We continue the methodical study of the Pentateuch Kardec, which focuses on the five major works of the spiritual doctrine, in the order they were first published by Allan Kardec, the Encoder of Spiritualism.
The answers to the questions presented, founded in the 2th edition published by FEB, based on translation of Anna Blackwell, are at the end of the text below.
Questions for discussion
A. What happens during sleep? The soul rests well as the body?
B. It is necessary for the emancipation of the Spirit, full sleep?
C. Two people who know you can visit during sleep?
D. What is the cause of the same idea at once arise in many different places?
E. How can two people communicate at a distance?
Text for reading
222. Dreams are true in order to make real images for the Spirit, but often they have no relationship to what happens in the bodily life. Are often just a memory. They can also be a premonition of the future, or vision of what is happening elsewhere, that the soul carries. There are many examples of people who appear in dreams to warn relatives and friends. (L.E., 404)
223. The concerns of waking can give what one sees the appearance of what we want or what we fear. The this is that you can really call an effect of imagination. (L.E., 405)
224. You do not need sleep to complete the emancipation of the soul. The Spirit regains his freedom when the senses are numb, and he takes to be emancipated, every moment of rest that the body has to offer. (L.E., 407)
225. The incarnated spirit often senses the time of his death, and sometimes it has a very clear conscience, which gives, in the waking state, your intuition. (L.E., 411)
226. The activity of the Spirit during the rest of the body, can tire the latter, because the Spirit is linked to the body as a captive balloon to the pole. Now, just as the balloon shaken shake the pole, the activity of the Spirit on the body reacts and you can produce fatigue. (L.E., 412)
227. The Spirit is not enclosed in the body as a box: it radiates in all around you. That is why we can communicate with other spirits, even in the waking state, although more difficult to do. (L.E., 420)
Answers to proposed questions
A. What happens during sleep? The soul rests well as the body?
During sleep, the soul does not rest as the body. The spirit is never idle. During this state, to loosen the ties that hold the body and do not need this then of his presence, he launches into space and enter into more direct relation with other spirits. We can judge the freedom of the Spirit through dreams during sleep. (The Spirit's Book, questions 401, 402 and 407.)
B. It is necessary for the emancipation of the Spirit, full sleep?
No, just that the senses come into torpor for the Spirit recovers its freedom. To be emancipated, he takes advantage of every moment of truce that the body gives you. Since there is prostration of the vital forces, the Spirit comes off, becoming more free as weaker the body. (Ibid., 407 to 409 questions.)
C. Two people who know you can visit during sleep?
Yes, and many people who do not know tend to think together and speak up. It is so common the fact that we go find us during sleep, with friends and relatives, and we know we can be helpful, that almost every night we make these visits. (Ibid., issues 414, 415 and 416.)
D. What is the cause of the same idea at once arise in many different places?
They are friendly spirits who communicate and see each other's respective thoughts. There, among the spirits that are a communication of thought, which gives cause to which two people see and understand without the need for overt signs of language. It could be said that talk to each other the language of spirits. The fact is common during the so-called sleeping body. (Ibid., questions 419, 420 and 421.)
E. How can two people communicate at a distance?
The Spirit is not found in the body as a closed box, it radiates from all sides. It follows that can communicate with other spirits, even in the waking state, although more difficult. (Ibid., 420 and 421 questions.)
