Death under the
Spiritist perspective
 

The death of a beloved relative continues to be one of the most difficult moments in peoples’ lives.

The feeling of loss in such situations is quite often, although the Christians understand, in general, that life goes on and in essence death does not exist in the way many people think.

The medium Francisco Cândido Xavier served as a middleman to revel some curious and consoling information about the fire on Joelma building, occurred years ago in Sao Paulo city, in which tens of victims died – some because of the fire, others from asphyxia caused by the smoke and a certain number of people jumped from the building in a desperate attempt to escape from death.

Making use of the missing medium, the immortals said that there were two scenarios at the tough moment.

The first, at this side of life, consisted of much suffering, desperation and screams. The action of the firefighters, the journalists’ movements, the families looking for news, all this contributed to turn the episode into a tragedy, typical of situations like that.

The other scenario, invisible to our eyes, presented itself completely different. It was with joy that friendly spirits received the ones who passed away during that tragedy and returned to the spiritual life. Songs of happiness, warm hugs and applauses gave the tone of a scenario that presents how a spiritual reception is made for the ones that implement their duty until the end on the physical world.

Commenting the theme death once, Kardec made an analogy between it and the release of a prisoner who has just finished his long sentence.

Let’s imagine, said the Codifier, the situation of a man who in the jail and sees his colleague being released. Of course he will miss his fellow but, in good conscience, he will never regret the release of someone who has paid his debt to the Justice and now recovers the freedom.

This is death. It is a kind of a conquest of freedom, the retrieve of activities that already used to be performed by the person before the material existence and thus can be continued.

After peregrinate for many years on Earth crust, limited by a material body that, as we know, restricts the perception capabilities of the soul, the individual finally has the right to meet his friends again and proceed with the project whose aim is the perfection, a subject referred by Jesus so many times.

Indeed, Christians who know the Gospel will consequently bring to mind the following passage from the Master: “You are gods. I can do everything I do and even greater things than these”.

Thus, in front of the coffin, let’s remember of the information transmitted by the missing medium and be sure that death only affects the material body but nothing causes to the Spirit.