{"id":9074,"date":"2025-09-09T08:07:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T11:07:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.geolegadodeallankardec.com.br\/?p=9074"},"modified":"2025-09-09T08:24:24","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T11:24:24","slug":"what-kardec-wanted-for-the-future-of-spiritism-organization-unity-and-collaboration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.geolegadodeallankardec.com.br\/en\/artigos\/espiritismo-pratico\/o-que-kardec-desejava-para-o-futuro-do-espiritismo-organizacao-unidade-e-colaboracao\/","title":{"rendered":"What Kardec wanted for the future of Spiritism: Organization, Unity and Collaboration"},"content":{"rendered":"
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When Allan Kardec published The Spirits' Book in 1857, he wasn't inaugurating a religion, but rather laying the foundations for a science of observation of spiritual phenomena, accompanied by a moral philosophy. From the outset, he was concerned not only with the Doctrine's present but also with its future continuity. Kardec knew that his work must outlive him and his time, and so he clearly outlined what Spiritism's organization should be.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Three texts are fundamental to understanding this project: the article \u201cOrganization of Spiritism\u201d (Revista Esp\u00edrita, December 1861), the article \u201cTransitional Constitution of Spiritism\u201d (Revista Esp\u00edrita, December 1868) and the final chapters of The Book of Mediums, which deals with the constitution of Spiritist groups and societies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1. The Spiritist method and doctrinal basis<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Before discussing organization, Kardec established a scientific method that would govern Spiritism. This method had two guidelines:
\u2013 The universal control of the teaching of the Spirits: the truth could not be based on an isolated communication, but should be confirmed by multiple messages obtained in different places and by different mediums.
\u2013 Reason and common sense as supreme judges: any theory or revelation should be confronted with logic and the Doctrine as a whole.
This criterion would ensure the unity of principles, not through the imposition of human authorities, but through universality and comparison. It is this same spirit that will guide subsequent organizational proposals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2. Groups as the basis of Spiritism<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

In The Mediums' Book (chapters XXIX and XXX), Kardec describes the importance of Spiritist groups and societies. For him, the true solidity of Spiritism would come from the multiplication of small, serious groups where study, order, and morality reigned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He argued that it was preferable to have "one hundred groups of ten to twenty followers" in a city than a single large society, subject to vanity, disputes, and personalism. In small groups, an environment of trust, seriousness, and discipline is created, where phenomena can be rigorously observed and errors more easily corrected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This vision already reveals Kardec's decentralizing logic: the Doctrine should not depend on a single institution or leadership, but on a network of autonomous groups spread throughout the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

3. Organization through solidarity (1861)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

In the article "Organization of Spiritism," published in the December 1861 issue of the Spiritist Magazine, Kardec expands on this concept. He recognizes that, as Spiritism expanded, it was necessary to create a form of unity between groups.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But this union would not be achieved through centralization, but through solidarity:
\u2014 Groups should maintain their complete independence.
\u2014 The connection between them would be through the exchange of observations and results.
\u2014Comparing the data would guarantee security against errors and mystifications.
Thus, the unity of Spiritism would not depend on a governing body, but on the communion of method and principles. This is the purpose of Spiritism Reconstitution Network<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

4. The transitional constitution (1868)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

In the article "Transitional Constitution of Spiritism," published in the December 1868 issue of the Spiritist Review, Kardec proposes a broader form of coordination. He speaks of the need for central committees, which would gather contributions from local groups and serve as liaison bodies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These committees, however, would not have doctrinal authority. Their role would be:
\u2014 Receive, organize and disseminate group observations;
\u2014 Support the propagation and defense of the Doctrine;
\u2014 Facilitate solidarity between different regions;
\u2014 Assist in practical and administrative aspects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kardec even uses the expression \u201ctransitory constitution\u201d because he knew that the organization should evolve over time, but always maintaining the fundamental principle: collective, never personal, direction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He feared that centralization around single individuals or institutions would pave the way for deviations, fanaticism, and adulteration. Spiritism's strength lay precisely in its plurality of groups and unity of method.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

5. Anticipated challenges and subsequent deviations<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Kardec was warned several times by the Spirits about the risks the Doctrine would face after his death. In several communications, he warned about "false prophets," "helping hands," and attempts to divert Spiritism from its foundations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unfortunately, history confirmed these fears: after 1869, we saw the emergence of adulterations, such as the modified 5th edition of Genesis, and the attempt to transform Spiritism into an institutionalized religion, with hierarchical and centralized structures (the Brazilian Spiritist Federation is the ultimate example of this attempt, unfortunately successful due to the lack of study of Kardec's work). The creation of entities that proclaimed themselves official representatives of Spiritism, ignoring the proposal for decentralization, represented a clear departure from the Kardecian project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

6. Kardec's true desire<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

When you put these pieces together, what emerges is a coherent and lucid project:
\u2014 Spiritism would have no popes or priests.
\u2014 The strength of the Doctrine would be in the network of autonomous groups, dedicated to study and observation.
\u2014 Unity would be preserved through universal control of the teachings of the Spirits and through the comparison of results.
\u2014 The central committees would only be instruments of connection and support, never authorities.
\u2014 The leadership should be collective, decentralized and progressive, faithful to the Spiritist science.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The future of Spiritism, according to Kardec, would depend on the solidarity of all those who study and practice it, without any claim to monopoly or supremacy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Spiritism Reconstitution Network<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

What Kardec desired for the future of Spiritism was an organization that reflected the very nature of the Doctrine: free, progressive, rational, and decentralized. He knew that the greatest danger came not from external attacks, but from the temptation to centralize, to impose dogmas, to replace observation with authority.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His proposal, recorded in 1861, 1868 and in The Mediums' Book, remains a safe guide: Spiritism must advance through the collaboration of everyone, everywhere, under the constant vigilance of reason and universal control.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is the legacy that we must reclaim if we wish Spiritism to be faithful to the scientific and moral spirit that gave rise to it. Thus, Spiritism Reconstitution Network<\/a>, following not only the model desired by Kardec, but meeting the characteristic needs of this science.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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