✨ Fundamental Teachings of Spiritism#
🌌 God#
God is the supreme intelligence, the first cause of all things. He is eternal, immutable, immaterial, unique, all-powerful, supremely just and good.
🪐 The Universe#
God created the universe, which includes all rational and irrational beings, animate and inanimate, material and immaterial.
- Corporeal World: Where incarnate Spirits — men — live. 🌍
- Spiritual World: The home of disembodied Spirits. 🕊️
In the universe, there are other worlds inhabited by beings at different levels of evolution — equal to, more evolved than, or less evolved than men.
⚖️ Divine Laws#
All the laws of nature are divine laws, since God is their author. They encompass physical laws and moral laws.
👤 The Spirit#
Man is a Spirit embodied in a material body.
- Perispirit: The semi-material body that unites the Spirit to the material body.
Spirits are the intelligent beings of creation. They constitute the spiritual world, which pre-exists and survives all things.
📈 Evolution#
Spirits are created simple and ignorant. They evolve intellectually and morally, moving from a lower order to a higher one, toward perfection.
- Individuality: Spirits preserve their individuality before, during and after each incarnation.
- Hierarchy: From pure Spirits (the highest degree) to good Spirits and imperfect Spirits.
🔄 Reincarnation#
Spirits reincarnate as many times as necessary for their own perfection.
- Progress: In their multiple existences, they may stagnate, but never regress.
- Pace: The speed of progress depends on their efforts to achieve perfection.
🤝 Relations between Spirits and Men#
Relations between Spirits and men are constant and have always existed.
- Good Spirits call us to do good and support us in life’s trials.
- Wicked spirits seek to deceive us.
⚖️ Morality#
Jesus is the guide and model of all Humanity.
- The Gospel: The morality of Christ is the path to sure evolution for all men and the solution to all human problems.
- Free Will: Man has free will to act, but is responsible for the consequences of his actions.
🤲 Prayer#
Prayer is an act of worship to God. It is part of natural law and results from an innate feeling in man.
He who prays with fervour and confidence is stronger against the temptations of evil, and God sends him good Spirits to help him.
Source: Adapted text, Brazilian Spiritist Federation – FEB