The Assassination of Mr. PoinsotThe mystery that still surrounds this deplorable event led many people
to think that the evocation of the spirit of the victim could establish
the truth. We received a large number of letters about it and since the
subject involves a serious principle we found it useful to let all readers
know our answer. We never thought of evoking Mr. Poinsot since for us
Spiritism has never been an object of curiosity. Nevertheless, following an
adamant request from one of our corresponding members that supposedly
had a communication from him and wanted to know if that communication
was authentic, we tried to carry out the evocation a few days ago. As
usual, we asked our spiritual guide if such evocation was possible and if
he was the one who communicated with our correspondent. Here are the
answers:
• “Mr. Poinsot cannot answer your appeal. He has not communicated
with anybody yet. God does not allow him at this point in time.”
1. Can you tell us why? – A. Yes. Because revelations of such kind
would influence the conscience of the judges who must act with
total freedom.
2. Yet, by clarifying the judges these revelations could avoid regrettable
and even irreparable mistakes. – A. That is not how they
should be clarified. God wants them to have the entire responsibility
of their sentences, as each person has the responsibility of
their acts; also the research work and the merit for that must not
be overlooked.
3. However, in the absence of sufficient information, can the culprit
escape justice? – A. Would you believe that one could escape
God’s justice? If one must be reached by the justice of man, God
will find ways for that to happen.
4. That is fine with respect to the guilty; however, if an innocent
person is condemned wouldn’t that be bad? – A. God judges in
the supreme instance and someone that is unjustly condemned
by men will have their rehabilitation. As a matter of fact, that
condemnation may be a useful trial for their advancement. But it
may sometimes be the fair punishment of a crime from which one
may have escaped in a previous existence. Keep in mind that the
spirits are assigned with the mission of enlightening you in the
path of good and not to smooth things out on the earthly terrain,
leaving that to your own intelligence. When you distance yourself
from the providential objective of Spiritism you become exposed
to being deceived by the swarm of lying spirits that constantly
move around you.
After the first answer the attendees discussed the reasons for the interdiction
and as if willing to justify a principle one spirit led a medium
to write the following: “I will bring him… here he is!” Soon after he wrote:
“How kind of you wanting to talk to me! I am very pleased since I have a
lot to tell you.” The language seemed suspicious to us having come from
a man like Mr. Poinsot, and particularly considering the answer that we
had just received, thus someone asked him to attest his identity in the
name of God. The spirit then wrote: “My God, I cannot lie. However, I
would be very happy to talk to your likable Society but you don’t want to. Good bye.” That was when our spiritual guide added: “I told you that
spirit cannot respond tonight. God forbids his manifestation. If you insist you
will be deceived.”
Observation: It is obvious that if the spirits could spare people from
doing research the latter would not bother doing anything to discover the
truth since it would always be revealed. Thus, the laziest person could
find that out, as much as the hardest working researcher and that would
not be fair. This is a general principle. When applied to Mr. Poinsot, it
is not less evident that if the spirit indicated that a given individual were
innocent or guilty and the judges could not find sufficient proof of one
or the other, they could then become confused and public opinion biased
by unfair preventions. Since the human being is imperfect we must conclude
that God knows better what must be revealed or hidden. If a given
revelation must be made through superhuman means, God knows how
to make it look authentic as to eliminate any doubt, as demonstrated by
the event below:
A farm had been set on fire near a mining region in Mexico. In a
meeting dealing with spirit manifestations (there are several in this country
where Mr. Deschanel’s articles may not have arrived yet hence they
are so backwards there); a spirit communicated through raps. The spirit
says that the person to blame is among the attendees of the meeting. First
it was doubted, believed to be a hoax. The spirit insists, pointing to a
person that was present, stunning everybody. The person puts on a good
face, but the spirit seems to insist and so convincingly, that the man is
arrested and after being pressed with questions he ends up confessing to
the crime.
The criminals, as seen, must not trust the discretion of the spirits that
are sometimes the instruments used by God to punish them. How would
Mr. Figuier explain that? Is it intuition, hypnotism, biology, overexcitement
of the brain, the concentration of thoughts, hallucination, which he
admits but not believing in the independence of the spirit from matter?
Conciliate all that if you can. His own solution is a problem and he should
provide the solution to his solution. Nevertheless, why a spirit would not reveal the assassin of Mr. Poinsot, as he had done for this arsonist? You
must ask God to respond for his actions. Ask Mr. Figuier who seems to
know better than Him.
