Innate talents in the
Spiritist view 

For those who believe that angels were created like that – smart, intelligent, unsusceptible to the diseases that affect man – it’s not difficult to think like the French mathematician Henri Poincaré, passed away in 1912, who believed in innate talents. “Mathematicians are born; they are not made”, he used to say.

We know, however, when it comes down to us humans, that nothing is earned for free. Learning a subject and mastering it requires dedication, study and, above all, much time.

How can we explain then the precocious talents, the wonder kids? Have they been created like that, receiving from God a privilege that is not given to most of his creatures?

Some time ago, the magazine Veja focused on the case of the teenager Carlos Matheus Silva Santos, whose at age 19 graduated from the National Institute of Pure and Applied Mathematics, from Rio de Janeiro, following the footsteps of Pascal, Leibnitz, Gauss and Evariste Galois, all who stood out in the difficult field of Mathematics.

The Spiritist Doctrine is very clear about it. There are no privileges in creation. Wonder kids are just reincarnated that can easily access, through a mechanism that is not available to most kids and adolescents, the intellectual victories they had in the past and required effort, dedication and study from them.

Wonder kids, far away from being traces of an inadmissible bias from the Creator, are one of the most evident proofs of palingenesis, doctrine taught by Pythagoras, Socrates, Plato, Jesus and reinforced, in modern times, by Spiritism.

Kardec asked the immortals how come a Spirit, given the limitations of a corporeal existence, reaches the aim God established for us: perfection. After all, Jesus said: “Ye are gods, and all of you sons of the Most High.”

The immortals said: “Having a new incarnation”, it means, reincarnating, since in each incarnation he can go one step further in evolution, something that, obviously, has already happened to the so-called wonder kids.