According to spirit doctrine,
do not just do no harm

One of the most interesting questions considered by the spirit doctrine relates to our responsibility for what we do or not do in our passage by the planet.

The current thinking, common to many religious doctrines, is that man will be punished for the evil that there is practiced here. If you can escape the justice of men, certainly you would not escape the divine justice. There by, although it is skipped how is such punishment, the general idea is that he will give an account of the evil committed.

This thought does not contradict the teachings the immortal have brought us. In fact, no one can escape to divine justice. But the different religious strands forget to say that we will be responsible also for the good left undone, as it is shown clearly in the spiritual doctrine.

The fact was not unnoticed on the teachings of Jesus.

The parable of "Lazarus and the rich" told by Jesus - according to the Gospel of Luke 16:19-26 - says there was a rich man who dressed in purple and fine linen and lived everyday indulgence and splendidly. At the door of his mansion ever attended a certain beggar named Lazarus, who lay full of sores and came here in search of food. One day the beggar died, and was carried by angels to Abraham's side; shortly after the rich man also died, he found himself, however, placed in hell, while Lazarus enjoyed a good situation, in Abraham's bosom. When called by the rich, who was parched with thirst and asked Lazarus to cool his tongue at least, Abraham was peremptory: "Son, remember that you received your good things in your life, and Lazarus only evil things: now he is comforted and thou art tormented. And besides, there is a great gulf between us and you, so that those who would pass from hence to you cannot, nor can those from there pass here."

Note that the parable does not say that the rich had committed a crime, only states that he never gave attention to Lazarus and, moreover, enjoy, selfishly, that the goods received in life.

The subject is treated in an objective manner on several issues that make up The Spirits’ Book, by Kardec, the main work of the spirit doctrine.

Here, briefly, what this book teaches us:

• Each individual will be punished not only for the evil he has made, but the evil that has taken place (LE 639)
   

• He who does no wrong, but takes advantage of the evil done by others, is as guilty as the other (LE 640)
   

• It is not enough that man does not practice evil; meets him do good in the end of his tether, will be responsible for all evil there is a result of not having practiced good (LE 642)
   

• The Spirit suffers from all the evil he did, or it was voluntary for all the good that he had been able to do and did not do it and all the evil that results from not having done good (LE 975).

The perfect understanding of how God's justice is the first step for the individual to reformulate his plan of life, aware that his role in this world requires action, participation and solidarity, which were exactly what was missing in the rich targeted in the parable narrated by Jesus.