We present in this issue the topic #138 from the Systematized Study of the Spiritist Doctrine, that is being presented weekly, according to the programme elaborated by the Brazilian Spiritist Federation (FEB), structured in 6 modules and 147 topics.

If the reader uses this program for a study group, we suggest that questions proposed be discussed freely before the reading of the text that follows. If you would like to study alone, we ask you to try to answer the questions at first and only then read the text that follows. The answer key can be found at the end of the lesson. 

Questions 

1. Where can we find, according to Spiritism, evidence of the existence of God?

2. The thought that we formulated about God is still very primitive. Arrive a day to understand God and resolve any questions that this issue still raises?

3. Why Spiritism says that the man of our age can not understand the nature of God?

4. What is the worship of God and what consequences for men?

5. What form of worship is most pleasing to the Creator?

Text

Only with evolution is that we will see God differently 

1. Theme song of the main work of the Spirit, God is defined quite clearly by the immortal as the supreme intelligence and primary cause of all things. The proof of its existence, explain the higher spirits, can be found in the axiom that we use in our science: "There is no effect without cause." "Seek the cause of everything that is not the work of man, and your reason will respond." (The Spirit’s Book, 1 and 4.)

2. The question of God is indeed the most serious of all problems hanging over our heads and whose solution is bound, strictly and urgency to the problem of man and his destiny. Knowing the truth about God, about the world and on life is - in the words of Léon Denis - what is most essential, most necessary, because it is He who sustains us, inspires us and drives us even without us. 

3. Tell us Pietro Ubaldi only gradually be able to understand the essence of the manifestations of the Creator, when the development of our conceptual and perceptual skills we learn to penetrate the depth of things. It is therefore really wonderful spirits even in narrow evolutionary condition, like ours, have always been designed to make the existence of a Supreme Being who governs all.  

4. At first, this idea - innate in man - is vague and rather abstract. With the evolution through multiple experiences reincarnation, we began to see God differently. The wise nature has limited our perceptions and our feelings and is step by step, slowly, she leads us on the path of knowledge, knowledge of the universe is the visible, is the hidden. 

Man lacks a sense that she understands God

5. This thought can be harvested in the responses by the immortal questions 10 and 11, "The Book Spirit’s":  

 Question 10 – Can man comprehend the essential nature of God? – “No; he lacks the sense required for comprehending it.” 

 Question 11 – Will man ever become able to comprehend the mystery of the Divinity? – “When his mind shall no longer be obscured by matter, and when, by his perfection, he shall have brought himself nearer to God, be will see and comprehend Him.” 

6. To fully understand the significance of the issue No 10 - claims that the man lacks a sense allowing for the understanding of the Godhead - just remember that a man born blind is unable to define or distinguish light colors, something that little children can do, just because it lacks the blind the sense of sight. If both short-sighted, he was deaf, it also would be impossible to distinguish the sounds. Remember also that there are beings in the animal kingdom that have only the sense of touch, and yet, they can live and survive in the environment where they are. 

7. Arrive so a day, starting from a primitive idea of God, a deeper understanding and more dilated, but now we understand that God, as we conceive it, is not the god of Eastern pantheism or anthropomorphic God, ruler of heaven outside the world, that tell us the religions of the West, since God, although he created the universe, with him not to be confused. 

Worshiping God is raising up thinking he is approaching his

8. This great Being, absolute, eternal, supremely just and good, who knows our needs, which is sensitive to our pain, which is the huge focus on that all beings, the communion of thought and feeling, come draw forces, rescue , the inspiration needed to guide the path of destiny, to sustain them in their struggles, comfort in their misery, to raise their fainting and falls.  

9. If, as we saw earlier, the idea of God is innate in humans, can not disbelieve the statement in issue 651 of "The Book of Spirits" according to which there was never people atheists, because men always understood that above all there is a Supreme Being in the Universe.  

10. Of course, individually, there are men who deny God, but those in minute number, nothing more that individuals are temporarily shrouded by the cloak of ignorance. Proposed in Pietro Ubaldi we say to someone who thinks like: "wake up and feel that God is on your side, is within you, is your life, the life of everything," because the concept of divine fatherhood brings enormous benefits to Spirit and that is fatherhood which implies that the brotherhood of man.  

11. As a result of what we saw is not difficult to understand and justify the adoration that men should have towards the Creator, being understood by the worship of elevation of thought to God, a theme that Kardec examined in "The Book of Spirits" 649 and following questions, summarized below: 

a.       In the elevation of the thought towards God. Through adoration the soul draws nearer to Him.

b.      Of an innate sentiment, like the belief in the Divinity. The consciousness of his weakness leads man to bow before the Being who can protect him.

c.       It is included in natural law, since it is the result of a sentiment innate in man; for which reason it is found among all peoples, though under different forms.

d.      True adoration is in the heart. In all your actions remember that the Master's eyes is always upon you.

e.       Worship is useful when idle simulation is.

f.       "God prefers those who worship Him from the heart, with sincerity, and by doing what is good and avoiding what is evil, to those who fancy they honour Him by ceremonies which do not render them any better than their neighbours.

g.      He who has nothing but compassion abroad is a hypocrite. The songs do not come to God except through the door of the heart.

h.      When those who sympathise in thought and feeling are assembled together, they have more power to attract good spirits to them. It is the same when they are assembled for worshipping God. But you must not therefore conclude that private worship is less acceptable; for each man can worship God in his own thought.

i.        Prayer is an act of worship. Praying to God is to think of him, approach him and put himself in communication with him.

Answer Key

1. Where can we find, according to Spiritism, evidence of the existence of God? 

The proof of the existence of God can be found in an axiom that we use in our science: "There is no effect without cause." They told us the immortal: "Seek the cause of everything that is not the work of man, and your reason will respond." 

2. The thought that we formulated about God is still very primitive. Arrive a day to understand God and resolve any questions that this issue still raises? 

Yes arrive a day to a deeper understanding and higher extended concerning the Creator. 

3. Why Spiritism says that the man of our age can not understand the nature of God? 

The reason for this is missing the man of our time a sense that it allows the understanding of the Godhead. We are also in relation to the Creator as a man born blind in the face of light or color, he is unable to define or distinguish precisely because it lacks a sense: the sense of sight.  

4. What is the worship of God and what consequences for men? 

Worship is the elevation of thought to God. The worship of the soul approaches the Creator, but it is only useful when is idle simulation.

5. What form of worship is most pleasing to the Creator? 

True worship is the heart. God prefers those who worship from the heart, with sincerity, doing good and avoiding evil, and those who believe honor him through ceremonies that does not make them better for their peers.

 

Bibliography: 

The Spirit’s Book, Allan Kardec, questions 1 to 16, 649 to 657.

Moral Laws, Rodolfo Calligaris, p. 46.

The Great Enigma, Léon Denis, pp. 25 to 70.

God in Nature, de Camille Flammarion, p. 392.

God and the Universe, Pietro Ubaldi, pp. 292 to 317.

The Grand Synthesis, Pietro Ubaldi, p. 201.