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Fundamentals of the spiritist doctrine
(part III)
The
following text is an excerpt from The Spirits' Book.
(Introduction - VI)
"A spirit, therefore, is not an abstract, undefined being, only to be conceived of by our thought. It is a real, circumscribed being which, in certain cases, is appreciable by the senses of sight, hearing, and touch.
"Spirits belong to different evolutionary classes, and are not equal to one another either in power, in intelligence, in knowledge or in morality. Those of the highest order are distinguished from those below them by their superior purity and knowledge, their nearness to God and their love of goodness. They are "angels" or "pure spirits." The other classes are more and more distant from this perfection. Those of the lower ranks are inclined to most of our passions: hatred, envy, jealousy, pride, selfishness etc. They take pleasure in evil. Among them are some who are neither very good nor very bad, but are teazing and troublesome rather than malicious. Are often mischievous and unreasonable, and may be classed as giddy and foolish spirits.
"Spirits do not belong perpetually to the same order. All are destined to attain perfection by passing through the different degrees of the spirit-hierarchy. This improvement is effected by incarnation, which is imposed on some of them as an expiation and on others as a mission. Material life is a trial which they have to undergo many times until they have attained to absolute perfection. It is a sort of filter, or alembic, from which they issue more or less purified after each new incarnation.
"On quitting the body the soul re-enters the world of spirits from which it came and from which it will start a new material existence after a longer or shorter lapse of time, during which it lives in spiritual world.
"Spirits, having to pass through many incarnations, it follows that all we have had many existences and that we shall have others, more or less perfect, either upon this earth or in other worlds.
"The incarnation of spirits always takes place in the human race. It is an error to suppose that the soul or spirit could be incarnated in the body of an animal.
"A spirit's successive corporeal existences are always progressive and never retrograde. But the rapidity of our progress depends on the efforts we make to arrive at perfection.
"The qualities of the soul are those of the incarnated spirit. Thus, a good man is the incarnation of a good spirit and a bad man is that of an unpurified spirit.
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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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