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Fundamentals of the spiritist doctrine
(part II)
The
following text is an excerpt from The Spirits' Book.
(Introduction - VI)
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We will now briefly sum up important points of the spiritist doctrine, according to spirits' teachings.
"God is eternal, immutable, immaterial, unique, all-powerful, sovereignly just and good.
"He has created the universe which comprehends all beings, animate and inanimate, material and immaterial.
"The material beings constitute the visible or corporeal world and the immaterial beings constitute the invisible or spiritual world, that is to say, the spirit-world, or world of spirits.
"The spirit-world is the normal, primitive, eternal world, pre-existent to and surviving everything else.
"The corporeal world is only secondary. It might cease to exist or never have existed without changing the essentiality of the spiritual world.
"Spirits temporarily assume a perishable material envelope. The destruction of which by death restores them to liberty.
"Among the different species of corporeal beings, God has chosen the human species for the incarnation of spirits arrived at a certain degree of development. It is this which gives it a moral and intellectual superiority to all the others.
"The soul is an incarnated spirit whose body is only its envelope.
"There are in man three things: (1) The body or material being, analogous to the animals and animated by the same vital principle; (2) The soul or immaterial being, a spirit incarnated in the body; (3) The link which unites the soul and the body, a principle intermediary between matter and spirit.
"Man has thus two natures. By his body he participates in the nature of the animals, of which it has the instincts. By his soul, he participates in the nature of spirits.
"The link, or perispirit, which unites the body and the spirit, is a sort of semi-material envelope. Death is the destruction of the material body, which is the grossest of man's two envelopes. But the spirit preserves his other envelope, viz., the perispirit, which constitutes for him an ethereal body, invisible in its normal state, but which he can render occasionally visible, and even tangible, as is the case of apparitions.
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Unshakable faith is only that which can meet reason face to face in every human epoch. (Allan Kardec)
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