Spontaneous Essays - The Genie of the Flowers
(Session on December 23rd, 1859 – medium Mrs. de Boyer)
I am Hettani, one of the spirits who supervises the formation of flowers,
the diversity of their perfumes. It is I, or I should say, it is us since we are
many thousands of spirits that decorate the fields and gardens; who give
the horticulturist the taste for flowers. We could not teach the mutilation
that they sometimes employ but we teach them to vary the perfumes,
making even more beautiful what is already so pleasing. However, it is
mainly the flowers that bloom naturally that have all of our attention;
they are our favorite ones, since everything that is alone needs help, and
that’s why we take care of them better.
We are also in charge of spreading their perfumes. We take to the
exile a memory of his homeland by bringing to his prison the aroma of
the flowers that ornamented his patrimonial garden. To someone truly in
love, we take the perfume of the flowers offered by his bride; To the ones
that cry, a remembrance of those who are no longer blossoming on their
graves, the roses and violets that recall their virtues.
Who among you does not owe us such kind emotions?
Who has not
shivered yet before the contact with a beloved aroma? I suppose you are
surprised by hearing that there are spirits dedicated to all this. However, it is absolutely true. We have never and perhaps shall never incarnate among
you. Yet, some have been human but not many among the spirits of the
elements. Our mission is nothing on your planet Earth. We progress like
you do but it is particularly in the superior planets that we are happy. In
Jupiter our flowers issue harmonious sounds and we build the airy dwellings
that hummingbird nests are the only ones which may give you a
slight comparison. I will give you a description of some of those flowers
for the first time, flowers which are not only magnificent but sublime and
worthy of housing superior spirits. Good bye. May a perfume of charity
animate you! The virtues themselves have their perfume.
Questions about the
Genie of the Flowers
(Society, December 30rd, 1859 session – medium Mr. Roze)
1. (To St. Louis) – The other day we had a spontaneous communication
from a spirit who said to preside over the flowers and their
perfumes. Are there really spirits that can be seen as genies of the
flowers? – A. Such expression is poetic and well applied to the
case, but in reality it would be false. Make no mistake; the spirit
only presides over the work assigned by God in the whole creation.
That is how you should understand that communication.
2. That spirit is called Hettani. How come a name was given if the
spirit had never incarnated? – A. It is a fiction. The spirit does not
preside in particular over the formation of flowers. The elemental
spirit, before moving on to the animal series, focuses their fluidic
action onto vegetal creation. Such spirit has not incarnated yet;
they only act under the direction of more elevated intelligences
that have already lived enough to acquire the necessary knowledge
for their mission. It was one of those that communicated.
He gave you a poetic mix of actions from two classes of spirits
who act upon the vegetal creation.
3. Since that spirit had not lived yet, even in the animal life, how
can it be so poetic? – A. Read again.
OBSERVATION: See the observation made after question 24, in
the article about Ms. Indermuhle.
4. Thus, the spirit that communicated is not the one who animates
the flower? – A. No, no. I clearly told you that: He guides.
5. Has the spirit that talked to us been incarnated? – A. Yes he did.
6. The spirit which gives life to plants and flowers, does that spirit
think and does it have its own self awareness? – A. They neither
think nor have instinct.
Happiness (Stael)
(Society, February 10th 1860 session – medium Ms. Eugenie)
What is the objective of each individual on Earth? It is happiness, at
any price. What is it that determines a different route to everyone?
Each one of us expects to find happiness in a place or on something that is
particularly pleasing: some look for glory, others richness and others still
seek distinction. The majority looks for fortune that is the most powerful
means of getting everything else in our days. Fortune is a pedestal to
everything. Nevertheless, how many see such aspiration of happiness fulfilled?
Very few do. Ask each of those who get there if they have achieved
the proposed objective. Are they happy? Everyone will respond that not
yet since all desires grow in proportion to those that have been satisfied.
If there are so many people interested in Spiritism today it is because they
have seen the illusion in everything else and try Spiritism like they have
tried wealth and glory before. If God has placed such a great need for happiness
in our hearts it is because it must exist somewhere. Yes, trust God,
but know that everything that comes from God must be divine like God
and the so much expected happiness must not be material. Come to us,
all of you who suffer. Come to us, all of you who need hope because when
you lack everything else on Earth, we have here more than you need.
Desperate mothers, crying over a tomb, come here! The angel, for whom
you cry, shall speak with you, will protect and inspire resignation in you,
soothing the penalties that you must withstand on Earth. All of you, who
have insatiable need for knowledge, come to us since we are the only ones
capable of feeding your spirit. Come and we will find the proper relief to
every pain. However abandoned you may seem to be, there are spirits who
love you and are ready to demonstrate so. I speak for all of them. I wish
for you to come, to be advised by us, for I am certain that you shall leave
with hope in your heart.
Stael
Note: One moment later the spirit wrote again, and spontaneously:
More than once there is a smile on the lips of certain listeners,
which may escape the medium but does not escape the spirits.
However, have no fear. Those who laugh the most are the ones
who will believe more later on. We forgive you because you may
regret your irony one day. I am sure, ladies, if there was a loved
one who you lost near you, to vivify their memory your smile of
incredulity would change to a sigh and you would become happy
or anxious. Take your time. Your day will come and your heart
that is your most sensitive cord shall touch you. I know that.
Stael
