Laws of Love Emmanuel Psychgraphed by Chico Xavier
I - Spiritual causes of diseases 1 - What is the spiritual structure of the material body? - The spiritual body or perispirit is the basic body, constituted of subtle matter, in which the flesh body is organized. 2 - The error of a past incarnation may be included in the present incarnation, predisposing the physical body to disease? How? - The great majority of diseases have their deep cause in the semimaterial structure of the spiritual body. If the spirit make any mistake, in this or that sector of the evolutionary experience, the spiritual body with imbalances or dystonias predisposes the flesh body to the installation of certain diseases, according to the organ which was damaged. 3 - What are the two aspects of Justice? - Justice on Earth simply punishes manifested cruelty, whose consequences are restricted to the areas of public interest, squandering life and inducing crime; however, this is only its external aspect, because Justice is always manifestation of the Divine Law, in the processes of evolution and in the activities of the consciousness. 4 - What is the relationship between diseases and Justice? - In the course of illnesses, it is imperative that we examine the divine justice working with all its regenerative power, to heal the ills that we cherish. 5 - What does the Spirit do, before reincarnating to improve himself? - Before reincarnation, we ourselves with great responsibility, we analyze the vulnerable points of our soul, advocating in our own cause the physical impediments
that, in due course, immunize us, preventing us the possibility of recidivism in the mistakes we have been making. 6 - What ask, to regenerate themselves, the intellectuals who have defiled the treasures of the soul? - Artificers of thought, who misappropriate the patrimonies of the spirit, pray for coercive levers on their own brains to be made for some time to prevent their tendencies to intellectual imbalance. 7 - What do the artists who corrupted their inteligences beg in favor of their own reabilitation? - Artists, who intoxicate the sensibility of others with the abuses of vicious representations, they beg for diseases or mutilations, which incapacitate them to fall into new faults. 8 - What orders are requested by speakers and persons who influence others through the word? - The ones who work through the word, which prevail from it to slander or to hurt, they request the deficiencies of the vocal and auditory devices, which guarantee them providential segregation. 9 - What rectifying measures ask for themselves those who have unbalanced sexual behavior? - Creatures endowed with organic harmony, who throw the values of sex to the ground of degrading passions, driving hearts mad and fomenting tragedies, they implore diseases and genetic inhibitions to themselves, in order to prevent new falls due to their lower impulses. 10 - All diseases were requested by the Spirit himself before he is reborn? - The Spirit does not always deliberately require certain diseases because in many circunstances like suicide, they immediately fall into the disintegration or insanity of the forces, injuring the spiritual body, which builds them a rebirth in the physical cradle, exhibiting defects and congenital diseases, in distressing reincarnations. 11 - What are the most common cases of compulsory diseases, imposed by divine laws?
- There are numerous cases of compulsory diseases, imposed by the Divine Law, mostly seen among creatures that bring the signs of intellectual disability or madness, blindness or irreversible paralysis, or even in children-problems. 12 - If we don't follow Jesus' words "watch and pray", can any disease be installed in the body? And what can cause spiritual diseases in daily life? - The mind is more powerful to install diseases and disharmonies than all known bacteria and viruses. It is therefore necessary to consider also that imbalances and diseases arise also from recklessness and derisiveness, revolt and laziness. People who drink alcohol to the point of ruining health; who forget about hygiene until they become prey of destructive parasites; who are angered by the smallest reasons, disrupting their nerves themselves; those who spend all hours in hammocks and beds, armchairs and windows, without the courage to overcome the idleness and the discouragement through the movement of the work, impairing the function of the organs of the physical body, because of their immobility, are creatures that generate illness for themselves, in the attitudes of today, without any previous causes of past existences. 13 - What is Jesus' warning for us to prevent ourselves from ilness both body and soul? - Noting the ancient causes and today's causes to the diseases of now, we highlight the reason why the teachings of the Spiritist Doctrine make us consider, with more seriousness, the Master's warning: "Pray and watch so that you don't fall into temptation".
II - Relationship and Affiliation 14 - Does death archive the unfinished services of human creatures? - In the world, death looks like a station of insoluble problems, filing services unfinished. However, this is just appearance. 15 - Do the consequences of the obscure crimes of men end with death? - Passionate dramas, crimes that were not investigated by human judges, intimate tragedies
and crimes in the shadows, whose protagonists we know how to identify as victims and executioners will not disappear in the silence of the tomb, because life goes on beyond death, unfolding causes and consequences. 16 - Does the principle of cause and effect work beyond death? - The principle of cause and effect both works in human existence, as well as beyond the end of perishable body. 17 - Where does death lead us? - Since we, human beings, incarnated and disincarnated, are still imperfect and inexperienced disciples of life, death does not impel us to high spheres as well as does not degrade us indefinitely to degrading circles. 18 - For human creatures what does earthly life mean? - Divine Law consider us young intelligences, under the patronage of the school, granting us, in earthly life, the highest uplifting and reeducative field. 19 - What is the connection between consanguinity and destiny? - In the links of consanguinity, we recover the coexistence with all those who are associated to our destiny, by the bonds of good or evil, through the blessed gates of the reincarnation. 20 - What do we need to overcome the family conflicts? - We must dress ourselves with the coats of patience, love, understanding, devotion, goodwill and humility, in order to learn and overcome the family conflictd. In the world, the home is the first school of rehabilitation and settling of accounts. 21 - What were despotic parents in previous lives? - Almost always, today's despotic parents are those children of the past, in whom we inoculated selfishness and intolerance. 22 - And the rebellious son?
- The rebellious and vicious son is the brother whom we throw, one day, into the intemperance and the delinquency. 23 - And the imprudent daughter? - The imprudent daughter is the young woman who, at one time, we have induced to imbalance and cruelty. 24 - And the unfaithful husband? - The ungrateful and disloyal husband, in many circumstances, is the same husband of the past, whom we have precipitated into desertion, with our own bad examples. 25 - And the problematic wife? - The disoriented wife who bitter our feeling, is the woman whom we despised, at another time, forcing her to slip into the pit of madness. 26 - And the relatives who are loyal friends? - The altruistic relatives, on whom we are anchored, are the friends of other ages, with whom we have already built the solid foundations of friendship and understanding, promoting the comfort of reciprocal security. 27 - How does our past influence in family climate and professional activity? - Each bond of sympathy or every shadow of antipathy, which we face in the family or in the professional activity, are forces of the past asking us for improvement in our dialy and endless labour in the victory of good. 28 - In view of all those teachings, what should we do concerning the coexistence with relatives? - In the presence of the relatives and the companions of the journey, may us consecrate ourselves to the happiness of everyone and to do the best we can, for the benefit of everyone. 29 - What should we do if the presence of someone is painful to us? - If the presence of someone is painful or difficult to our heart, let's cancel the negative impulses that arise in our souls and let's convert our relationships with those ones in a constant sowing of peace and
light. 30 - Every bond of kinship has reason to be? - No one has unreasonably this or that link of kinship, since chance does not exists in the labours of Creation.
III - Social and professional choice 31 - Can we evaluate our past existences, only through struggles and trials? - The past does not speak to us exclusively through tests. 32 - Does the profession give us opportunities for readjustment? - We can observe the opportunities for readjustment and improvement that the world gives to us in the profession. The creature is reborn gravitating around to the service field whose dispositions and tendencies he is in tune. 33 - To what criterion obeys the placement of each person in the professional field? - Each person is situated where he can produce more and better. 34 - Is the fatality that makes the person choose a particular profession? - There is no doubt that the situation of any person in a such career does not follow the fatality. Free will in the inner world constantly commands feelings and ideas, words and actions of the Spirit. 35 - When can we renew the destiny? - Every day is time to renew the destiny. 36 - Can we, without difficulty, renew our destiny, even today? - Yes. In the sphere of common duties, the Spirit earns, through both abnegation and spontaneous service valuable resources of action, in order to renew his own ways.
37 - Does the Divine Law elaborate to us special ways of giving us correction and liberation? - We are faced in our today's professional activities as ex-debtors of the Law, who were called to cooperate in the labours where we ourselves have possibilities for paying off our own debts, almost always by side of the same people with whom our offenses or defections occurred in the past. For our own benefit, the Law provides us the oportunity to eliminate mutual antipathy and difficulties. 38 - What nowadays do the thinkers who yesterday have intoxicated the mind of the population? - Thinkers, who once corrupted the popular mind with depravities, whose spirits are already on the road to self-development, now they are the professors, learning to minister disciplines, at the expense of their own example. 39 - And the former military conquerors who comitted errors ? - Tyrants who did not hesitate to forge the physical and moral misery of their brothers, in the exaltation of their subaltern principles in which they were debased, they return, after the initial measures of auto-correction as administrators abilited in the task of distributing and uplifting values and services. 40 - And the political rulers who squandered the trust of the people? - Politicians who have squandered the confidence of the people when they are already on the path of readjustment, return, in trade or agriculture, with valuable opportunity to support those same communities that they have damaged. 41- And the warriors and soldiers? - Warriors and soldiers who used weapons to give free course to their destructive instincts, when interned in the early regeneration, are transfigured into mechanics and modeling workers, dignifying the metal and the wood that they themselves have perverted in other times. 42 - And the rural tyrants?
- Rural tyrants, denatured moneylenders, defrauders of the public soil, who wish to converte themselves into agents of the future, modified to the touch of the good, they return as limited servers of the farm, working from sunrise until dawn, in payment of their own debts. 43 - And the women who dealt with slander and intrigue? - Distinguished women who have dealt with slander and intrigue, undermining the freedom and progress, after recognizing their own mistakes, they return to the domestic enclosure, imprisoned in simple obligations, next to the casseroles and wash tanks. 44 - What does the work on earth mean to us, after all? - If we reflect on the situation where the present puts us, we will see the signs of the past. And if we use them, not only in our own profit, but in profit of all those who approach us, we will recognize, in the labours that life offers us, blessed door of liberation heading to the great future.
IV - Divorce - Suicide - Abortion 45 - Understanding that many marriages result in unhappy unions and sometimes even deeply unfriendly, inducing the spouses to divorce, how to interpret the reciprocal attraction, filled with joy and hope, which characterized the courtship and engagement? - Anyone who aims a high title passes through the enchantment phase. A teacher, for instance, who desires the highest chair, has to make much efforts. When he achieves the certificate of competence, it is imperative to indulge in unceasing study to meet the demands of the teaching profession. The scholar strives to obtain the diploma that authorizes the liberal profession. Laureated by distinction, he feels compelled to work tirelessly, in a way of sustaining oneself in the responsibility in which he wishes to live. So the marriage as well. 46 - How to interpret the dislikes and afflictions at home? - Man and woman both wait for the wedding, as if it were a sweety dream, however, in the coexistence in the home, arise the obligations, arising from the past, through the service program designed for each of us by reincarnation, which compels us to take up, in our intimacy, all our mistakes. It is easy, in such way, to recognize that all difficulties in home were brought by ourselves, from past existences.
47 - In general, who, in the laws of destiny, is the absent husband? - The absent husband is the same man whom, in the past, we inclined to cruelty and lies. 48 - And the unbalanced wife? - Unbalanced wife is that woman whom, in a certain way, we relegated to the necessity and the addiction. 49 - What are the problematic children? - Problematic children are those same spirits whom we damaged, disfiguring their character and poisoning their feelings. 50 - What is the essential function of the home and the family? - In the family institute, impulses are purified and decisions are renewed. In the family institute we find the stimuli to work and the temptations that prove us the qualities already acquired, the joys that encourage us and the pains that correct us. 51 - How is divorce seen in the higher spheres of the spiritual world? - Divorce, although sometimes necessary, is not a way of salvation when the struggles get worse. No one harvests flowers from planting stones. Only time can dispel the shadows that we have been hoarding throughout time. Only unconditional forgiveness extinguishes offenses; only doing good we extinguish evil. 52 - Are there frankly insoluble cases in unfortunate marriages that divorce is the lesser evil to avoid greater evil? - Many say that divorce is a way of avoiding crime and we do not dare to disagree. Cases arise in which it works, by deplorable measure, warding off greater evils, such as an amputation that avoids death, but it will always be delayed discharge, in the manner of a debt that needs to be rescheduled . 53 - No matter how fast the struggles come in marriage, is the best way to stay in it? - To pay is to be free, to learn is to assimilate the lesson.
54 - What are the worst consequences of unhappy carnal connections, besides those who present themselves in the sufferings which come from frustrations and emotional injuries? - It is necessary to observe that from the uncontrolled sexual affection arise many calamities for the life of the Spirit, among them, we emphasize hatred, spiritual obsession, suicide and abortion, as the most pitiable. 55 - How is abortion interpreted in the higher spheres of the Spiritual world? - The provoked abortion, even for human regulations that allow it, is a crime before the Laws of God. 56 - What are the immediate results of abortion for mothers and fathers who practice it? - By practicing abortion, cruel or irresponsible mothers and fathers move away the rehabilitation and happiness that would later enlighten them, preventing the reincarnation of friendly Spirits who would guarantee them the safety and restoring or preventing the rebirth of former adversaries, acquiring their own tranquility by the solution of old debts. 57 - Does abortion offer specific painful consequences for the mother? - Abortion offers painful consequences for the woman who submit herself to it, premature disincarnation, whether by cancer or other obscure formation, when the distressing processes of obsession are not nullified. 58 - And to the father? - Father who cooperates in the criminal abortion, as well as the gynecologists, they will suffer the results of their cruelty, attracting the suffering and despair of their victims, relegated by them to the mishaps and shadows of the spiritual life of lower spheres. 59 - Do creatures who committed suicide because of the disappointments found in the affective connections, aggravate the sufferings of others, as well as the sufferings that they themselves searched?
- Many weak spirits, who for reasons of unhappiness in sexual affection threw themselves into the suicide, they find gigantic sufferings, like those who jump in the dark on cliffs of embers, creating anguish derivations for the creators of such tragedy. 60 - Do suicide cases in unhappy carnal unions aggravate tests in future weddings? - The ones who violate the passage of death, mistakenly believing to reach rest, they find only torment and despair, they generate in their hearts the dreadful conflicts, which only regenerative reincarnations can remedy. Let us patiently endure the trials that the world offers us, creating good about all the evils that come to us from the existences we already lived, because the conviction to escape from duty however painful our duty may be - will always embrace worse. In any tribulations or difficulties, our individual obligation is to do the the best we can for good to triumph. 61 - What to do to extinguish the obvious evils of inconsiderate and unhappy affective bonds? - In all departments of human struggle, the commitments of the past reappear. It is indispensable for everyone to dress his soul with the forces to overcome, in himself, the vulnerable points that once had made him fall. 62 - What personal direction should we take to overcome the hardships of the unhappy home? - Let us avoid divorce as much as possible, and let us fight against abortion and suicide with all the resources of reasoning and clarification that we can utilize. Divorce postpones the discharge of the debt . Abortion complicates fate. Suicide aggravates all suffering.
V - Obsession 63 - Is there a relationship between obsession and mental currents? - Whoever refers to the obsession must necessarily refer to the mental currents. Thought is the basis of everything. 64 - Do we all have antipathies from the past?
- It is undeniable that we are all carrying, from the past to the present, a great number of antipathies. 65 - What is our position, after being disincarnated, when we are not integrally good nor integrally bad? - When we are disincarnated, in relatively happy conditions, keeping the joust exceptions, we are assimilated to debtors in reassessment, making efforts through both work and study, to the continuation of the discharge of our debts. 66 - Where we are faced most often by the antipathies from the past: on Earth or in the Spiritual world? - It is natural that it is in the physical sphere that most directly and frequently we meet those spirits whom we injure or with whom we were fellows of delinquency. 67 - How could we classify those who in other existences have been our enemies or who have been adversaries and whom, at present, play, on the basis of the profession or of the family, the role of our companions and our relatives? - They are the witnesses of our improvement, testing our moral energies, when we do not support their permanent presence, due to the regenerative tests that we bring when we are reborn. They follow us as instruments of our spiritual progress, they watch our achievements and they police our impulses. 68 - When will we be really in peace with all those who are still for us natural aversions or difficult people? - One day, we will thank them for their collaboration, just like the student who, in school, rejoices afterwards for having passed under the attentions of the demanding teacher. 69 - How do our opponents of the past transform themselves? - In the processes of obsession, it is important to recognize that our opponents transform themselves for good, in the same proportion as we also, for our part, transform ourselves for good. 70 - Do the sessions of Disobsession have value? Under what conditions? - Any verbal recommendation and any understanding by word, through
the sessions of Disobsession have profound value, but only when authenticated by our intimate effort for self rehabilitation. Without that, our tender sentences will pass, unfruitful, such as an emotional music over the swamp. 71 - In what time and situation the depressing phenomena of obsession can hit us? - Noticing that thought is the lever of attraction, for good or evil, it is very easy to see that the depressing phenomena of obsession can hit us, in any condition and any time. 72 - Is it necessary that the obsessed one watches his own mental life to contribute to his own improvement? - Yes. The mental currents are so evident as the electric currents, expressing potential energies for achievements that show direction, purpose or will of our thoughts, whether for evil or for good. 73 - What is the role of desire, word, activity and action in the obsessive phenomenon? - Each of us is somehow as a generator, retaining the constructive or destructive forces that we generate. Desire, word, attitude and action represent electromagnets, through which we attract forces equal to those we externalize, towards the fellows. 74 - What are the consequences for those who are linked to certain evil action? - To link ourselves to any aspect of evil, is to increase its influence on us and on others. 75 - What is the relation between the manifestations of debased sentiment and the imbalances of personality? -All manifestations of debased feelings such as slander, anger, jealousy, censorship, sarcasm, intemperance and licentiousness, spontaneously create communication with the powers that are inferior of nature, creating dystonias and diseases, in which phobias and fixations, imbalances and psychoses evolve to mental alienation.
76 - What happens to us morally when we emit a thought? - Emitting a thought, we put an energetic agent in circulation - a living organism - an agent who will return fatally to us, added with good or evil that we have garnished it. 77 - What is the relationship between our vulnerabilities and the return of evil that we have practiced? - Understanding that each of us has vulnerabilities, in the evolutionary state in which we still live in, everytime we emit an evil idea, we will face such evil comming back to ourselves, aggravating our illnesses and weaknesses, obsessions and passions. 78 - What do we receive from others? - We assimilate from others what we give to others. 79 - What images reflects the mirror of the mind? - The mind can be compared to a living mirror, which reflects the images that we are looking for. 80 - What is the connection between obsession and the interests of the creature? - Obsession, whatever how it is expressed, is fundamentally linked to the mental processes upon which the creature's interests are based. 81 - Do companies influence obsession? - Christ said, "Seek and you shall find." We will find the companions we seek, whether for good or evil. 82 - What is the simplest solution to the problem of obsession? - We consecrate ourselves to the construction of good of all, every day and every hour, because to walk among noble or unbalanced spirits, whether they are incarnated or disincarnated, will always be a matter of choice and mutual tuning.
VI - Consequences of the Past 83 - How can we understand the results of our previous existences?
- To understand the results of previous existences, it is enough that man observes his own tendencies, opportunities, struggles and trials. 84 - How to understand, in essence, the debts or advantages that we bring from past lives? - Studies that we have done correctly, even done long time ago, give us respectable professional titles. Fouls practiced leave bitter scrap of pains in consciousness, asking for solution. If we plant a precious tree, it is natural to behold it loaded with benefits and fruits for others and for us. If we acquire a debt, it is fair to bear the burden of paying. 85 - What lesson do the hours teach us? - Let us meditate on hours. Usually, during the night, man rests and sleeps; in the morning, he awakens and get up from bed with goods or evils that he has sought for himself in the course of the previous day. Thus, life and death as well, in the law of reincarnation that governs our fate. 86 - What is the logical explanation for the congenital diseases? - Serious crimes bring to the soul indefinable states of anguish and shock, hence the logical explanation of the congenital, sometimes incomprehensible diseases to be treated. 87 - What happens to suicidals in future lives? - Suicidals who burst their skull or who hangged themselves, after prolonged torture in the purgatory regions, often after several attempts of frustrated rebirth, they regain the body of flesh, but carrying the deficiencies of the spiritual body, whose harmony they damaged. In this phase, they exhibit damaged brains or obscure nerve diseases. 88 - And the protagonists of passionate tragedies? - Protagonists of violent and obscure passionate tragedies; war criminals, civilian exploiters, who manipulate clutter to cover up their dark intentions; exploiters of human suffering, slanderers, contractors of abortion and debaucheries and other evildoers, which the justice of the world failed to register, they return to reincarnation in tribulations compatible with the debts they have assumed, living together with many of their victims under the same roof, marked by similar bonds mutually tolerating each other until the solution of the puzzles they have created against
themselves, mindful of the rebalancing they are in need of, or suffer the pain of accurate recovery in painful disasters, integrating the disquieting accidents in which the redemption of the reincarnated Spirit unfolds, whether in the transes of individual or collective trials. 89 - And the accomplices of errors and falls? - The great difficulties do not fall exclusively on ordinary suicidals and killers. Those ones who directly or indirectly were instruments of unhappy resolutions, are impelled to receive them in their own arms, offering to the fallen fellows their own homes as an office of regeneration. 90 - What happens to those who have caused someone's suicide? - If we made someone committ suicide, it is quite possible we may have that someone, very soon, in a condition of a problematic son or a suffering relative, asking us for help, to the extent of the responsibilities that we have assumed in their bankruptcy. 91 - What happens to those who impel the neighbor to moral bankruptcy? - If we instilled addiction and crime in fellow travelers along the way, suffocating their better hopes due to a premature disincarnation, it is sure that they will be reincarnated by our side, so that we give them an indispensable re-education, on the agenda of the commitments to which we are entangled, by precipitating terrible delusions of which they seek to free themselves, dejected and unhappy. In the same circumstances, we carry ourselves, rooted in the deep forces of the goods or evils we have been cultivating. 92 - And what happens to the disincarnated one who have squandered the treasures of emotion and idea? - When disincarnated, we do not escape from the law of cause and effect. If we have squandered the treasures of emotions and ideas on Earth, we face in the spiritual spheres the sickness of the soul, that will reappear on the flesh body with the consequent diseases, into the organic tissues that will make up our physical body. 93 - And those who deliver themselves to the imbalances of sex? - In these conditions, the future is blurred, pointing us serious lessons of restoration. If we embrace imbalances of sex, aggravated by making someone else's suffering, we will suffer innate inhibitions, often with
early fatigue and muscular dystrophy, epilepsy, or cancer of the womb. 94 - And those who commit crimes? - If we commit crimes, we will face painful mutilations in the future. 95 - And those who indulge themselves in the extravagances of the table? - If we indulge ourselves in the extravagance of the table, we will deal with ulcerations and gastralgias which will persist as long as the alterations of the perispirit endure. 96 - And those who are addicted to alcoholism? - If we are fond of alcoholism or drug addiction, we will be induced to madness or mental problems. 97 - And those who commit crimes of slander? - If we commit crimes of slander, we forge for ourselves periods of deafness or dumbness, preceded or followed by correlated dystonias. 98 - The consequences of our errors occur only in the form of ordinary diseases? No. Moreover, we must count on the probabilities of obsession, since as everytime we damage those who ever crossed our paths, we attract vibrations of revolt or despair of those who are victims of our thoughtless actions. 99 - What should be our attitude before the trials of life? - In face of the disturbing tests that we are passing throught, let us learn to reflect, help, improve, support and serve those around us. 100 - What are the relations between the present, the past and the future? - We are all in the present, with the opportunity to build the future, but involved in the consequences of our own past. This is because all that the creature sow, that's exactly what the creature will harvest.
VII - Treatment of diseases and Spiritism
101 - Can Spiritism contribute to the treatment of diseases? - Spiritism, expressing Christianity Revived, not only reveals the radiant panoramas of immortality, before the great future, but it is also light for the man, to clarify his way; thus Spiritism has a specific role in the treatment of diseases that afflict the humanity, since it teaches the medicine of the soul, in bases of constructive love. 102 - Is there a pathology of soul? - Grief, resentment, despair, friction and irritation entertain establishing mental lesions that culminate in pathological processes, in the body, and soul, sometimes with risk of madness or death. 103 - How to classify the house, where enemies from the past lives meet each other under the same interests and same blood ties? - From the mental point of view, the adversaries of the past, reincarnated in the present, they expand such a vibratory charge of cruelty and rebellion, that the family nest is transformed in a wild cave, undermined by myriads of destructive rays of bad mood and aversion. 104 - What is the role of Spiritist principles in the face of family conflicts? - Faced with family conflicts, Spiritist principles arise as a providential medication. 105 - What is the fundamental point of spiritist support concerning conflicts in home? - Clearly, in individual education and, evidencing the reincarnation issue, the mutual tolerance, in order to make easier the coexistence, so that main points can be definitely healed. 106 - How does Spiritism classify people whose coexistence and consanguinity are both hard to bear? - Proclaiming fraternal understanding as inalienable measure in order to solve problems from the past, Spiritism classify such brothers as patients needing compassion and help. 107 - How the Spiritist teachings work in the healing process of illnesses that make human creatures unhappy?
- Spiritist teachings awakes the mind to the improvement throught work and study, preparing the creature, in any situation, for the work of self-improvement and unveiling the continuity of life beyond death, also showing that the person will meet, beyond the grave, the happiness or the misfortune that he has built for himself. 108 - Can charity assist in the healing of human illnesses? - Spiritism defines charity as therapy to relieve the consequences of evil and as solution for all illnesses that afflict earthly men. 109 - In which precise formulas the Spiritist therapy is based ? - We learn with Spiritist teachings that acts of kindness, even the smallest, are plantations of eternal joys, and the unconditional forgiveness of offenses is the sanctifying formula for the suppression of pain and the renewal of fate. 110 - What are the remedies of the spirit? - In spiritist activities, sublimated magnetism brings immediate advantages, whether in the "passes", under the influence of prayer, or in the Gospel at home*, by means of which, disincarnated benefactors and friends rebalance our forces, throught the high inspiration, appeasing our thoughts, or taking resources from the environment, in order to provide us the aid to our afflicted or exhausted souls.
VIII - Redemption 111 - When will we redeem ourselves spiritually? - We will redeem ourselves, when we consciously understand at the costs of our own reasoning, that all suffering comes from the laws of love that govern the life. For this, it is indispensable to understand that we all live subordinated to the ineluctable principle of reincarnation, knowing that we will be reincarnated on Earth or other worlds, so many times as necessary, so that the imperatives of evolution, through education, or at the expense of the correction of our criminal past that point us serious labours of recapitulation and correction, for the purge of our guilty conscience. 112 - Is suffering enough for us to pay off the debts acquired in the past existences?
- If we have an open heart in deep wounds, that is not enough; it's needed to transform our own pains into hopes and teachings. 113 - Is weeping enough to clean our heart? - Sometimes, we bring the face washed of tears, nevertheless, the despair and nonconformism are also broken up into bitter mourning; to purge the intimate world, it is necessary to resort to probation as a work resource, to convert tribulation in joy and difficulty in lesson. 114 - Is it enough to bless the ones who hurt us? - Let us bless the hands that wound us. It is imperative, however, that we should do something so that they may be renewed for the understanding and practice of good, under the inspiration of the good examples that we can offer them. 115 - Is it enough to believe in the truth, suffering the mockery of those who refuse it? - We tell the truth, and often they laugh at us, but just because it happens, we are not dismissed from working for the expansion of new light, because the truth demands continuity of self-denial so that it triumphs for the benefit of all. 116 - Is it enough collecting stones of ingratitude thrown against us? - Gathering stones of ingratitude as petals is the heroism of few. However crowds prefer to live in the exchange of strange moral sufferings, preferring the hypnosis of the complaint. Ingratitude is always the result of ignorance and so that ingratitude can produce redemptive blessings in us, we must continue to plant understanding and fraternity in the dry land of incomprehension, from which many others have already escaped. 117 - To purify ourselves, it will be enough to live in sorrow and loneliness, for that they claim us too much service to the happiness of others? - Almost always we demand the maximum of others in the construction of our happiness, without giving them, in return, the necessary to preserve their own safety. However, for our own sake, it is urgent to sustain activities and burdens of sacrifice.
118 - Is it enough for this that we should suffer the siege of injury? - They often calumniate us, however, just by being pointed by the finger of injury, this is not enough to our spiritual improvement. It is necessary to use compassion and goodness in the presence of those who persecute us. 119 - In order to obtain discharge, in the face of past wrongdoing, it is enough to bear the trials in the house, with our spirits systematically struggling and in bad humor? - In many circumstances, the home is the prison of our dreams, however, it is useful to remember that vast ranks of creatures find themselves in the same situation, aggravating sufferings and struggles for the abandonment of their responsibilities. Let us delay our happiness until the Divine Wisdom proclaim our liberation. 120 - Is it enough to be perfected, shall we live always in troublesome troubles? - We are under the burden of oppressive restlessness, but, in order that these restlessness serve us for the readjustment of the soul, it is incumbent upon us to transform them into testimonies of faith and service to others. 121 - In favor of self-improvement, it will be enough regreting errors and faults committed? - To noticed that recognition of one's mistakes, perpetrated in any existence, is the first step for rehabilitation, but this will be useless if we do not resolve to correct ourselves with humility and patience, in the fulfillment of the duties that life recommends to us. 122 - Is it fair to count on the help of the Superior Spirits, great missionaries of the evolution on earth to support us in our labours of self regeneration? - Yes, many times, we usually reflect on the great exploits of the valiant Spirits who have been transforming the Earth ... In the field of philosophy, they created new forms of thought . In the field of science, they exalted the progress; They grew in culture and they magnified art; They grew rich in work and made life better;
However, reincarnated among men, they plow the soil, they mechanize activities, they bring words of love, they renew customs, they improve laws, they clear paths ... All of them, each in their own way, have given us the keys of evolution, improving life from outside. However, in our inner world, whether in the quiet hours of existence or in the crises of affliction that hurt our souls, we must remember that true redemption arises inside us.
Translator: Erick Muller Translated videos about Spiritism: https://youtu.be/iM5HhcycvGs