Humans’ evil and its origins

With the advent of Spiritism, doubt about the origin of what ails us in the world no longer has reason to be. The law of cause and effect, popularized by spirits works, came to show us that there is a reason, a reason for everything that happens to us, either for good or for evil.

It is clear that in many situations we cannot see what exactly is the cause or at what time it started.

If the individual becomes an alcoholic and acquires an illness directly related to alcoholism, he can thoroughly understand the origin of his illness, although not accepted it.

If you smoke for a long period and contracts lung cancer, you can without difficulty understand the source of the illness, which it does not mean to accept it willingly.

Both examples can be extended to numerous situations of our existence. However, there are situations we cannot understand the relationship between cause and effect.

In one of his most popular books - The Gospel According to Spiritism - Kardec refers to the causes of our afflictions, placing them in a few events in the present existence and other facts checked in past existences.

When it comes to the world a child with mental retardation, it is not difficult to understand that that difficulty does not arise in the acts of the current existence and must therefore be related to the facts in the past. However, if a person marries another motivated solely by economic interests, it cannot assign to the past, if unhappily married, the source of the problems, because they are directly linked to their greed.

Nothing is, therefore, according to learned with Spiritism, the result of chance, but a consequence of something that occurred, either in this life, whether in previous existences.

The origin of human ills was examined by St. Vincent de Paul (Spirit) in an interesting constant communication from the chapter XIII in The Gospel According to Spiritism.

Talking about the importance of goodness and charity, Vincent de Paul wrote: "Be good and charitable: this is the key of heaven, key that you have in your hands. The whole eternal happiness is contained in this precept: 'Love each other'. The soul cannot rise to higher spiritual regions, but by devotion to the next, only in raptures of love it finds happiness and comfort. Be good; aid your brethren, lay aside the hideous plague of selfishness. Fulfilled this duty, it shall be opened unto you the way to eternal happiness." (The Gospel According to Spiritism, chapter XIII, section 12.)

After that he added: "Jesus did not tell you everything which concerns the virtues of charity and love? Why despise his divine teachings? Why close the ears to his divine words, the heart to all his kind precepts? I wish that you spared more interest, more faith to the Gospel readings. Despise, but this book, consider a repository of empty words, an enclosed letter; leaves in oblivion this admirable code." (Ibid)

And finishing his teaching he said, with the authority of someone who knows what says: "Your evil come all the voluntary abandonment that you have chosen to this summary of divine law." (Ibid)

The spiritual eminent benefactor, known and respected for the extraordinary work he did when he was among us, is absolutely right.

If man never strays from the precepts taught by Jesus, surely he would avoid numerous setbacks, he would be very close to reaching the goal for which we were created and, of course, would be very happy.