Spiritist Knowledge

It is not to be thought, however, that all suffering in this world denotes the existence of a determined shortcoming. Many times it is simply an ordeal requested by the Spirit, which will help it towards purification and active progress. So atonement is always a test,  but a test is not always an  atonement.  ( A. Kardec, "The  Gospel According to Spiritism", Chap. 5,  "Blessed are the afflicted", Paragraph 9, see ref. 1 ) A crisis always reveals the consequence of something not properly done in the past or an action erroneously undertaken. We suffer the effect of the past living in us because we are its product. We are informed by the spirits that our actions today have two goals: to solve life's problems and to act upon current events resulting in either moral gains or losses, just as to influence the future when we will sistematically reap gains or losses again.  As a result, if we fail to act today towards the future, we will hardly...

This life is the crossing of a sea,  where we meet in the same narrow ship.  In death we reach the shore  and go to different worlds.   (R. Tagore, in Stray Birds,  1916 (4)) So I will sing and mine will be poems and songs of immortal kind.  (R. Tagore, psychography Divaldo Franco, Pássaros Livres , 1990 (5)). Certain things had happened to me  when alone in my room which convinced me  that there are spiritual intelligences  which can warn us and advise us.   William Butler Yeats (1865-1939). A ccording to A. Kardec, mediumship, as the faculty of "people who can serve as intermediaries between the spirits and men" (1), is not simply a hability to communicate and exchange information. Psychography in particular is the ability that mediums have to lend their minds so that spirits can use them for writing including for manifesting artistic content. In this process, the spirit mentally induces ideas and concep...

"I do not promise to believe tomorrow exactly  what I believe today, and I do not believe today  exactly  what I believed yesterday. I expect to make, as I have made,  some honest progress within every  succeeding twenty-four hours."   A. J. Davis   Beyond the Valley (1885) p. 134. A ndrew Jackson Davis (1826 – 1910) was a prominent American medium (1), regarded as "John the Baptist" of Spiritualism. We present an interesting text (2) by him below (extracted from his book "The Temple"), a report of his sights at the instant of death of a person. Obviously, his description below is not valid for every person and all types of deaths (he explains some conditions for this death in his text).  Even so, his vision transforms death into a glorious moment in the life of those who lived well to deserve it. Death is the word used to signify "the end of life", spoken by persons who see not that seeming death is really...