Let us think together.
Let’s relate in short,
some human differences:
poverty and wealth,
beauty and ugliness;
plentiful intellect and
difficulties of thinking;
early geniuses and
children with learning
difficulties, death
amongst young children
and healthy youth,
financial stability and
health standing next to
shortages and cruel
diseases, violence and
kindness, honesty and
corruption, everything
is right for some and
nothing is right for
others, fear and daring,
modesty and arrogance;
etc.
Now! This is an endless
list. Daily we see these
extreme situations that
at times can be
confusing to our
reasoning. So we think:
why? How could we
explain so many
differences? Is it
coincidence? Is it
preference of God?
Privileges of birth?
Merits? Punishment? Many
feel challenged and find
it difficult to
understand, but is
simple. The explanation
already exists and it
comes from before the
coming of Jesus to the
planet. Experts at
various times, before
and after the advent of
the coming of Jesus,
spoke of reincarnation.
And now, researchers and
scientists are studying
the issue of natural law
that governs human lives.
Yes, natural law! It is
not invented by anyone
of any belief. Not an
exclusive privilege of
anyone else either. It
is simply a natural law.
Being natural, it is
Divine, established by
the Creator. But where
is the proof to that
truth?
Now, go back to the
beginning of this
comment and submit all
those questions and more
doubts to the endless
list to a single
existence that
determines luck and
decides the future. How
to reconcile this with
the principles of
infinite justice and
incomparable goodness of
a Father Creator, we
call God as taught by
Jesus? In a single
opportunity, full of
individual and
collective weaknesses
how can we overcome
challenges that make us
worthy of living and a
happy home after the
death of the body? Add
to that the situations
of stillbirths, children
who die in infancy or
leaving young victims of
accidents. They did not
have the time to build
up their own balance.
They were despised by
life. Why? What about
all the privileged ones?
Is this fair?
With the multiplicity of
existences, we can learn
continuously, to build
the balance and repair
misunderstandings. This
is the reincarnation, no
secrets. Simple question
of justice. At this
point it is the clarity
of the issue 219 of The
Book of Spirits:
219 - What is the origin
of the extraordinary
powers of individuals,
without prior study,
seem to have the
intuition of certain
knowledge, such as
languages, the
calculation. Answer: -
Remembering the past;
previous progress of the
soul, which has no
conscience. Where do you
think they come from?
The body changes, but
the Spirit does not
change, as a change of
clothing.
Steadiness and
perseverance also lead
us to new experiences
and the accumulation of
other experiences
On the different skills
of humans, the spirits
were clear in encoding.
The inquiry of Allan
Kardec about the reasons
for the difference of
these skills, they
replied that "God
created all spirits
equal, but each has more
or less experience and
therefore more or less skills
*. The difference is the
degree of their
experience and their
willingness, which is
the free will: hence,
one is improving more
rapidly and that gives
them various skills. The
variety of skills is
needed so that each can
contribute to the goals
of Providence within the
limits of development of
their physical and
intellectual forces:
what one does not do,
another does. Thus each
has a useful role (...)"
(1)
Well, the answer above
presents several
developments. The actual
indication of more or
less experience, which
of course will determine
the degree of will and
freedom, open spaces of
immense material and
moral action. Yes,
because each of us can
only act with
resourcefulness in the
area who knows who
dominates by previous
experience, but not
necessarily the last
existence.
This also leads to think
that one is not
prevented from starting
new field of action,
whose steadiness and
perseverance also lead
to accumulation of new
experiences and other
experiences, useful also
in the whole
evolutionary process.
In the same response
should also indicate the
improvement faster (which
generates new and
ongoing skills in
various areas) or slower,
depending on the effort
spent and the handling
of the will in this goal.
But the spirits are very
clear on their teachings
: "the variety of skills
is required." Each will
bring its share of
contribution, each
experience will be used,
each physical strength
or intellectual compete
for the collective good
and all have a role to
play, always useful in
all general.
Interestingly, however,
is not always the
differences - which must
compete for a useful
purpose, as stated in
The Book of Spirits (1)
- establish links of
harmony. Often
individual differences
are the cause of
conflict; a result of
the influence of pride
and selfishness that
still dominate the human
condition.
Where there is a sense
of tolerance and
kindness there will be
order, peace, and
stability
Allan Kardec, however,
brings the lucidity of
his thinking in two
settings - among many in
the same direction -
that partially
transcribed:
a) "If a group
wants to be able to have
order, peace and
stability, there needs
to reign in it a
fraternal feeling. Every
group or society which
is formed without the
effective basis for
charity has no vitality,
while those who will be
based on the true spirit
of the Doctrine look as
if members of the same
family that can not all
live under the same home
live in different places.
"
The remark is directed
at spiritists groups (in
response to the request
of spiritists in Lyon,
during the New Year) and
in the Spiritist
Magazine, February 1862,
page 362, but applies to
any group. Where there
is a sense of tolerance
and benevolence there
will be order, peace,
and stability.
Similarly, in the issue
of December 1868 (2),
page 392, the
Transitional
Constitution of
Spiritism (item IX -
Conclusion), Kardec
reaffirms:
b) "(...) but to
expect that Spiritism is
organized the same way
throughout, that
spiritists of the whole
world are subject to a
uniform system, the same
way of proceeding, which
must wait for the light
of a fixed point you
should set its eyes, it
would be a utopia as
absurd as to claim that
all peoples of the earth
one day but not form a
single nation, ruled by
a single leader,
governed by the same
code of laws, and
subject to the same
uses. If there are
general laws that may be
common to all people,
these laws will always
be in the details of
implementation and the
manner, appropriate to
the customs, the
characters, and the
climates of each. The
same way Spiritism will
be organized. The Spirit
of the world have common
principles that link the
large family by sacred
bond of fraternity, but
the application could
vary according to region,
without, therefore, that
the fundamental unit is
broken *, without
forming dissident sects
throwing stone and
anathema, which would be
anti-spiritist (...)".
Fraternity is a pure scent
from above, is an
infinite emanation, is
the base for moral
institutions
It is the issue of
differences in
relationships, in
coexistence. There are
differences, obviously,
even as a matter of
understanding the
different stages in
which we, supporters of
Spiritism , are also,
This, however, does not
eliminate the
brotherhood that should
reign in building peace
on the planet and in
individual privacy. With
this, we can conclude
that the reincarnation
also influences within
the spiritist
understanding, since we
are also incarnate
spirits, therefore,
subject to specific
training to
understanding and
maturity.
As highlighted in the
message of social order
Fundamentals (3):
"(...) Fraternity is a
pure scent from Above,
is an infinite emanation,
an atom of celestial
intelligence, is the
base for moral
institutions, and the
only way to raise a
social state that can
exist and deliver the
effect for the great
cause for which we are
fighting. brethren, if
you want that the germ
deposited amongst you to
develop and become the
tree you desire embrace
fraternity. The union is
the sovereign power that
descends upon the earth;
the brotherhood is the
sympathy in the union.
(...) We need to be
united and we must be
strong to found an
institution that does
not rest only on the
truth made so far and so
wonderful, so simple and
so sublime. Forces when
divided wipe; together
the forces become
stronger. (...)".
He concludes wisely:
"(...) without the
fraternity, what do you
see? Selfishness,
ambition. Each one in
its own objective, each
pursuing him for his
part, each moving in its
own way, and all are
inevitably dragged in
the abyss where they are
swallowed up, after so
many centuries, all
human efforts. With the
union, there is more
than a single target,
because there is more
than one thought, one
hope, one heart. Unite,
therefore, my friends,
is what you repeat the
incessant voice of our
world, unite you, and
reach far more quickly
to your target (...)".
And what would be the
target for us, who
profess Spiritism?
Let us play with the
clarity of the response
that started this
comment: "The variety of
skills is required in
order to everyone can
compete in the goals of
Providence limit the
development of their
physical and
intellectual forces:
what one does not,
another does. Thus each
has a useful role (...)"
(1)
Focus attention on the
end of the sentence:
what one does, another
does. Thus each has a
useful role (...).
Understanding this vital
information, the
differences disappear
and coexistence takes
its rightful path: that
of brotherhood.