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As occurs the
spiritual
influence in our
life, and as we
can neutralize
her
The influence
that the Spirits
exercise about
our thoughts and
actions in the
day by day is
very larger of
the than we
imagined, since
in a lot of
occasions they
are them that
direct us.
We read in the
item 459 on “The
Book of the
Spirits”: – Do
spirits
influence our
thoughts and our
actions? "Their
influence upon
them is greater
than you suppose,
for it is very
often they who
direct both."
The “Revue
Spirite” of 1858
presents us an
example of that
fact with the
case of Sr. F.,
well educated
young man, of
careful
education and
soft and
benevolent
character, a
victim of a
fascination
process that
only reached the
end with the
help of the good
Spirits.
Inspired for his
father's spirit,
the young man
was going to
Kardec and tried
to follow the
piece of advice
of the Spirits,
that they
recommended to
give him to a
simple work that
he didn't leave
him time to hear
the bad
suggestions.
To the end of
the treatment,
the Spirit that
acted on F. that
it identified
with François
Dillois's name,
it ended up
being admitted
due, and it
expressed the
desire to
progress.
Commenting on
the case, Kardec
did in the
“Revue Spirit”
the following
observations:
1. The Spirits
exercise on the
men an influence
salutary or
pernicious; it
is not
necessary, for
this, to be a
medium.
2. Not having
the university,
they act in
thousand and one
ways.
3. The influence
of the Spirits
on us is
constant, and
all are exposed
to her, they
want to believe
or not.
4. Fourth three
parts of our bad
actions and of
our bad thoughts
they are fruits
of that occult
suggestion.
5. No there is
another
criterion,
except the
common sense, to
discern the
value of the
Spirits. Any
formula given
for that end by
the own Spirits
is absurd, and
it cannot
emanate of
superior
Spirits.
6. The inferior
Spirits fear the
ones that
analyze them the
words, they
expose them the
vilenesses and
she don't let to
arrest for their
sophisms.
The spiritual
influence is
only rendered
because of the
syntony that
settles down
between us and
the Spirits
According to the
spiritualistic
teachings, the
spiritual
influence on us
can be good or
bad, hides or
ostensible,
fleeting or
durable, but in
all and any
alone situation
is rendered
because of the
tune that
settles down
between us and
them.
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In many of the
thoughts that we
have, they
appear us
sometimes
different and
same ideas
contradictory
concerning the
same subject.
Probably, on
those moments we
are under it
influences of
the Spirits, a
fact that nor
all noticed,
especially when
she feels in a
subtle and
occult way, as
it was verified
in the
acquaintance
Custódio
Saquarema, that
Humberto de
Campos (Spirit)
told in his book
"Letters and
Chronicles",
psychographed
for the medium
Francisco
Cândido Xavier.
Custódio
Saquarema out in
the Earth
important lawyer
and, according
to their own
words, it
gathered a lot
of
considerations
and it
made a lot of
money in the
last
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existence,
returning,
however,
to the
much
poorer
spiritual
life
than
when it
had
left, in
the
direction
of the
reincarnation. |
He had been
reborn at a
spiritualistic
home, but, as it
happens to most
of those
reincarnated, he
brought with
itself, to his
psychic climate,
some partners of
addictions and
extravagances of
the past that,
without the meat
vehicle, if they
were worth of
him for if they
link to the
sensations of
the terrestrial
plan.
His
reencarnatory
program was
excellent, but
their
vamparizers,
cunning and
intelligent,
acted secretly,
without him, or
lightly, it
foresaw them the
influence. And
he did through
simple intimate
considerations.
So soon one saw
left of the
adolescence,
with a good dose
of logical
reasonings in
the head, the
instructors’
friends exhorted
him, through
their parents,
to cultivate the
kingdom of the
spirit,
referring with
that to the
study,
self-denial,
improvement, but
inside of him
their
companions'
voices appeared
of the mind, as
threads of water
flowing of
brook, giving
him the false
idea that he
spoke to itself:
"Things of the
soul, Custódio?
Anything of
that. His hour
belongs to
youth,
happiness,
sun... Leave the
philosophy for
later..."
The case
Custódio
Saquarema is a
proof that the
influence it can
be subtle and
disguised
Those
considerations
repeated along
the existence,
just changing in
the way.
When concluding
the university,
the warnings of
the home were
made more
discharges,
shouting him/it
to the duty;
however, their
invisible
followers hit
back with the
inarticulate
mockery: "Doing
now? It is not
opportune
occasion. That
sorts out to
harmonize the
career beginner
with religion
subjects?
Custódio,
Custódio!...
Note the
criterion of
most, don't be
done of
crazy!..."
Years later,
Custódio got
married and,
soon afterwards,
the calls to the
spiritualization
worsened. Their
astute
exploiters,
however, they
commented on,
lively: Don't
"give in,
Custódio! And
family
responsibilities?
It is necessary
to work, to win
money, to obtain
the position, to
care for wife
and children..."
When in the age
it ripens, he
still received
the warnings of
the good
Spirits, through
dedicated
companions,
requesting him
to the moral
elevation for
the execution of
the assumed
commitments; but
in the mental
house if they
the arguments of
their inflexible
obsessors: "Custódio,
you have more
tasks... How to
reduce the
businesses? And
the social life?
Think about the
social life...
You are not
prepared for the
wheat field of
faith..."
They arrived,
finally, the old
age and the
disease.
Custódio passed,
then, to suffer
and to
disenchant and
the last
invitations of
the Larger
Spirituality
still insisted
the one that if
it consecrated
to the sacred
things of the
soul, while the
screams of their
old vamparizers
became taller,
ironic, blowing
him sarcasm, as
if you had been
him same to
ridicule: "You?
An old man
Custódio! What
will you make
with Spiritism?
It is too
late...
Profession of
faith, messages
of another
world... What
will be said of
you, my old one
it? Their best
friends will
speak in
madness,
senility...
Don't have
doubted... Their
own children
will interdict
you, as being a
mental patient,
inapt for the
regency of any
economical
interest... You
are not more in
the time of
that..."
He noticed, as
the own Custódio
Saquarema
observed, that
their pursuers
didn't ill-treat
him/her the
body, nor they
disturbed him
the mind. They
just rocked
his/her
complacency and,
with that, they
impeded him any
renovating step.
He had been a
victim, along
the existence,
of a type of
disguised
obsession.
The unhappy
Spirits, of
outraged mind,
live more with
the red
companions than
it is supposed
One way,
although
precarious, of
distinguishing
our thoughts of
the ones that
they are
suggested us is
to understand
that, usually,
it belongs to us
the first
thought that
happens us. The
important,
however, it is
to know that,
independently of
suggestions or
no, the
responsibility
for the actions
is ours, fitting
us the merit for
the albeit then
to result or the
demerit if the
action goes
negative.
Allan Kardec
explains in the
subject 462 of
"The Spirit’s
Book" that to do
that distinction
not always it is
possible and it
justifies like
this it: “If it
were useful for
us to be able to
distinguish
clearly between
our own thoughts
and those Which
are suggested to
us, God would
have given us
the means of
doing so, as he
has given us
that of
distinguishing
between day and
night. When a
matter has been
left by
Providence in a
state of
vagueness, it
has been left so
because it is
better for us.”
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Rodolfo
Calligaris says
in his book
"Pages of
Christian
Spiritism" that
to "think it is
to vibrate, it
is to enter in
relationship
with the
spiritual
Universe that it
involves us,
and, according
to the species
of each being's
mental
emissions,
similar elements
if they will
magnetize it,
accentuating it
the dispositions
and cooperating
with him in
their ascendant
efforts or in
their falls and
lapses."
We are not able
to, Calligaris
says, to neglect
of our mental
house and to
follow life out
dragged by the
malicious
action
of
the
late
Spirits.
"The
unhappy
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Spirits,
of
outraged
mind,
live
more
with the
red
companions
than it
is
supposed",
it
accentuates
Calligaris.
They are
mixed in
the
common
activities,
they
wander
in the
domestic
nest,
they
participate
in the
conversations,
and they
proceed
with the
commensals,
on who
depend
in
legitimate
process
of
vampirization.
"They
disturb
themselves
and they
disturb.
They
suffer
and they
make to
suffer.
They
hate and
they
generate
hates.
It
depreciated
in
themselves,
they
depreciate
between
the
other
ones.
Unfortunates,
make the
unhappiness." |
It is, however,
possible to
neutralize that
influence and,
for that, the
Spiritualistic
Doctrine
indicates us an
income simple,
however certain:
the practice of
the good and the
faith in God.
The spiritual
influences that
surround do us
part of the laws
of the life and
the temptations
elapse of that
Here is the one
that, regarding
the subject,
they taught the
Superior Spirits
in the subject
469 of "The
Spirit’s Book
":
"By doing only
what is right,
and putting all
your trust in
God, you repel
the influence of
inferior
spirits, and
prevent them
from obtaining
power over you.
Take care not to
listen to the
suggestions of
spirits who
inspire you with
evil thoughts,
stir up discord
among you, and
excite in you
evil passions.
Distrust
especially those
who flatter your
pride, for, in
so doing, they
attack you on
your weakest
side. This is
why Jesus makes
you say in the
Lord's Prayer,
'Let us not
succumb to
temptation, but
deliver us from
evil.' "
The foundation
of that teaching
is in the lesson
contained in the
item 122 of the
same work that
is fast
summarized:
1. Free-will is
developed in
proportion as
the spirit
acquires the
consciousness of
himself.
2. The spiritual
influences that
surround do us
part of the laws
of the life. The
temptations
elapse of that:
some give in to
them; others
resist.
3. The good
influences come
from the good
Spirits. The bad
influences come
from the
imperfect
Spirits that
they try to take
possession of
the creature and
to dominate her,
and they rejoice
when they get
it.
4.
That fact that
created two
biblical
illustrations
was: the man's
fall and Satan.
5. Does this
influence act
upon a spirit
only at its
origin? "It
follows him
through all the
phases of his
existence as a
spirit, until he
has acquired
such as thorough
self-command
that evil
spirits renounce
the attempt to
obsess him."
To get empire on
himself means:
to elevate
morally, to
elevate the
vibratory
standard call,
what is gotten
with good
thoughts, good
feelings and
good actions,
that is, the
constant
practice of the
good and of the
charity.
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