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FUNDAMENTAL PROPOSITIONS

Allan Kardec, Spiritist Review, January 1859

Beyond the visible physical world there are invisible

beings which comprise the Spirits´ World.

In no way are spirits separate beings, but the souls

of those who have lived on earth or on other worlds, and

who have been freed from their material envelopes.

Spirits display all levels of intellectual and moral

development. As a result, there are good and evil,

enlightened and ignorant, frivolous and deceitful, wicked

and hypocritical spirits who seek to mislead and to induce

to evil, as well as those who are highly evolved in all aspects

and who seek to do good. Such distinction is of primary

importance.

Spirits surround us without our knowledge and,

able to guide our thoughts and actions, they end up

influencing humankind’s events and destiny.

They often manifest their presence by means of

physical effects, which are not in any way supernatural —

although they seem to be — because they rest on

foundations that are outside known physical laws.

However, once such foundations become known, the effects

enter into the category of natural phenomena. Thus, spirits

can act on inert bodies and can make them move without

the help of any exterior agents. Denying the existence of

unknown agents by the simple fact of not being able to

comprehend them would be to set limits on the power of

God and believe that nature has said its last word.

Every effect has a cause: this is incontestable. It is

illogical, therefore, to deny the cause just because it is

unknown.

Furthermore, if every effect has a cause, then every

intelligent effect should have an intelligent cause. When

we see the telegraph form symbols which respond to

thoughts, we do not conclude that the machine is

intelligent, but that some intelligence sets it in motion.

The same happens with spirit phenomena. If the

intelligence that produces them is not ours, it is obvious

that it lies outside us.

In the phenomena of natural sciences, inert matter

can be acted upon and manipulated at will; in spirit

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phenomena we are dealing with intelligences that have free

will not subject to our own. Consequently, the basic

principles of ordinary phenomena and spirit phenomena

are fundamentally distinct, rendering common science

incompetent to judge the latter.

Incarnate spirits have two envelopes: one material,

which is the body, and one semi-material and indestructible,

which is the perispirit. Upon leaving the former, the spirit

keeps the latter, which constitutes a type of body for it but

whose properties are essentially different. In its normal state,

the perispirit is invisible to us, but it can become

momentarily visible and even tangible causing the

phenomenon of apparitions.

Spirits are therefore not abstract and indefinite, but

real and circumscribed beings who have their own existence

and who think and act according to their own free will.

They are everywhere and all around us. They inhabit open

space and travel at the speed of thought.

Humans can communicate with spirits and receive

direct messages from them through writing, speech or other

means. Since spirits are next to us and can answer our call, it

is possible to keep a continued exchange with them through

certain intermediaries, as a blind person can do with the

persons he cannot see.

Evolved Spirits only teach good things; their morality

comes from the Gospel. They only proclaim union and

charity and never deceive. Unevolved spirits say absurd

things, tell lies and often even swear.

A medium’s competency does not consist in the ease

of communications only, but especially in the nature of the

communications he or she receives. A good medium is one

who is attuned with Good Spirits and only receives

wholesome messages.

We all have a familiar spirit who is linked to us from

birth, and who guides, counsels and protects us; this spirit

is always good.

Besides the familiar spirit, there are spirits who are

attracted to us because they sympathize with our qualities

and defects, or because they are old acquaintances. As a

result, in every meeting there is a crowd of spirits who are

good or bad, depending on the nature of the environment.

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EDITORIAL

COLLECTIVE TRIALS AND SOLIDARITY

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rom the beginning of his studies after his first contact

with spirit phenomena, Allan Kardec had displayed

interest in issues «related to events capable of bringing

forth social transformation.»

In one dialogue with Kardec on May 12,

1856*, the Spirit of Truth informed him that the Earth

was already undergoing a period in which transformations

would take place and that these would gradually occur by

means of partial events. When consulted by Allan Kardec,

he warned: «… you may be certain that there will be no floods

or fires, or any such things for your planet, except those local

disturbances which have always occurred, and which we cannot

therefore call cataclysms. The cataclysm that has been

announced is of a moral nature and all humankind will be

the instrument of its fulfillment.»

As we may observe, the subject related to the

transition phase in which we now find ourselves has been

dealt with for a long time. We really are undergoing a period

of transformation on Earth, from a World of Trials and

Expiation, characterized by the manifestation of selfishness,

pride and violence among humans, towards a World of

Regeneration, in which men and women, despite being far

from moral perfection, will be more aware of their condition

as immortal, perfectible spirits in the process of evolution

and, consequently, more involved in their own moral and

spiritual advancement. As the Spirit of Truth highlights,

such is the great change which is taking place in our planet.

The physical disturbances that occur on Earth will

continue to take place as they always have, bringing forth

necessary collective trials and submitting humankind to trials

and expiations indispensable for the moral progress and

spiritual freedom to which we are all destined.

When faced with such collective trials, humans feel

the need to help their neighbors – individually and collectively

– and to assist them with their material, moral and spiritual

needs. Such are the manifestations of charity and solidarity

that characterize the New World that humankind is building,

and which we are experiencing during this current transition

phase.

* Allan Kardec, Posthumous Works, Part 2, Events, May 12,

1856, Ed. FEB

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