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The Value of Money

· February 22, 2022 · Geraldo Goulart, Spiritist, Spiritism · · No Comments

By Geraldo Goulart

“Provide neither gold, nor silver, nor brass in your purses (…) for the workman is worthy of his meat.” — Jesus (Matthew, 10:9).     

Mistaken in their illusion that winning more money, in addition to solving their precarious financial situation, would enable them to do something for themselves, countless people feed their weekly gambling addiction.

The bettors do not understand – usually they are simple people – who are compromising their meager resources in the cultivation of what eventually becomes a desperate hope of obtaining extra income, pursuing at all costs the realization of far-fetched dreams such as: travel around the world; acquisition of new cars and cloths; mansions and even performing aesthetic surgeries, believing that with a new look they would be happier, combining happiness and money under the argument that money is not problem but solution.

It is with the utmost sorrow that we observe such occurrences, because we know luxurious residences and beautiful palaces, contain terrible moral evils and psychic disturbances, whose occupants would not hesitate to exchange their properties for an even grander abode. It is an illusion for anyone who thinks there is full contentment, any real lasting joy, tied to financial achievements.

We are not questioning the value of money. After all, it is sometimes mentioned in the Roadmap of Conduct that makes up the great legacy of the Exalted Master. However, if such a reference occurs, it is always to show a behavior that must be made in which we are called to witness against covetousness and avarice (1) or in favor of obedience to the constituted authorities(2) with the due contribution to the tax burden imposed to preserve public administration.

Even today we find companions on this earthly journey desirous of giving to God the same we give to Caesar – money, frivolities, worldliness. They should be better conditioned to surrender to God what belongs to Him and is in us: love of neighbor according to the second commandment (3). Confused, many of us failed to record the representativeness of the two small coins of which the widow’s mite symbol was composed (4). The offering of Love may well be the two-minute donation of attention to the stranger who solicits us, when they are distressed, we should help through outstretched hands. Let us remember Simon Peter when he passed through the Formosa Gate in the Temple of Jerusalem, when he was called by the lame man who begged for alms, then Peter said: “Silver and gold have I none;  but such as I have give I thee:  In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth rise up and walk.” (5), what did the Apostle give? Love, only Love that represented a hug in the name of Jesus Christ, and that was more than enough to satisfy the neediness of the beggar.

In in order to imitate the widow’s gesture it is necessary that we truly want to SERVE. In addition, to repeat the deed of Peter, we require the ability to LOVE. A great mistake is made by those who relate the condition of serving and the fulfillment of charity to the possession of money. How much can we help even when we do not have material support with us? We know from several examples, let us mention one: so many times Dr. Bezerra de Menezes emptied his wallet, and since not having his graduation’s ring, because he had given it to someone to convert it into money to pay for a burial, and the purchase of provisions, he saw himself one day with no other choice but to bestow an EMBRACE to another person in need who sought his help. But he did so with so much Love and Faith that his embrace, granted in the name of the Blessed Virgin as he said, transferred such formidable energy that it performed wonders, and so the person in need received the resources she was asking for.(6)

The difficulties we often parade in the justification for “not doing” seem to be the residue of the impassivity that, indeed, must have been left to us by the undecided young man who pleaded for eternal life, but remained pensive with the invitation that Jesus gave him (7). In fact, to accomplish the Commandments will not be such an arduous task; but GIVING what we have in exchange for a treasure in Heaven does not seem to us to be a very profitable thing, does it? Therefore, we generally go on a path different from that which the Master treads.

The Spiritist Doctrine has helped us enough in clarifying the necessary reordering of our acts. Embedded in the panoply of Kardec-inspired guidelines – always for our benefit, let us emphasize – lies the chapter on Choice of Trials (8). Moreover, if our life plan includes the struggle for survival with little monetary resources – but always sufficient for the maintenance of our existence, however small – why obsess over obtaining? This is also a facet of “bad suffer” (9).

We are deluded when we believe we justify our gambling addiction for the purpose of building shelters, buying clothes and food for the protection of our needy brothers. This is not how Mercy works because it never leads us to the contemplative life. Those who work, as the Lord assured the Disciples deserve their sustenance. Which sustenance did the Lord refer to: bread for the body? Certainly not only this, but also, and especially, to the bread for the spirit, that can be located in the hopes deposited in the result of serving. This overcoming, as a manna that materializes by the arrival of valiant workers, by overcoming harsh difficulties, represents support from Highest Heaven and is related to our ability to receive such blessings. After all, who promised easy ways? Where is the reward in the Gospels without laborious construction?

Jesus, the Maximum Exemplifier, had nowhere for resting His head (10). Thus, we do not understand the reason for such an unbridled gold rush when the true treasure (11), the incorruptible, requires persevering patience and extreme dedication in its attainment.

Knowing how to multiply the talents (12), let us agree to this, is much better than winning the lottery!

REFERENCES:

  1. Luke 12:13-21
  2. Matthew 22:15-22
  3. Matthew 22:34-40
  4. Luke 21:1-4
  5. Acts 3:6
  6. Lindos Casos de Bezerra de Menezes – Prof. Ramiro Gama – Editora Lake
  7. Matthew 19:16-24
  8. The Spirits’ Book, questions from 258 to 273 e The Gospel According to Spiritism, 16:7-8
  9. The Gospel According to Spiritism, 5:18
  10. Luke 9:58
  11. Matthew 6:19-21
  12. Matthew 25:14-30

(*) Originally published in REFORMADOR (monthly magazine issued by Federação Espírita Brasileira) in April, 1985

 

Poverty and Wealth – Difficult Trials

· December 27, 2021 · Geraldo Goulart, Reincarnation · · No Comments

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By Geraldo Goulart

It is known that the Earth is in the planetary transition that will elevate it from the category of the worlds of trials and expiation to a world of regeneration. As we have not yet arrived at the paradise of a planet of regeneration, there are still countless awful experiences that parade on a daily basis on this planet. Misery, autoimmune diseases, deforming diseases, endemic ills, unborn children with deformities, premature deaths that translate painful separations, extremes of beauty and ugliness, wealth and poverty, are some of the most well-known trials among the various painful situations that go through the reincarnated spirits on Earth.

Of all the rosary of evidence known today, two are noteworthy for being hard to bear: the proof of wealth and that of poverty. There are people who are surprised when they learn that wealth is a test – the most difficult one that can be contemplated – because they believe that it is impossible for someone to be unhappy because they have a lot of money. However, oddly enough, many people would prefer to switch positions with others who are less privileged just because they are identified as less unhappy and because they know that money does not buy them happiness and peace.

Whoever goes through the proof of wealth has as his first challenge the task of containing the natural impulse to leisure, since he has everything, he needs for its maintenance without ever worrying about getting what he wants. Ahead, we must somehow understand that what we have in our hands truly belongs to divine mercy because, when we are disembodied, we will take nothing with us, except the spiritual goods we have obtained as a result of the good use of resources made available to us.

If there is no vigilance and common sense, wealth can lead people to gambling, vanity, pride exacerbated by believing themselves powerful only because of their purchasing power. But the time will come when they will realize that their coins will not free them from disappointments, from moral suffering, from other people’s greed, from equally proud and arrogant foes, or from diseases. Pain and distress level them out with the other creatures they believed to be inferior to them.

Yes, wealth is a very difficult test. Because of it, there is the other extreme, poverty. Equally arduous proof where possibly those souls who did not know how to manage the wealth in past lives were interned, when they failed in all the obstacles presented to be overcome .

If the rich are lost due to idleness, addiction and possibly also lust, the poor can complicate their ordeal by grumbling and non-conformity. Especially if they do not seek to improve themselves, preferring to live passively from others’ commiseration.

What is learned is that difficulties exist to be challenged, overcome and not for individuals to bend over them as if they were incoercible forces from which one cannot escape the yoke.

In poverty, the spirit submitted to it can learn something that it did not apprehend when in transit with wealth: dignity. Thus, for such a purpose, the poor will be honest without being proud. They will be conformed without giving up. And, in addition, they will be pious without being boorish. Finally, their hands that did not know how to bend to donate, will rise, stand straight, to receive, without murmuring.

The Spiritist Doctrine is lavish on wise teachings for those who yearn for knowledge and reflection. In order to eliminate residual doubts in people about which of these two tests will be the most difficult in the life of the relationship, the inquirer should refer to items 814 and 815 of THE BOOK OF SPIRITS and the doubts about this chapter will cease.

Light and peace!

Eternity Travelers

· December 26, 2021 · Geraldo Goulart, Reincarnation · · No Comments

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By Geraldo Goulart

“Voyagers of Eternity in search of evolution”, this is how we could justify our presence on Earth.

The human soul, created simple and ignorant, as informed to Kardec in item 155 of THE BOOK OF SPIRITS, after transiting through the Mineral, Vegetal and Animal kingdoms over a period that cannot be measured, is characterized as worthy of wearing the physical covering in the Animal kingdom to test your ability to learn – disciplined or not – and to overcome. This evolutionary journey begins in worlds inferior to our planet and crosses other planets with the same conditions that we know in this blessed house called Earth and that is characterized in the list of worlds that offer that offer opportunities for evidence and expiation.

From there, using his free will and being sensitive to the orientations that come from the Most High, the merciful Spiritual Friends, his soul will follow his evolutionary journey towards the Angelic kingdom, where unforgettable adventures await him.

Nevertheless, heed the information that, as to intercede on his behalf, the Spiritual Friends can not interfere in the decisions assumed by the embodied soul. The merit or demerit of the choices about which path to take belongs to each individual in view of the free will that we all have .

The evolutionary journey brings the soul to the most varied landscapes and earthly situations. Wealth, poverty, health, diseases, beauty, ugliness, weddings, celibacy, are some of the tests that are necessary and to which the evolving spirit may have to undergo. The trials, are in fact, are conditioned to the failures or successes made in past lives in the exercise of free will.

Unquestionably, learning drives souls to progress, but it cannot be said that much knowledge – especially “scientific knowledge” – can be translated as spiritual evolution. That’s because, to gain Knowledge we sometimes lose Love. In fact, as several luminaries who have come to the planet with uplifting messages have taught us, the greatest virtue is Love. It follows that Knowledge without Love is nothing, while Love, even without Knowledge, is everything. And there is a simple and clear explanation for this: Knowledge contributes to the horizontal evolution of man. Love symbolizes its vertical evolution, upwards, upwards.

The auxiliary literature of the Spiritist Doctrine offers several case studies for those who wish to learn more about this topic. We read reports that affirm that souls of great knowledge are still immersed in libraries of the Beyond handling heavy, bulky textbooks, trying to know the “how” and the “why?” of items that were their concerns in the last earthly passage. While other souls, unconcerned with philosophical and / or chemical and mathematical constructions, take decisive steps on the evolutionary path simply because they have given themselves to Love and service.

Light and peace!

It’s Better not to Smoke

· March 5, 2021 · Geraldo Goulart, Spiritist, Spiritism · , · No Comments

By: Geraldo Goulart

Chakras“Sane minds’ people usually eat reasonably for their life maintenance, but unwise people ingest unnecessary substances to death’s profit.” (André Luiz em “O Espírito da Verdade”, p. 134, 3rd. edition, FEB)

People who have been in touch for some time with Spirit’s Doctrine may be surprised with the treatment of a subject on which there is consensus and for spiritualists there is no doubt. We are concerned, however, with those who are now coming to the paths trodden by many already and cannot understand very well why spiritualists should not smoke.

Most of us who follow the Doctrine today, just starting from so many different experiences, many are – we believe – former smokers. Thus we understand the effort of our will which is to be developed by those who wish to persevere in spiritual work that we recently embraced, and still keep with some nostalgia the taste of the “harmless” cigarette, pressed by a yearning generated by an abstinence not yet consciously understood.

Depending on their point of view, it is likely that large numbers of Brothers come to learn something about spirit’s strength centers after a year studying. Religions, as a rule, do not have scientific and religious connotations to its followers. They always base their sermons – the ministers – in moral behavior patterns for with this philosophy (which is valid!), curtailing the spread of harmful habits in who that may hear them.

In Spirit Doctrine, despite the moral-philosophical approach, the treatment of this subject presents us with another connotation: smoking harms us significantly; the spiritual manifestation because it dampens spiritual sensitivity. But how can a material substance, the tobacco, which is directed to the physical body, harm the spiritual body? Let’s see it. “The perispirit is a complete fluidic organism, under whose constant influx is modeled and kept the physical body. Its importance is considerable in Embryology and Anatomy, as also in Physiology and Pathology. It is connected part by part, cell by cell, molecule by molecule, to the material structure; everything that goes in one, immediately affects to the other. The perispirit’s functional balance can be disturbed by immaterial agents, fluidic, of the same nature, so that, and this disturbance, affecting the physical body, makes it also sick.” So, “There is a spirit pathology, as there is a spiritualist biology …” (1)

Each one of us, incarnated, is a spirit that has other bodies: dense body, perispiritual body, mental body, etc. These bodies are interconnected by communication channels known as “strength centers” that are located in corresponding regions in the physical body, the nerve plexus, which are the meeting points of the nervous systems of the human body, where they form true connections. The essence of everything we eat for the maintenance of the physical body is added to the blood that, in the bloodstream, will bathe the plexes where, through the communication channels pass to the Spirit the manifested energy that was added on it. “From these secondary centers interwoven into psychosoma, and consequently in the physical body, through plexiform networks … ” – we highlighted – ” the gastric center being responsible for the digestion and absorption of dense or less dense foods, that anyway, represent concentrated fluidic penetrating our organization …” (2)

The cigarette besides the chemical residue which is released to the saliva and thence to the stomach – and hence to the bloodstream – contains chemical components which, when burned, volatilize up, passing very easily to the other dimension, which is where the Spirit vibrates. These substances affect the cellular constitution of the spiritual body manifestation, degrading the natural protection that exists against the outside energies that can affect us the Spirit’s balance and harmony.

Who wishes to study the vital centers and strength centers of the spiritual body, will learn that such aggression, caused by the gradual use of alcohol, tobacco, toxic and other alkaloids, results in disastrous effects, and besides know that with such attitudes only makes worse their situation after death. Thus, the “restful sleep” – that comes after death for every people – may be more extended; the “disconnection of the perispiritual ties” of the Spirit in the physical body may also be more painful; and other problems may appear in aggravated form.

While reincarnated, physical life presents the Spirit a much reduced vibration pattern than normal, just to promote its connection with the dense body. What distinguishes the mediumship potential of creatures is their ability to perceive the highest vibrational level from those without physical bodies; vibrations such that, higher and more purified, is the entity, the greater its content and its manifestation.

The cigarette is an absorber of sensitivity, its usage, only harming the work of those who propose to work on the interchange between the two planes through the mediumship action, since for such an enterprise well-developed sensitivity is one of the primary requirements. And those that do not want to leave the tobacco habit may, of course, participate in mediumistic tasks, but not all of them can achieve due to the serious constraints that make their bodies sick. So:

  • by the evil that leads to the detriment of the physical body;
  • by moral dependence that submits the person;
  • by the aches and pains now unknown, but that will be proved “post mortem”;
  • by the discomfort to non-smokers (which label smokers rightly of “poorly educated”);
  • by the gradual deterioration of psychic faculties of the person and,
  • for the full liberty and balance in its attitudes,

 

hope that each one trace in their accessional objectives, the limits that must be respected for their own good. So, one can better understand the André Luis (Spirit) quote: “…but unwise people ingest unnecessary substances to death’s profit.”

And even being aware that the doctrine nothing forbids, because before elucidates, explains, will say to himself: – IT’S BETTER NOT TO SMOKE!

References:

  1. Homeopatia e Espiritismo, Lauro S. Thiago – 1ª. edição FEB
  2. Evolução em dois Mundos, André Luiz (Espírito), cap. II, 6ª. edição FEB (psicografado por F C Xavier e Waldo Vieira)
  3. Os, Chakras, C.W. Leadbeter, Editora O Pensamento
  4. Entre a Terra e o Céu, André Luiz, Editora FEB
  5. Passes e Radiações, Edgard Armond, Editora Aliança

6) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chakra

(This article was originally published in June 1982 in REFORMADOR, monthly magazine published by FEDERAÇÃO ESPÍRITA BRASILEIRA – FEB under the title “É Poibido Fumar”)

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The Departure Time

· January 12, 2021 · Geraldo Goulart, Spiritist, Spiritism · , · No Comments

It was a touching scene: the daughters around their mother’s bed in the hospital, heavy and somber faces, red and watery eyes. Every person present trying to pick words of encouragement up, but in their heart, all of them experienced a sense of loss already ingrained in their spirits.

We can seriously say that we are not prepared for this moment, fatal and inevitable, which is the time for the return of our loved ones to the spiritual homeland. We are not. This is because even those who have been educated in some religion since childhood have not been taught in this respect. We study almost everything in programs of evangelization – in any denomination – but we do not talk about the “death” phenomenon. However “death” is life! And we have quoted this elsewhere.

Notice that we are prepared – always! – for various occasions: birthdays, holidays, weddings, holidays, Christmas, New Year, New Year’s Eve, Carnival …, and whatever else it may appear. But not only are we not prepared for a funeral ceremony, as we also do not know to say anything other than the well-known phrases as: “my condolences“, “my feelings“, “rest in peace“, “I am so sorry“. Fallacies!

Even worse when people of a strong and passionate temperament arise who do not accept what has happened – the separation -, and they begin to shout improprieties against the Godhead like: “- Why did God do this to me?“.

They do not understand – would it be possible try to make them understand? – that, in addition to suffering the loss, are also interfering, very often, in releasing of the creature that no longer animates its physical body, but that also cannot move itself away to another dimension due to the desperate calls they make to him at that moment.

It is well known that life on Earth is momentary. No matter how many years you will live, it will always be a great time spent here. Here we come, the spirits in need of learning, to pave the evolutionary journey alternating between Love and Pain to become better. This is fate. It is not by chance that Kardec’s grave, the tireless codifier of the Spiritist Doctrine, we read: “To be born, to grow, to die, to be reborn still and to progress always, such is the law.”

In some cases of illness, there are occurrences where there is the sudden improvement of the patient for the specific purpose of preparing the afflicted hearts of the relatives for the fatal outcome. This is when what is commonly called “the visit of health” occurs. Note also that in various distressful situations, the expected does not always occur.

Cases in which family and friends wait for the final moment, contrary to all expectations, it does not come. The patient recovers and life goes on. And there are situations where friends and family themselves pray for the outcome, believing that the sick person is already suffering too much and it is better that they “rest” by the way of death. Which is an illusion.

In the vast Spiritist literature, there are reports where the reader can verify the way of acting of Providence. Here a patient recovers and receives an additional time for family members to calm down, thereby avoiding the enormous burden of suffering that would be undue to the feelings of that group. There occurs the postponement because some objectives are yet to be achieved in that family collectivity. Not knowing the day and the hour when the thief will come, no one can say when it will be the final hour of whoever it is.

For a better understanding and absorption of knowledge on the subject, we suggest reading the books “The Book of Spirits” and “Heaven and the Hell” both by Allan Kardec and read the series of Andre Luiz books by Francisco C. Xavier, beginning with Nosso Lar.

Get them and good reading!

By Geraldo Goulart

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Indirect Suicide

· March 1, 2020 · Geraldo Goulart, Spiritist, Spiritism · , · No Comments

By Geraldo Goulart

Whenever we hear comments about suicide, it comes to mind the picture of an extreme, violent, abrupt death that, in fact, is what characterizes a suicide based on someone’s desire to end immediately their own life. However, the Spiritist Doctrine let us know that this extreme act is a serious error because the only life with which the suicide ends is merely that of his physical body. On this subject, for those who wish to know a little more, we recommend reading the books “THE MARTYRDOM OF SUICIDES” (written by Almerindo Martins de Castro) and also “MEMOIRS OF A SUICIDE” (by Yvonne A. Pereira) both edited by Brazilian Spiritist Federation.

Notwithstanding the false impression that the suicide has gotten rid of what has been tormenting him, suicide has more scope in the Spiritual Plan than that considered here on Earth. Studying the Spiritist Doctrine, we are informed that the unfortunates who commit violent suicide have, in the True Life dimension, a greater burden of suffering, but it is not about this aspect that we wish to reflect, but rather to consider the aspects about indirect suicides (or unconscious suicides) regularly practiced and that may surprise us when we arrive at the Spiritual Fatherland.

In the book “OUR HOME”, André Luiz (Spirit and author of Chico Xavier’s fraternal narrative) tells that as he regained consciousness after his passing, he heard a faint but perfectly noticeable voice calling him: “suicide, suicide… “and he was astonished and wondering if that would be him. After all, he had not committed suicide, and if he had died (he was alive, and very alive, he thought) it would have been because of acquired syphilis. However, sometime later, after a medical visit to a treatment room, he learned that syphilis, associated with other factors such as alcohol use, had generated a cancerous stage that it had damaged his kidneys and liver. Andre, though battered by the evils that caused his discarnation, but lucid enough, acknowledged that by his own fault he had assaulted his physical apparatus by accelerating his physical death. He who had been a doctor on earth had not considered such possibilities!

After careful reading of the Spiritist literature crossed with some biblical passages, we learn that we expose ourselves to daily situations that subject us to the condition of unconscious suicides. Let’s look at some:

  1. Excess of diet and drink (overeating and continued ingestion of alcoholics that make the gastric tract vulnerable and affect the kidneys and liver).
  2. Verbal Intemperance (the feeling of anger, anger, generates negative forces for the one who feeds it and strengthens it in free and repeated aggressions against others and throws excessive doses of adrenaline into the bloodstream).
  3. Nervous imbalance (evidence of poor mental process).
  4. Sexual excesses (degenerating vital energies whose absence can bring the individual closer to madness)
  5. Ingestion of harmful elements such as drugs (alcohol, tobacco, cannabis, crack, LSD, heroin, cocaine and derivatives).
  6. Immoderate use of medication – or its abstinence – (excessive doses in relation to the prescription or ignore the prescription by own decision believing that the doctor did not know how to analyze your problem).
  7. Carelessly crossing roads and / or exposing yourself to risky situations such as not using a walkway or waiting for a traffic light, which is considered suicide even by road legislation.
  8. Drive recklessly taking the risk of killing and dying.
  9. Unprotected sex with strangers.

Although most of the described actions may provide pleasure, they should be avoided as they may be – somewhat – contributing to the self-extermination of the person who practices them. Paul’s statement is worth remembering: “Everything is permitted to me, but not everything suits me. Everything is permitted to me but I will not let anything rule” (Corinthians 6:12). In what suits us because it is necessary for the maintenance of material life, we must observe the equilibrium so as not to strike the fine line that isolates us from the moment of death while we still need to remain in physical health.

We end with the warning from our Sublime Master that we pray and watch because through prayer thanking the blessed gift of life that is bestowed on us for the evolution of our Spirit, we will also be watching over our actions avoiding the precipices in the evil that lurks at us at various times. One careless act will include us in the condition of unconscious suicides who may have to reside in the dark valleys of mourning and pain for a set amount of time – until the date of their planned death.

If you would like to learn more about Spiritism and how we live life after life in the pursuit of become a perfect spirit, read my book 7 Tenets of Spiritism – How they Impact your Daily Life. It is available in Kindle, paperback, and audio formats.

… REST IN PEACE

· January 14, 2020 · Geraldo Goulart · , · No Comments

By Geraldo Goulart

near-deathLarge numbers of people, upon learning about someone’s death, automatically express their feeling saying, “rest in peace”. Such expression is more a cultural attitude than religious one; an act that seems godly, but that does not keep any connection with the reality of the “post-mortem”.

This superficial faith that does not encourage study, no research, and prefers to rely on dogmas, mysteries and symbolism, induces its professed to believe that after disembodiment only what will remain for the righteous is paradise (to the righteous and chosen) or overwhelming flames of hell (to the unrepentant sinners who have not accepted salvation) and thus keep people linked to ignorance about the reality of spiritual life. Most religions says that they shall spend an eternity singing hymns in the Promised Land, if they are a believer, pious and God-fearing. It reveals a total unawareness about how is the Life after life.

They certainly have never heard – or even have read about – that here on Earth we have a faint copy of how the life is in other dimensions. In fact, all the progress made by the earthly man comes from inspiration on the other side of life and, yes, they are achievements that fall far short of the outreach that could have been. If here there are schools, libraries, artistic events, hospitals, places of worship, is because at some point in the past, people were inspired to work those activities and principles for the benefit of earthly society. Therefore, it is easy to conclude that, also on the side, there are institutions – and better ones – developed for the progress of the Spirits.

The first books in the series “Life in the Spirit World” dictated by the Spirit Andre Luiz to the medium Francisco Cândido Xavier, edited by Federação Espírita Brasileira, are rich in surprising revelations

and also in details of life after to what we call on Earth of “death”. From its reading we learn, aboutSONY DSC the organization and administration of the work, rests, entertainments and treatments devoted to the “dead” in some of the cities of beyond. We learn what happens in violent disembodiment caused by traumatic accidents; also those that occur due to serious illness, or by suicide. It is shown to us the spirits are affected by their repeated memories, especially when people were preoccupied with the material goods of earth in their last passage through the planet.

Remember two questions addressed to Emmanuel who is in the CONSOLADOR (FEB), items 147 and 148:

  • Does death provide unexpected changes and some modifications as many desire?

 

       — Death does not lavish miraculous changes to our consciousness.

Disincarnating is simply changing state, you don’t change the infirmities or virtues with the simple release of your body. It is important to observe only the change of the area in which you learn – from the terrestrial to the spirit plane. (…)

 

  •  -What awaits the disembodied man, directly, in the early years of life beyond the grave?

— The disembodied soul naturally seeks the activities that were its favorite in the circles of material life; obeying its similar desires, as it occurs in societies of your world.

Are not your cities replete of associations, of guilds, of whole classes that are joined and that unionize for determined aims, conjugating identical interests of several individuals? There, are not the loan sharks, the politicians, the traders, the priests, aiming at each group to defense of their own interests?

The disembodied, looks for, anxiously, in Space, the similar crowd with his thinking, in order to continue the same kind of life left on Earth, but in the case of passionate and vicious creatures, his mind again will find the materiality obsessions , as money, alcohol, etc., obsessions that become his moral martyrdom of every hour, in the closest spheres of the Earth.

That said, on the other hand, we observe that nature works continuously in the production and reproduction of essential items to the balance of the planet and of material life, then it is easy to deduce that the Creator is also working incessantly. In the Old and New Testament, are about 10 to 12 references to the substantives “rest” and “sleep,” but no one can infer that is “eternal” rest. Both in Psalms as in Deuteronomy and Isaiah, you can read that God works while we sleep. Will it be then that He sleeps or rests while we are woken? But we know that when in one hemisphere is day, in the other is night. So, there is no chance of rest for Him.

The Spiritist Doctrine codified by Allan Kardec, clarifies, in psychographic messages in different countries, the subject that the Supreme Intelligence works incessantly. And with regard to the type work there is also unanimity. In all the books of the Spiritist Pentateuch, there are varied comments on the subject. After analyzing them, it is easy to conclude that the Creator works unceasingly for our progress.

With regard to the “death” it is appropriate that those desiring further information read and reflect on Chapter II of THE BOOK OF SPIRITS where one can find enlightening answers. At the end, readers will understand that there is no “rest in peace” simply because after a necessary short period for the Spirit-101-Front-smallreadapting the Spirit; when one returns to the Spiritual Plan dimension, many surprises and activities await them. Hence death is not the end and the “nothing” does not exist just because life goes on.

Learn more about Spiritism – read Spiritism 101 – The Third Revelation to gain an introduction into the basic questions of your immortal spirit and the spirit realm.

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