One day, I heard this sentence said by a friend of mine: “There is only one Spiritism, that of Kardec and no other”, which would be the slogan of an electoral campaign if there were one. I pinned it and thought it was funny, because in addition to being funny, it was profound, not requiring many comments.

Planet Earth is going through moments of physical and moral torment.

Obviously such a state of affairs could not fail to affect Spiritists (adherents of the Spiritist idea), namely those less vigilant and less in tune with superior spirituality (“Watch and pray” – Jesus).

The Spiritist structure left by Allan Kardec in 1857 is still in its childhood.

Few of us manage to delve deeply into their existential concepts.

We stay on the periphery of clumsy, rushed, and nonsensical opinions.

They say that Spiritism is late, outdated and they still haven't even understood it, felt it, just memorized ready-made phrases, crammed into referenced academic titles, as if they were the assumption of intellectual and moral evolution on Earth.

If in 2,023 years we still have not been able to understand Jesus of Nazareth's message of social success (doing to others what we wish for ourselves), how is it that in 166 years of Spiritism we want to understand it, reform it and create a new Spiritism?

There is no left, right, progressive, reformist, religious, secular Spiritism. There is Spiritism codified by Allan Kardec

We see, strangely enough, in Brazil, a group of people who elaborated in audio, available on YouTube, The New Book of Spirits, “updated” with questions and answers, from new inquirers and new mediums, but very secretly and without indication of their authors. Squeezing, we find the fruit of someone who has nothing to give other than Kardec: a hand of…nothing!

Still in Brazil, Spiritists, in a non-vigilant way, tried to follow the evangelical churches and the IURD, in a political dispute during the presidential elections.

Left-wing Spiritists, right wing Spiritists, progressive Spiritists, reformist Spiritists and even anti-racist Spiritists appeared who had the luxury of editing one of Kardec's books, with the subtitle "anti-racist", in an intellectual breakdown, as well as a lack of common sense.

There are no right or left Spiritists.

There are, however, people from the right, from the political center, from the left who are also followers of the Spiritist idea (they say).

The left, the right and all the subgroups that are created are parts of the whole. They are parties, like religions and football clubs: they are against each other.

Spiritist morality is based on an entire, global idea, transversal to all Humanity: the teachings of Jesus of Nazareth. They surpass any partisan idea that exists on the planet.

Exchanging more for less is lack of common sense, fanaticism, lack of vision and a doctrinal evolutionary retreat (taking the original idea and adapting it to our egoic idiosyncrasies).

The Doctrine of the Spirits is the heritage of Humanity, it does not belong to wealthy people or organized groups, which pretend to present themselves as the clergy or the Spiritist papacy.

This will never exist in the Spiritist idea, as all Spiritist groups will always have equal importance and responsibility, in a networked system and not a pyramidal one.

Even so, the thirst for power (without any power), which vice of former times, of the churches, in other lives, appears here and there, in a ridiculous and painful presumption, in the face of the immense path that we have to tread, hand in hand with reason, knowledge, cemented by simplicity and humility.

Kardec mentions that Spiritism is progressive (it has a commitment to progress) but that has nothing to do with political parties, more or less so-called progressive.

From the depths of our psychic sparks of nostalgia for the Catholic confraternities and an enormous desire to raise them in Spiritism.

We do not understand anything that Spiritism has to give to Humanity!

Just in case, I am going to reread “The Book of Spirits” by Allan Kardec, the original and, in a Spiritist stance, I am going to re-study it.

Perhaps the "service novices" can, perhaps, do the same, failing to surf on the wave of lack of sense that, like an obsessive presence, hangs over Humanity.

The Laws of Nature are as they are and we cannot escape them: “To be born, to die, to be reborn again, to progress without ceasing, that is the Law”, but we can, perhaps, waste time and compromise the advancement of Spiritism, with personalism and modernity à la minute, which these times of insanity offer us.

Sowing is free, but harvesting is mandatory.

I am going to sow Kardec, because, more than this I do not know.

José Lucas resides in Obidos, Portugal.