Year 16 | Number 100 |
2008 | October 15th, 2008 |
"Unshakable
faith is only that which can face reason face to
face in every Humankind epoch." Allan Kardec |
Religion
Most people’s idea of religion means going to church on a Sunday, reciting much-used prayers, singing the same hymns with startling repetitive regularity and listening to sermons or addresses, themselves often being repeated far too many times for the comfort of the listener. Many people would feel completely lost if they were not able to go through this regular weekly ritual. But is this real religion? Does regular attendance at a church on a Sunday make a person more religious? Are churches spiritual places of worship, or traditional institutions based upon the material aspects of Man’s necessity? Pure religion is not the worship of God through regular ceremonial ritual, it is the worship of God through service to one’s fellow beings. Many of the most deeply religious people in the world never enter a church. Many of them cannot associate themselves with being religious. The humble Atheist, much-maligned by Orthodoxy for his denial of the existence of God, a circumstance brought about by the inability of Orthodoxy to prove to him the existence of the Great Spirit, gladly goes about his life in many cases, in service to others with no thought for personal compensation in the form of the securement of a happy and pleasant eternity. Who then is the more religious? Is it those who attend church as a regular ceremonial ritual? Or is it those who do their best to help their neighbor when that help is needed? Religion is not a matter of an hour’s devotion each week. It is a seven day a week job that is carried out by many who do not even regard themselves as being religious. It is the latter who are the real religionists, of many of the former I refrain from commenting about. |
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° THE CODIFICATION
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GENESIS:
The Miracles and the Predictions According to Spiritism |
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ON MIRACLES AND MODERN SPIRITUALISM by Alfred Russel Wallace | |||
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HEAVEN
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PART SECOND - EXAMPLES [CHAPTERS III] | |||
CONSEQUENCES OF OUR CHOICES |
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THE MUSIC OF ROSEMARY BORWN FROM A
PIANIST'S PERSPECTIVE |
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SPIRITIST BOOKS - NEW RELEASES |
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1st U.S. PEACH AND YOU MOVEMENT and the
10th SSB Anniversary |
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NEWS AND EVENTS AT The
Spiritist Society of San Diego |
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Spiritism teaches us that the purpose of our earthly life is for our soul to progress to higher levels of morality and intelligence, and our lives will receive the benefit of our good choices, and eventually our situations will improve because our efforts are rewarded. The earth (material life) serves as the place where we should strive to elevate our thoughts and make good choices or, in other words, try and strive to become a better person in order to evolve.
Those things that we have experienced or are experiencing that have NO RELATION to anything we did in this lifetime, Spiritism teaches, are the consequences of our choices we made in past lives; therefore, we again have still chosen our own current life’s circumstances.
If we honestly analyze how our life as it currently is, we can determine what kind of choices we have made in the past, and whether they improved us and our circumstances, or harmed us, in any way. We need to look at all aspects of our lives: personal, financial, the different relationships we have had or have with our families, and friends, acquaintances, etc., the jobs we have had or have, our level of education, physical ailments, and the list goes on and on.
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