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
A. There is inevitable in life events? The facts of our existence would be thus previously marked?
B. The time of death is fatal? If so, why should we take care not to die?
C. The feeling that some people have the time of death comes from what?
D. There are people who never achieve success in anything, like until they are chased by an evil genius in their endeavors. And there are others who seem favored by luck. The need we have to allocate it?
E. How do you explain that luck favors some people, like in the game?
Text for reading
494. No good excuse for the reprehensible acts the fact that the aberration of intellectual faculties due to be drunk, because that was voluntarily intoxicated if deprived of his reason, to satisfy the brutal passions. So, instead of a fault, commits two. (L.E., 848)
495. The right man in the prevailing state of savagery is the instinct, which does not prevent, however, to act with complete freedom, with regard to certain things. It applies, however, that freedom to their needs, such as children, as it expands on intelligence. Thus, the most enlightened man is also responsible for making more than a savage is by their actions. (L.E., 849)
496. The social position of man can be at times an obstacle to full freedom of his actions. God is fair and takes everything into account. But he leaves you, however, the responsibility of any efforts made to overcome the obstacles. (L.E., 850)
497. The misfortune that seems to break upon some people are so persistent, sometimes an event that fits them and that they have chosen. But, again cast out on account of fate that, in most cases, is merely the result of your own faults. Have pure consciousness in the midst of the evils that afflict you, and now you will feel very comforted. (L.E., 852)
498. We find it simpler and less humiliating to our self-assigned prior to luck or fate failures we experience, than our own fault. It is true that sometimes it contributes to the influence of spirits, but it is also true that we can always in-line to this influence, repelling the ideas they suggest to us when bad. (L.E., 852, Kardec comment)
499. No precautions are useless you have to avoid death, you seen that such measures are suggested with the aim to avoid the death that threatens you. They are a means used to her not to give. (L.E., 854)
500. The fact that your life is endangered a warning that you really looking for the evil you turn and become better. Escape this danger, while still under the impression of the risk, have in mind, more or less seriously, for you better, as is more or less strong influence on you of the good spirits. Befallen the bad spirit, thinking that you enter in the same way to escape other dangers and let your passions again become the butt. (L.E., 855)
501. Through danger, God will remember your weakness and fragility of your existence. If you examine the cause and nature of the hazard, you will find that, often, the consequences would have been a punishment for misconduct or negligence in the performance of a duty. (L.E., 855)
502. Those who can sense death, usually worry less than others because he senses that thinks more like spirit than a man. He understands it is their release and holds it. (L.E., 858)
503. There are facts that must necessarily give up, but when you have seen and perceived in the state of the Spirit, you made your choice. Do not believe, however, that all that happens is written. An event can either be the consequence of an act committed by your own free will, so that, if you had not done, the event would not have given. (...) Only great pain, the important facts and able to influence the moral, God provides, because they are useful for debugging you and your education. (L.E., 859-A)
504. The man can, by his will and his actions do not occur events that should happen, if this apparent change has no place in the wake of the life he chose. To do well, as it must - because it is the sole purpose of life - you will be provided to prevent evil, especially one who can contribute to the production of a greater evil. (L.E., 860)
505. When choosing your existence, the Spirit does not know what will be a killer. Choosing a life of struggle, knows he will have an opportunity to kill one of their fellows, but do not know whether to do so, since almost always precede the crime, for its part, the decision to practice it. Now he who decides on one thing is always free to do it or not. If I knew beforehand that, as a man, would have to commit a crime, the Spirit would be predestined to it. However, knowing that no one is predestined to crime and all crime, like any other act, is always the result of the will and free will. (L.E., 861)
506. Moreover, often confuses two very different things: the material successes of life and acts of moral life. The fatality that sometimes there exists only with respect to material successes, whose cause lies outside of you and that are independent of your will. Regarding acts of moral life, they always emanate from the man himself, therefore, always has the freedom to choose. With regard, therefore, to these acts, there is never inevitable. (L.E., 861)
507. It is men and not God who does the social mores. If they submit to these, it is because it suits them. This submission, therefore, represents an act of free will because, if they chose, they could free themselves of such a yoke. So why complain? Dies reason to accuse them social mores. The blame for everything must cast it to a fool's self-esteem that are full and that makes them prefer to starve to infringe them. Nobody takes them into account this sacrifice to public opinion, while God will take into account the sacrifice they make their vanities. (L.E., 863)
Ansewers to proposed questions
A. There is inevitable in life events? The facts of our existence would be thus previously marked?
The fatality, as is commonly understood, supposes an anterior and irrevocable for all successes in life, whatever their importance. If this were the order of things, which man would be unwilling machine. That would serve the intelligence, since there was invariably to be dominated in all his actions, by the force of destiny? Such a doctrine, if true, would contain the destruction of all moral freedom, we would have responsibility for man, nor, therefore, good or bad, virtues or crimes. However, the fatality is not an empty word. There is in the position which men occupy the Earth and the functions that plays there, as a result of the kind of life they chose to prove his Spirit, atonement or mission. He inevitably suffers all the vicissitudes of existence and all the good or evil tendencies, which are inherent. Here, however, just fate, as depends on his will to give or not to these trends. Details of events, these are subject to the circumstances that he creates for his actions, and in these circumstances may influence the spirits by the thoughts they suggest.
There is inevitable, therefore, the events that have, for these are a consequence of the choice that the Spirit has made its existence of man. You can stop the inevitable result of having such events, since it is possible for man, by his own prudence, changing their course. There is never fatal in acts of moral life. (The Spirits' Book, questions 851, 861 and 866. See also Section 872.)
B. The time of death is fatal? If so, why should we take care not to die?
Fatal, in the true sense of the word, only the moment of death is. Time has now come, in one form or another, he can not escape us. With regard to death, therefore, is that man is subject at all, the inexorable law of fate, as it can not escape the sentence which marks the end of existence, or the kind of death to have to cut this wire.
From being infallible the time of death, should not, however, infer that they are useless for us to take precautions to avoid it, since we take the precautions are suggested with the aim to avoid the death that threatens us. They are a means used to her not to give. (Ibid., questions 853, 853-A, 854, 855 and 859.)
C. The feeling that some people have the time of death comes from what?
This feeling comes from their protecting spirits, who thus warn them so they are ready to go, or strengthen their courage at times when they need it most. You can see them also have the intuition that the existence of their choice, or who have accepted the mission and who know have to comply. (Ibid., questions 857 and 856.)
D. There are people who never achieve success in anything, like until they are chased by an evil genius in their endeavors. And there are others who seem favored by luck. The need we have to allocate it?
This fact is due to the existence of the genre usually chosen. These people wanted to be tried by a life of deception in order to exercise patience and resignation. One must also consider the fact that often results in false path that such persons shall, in disagreement with their intelligence and skills. Most likely have to drown those who want to swim across a river without knowing how to swim. The same is true for most of life's events. Often the man would get success, if only to try whatever is in relation to their senses. What are losing your self-esteem and ambition, that divert from the path that is his calling and what they consider nothing but the desire to satisfy certain passions. It Fails because you. But instead of blaming himself, he prefers to complain of its star. One, for example, it would be good workers and earn an honest living, gets to be a bad poet and starve. There would be room for everyone in the world, since everyone knew put yourself in the place it deserves.
With regard to people who seem favored by luck, since everything they do well, usually it is because, ordinarily, to lead these people know themselves better in their businesses. But it can also be a kind of proof. The success of the drunk, spin up at your destination and often pay more later this success, by cruel setbacks, that prudence would have done to avoid. (Ibid., questions 862 to 864.)
E. How do you explain that luck favors some people, like in the game?
Some spirits choose to advance certain kinds of pleasure. Fortune favors that is a temptation. One who, as a man, win, lose as a spirit. It is a testament to their pride and their greed. (Ibid., question 865.)
