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Fundamentals of the spiritist doctrine
(part IV)
The
following text is an excerpt from The Spirits' Book.
(Introduction - VI)
"The soul possessed its own individuality before its incarnation. It preserves that individuality after its separation from the body.
"On its re-entrance into the spirit world, the soul finds there all those whom it has known upon the earth and all its former existences come back to its memory, with the remembrance of all the good and of all the evil which it has done in them.
"The incarnated spirit is under the influence of matter. The man who surmounts this influence, through the elevation and purification of his soul, raises himself nearer to the superior spirits, among whom he will one day be classed. He who allows himself to be ruled by bad passions and places all his delight in the satisfaction of his gross animal appetites, brings himself nearer to the impure spirits by giving preponderance to his animal nature.
"Incarnated spirits inhabit the different globes of the universe.
"Spirits who are not incarnated, who are free of matter, do not occupy any fixed and circumscribed region. They are everywhere in space and around us, seeing us, and mixing with us incessantly. They constitute an invisible population, constantly moving around us.
"Spirits exert an incessant action upon the moral world and even upon the physical world. They act both upon matter and upon thought and constitute one of the powers of nature, the efficient cause of many classes of phenomena unexplained or misinterpreted until now and of which the Spiritist theory can give a rational explanation.
"Spirits are incessantly in relation with men. The good spirits try to lead us into the right road, sustain us under the trials of life and aid us to bear them with courage and resignation. The bad ones tempt us to evil. It is a pleasure for them to see us fall and to make us like themselves.
"The communications of spirits with men are either occult or ostensible. Their occult communications are made through the good or bad influence they exert on us, without our being aware of it. It is our duty to distinguish, by the exercise of our judgement, between the good and the bad inspirations that are brought upon us. Their ostensible communications take place by means of writing, of speech, or of other physical manifestations and usually through the intermediary of the mediums who serve as their instruments.
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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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