Theme: History of Spiritism

History of Spiritism

Throughout all Humanity history, there have always been people capable of perceiving the presence of spirits, their messages and their influences on the material world. But people did not know much about it and were afraid of anything related to spirits.

If some child said that he was seeing a spirit, for example, no one knew what to do. Sometimes they believed in the child but they were terrified. They used to take the child to someone who knew to pray to let the spirit away. At other times, they did not believe and quarrel with the child telling her/him not to make up stories.

One day, in Paris, France, a very intelligent and studious teacher was invited by a friend to attend meetings where there were demonstrations of spirits. During the meetings, some objects moved and people could talk to the spirits and ask them questions.

That teacher was Allan Kardec. He was not afraid of the spirits, on the contrary. He became very interested and wanted to know more and more about everything that happened in those meetings and what the spirits had to say.

Allan Kardec called those people who perceived the spirits of mediums, which means intermediaries. The mediums who saw spirits were called Seeing Mediums. Those who heard were the Hearing Mediums. Others wrote messages and were called Mechanical Mediums. There were still those who spoke, as if it were the spirit that was speaking, and they were called Speaking Mediums. And so on.

The spirits told Allan Kardec that they were the men and women who lived here on Earth and that, after their bodies died, they went to the spirit world.

Allan Kardec talked to them many times and asked about several subjects. He became aware that there is reincarnation, which is the possibility of spirits being born again in another body, and that Jesus was the most evolved spirit ever born on Earth. He also knew that God exists, is good, just and made the moral laws that we must follow. He also understood that all spirits were create by God to evolve and be happy, and who is evil is because has not yet evolved.

Allan Kardec learned many and many things. It was so much that he organized, classified and published the teachings in books. Thus came the Spirit Doctrine or Spiritism, which is a religion, because it teaches us good things that bring us closer to God. It is also a science, because it studies the phenomena connected to the spirits and the mediumship. And it is still a philosophy, because it deals with the mysteries of life and death.

Spiritism was therefore not born from Kardec's will to found a religion, but of his desire to know the truth.

Allan Kardec was not the inventor Spiritism, because the knowledge came from the spirits and not from him. He is called the encoder of Spiritism and he is very much appreciated for the work he has done, since it was not easy at all. In fact, he faced many difficulties in accomplishing his work.

First, he had to rely on the collaboration of the mediums and identify which were the ones who transmitted the messages of the spirits correctly. Some mediums mixed the ideas of the spirits with their own, which is often to the mediums who do not yet have much training.

Moreover, even the medium being good, there was still the possibility that the message was from a deceitful spirit, who spoke wrong things just to amuse and disrupt Kardec's studies. These spirits signed the names of other spirits who were good and wise to pass through them, many times. However, Kardec learned to recognize those who were not good, by the language and the way of speaking of them.

Kardec was very clever. He used to ask a question and note the answer. Then, on another day, he asked the same question, only with other words. Just to see if the spirit gave the same answer. He also asked the same question, again, to other spirits, through other mediums. So he compared the answers to see if they were alike and made sense with other teachings.

Gradually, Kardec met several mediums. Many people were interested in collaborating with his studies. There were about thousands of Spirit groups or centers spread out in several countries. Allan Kardec would send his questions to them and then compare the answers with those coming from elsewhere. Only then he could ensure that the answers were reliable and the teachings true.

Both Allan Kardec and the mediums, and even the spirits who sent the messages, had already been prepared in the spiritual world for this great and important mission that was given to them by our dear Master Jesus.

Thanks to this wonderful team, we have today the Spirit Doctrine that enlightens our minds and hearts and helps us to evolve and become happier.
 

Translation:
Larissa Martine - larissa_am@hotmail.com

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