo.

AllanWhat are you missing?

AngèlePeace.

Some spirits only call it suffering when it feels like physical pain, even when their inner state is unbearable.

AllanHow can you have no peace in the spirit life?

AngèleRegret for the past.

AllanRegret for the past is remorse. Then you do repent?

AngèleNo, but I am afraid of the future.

AllanWhat are you afraid of?

AngèleThe unknown.

AllanWill you tell me what you did in your last life? It may help me help you.

AngèleNothing.

AllanWhat was your position in society?

AngèleOrdinary.

AllanWere you married?

AngèleYes, and I had children.

AllanDid you fulfill your duties as a wife and mother?

AngèleNo. My husband tired me, and my children did too.

AllanHow did you spend your time?

AngèleEnjoying myself when I was young. Then later, being tired of everything.

AllanWhat work did you have?

AngèleNone.

AllanThen who took care of your home?

AngèleThe servant.

AllanIs that useless life the cause of your regrets and fear now?

AngèlePerhaps.

AllanIt is not enough to admit that. To make up for your wasted life, will you help the guilty and suffering spirits around you?

AngèleHow?

AllanBy helping them improve, with your advice and your prayers.

AngèleI do not know how to pray.

AllanWe will pray together. That will teach you. Will you try?

AngèleNo.

AllanWhy not?

AngèleI am tired.

Mediums’ GuideWe show you different kinds of suffering so people can understand what wrongdoing leads to.

Mediums’ GuideAngèle was one of those people with no inner drive. Her life was useless to others and to herself. She cared only about pleasure. She could not find the deep joy that comes from embracing family and social duties.

Mediums’ GuideShe spent her youth in shallow amusements. When serious responsibilities came, she found only emptiness around her, because there was only emptiness in her heart.

Mediums’ GuideShe did not commit great crimes, but she also had no real virtues. She made her husband unhappy. Through carelessness and neglect, she damaged her children’s comfort and their future. She harmed their feelings and judgment by her example and by leaving them in the hands of servants she did not even choose carefully.

Mediums’ GuideA life that produces no good is still guilty, because evil often comes from good not being done.

Mediums’ GuideStudy God’s commandments. Understand that if you do not choose the path of good, you drift toward the other path. A life without active goodness becomes empty.

AllanMay I ask what Angèle’s life was before her last one? Her last life must have come from the one before it.

Mediums’ GuideShe had lived in the dull idleness and uselessness of a convent. Idle and selfish, she wanted to try family life in her last life on Earth, but her spirit made very little progress.

Mediums’ GuideShe kept pushing away the inner voice that warned her of danger. The slope was easy, and she preferred to keep sliding into the abyss instead of making the effort to stop.

Mediums’ GuideShe now sees the danger of this passivity, but she still does not have enough strength to seriously pull herself out of her lazy indifference.

Mediums’ GuidePray for her. Stir her. Push her to open her eyes to the light. It is a duty. Do not neglect anything that may help bring her back to the right road.

Mediums’ GuideHuman beings were made for activity. The spirit must act, and the body is a necessary instrument for that work.

Mediums’ GuideSo live out the conditions of your life. Work and develop your intelligence, so your body can serve the spirit well.

Mediums’ GuideDo not look for rest before its time. The peace people long for comes through work. The more time someone has wasted, the longer the anxious wait for hope.

Mediums’ GuideSo keep working. Do all your duties with zeal and perseverance, and let faith support you in everything.

Mediums’ GuideThe one who faithfully does even the humblest task is far nobler in God’s sight than the person who leaves his own duty for others to do.

Mediums’ GuideDuties are the steps of the ladder we climb. Miss none of them. Remember that you are always surrounded by friends who help those who trust in God.