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Inspiration and Resolution for the Questioning Soul
The 21st. Century
SPIRIT OF AMERICA
1. What's Spiritism?
2. The Spiritist Thought
3. Too much philosophy to your mind?
4. The 'Religion of the Soul'
5. Main Principles
6. The Spiritist Practice
7. Get to know Allan Kardec
8. The Promissed Counselor
9. E-Books
10. Spiritist Centers in the U.S.
11. Spiritism and Spiritual Foundation of
America: The Founding Fathers
12. Spiritism in America
What's Spiritism?
Spiritism could be seen as the
'RELIGION OF THE SOUL'
Spiritism will give you a more profound understanding of yourself and of your life.
You will find out about answers as the origin of your spirit and its destiny, which in turn will give you purpose for your present life.
You will comprehend that besides being an architect of your present you have also built it through other experiences in past existences.
You will also learn about God and the Laws of the Universe that govern life itself and all of us.
OK.
So, try go on living with your questions unanswered...
Try to cope with pain such as heartbreak, constant family turmoil, loss of loved ones, abandonment, abuse, and major life blows with no understanding of its actual causes.
There is a better way to live.
Spiritism will bring you comfort and logic answers.
It will give you real meaning to your life and an understanding of it that it will make it worth live it.
Your life will take on a whole new path as you will experience fulfillment and joy, optmism and hope.
Christianity, Logic, and Science meet perfectly in Spiritism.
Through the genius of Allan Kardec the spiritual voices herald the fundamental religion of the soul. Whispering in soft tones in all latitudes, the voices say that it is in the constant pursuit of the Truth about itself and life, that the human spirit attains its realization.
Truth is and will always be relative to one's progress.
The Spiritist Doctrine defends that the truth is revealed in the Hebrew Bible, the Gospels, the Quran, the Bhagavad-Gita, Tao Te Ching and is revealed continuously in the discoveries of science, in the geniality of art and poetry, and in the courageous achievements of love.
Ultimately, however, it is how we live and what we apply our lives to that count for the fulfillment of our divine purpose in the Universe.
This is an excerpt from the backcover of the book 'Introduction to the Spiritist Philosophy'
published by the
Allan Kardec Education Society
By bringing new concepts about the individual and everything that surrounds it, Spiritism touches on all areas of knowledge, human activities and behaviour and in this manner opens a New Era for the regeneration of Humanity.
Spiritism encompasses all aspects of life as scientific, philosophical, religious, ethical, moral, educational, and social and as such it can and should be studied, analysed, and practiced.
The study of the works of Allan Kardec is fundamental for the correct knowledge of the Spiritist Doctrine.
International Spiritist Council
www.spiritist.org
"Without Charity there is no salvation."
Allan Kardec
Q.886 - What is the true meaning of the word 'CHARITY' as Jesus understood it? -- "BENEVOLENCE towards everyone, INDULGENCE towards the imperfections of others and FORGIVENESS for offenses."
SPIRITIST PRACTICE
All Spiritist practice is gratuitous, following the orientation of the moral principle found in the Gospel: 'Give for free what you receive for free.'
Spiritism is practiced with simplicity, without any external forms of worship, within the Christian principle that God should be worshipped in spirit and in truth.
Spiritism has no clergy, nor does it adopt or use at any of its meetings or during its practices the following: altars, images, candles, processions, sacraments, concession of indulgences, religious vestiments, alcoholic or hallucinogenic beverages, incense, tobacco, talismans, amulets, horoscopes, cartomancy, pyramids, crystals, or any other objects, rituals or external forms of worship.
Spiritism does not impose its principles. It invites those interested in knowing it to submit its teachings to the test of reason before accepting them.
Mediumship, which allows the Spirits to communicate with Human Beings, is a faculty which many individuals bring with them at birth, independent of whatever religion or beliefs they may come to adopt.
Spiritist mediumship practice is solely that which is exercised based on the principles of the Spiritist Doctrine and within the Christian moral concepts.
Spiritism respects all religions and doctrines; values all efforts towards the practice of goodness; works towards peace and fellowship between all nations and all peoples, regardless of race, colour, nationality, creed, cultural or social standing.
It also recognizes that the truly good person is one who complies with the laws of justice, love, and charity in their highest degree of purity (The Gospel According to Spiritism, chapter 17, item 3).
Get to Know Allan Kardec
In a transcendental sense,
Allan Kardec was an
advanced consciousness,
a spirit who had a direct
intuition and experience of
God. His life, as repeatedly
narrated in the Spiritist
media, was the realization
on Earth of such innate
awareness. For him,
God and Christ were not merely objects of belief, but living facts. However, like Pascal, the great mathematician, philosopher, and mystic, Allan Kardec trained his intuitive power on the examination of the fundamental realities of life through rational inquiry.
Born Catholic but raised as a Protestant, Kardec studied both religions with an enthusiastic zeal and with a dream of unifying them to glorify the spirit of Christ. The rifts were, however, deeper and wider than he could imagine. However, in the tangible evidences of a spiritual realm, he found the point of union to advance a new vision and purpose for the human spirit.
Allan KardecAllan Kardec deduced a code of moral and ethical behavior through methodical analysis of every aspect of the phenomena, as only a man of his training could. Kardec is credited with establishing the points of interaction between the natural laws and the invisible world, which he believed to be the final destination of all residents of the physical realm.
Allan Kardec had a vision, however, that in some aspects went beyond the points above. He had a reason, a strong one indeed, to see the value of Christian Spiritism from a wider angle. The French social and religious environment of his time was firmly molded by Catholic institutions. On the other hand, neighboring countries, especially Switzerland and Germany, had become the fertile bed for the Protestant movement. Faith had only two colors, and they were not inclusive at all. In matters of religious choice, the grays and pastel colors were prohibited. Allan Kardec saw the futility of forcing allegiances in matters of religious choice. As he confessed in Posthumous Work, he had realized the full significance of Jesus' saying "God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in spirit and truth" (John 4:34).
Allan Kardec's life task was an essential element of a greater plan to accelerate the spiritual transformation of humankind. Painfully aware of the theological divisions among the many Christian denominations, Allan Kardec, following the orientation of illuminated intelligences, made the gospel of Jesus, and only the gospel of Jesus, the moral centerpiece of the Spiritist Doctrine. By attaching only a secondary role to the Old Testament and the Acts of the Apostles in the New Testament, the Spiritist Doctrine was safely protected from the theological wars that have harmed Christianity for centuries.
Allan Kardec's spiritual mission on earth was to lift the veil that separates the present and the future of humankind. Allan Kardec, with wisdom and compassion, turned the Spiritist Doctrine into a Christian lighthouse of hope and consolation. Allan Kardec felt the presence of the Divine Spirit, and wholly dedicated himself to attracting humanity to God and Christ.
Excerpt taken from the
www.allan-kardec.org
"If you love me, you will obey
my commandments. And I will
ask the Father, and He will
give you another Counselor
to be with you forever - the
Spirit of Truth. The world
cannot accept him because
it neither sees him nor knows
him. But you know him, for
he lives with you and will be in you."
(John, 14: 15-17 & 26).
In this passage from John, Jesus promises another consoler: the Spirit of Truth, which the world did not yet know because it was not sufficiently mature to be able to understand. This is the consoler sent by the Father to teach mankind all things and to call to mind all that Christ had said. Therefore, if this Spirit of Truth was to come at a later date to teach these additional matters, then it was because Christ had not told everything. If the Spirit of Truth was to come to remind us of what Christ had
said that is because it had been forgotten or not properly understood.
Spiritism has come at the predicted time to fulfill Christ's promise. Presided over by the Spirit of Truth, it calls Man to observe the law and reveals all manner of things so making understandable what Jesus had said only in parable form. Christ himself had given the warning: "Listen all those who have ears to hear." Spiritism has come to open man's eyes and ears because it speaks without figuration or allegory, so lifting up the veil which had been intentionally cast upon certain mysteries.
Finally, then, it has come to bring supreme consolation to the disinherited of this Earth and to all who suffer by showing them the just cause of their suffering and the useful purpose of all pain.
Christ said: "Blessed are the afflicted for they shall be consoled." But how can anyone feel fortunate if they do not know why they suffer? Spiritism shows the cause of suffering to be in past existences and in the destiny of this planet, on which Man makes atonement for his past. It explains the object behind suffering by showing it as a salutary process which produces a cure and also as a means of purification, both of which guarantee future happiness. From this it is possible for Man to understand that he deserves all his sufferings and to believe that this is just. He also learns that his suffering and pain will help him to progress and so is able to accept it without complaining, just as a worker accepts the work which will guarantee his salary.
Spiritism gives Man an unshakable faith in the future so that he is no longer troubled by this consuming doubt within his soul. He is also enabled to see things from on high, which makes the importance of his earthly vicissitudes disappear on the vast and splendid horizon, which Spiritism sets before him. The prospect of the happiness which awaits therefore gives him patience, resignation and courage to continue to the end of his path.
In this manner Spiritism realizes what Jesus said of the promised Consoler, by bringing knowledge of those things which allow Man to know where he came from, where he is going and why he is on Earth; so attracting mankind towards the true principles of God's law and offering consolation through faith and hope. (The Gospel According to Spiritism, chapter 6- itens 3-4).
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Spiritual Foundation
of America
"The only unshakeable faith is that which can withstand reason, face to face, in every stage of mankind's development."
"Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind."
Albert Einstein
"God has no religion."
Gandhi
"Though nobody can go back and make a new beginning. Anyone can start over and make a new ending."
Francisco Candido Xavier
