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Fundamentals of the spiritist doctrine
(part V)
The
following text is an excerpt from The Spirits' Book.
(Introduction - VI)
"Spirits manifest themselves spontaneously or in response to evocation.
"All spirits may be evoked. Those who have animated the most obscure of mortals as well as those of the most illustrious personages, whatever the epoch at which they lived. Those of our relatives, our friends or our enemies. And we may obtain from them, by written or by verbal communications, counsels, information in regard to their situation beyond the grave, their thoughts in regard to us and whatever revelations they are permitted to make to us.
"Spirits are attracted by their sympathy with the moral quality of the parties by whom they are evoked. Spirits of superior elevation take pleasure in meetings of a serious character, animated by the love of goodness and the sincere desire of instruction and improvement. Their presence repels the spirits of inferior degree who find, on the contrary, free access and freedom of action among persons of frivolous disposition or brought together by mere curiosity and wherever evil instincts are to be met with. So far from obtaining from spirits, under such circumstances, either good advice or useful information, nothing is to be expected from them but trifling, lies, ill-natured tricks or humbugging. They often borrow the most venerated names, in order they better to impose themselves upon those with whom they are in communication.
"It is easy to distinguish between good and bad spirits. The language of spirits of superior elevation is constantly dignified, noble, characterised by the highest morality, free from every trace of earthly passion. Their counsels breathe the purest wisdom and always have our improvement and the good of mankind for their aim. The communications of spirits of lower degree, on the contrary, are full of discrepancies, and their language is often commonplace and even coarse. If they sometimes say things that are good and true, they more often make false and absurd statements, prompted by ignorance or malice. They play upon the credulity of those who interrogate them, amusing themselves by flattering their vanity and fooling them with false hopes. In a word, instructive communications worthy of the name are only to be obtained in centres of a serious character, whose members are united, by an intimate communion of thought and desire in the pursuit of truth and goodness.
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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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