{"id":2689,"date":"2024-06-19T19:52:47","date_gmt":"2024-06-19T19:52:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ufec-mundial.com\/?page_id=2689"},"modified":"2025-01-16T12:24:50","modified_gmt":"2025-01-16T12:24:50","slug":"que-es-el-espiritismo","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/nuevo-renacer.com\/en\/que-es-el-espiritismo\/","title":{"rendered":"What is spiritism?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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What is spiritism?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Spiritism is a science that studies the nature, origin and destiny of spirits, as well as their relationship with the physical world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When and under what circumstances did it arise?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Spiritism is a doctrine that was revealed by higher spirits through mediums. The spiritist doctrine consists of philosophical, scientific and religious principles and was written by the French pedagogue Allan Kardec in Paris in the mid-19th century. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Allan Kardec is a pseudonym for D\u00e9nizard-Hippolyte-L\u00e9on Rivail, who was born on 3 October 1804 in Lyon, France.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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The spiritist doctrine consists of:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Spirits' Book  <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Mediums\u2019 Book  <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Gospel According to Spiritism <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Heaven and Hell  <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Genesis <\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Spiritual revelations in the history of humanity.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Revelation means the lifting of a cover or veil, or the disclosure of things kept secret. Divine laws are revealed to human beings according to their level of understanding and their capacity to comprehend the revealed truths. From time to time, the Higher Spirits reveal to human beings the fundamental principles of the ways of virtue. These principles are not always accepted or recognised by all human beings, precisely because human beings have free will. Revelations take place at different times and are received by different peoples through the teachings of enlightened prophets and trained spiritual teachers. The experience and realisation of these teachings are conducive to the spiritual development of human beings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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What does it reveal to us?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It reveals new and deeper insights into God, the universe, human beings, spirits and the laws that govern life. It reveals what we are, where we came from, where we are going, what the goal of our earthly existence is and what the meaning of pain and suffering is.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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What does it include?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By bringing new insights into man and all that surrounds him, Spiritualism addresses all areas of man's knowledge, activities and behaviour, and opens a new era for the renewal of humanity. It can and should be learned, analysed and practised in all fundamental aspects of life, such as scientific, philosophical, religious, ethical, moral, educational and social.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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The basic principles of spiritualist doctrine.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

1) The existence of God, who is the Creator, the first cause of all things. The Supreme Intelligence.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

2) The immortality of the soul or spirit.<\/strong>
Spirits are the intelligent beings of the universe, created by God to develop ceaselessly until they reach perfection and absolute happiness. As spirits, we existed before birth and will continue to exist after the death of the body.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

3) The reincarnation.<\/strong>
Created simply and without any knowledge, spirits collectively progress through experiences that result in various realisations. Spirit progress takes place intellectually or morally. God, in His wisdom, grants us forgetfulness of the past in each reincarnation so that it is, indeed, an opportunity to begin anew, especially to correct mistakes and to recompose differences of opinion, so that we become more and more identified with the Divine Laws, which are the Laws of Love.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

4) The spirits' ability to communicate.<\/strong>
The spirits are nothing more than the souls of deceased people, who as such retain their individual characteristics, qualities and defects. Through mediums, the spirits can communicate with people if they so desire and are allowed to.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

5) The plurality of inhabited worlds.<\/strong>
The various worlds scattered throughout infinite space form the countless abodes of the incarnating spirits. The conditions of these worlds differ according to the degree of progress or inferiority of their inhabitants. The spiritist doctrine convincingly proves the existence of spirits by presenting irrefutable evidence and based on facts that the spirit, in the course of its development, goes through successive experiences, in different bodies and different periods of time.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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The pillars of spiritism<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Here we want to present, in a simplified way, the main points of the Spiritist doctrine, the basic pillars for understanding life, where we come from, where we are going, why we are here, etc. Perhaps it can help all Spiritist educators, mothers, fathers and families.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

God<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

God is eternal, immutable, immaterial, unique, omnipotent, sovereignly just and good. He created the universe, which encompasses all animate and inanimate, material and immaterial beings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Spirits<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Material beings form the visible or corporeal world, and immaterial beings, the invisible or spirit world, i.e., the world of spirits. The spiritual world is the normal, primitive, eternal, pre-existent and all-surviving world. The corporeal world is secondary; it may cease to exist or never have existed, without altering the essence of the spiritual world. Spirits are temporarily clothed in a perishable material sheath, the destruction of which by death restores their freedom. Among the various species of corporeal beings, God chose the human species for the incarnation of spirits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The soul<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The soul is an embodied spirit; the body is only its shell. There are three elements in man:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1\u00ba \u2013 Body or material being, similar to that of animals, animated by the same vital principle;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2\u00ba \u2013 The soul or immaterial being, the spirit incarnate in the body;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

3\u00ba \u2013 The connecting link that connects the soul with the body, a mediating principle between matter and spirit (...) The connecting link or perispirit that connects the body with the spirit is a kind of semi-material covering.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Death<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The death is the destruction of the grosser sheath. The spirit retains the second, which constitutes his ethereal body, invisible to us in the normal state, but which may accidentally become visible and even tangible, as in the phenomena of apparitions. The spirit is not, therefore, an abstract, indefinite being, which can only be conceived of in thought. It is a real, delimited being, which in certain cases becomes appreciable to our sight, hearing and touch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Evolution of the spirits<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The spirits belong to different categories, and are not equal either in power, intelligence, knowledge, or morality. Those belonging to the first order are superior spirits, distinguished from the others by their perfection, their knowledge, their nearness to God, the purity of their sentiments, and their love of good; they are the angels or pure spirits. Those of the other classes are more and more distant from this perfection, while those of the lower categories, for the most part, are contaminated by our passions: hatred, envy, jealousy, jealousy, pride, and so on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reincarnation as a tool of evolution<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The spirits do not remain perpetually in one category. All evolve as they pass through the different grades of the spiritist hierarchy. This improvement is effected by incarnation, which is imposed upon some as an atonement and upon others as a mission. The material life is a test to be endured repeatedly until absolute moral perfection has been attained. When the soul leaves the body, it returns to the spirit-world from whence it came, to pass through a new material existence after a more or less prolonged lapse of time, during which it remains in the state of a wandering spirit. Since the spirit has had to pass through many incarnations, it follows from this that all of us have had many existences, and that we shall still have more or less perfected ones, whether on earth or in other worlds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The incarnation of spirits always takes place within the human species; it would be a mistake to believe that the soul or spirit can incarnate in the body of an animal. The various bodily existences of the spirit are always progressive, never retrograde; but the rapidity of his progress depends upon the efforts he makes to reach perfection. Incarnated spirits inhabit the various globes of the universe. The non-incarnated or wandering spirits do not occupy a definite or circumscribed region. They are everywhere, in space and beside us, they see us and rub shoulders with us continually. It is an invisible population that moves around us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mediality<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The spirits exercise an incessant action upon the moral world, and even upon the physical world. They work upon matter and thought, and constitute one of the powers of Nature, the efficient cause of a multitude of phenomena, unexplained or poorly explained until recently, which can only be rationally understood through Spiritism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The relationships between spirits and humans are constant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Good spirits induce us to do good, sustain us in the trials of life and help us to bear them with courage and resignation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The wicked drive us to evil; they rejoice when they see us give in and become like them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The communications of the spirits with men are either occult or ostensible. The occult ones are produced through the good or evil influence they exert upon us, without our knowing it. It is for our judgment to discern the good from the bad inspirations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The spirits manifest themselves spontaneously or by evocation; they are attracted by the sympathy produced by the moral nature of the environment which evokes them. Higher spirits take pleasure in serious gatherings where, in those who compose them, the love of good and the sincere desire for instruction and improvement predominate. The presence of these drives away the lower spirits, who, on the contrary, find free access and can operate with complete freedom among frivolous or curiosity-driven people, as well as where pernicious instincts may exist. The superior spirits use on all occasions a dignified, noble language, imbued with the highest morality. The language of inferior spirits, on the contrary, is inconsequential, often trivial, and even coarse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Spiritist Morality<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The morality of the higher spirits is summed up, like that of Christ, in this Gospel maxim: Do unto others as we would have others do unto us, that is, do good, not evil. In this principle man finds a universal rule of conduct which will guide him even in the smallest actions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Higher Spirits teach that in the world of spirits, where nothing can be hidden, the hypocrite will be unmasked and his crookedness exposed; that the inevitable and continuous presence of those with whom we have done wrong is one of the punishments reserved for us; that the inferior or superior states of spirits are in correspondence with penalties or joys unknown on Earth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They also teach that there are no irremediable faults which cannot be atoned for by atonement. A means of attaining this is found by man in the various existences which enable him to advance, according to his desires and efforts, along the path of progress, towards the perfection which is his final destiny.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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