The fatality and its nuances
 

The theme of fatality remains unknown to many people, even within the spiritualists. After all, there is or there is not fatality in life events? The facts of our existence are pre-marked or not?

Both questions were the subject of clearly explanations in the first work of Allan Kardec, considered by many as the most important work of Spiritism, ie, The Spirits’ Book.

With regard to the fatality, two aspects should be considered.

If we imagine as the prior and irrevocable decision of the successes of life, the answer is no. That prior decision - that people associate with the word fatality - does not exist.

Indeed, if this were the order of things, men would be nothing but machines, which, as we know, have not free will. For what would serve the intelligence, since they invariably would be bound to, in all their actions, the force of destiny?

Resembling doctrine, if it is true, it would mean the destruction of all moral freedom. Man would not have any responsibility and, therefore, no merit or demerit on what he would do.

If, however, we understand the fatality as an overall plan set by the person before reincarnating, resulting in a kind of life he has chosen, as proof, atonement or mission, then we can say that the fatality is not an empty word, because the person will suffer in the course of bodily existence, all the vicissitudes that he himself has chosen and all the good or evil tendencies that are inherent.

Cease, however, the effects of the fatality as the result of programming called reincarnation, because it depends on the individual - and only him - to give or to resist these trends and influences.

For details of events, they are subject to circumstances that the person creates through his actions. Just as an example: - If the individual chooses the path of crime, he will have to suffer all the drawbacks arising from this, if he becomes a drinker and becomes an alcoholic, he will face the troubles and illnesses resulting from this addiction.

Briefly, then we can say that there is fatality, yes, in the events that happen, because these are a consequence of the choice that the Spirit has done in his existence as a man, but it could not be a fatality in the result of such events, if it is achievable, by his prudence, changing his course. Never, however, there will be fatality in acts of moral life, namely, crime, suicide, abandonment of children, betrayal, adultery and all that concerns the person's conduct has nothing to do with the choice made it before immersion in the flesh.

Finally, remembering that, according to Spiritism, fatal, in the true sense of the word, only the moment of death it is. When that time has come, in one form or another, we cannot snoop around.

It is, therefore, where the man is subject at all, the inexorable law of fate, since he cannot escape from the sentence which marks the term of his existence or the kind of death that has to cut this wire. The cases of moratorium are easy to understand, mere exceptions to this rule.