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There are elderly people, children and babies being murdered or captured by the terrorist group Hamas, currently generating a war between Israel and Palestine. And what will Spiritism say? Why does God allow such a thing? Would these people be paying off debts from past lives with this suffering?
Amazingly: there are judges on duty who want to say that the massacre of young people at the rave was related to divine punishment, for having a party, supposedly with drugs, in the “Holy Land”. A complete is evil nonsense!!
Once again we need to remember: to speak according to Spiritism, it is necessary to look for what exists developed by the necessary scientific method, something that, to this day, has been done just by Kardec. And here's a golden tip:
If someone says they are talking about Spiritism, but says that the victims of any calamities or crimes are “paying” for debts from past lives, or that it is the effect of “karma“, or who are repaying debts from past lives, stop following them and go look for what spiritist science says. We are here stating, emphatically: this is not Spiritism! Spiritism can be found in the recommended works at the end of the text.
Spiritism does not talk about karma, nor about paying debts for incarnation
It is a never-ending struggle, and every time any critical event occurs that shakes the population, we have to return to the same subject, in the name of true Spiritism. Now there is war in Israel. Last year, it was the terrorist attacks to Brazilian schools. Before, a climate disaster or cataclysm like the one who undermined Petrópolis or the sad accident with the Chapecoense team. And frivolous individuals always appear, who have never studied Spiritism, saying truly absurd things that do not correspond to the Spiritist Doctrine or claiming to have received psychographs from the victims, stating that they were “evil soldiers who committed cruelty in the past” (sic! ).
We are obliged to do our part, remembering that we are alive in dense matter, subject to the laws of matter and also to the criminal decisions of other people, which never, ever, under any circumstances, serves to “redeem debts from past lives”!
Read too: Should we expose the enemies of Spiritism?
Apart from the tests imposed by the choices of others or by the force of nature, or even those that result from the present actions of the individual himself, there are also types of tests that the Spirit may have chosen to go through, but not to “pay” for anything:
- The Spirit can choose trials simply to learn and progress.
- You can also choose certain tests because you understand that you have overcome a certain imperfection, choosing then go through challenges and opportunities with a view to letting go of this imperfection, which makes you suffer.
This appears in original, unadulterated edition of Heaven and Hell, from the publisher FEAL.
The Book of Spirits
Talking about the destructive scourges, we can apply part of the understanding to these events as well:
738.
The) - But both the good and the wicked man succumb to these scourges. Will this be fair?
“During life, man refers everything to his body; however, he thinks differently after death. Now, as we have said, the life of the body is very little. A century in your world is nothing more than a lightning in eternity. Therefore, nothing is the suffering of a few days or a few months, about which you complain so much. They represent teaching that is given to you and that will serve you in the future. Spirits, which pre-exist and survive everything, form the real world (85). These are the children of God and the object of all their solicitude. Bodies are mere disguises with which they appear in the world. On the occasion of great calamities that decimate men, the spectacle is similar to that of an army whose soldiers, during the war, had their uniforms damaged, torn, or lost. The general cares more about his soldiers than about their uniforms.”
B) - But that doesn't mean they are no longer victims of these scourges.
“If you considered life for what it is, and how little it represents in relation to infinity, you would give less importance to it. In another life, these victims will find ample compensation for their sufferings, if they know how to bear them without murmuring.”
The Book of Spirits
Spiritism, far from talking about karma and paying debts, demonstrates the opposite!
We also recommend caution with these theories that are events related to the planetary transition, as they are theories that do not find support in Spiritism.
Let's return to Kardec. Is important. Enough opinions. Spiritism is a science! If more people were defending the Doctrine, others would have a better chance of finding good content, not content based on false ideas.
It is worth recalling what appears in The Spirits' Book about wars:
742. What drives man to war?
“The predominance of the animal nature over the spiritual nature and the overflow of passions. In the state of barbarism, peoples only know one right: that of the strongest. That is why, for such peoples, war is a normal state. As man progresses, war becomes less frequent, because he avoids its causes. And when it becomes necessary, he knows how to do it with humanity.”
743. From the face of the earth, will war ever disappear?
“Yes, when men understand justice and do the law of God. At that time, all peoples will be brothers.”
744. What did Providence aim at, making war necessary?
“Freedom and Progress.”
The) - If war must have the advent of freedom as its effect, how can it often aim and result in subjugation?
“Temporary subjugation, for press peoples, in order to make them progress more quickly.”
745. What is to be thought of him who stirs up war for his own benefit?
“This is the big culprit and many stocks will be necessary for him to atone for all the murders he has caused, as he will answer for all the men whose deaths he has caused to satisfy his ambition1.”
The Book of Spirits
Our condolences to the victims of this sad war between Israel and Palestine. Let us pray that these Spirits do not get attached to the evil of others and can move on. This is one of the best effects of Spiritism, which, unfortunately, they probably did not know about.
Curiosities
Kardec several times performed evocations of Spirits killed in wars, from simple soldiers to officers. We have, for example:
- A Senior Officer killed in Magenta
- Materiality from beyond the grave: the Zuavo of Magenta
- The Spirit of a soldier killed in war: the Drummer of Beresina
Reading Recommendations (Books)
- Free PDFs by Kardec – https://bit.ly/3sXXBxk
- Autonomy – The Untold History of Spiritism: https://amzn.to/3PIvbyy
- Allan Kardec's Legacy: https://amzn.to/3RIn2gv
- Final point – the reunion with spiritualism with Allan Kardec: https://amzn.to/48PLaE7
- Neither Heaven nor Hell – The Laws of the Soul According to Spiritism: https://amzn.to/3F2voYO
- Genesis – Miracles and Predictions According to Spiritism (unadulterated): Free PDF or https://amzn.to/3RM91hF
- Heaven and Hell: Or divine justice according to Spiritism (unadulterated): Free PDF or https://amzn.to/3ZGrcal
- Spiritist Revolution. Allan Kardec's forgotten theory: https://amzn.to/3t7HIUH
- Mesmer. The denied science of animal magnetism: https://amzn.to/3PYc1X2
- The Book of Mediums: https://amzn.to/3PDNTHK
- The Spirits' Book: https://amzn.to/3QkcFx9
- Spiritist Magazine – complete collection: https://amzn.to/48Uxh7s
- Practical Instructions on Spiritist Manifestations: https://amzn.to/3QiR8Gc
- Spiritism in its Simplest Expression: https://amzn.to/3M6fXT5
- Which means: when this Spirit understands the evil he has caused, his conscience will accuse him of the height to which his imperfections have reached. This is the reason for demanding many incarnations in atonement, choosing evidence that can help you to rescue yourself of their deviations. It does not mean that he will have to reincarnate with each of his victims, even because most of them do not stick to the fact and follow their path of evolution (Our notes). [↩]
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Not that I believe in spiritualism, but I was a solo student for years... I say solo because I reached a point where the knowledge of my colleagues at the center I attended was already shallow. But your argument is not scientific. There is no science in spiritualism, just as there is no science in any other religion. And another, how do you argue the non-existence of Karma and attach contrary thought? My God! Ultimately, only Jesus saves, wars have always existed since the beginning and will always exist until Jesus returns.
Fernando, when you say that “there is no science in spiritualism”, this shows that you do not really know Spiritism, nor Rational Spiritualism. If you are determined that you are right, we need not continue. If you want to learn, as we do, then we can give you suggestions on where to find relevant study material. You can, for example, start here: https://www.geolegadodeallankardec.com.br/artigos/em-destaque/o-espiritismo-e-o-metodo-cientifico-superando-desafios-e-erros-modernos.