One day, I
heard this
sentence
said by a
friend of
mine: “There
is only one
Spiritism,
that of
Kardec and
no other”,
which would
be the
slogan of an
electoral
campaign if
there were
one. I
pinned it
and thought
it was
funny,
because in
addition to
being funny,
it was
profound,
not
requiring
many
comments.
Planet Earth is going
through moments of
physical and moral
torment.
Obviously such a state
of affairs could not
fail to affect
Spiritists (adherents of
the Spiritist idea),
namely those less
vigilant and less in
tune with superior
spirituality (“Watch
and pray” – Jesus).
The Spiritist structure
left by Allan Kardec in
1857 is still in its
childhood.
Few of us manage to
delve deeply into their
existential concepts.
We stay on the periphery
of clumsy, rushed, and
nonsensical opinions.
They say that Spiritism
is late, outdated and
they still haven't even
understood it, felt it,
just memorized
ready-made phrases,
crammed into referenced
academic titles, as if
they were the assumption
of intellectual and
moral evolution on
Earth.
If in 2,023 years we
still have not been able
to understand Jesus of
Nazareth's message of
social success (doing
to others what we wish
for ourselves), how
is it that in 166 years
of Spiritism we want to
understand it, reform it
and create a new
Spiritism?
There is no left, right,
progressive, reformist,
religious, secular
Spiritism. There
is Spiritism codified by
Allan Kardec
We see, strangely
enough, in Brazil, a
group of people who
elaborated in audio,
available on YouTube, The
New Book of Spirits,
“updated” with questions
and answers, from new
inquirers and new
mediums, but very
secretly and without
indication of their
authors. Squeezing, we
find the fruit of
someone who has nothing
to give other than
Kardec: a hand
of…nothing!
Still in Brazil,
Spiritists, in a
non-vigilant way, tried
to follow the
evangelical churches and
the IURD, in a political
dispute during the
presidential elections.
Left-wing Spiritists,
right wing Spiritists,
progressive Spiritists,
reformist Spiritists and
even anti-racist
Spiritists appeared who
had the luxury of
editing one of Kardec's
books, with the subtitle
"anti-racist", in an
intellectual breakdown,
as well as a lack of
common sense.
There are no right or
left Spiritists.
There are, however,
people from the right,
from the political
center, from the left
who are also followers
of the Spiritist idea
(they say).
The left, the right and
all the subgroups that
are created are parts of
the whole. They are
parties, like religions
and football clubs: they
are against each other.
Spiritist morality is
based on an entire,
global idea, transversal
to all Humanity: the
teachings of Jesus of
Nazareth. They surpass
any partisan idea that
exists on the planet.
Exchanging more for less
is lack of common sense,
fanaticism, lack of
vision and a doctrinal
evolutionary retreat
(taking the original
idea and adapting it to
our egoic
idiosyncrasies).
The Doctrine of the
Spirits is the heritage
of Humanity, it does not
belong to wealthy people
or organized groups,
which pretend to present
themselves as the clergy
or the Spiritist papacy.
This will never exist in
the Spiritist idea, as all
Spiritist groups will
always have equal
importance and
responsibility, in a
networked system and not
a pyramidal one.
Even so, the thirst for
power (without any
power), which vice of
former times, of the
churches, in other
lives, appears here and
there, in a ridiculous
and painful presumption,
in the face of the
immense path that we
have to tread, hand in
hand with reason,
knowledge, cemented by
simplicity and humility.
Kardec mentions that
Spiritism is progressive
(it has a commitment to
progress) but that has
nothing to do with
political parties, more
or less so-called
progressive.
From the depths of our
psychic sparks of
nostalgia for the
Catholic confraternities
and an enormous desire
to raise them in
Spiritism.
We do not understand
anything that Spiritism
has to give to Humanity!
Just in case, I am going
to reread “The Book
of Spirits” by Allan
Kardec, the original
and, in a Spiritist
stance, I am going to
re-study it.
Perhaps the "service
novices" can, perhaps,
do the same, failing to surf
on the wave of lack
of sense that, like an
obsessive presence,
hangs over Humanity.
The Laws of Nature are
as they are and we
cannot escape them: “To
be born, to die, to be
reborn again, to
progress without
ceasing, that is the Law”,
but we can, perhaps,
waste time and
compromise the
advancement of
Spiritism, with
personalism and
modernity à la minute,
which these times of
insanity offer
us.
Sowing is free, but
harvesting is mandatory.
I am going to sow Kardec,
because, more than this
I do not know.
José
Lucas resides in Obidos,
Portugal.