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As for the period of
disturbance, this topic
is complex. Therefore,
we conducted a specific
research, the result of
which we present in our
e-book The
Disturbance During
Intrauterine Life (1).
353. Since the union
of the Spirit to the
body is only
definitively completed
after birth, can the
fetus be considered
endowed with a soul?
“The Spirit that will
animate it exists, in a
way, outside of it. Strictly
speaking, the fetus does
not have a soul, since
the incarnation is only
in the process of taking
place. It is,
however, linked to the
soul that it will come
to possess.” (ii )
(Italics in original,
our bold)
If the connection of the
Spirit occurred at
conception and the body
started to be formed
under the “command” of
the perispirit, s.m.j.,
we can say that it has a
soul, because the
spiritual body is an
integral part of it.
354. How is
intrauterine life
explained?
“It is that of the plant
that vegetates. The
child lives the animal
life. Man has in himself
animal and plant life,
which, by his birth, are
completed with spiritual
life.” (iii)
(Italics in original,
our bold)
Before it was said that
the child lives like
plants, now we have a
further development of
the explanation.
However, to say that
life is completed with
Spiritual life by its
birth is, in our
opinion, to maintain the
content of the previous
idea, against the facts
that arise from research
with memory regression.
356. Will there be
stillbirths that have
not been destined for
the incarnation of
Spirits?
“Yes, there are those
who never had a Spirit
destined for their
bodies. Nothing was
to be fulfilled in them.
It is only because of
their parents that these
children come into the
world.”
356-a. Can a being of
this nature reach the
end of gestation?
“Yes, sometimes, but it
does not live.”
356-b. So, does
every child who survives
birth necessarily have a
Spirit incarnated in
him?
“What would the child be
without the Spirit? It
wouldn't be a human
being." (iv )
(Italics in original,
our bold)
We always saw the set of
these responses as
something very strange,
especially in relation
to the existence of
bodies without a Spirit
being designated.
However, if we take the
previous idea, which
pointed to the
connection at the moment
of birth, it is easy to
understand what they
were implying. However,
with the change of
thought, it no longer
makes sense to maintain
the idea that there are
bodies without a Spirit
that has been assigned
to it.
359. In the event
that the birth of the
child endangers the
mother's life, is there
a crime in sacrificing
the child to save the
mother?
“It is better to
sacrifice the being that
does not yet exist than
to sacrifice the one
that already exists.”
The answer to question
359 is a return to the
previous concept about
the moment of
connection. Why was it
said, "It is better to
sacrifice the being that
does not yet exist"?
Simply, by maintaining
the previous
understanding, which was
in force in 1858, as
mentioned in question
28, contained in the Spiritist
Magazine 1858,
whereby the spirit was
linked to the body at
birth and not at
conception as stated in
the 2nd edition.
In the topic “Family
conversations from
beyond the grave”
published in the Spiritist
Magazine 1860,
month of June, we have
the report of the
manifestation of Ms.
Duret, evoked on the
21st and 25th of May, at
Allan Kardec’s. Let us
see the question 38
because of Allan
Kardec's note:
38. While the phenomenon
of death was taking
place, were you aware of
what was happening in
your body? – R. Not at
all. God, who is good
for all his creatures,
wants to spare the
Spirit the anguish of
that moment; therefore,
it takes away all memory
and all sensation.
Note.
This fact, which has
always been confirmed to
us, is analogous to what
happens when the Spirit
enters the corporeal
world. It is known
that, from the moment
of conception, the
Spirit designated to
inhabit the body that
must be born, is
taken by a disturbance.
This disturbance grows
as the fluidic bonds,
which unite it to
matter, tighten, until
the proximities of
birth; at this moment it
also loses all
self-consciousness, and
does not begin to
recover its ideas until
the moment the child
breathes; it is only
then that the union
between the Spirit and
the body is complete and
definitive. (v)
(Emphasis added)
Everything seems
“right”. However, when
stating “the Spirit
designated to inhabit
the body that must be
born” brings the old
point of view, since at
the moment of conception
when the Spirit is
connected, there is
still no body, its
formation starts from
that “magical” moment.
On 15/01/1861, Allan
Kardec publishes the
first edition of The
Book of Mediums, of
which we highlight the 2nd part,
chapter XXV, of item
283, the following
question:
51. Can a Spirit, whose
body is still in the
mother's womb, be
evoked?
"No. You know perfectly
well that at that moment
it is in a state of
complete disturbance.”
NOTE – The incarnation
only becomes definitive
at the moment the child
breathes. However, since
the conception of the
body, the Spirit
assigned to animate it is
taken by a kind of
disturbance that
increases as birth
approaches, taking away
from it the
consciousness of itself
and, consequently, the
faculty of responding.
(See The Book of
Spirits, Return
to corporeal life –
“Union of the soul to
the body”, question
344.) (vi)
(Italics in the
original, our boldface)
The same applies to our
previous comment.
In the Spiritist
Magazine 1861,
month of June, we have
recorded the message
entitled “The
debauchery”, dictated by
the Spirit Felicia, from
which we highlight the
following excerpt, as it
is related to our
subject:
[…] If it is possible
for you to reproduce the
human species, it is
because thousands of
wandering Spirits wait
in space for the
formation of the bodies
they need to restart
their test, and by
using your strength in
ignoble voluptuousness,
you go against the
objectives of God, and
your punishment will be
great. Ban, therefore,
those readings, from
which you derive no
fruit either for your
intelligence or for your
moral improvement. […].
Here is the following
note from the Encoder:
Is there not something
profound and sublime in
this idea that gives
such a high goal to the
reproduction of the
body? Wandering
Spirits wait for these
bodies, which they
need for their own
advancement, and which incarnate
Spirits are in charge of
reproducing, as man
waits for the product of
the reproduction of
certain animals in order
to dress and feed
himself.(vii)
(emphasis added)
It continues with the
idea of the connection
with the formed body, a
fact that only occurs
about 40 weeks after
conception.
In the work What
Spiritism is only
after the 3rd edition,
published in September
1862, the new
information is recorded:
89. How and at what
moment does the union of
the soul and the body
take place?
Since conception,
the Spirit, even if
wandering, is, attached
to the body with which
it must united by a
fluidic cord. This bond
gets tighter and tighter
as the body develops.
From that moment, the
Spirit feels an
ever-growing
disturbance; when
approaching birth, when
it becomes complete, the
Spirit loses
consciousness of itself
and only gradually
recovers its ideas, from
the moment the child
begins to breathe; the
union is then complete
and final. (viii)
(Emphasis added)
Therefore, we have that
the connection is made
at conception, but the
“complete coupling”, if
we can put it that way,
of the Spirit to its
physical body only ends
at birth.
References:
KARDEC, A. The Book
of Spirits: 1stPrimeira
Edition, dated 1857.
Sao Paulo: IPECE, 2004.
KARDEC, A. The Book
of Spirits.
Brasilia: FEB, 2013.
KARDEC, A. The Book
of Mediums.
Brasilia: FEB, 2013.
KARDEC, A. What
Spiritism is. Rio de
Janeiro: FEB, 2001.
KARDEC, A. Spiritist
Magazine 1858.
Araras (SP): IDE, 2001.
KARDEC, A. Spiritist
Magazine 1860.
Araras (SP): IDE, 2000.
KARDEC, A. Spiritist
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Sobradinho (DF): Edicel,
2012.
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[VIII]KARDEC, O
Que é o Espiritismo,
p. 197, a 3ª edição que
temos é em francês,
razão pela qual tomamos
a presente edição da FEB
para o teor em
português.
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