It has to prepared the man
for work, says Kardec

The interview that illustrates this issue reminded us an important lesson recorded in the issue of 802 in the main work of Spiritism - The Spirits' Book, Allan Kardec - which outlines the whole framework of spiritual doctrine.

It tells us Angélica da Costa Maia, from Lavras, Minas Gerais, the all improvement passes through the improvement of self and it is futile fight only for the enhancement of institutions, because these do not exist without minds that constitute them.

We read in the issue 802 of the work mentioned:

- Since Spiritism has to mark progress of mankind, why do not hasten the spirits that progress through widespread demonstrations and patents, that the conviction penetrates even the most incredulous?

The immortals answered:

"You desire miracles, but God scatters handfuls before your steps and yet, there are still men who deny it. Did Christ Himself convince his contemporaries, through the wonders wrought? Do not you know someone who denies the most obvious facts occurred to their views? Aren’t there those who say does not believe even if they saw it? No, it is not through miracles that God wants men forward. In his goodness, he leaves them the merit of being convinced by reason."

The difficulty pointed out that neither prodigies are able to eliminate, it is cited by many spiritists parents who do not understand why their children, many of them educated in the spiritists tenets, depart - as adults – from the Christian harvest and go down into roads we know it will not lead them to goals for which they are reincarnated.

What happens at the individual level, it happens in global level and spiritist teaching is quite clear in stating that belief is a personal thing that the individuals acquire it through their own efforts, and therefore it is not capable of being transferred, much less imposed on anyone whatever.

Regarding the reform of institutions, Kardec used to say that it is necessary first to prepare man for the work, not the work to the man. In modern management, as many know, companies submit new employees to a specific and meticulous training before assigning them this or that function.

Considering the society as a whole, it is clear that it will be more or less developed in direct proportion to the qualifications of those who compose it. As we understand from the response that the immortals gave in the issue 793 in The Spirits’ Book, reproduced below:

- How clues can recognize a complete civilization?

"Acknowledge them through the moral development. You believe you are very further, because there has been made ​​great discoveries and obtained wonderful inventions; because you live and clothe better than savages. However, you have no real right to tell you are civilized, but when in your society will be banned vices that dishonor it and when you live like brothers, practicing Christian charity. Until then you will be only enlightened people who will cover the first phase of civilization."

Commenting on this answer, Kardec wrote: "Of two nations who have reached the apex of the social scale, it can only be considered the most civilized in the legitimate sense of the term, that where there is less selfishness, less greed and less pride; where customs are more intellectual and moral than material, where intelligence can be developed with greater freedom; where there is more kindness, goodwill, benevolence and reciprocal generosity; which may prove less rooted prejudices of caste and birth, so that such prejudices are incompatible with the true love of neighbor; where laws do not consecrate any privilege and be the same, so for the last, as for the first; which has less partiality is exercised justice; where the weak always finds shelter against the strong; where a man's life, beliefs and opinions are much better respected; and where there is fewer miserable; finally, where every man of good will are certain that the necessary will never be missed."

Clearer than these words, we sincerely believe, it is impossible.