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A prayer for whom we have affection. A pure and saintly affection has never known by those who think everything dies with the body. Spiritism has come to dispel all uncertainty as to the future.
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A prayer for whom we have affection. A pure and saintly affection has never known by those who think everything dies with the body. Spiritism has come to dispel all uncertainty as to the future.
A prayer for whom we have affection. A pure and saintly affection has never known by those who think everything dies with the body. Spiritism has come to dispel all uncertainty as to the future.
A collection of spiritist prayers. (Joana dArc, 06/ 05/ 2014).
Theme: A prayer for whom we have affection. Source: the gospel according to Spiritism, XXVIII: 62 & 63.
THOSE FOR WHOM WE HAVE AFFECTION 62. PREFACE - How terrible is the idea of nothingness! How deserving of pity are those who think that the voice of one who weeps is lost in a vacuum, without encountering the least sign of response! A pure and saintly affection has never been known by those who think everything dies with the body. They believe that the genius who enlightened their world with vast intelligence, is a mere combination of matter which, as a flame, is extinguished for ever; that of a dearly loved person such as a father, mother or adored child, nothing remains but a handful of dust which time will inevitably disperse. How can anyone who has a heart remain indifferent to this idea? Why are they not frozen with terror at the thought of absolute annihilation and do not even show a wish that this be not so? If till now reason has been insufficient for them to have been able to dissipate their doubts, behold, Spiritism has come to dispel all uncertainty as to the future, by means of the material proof of survival of the soul and the existence of beings in the beyond that it gives! This is happening to such an extent, that on all sides these proofs are being received with joy. Confidence is reborn, because Man henceforth knows that terrestrial existence is only a brief passage leading to a better life, that work done in this world is not lost and that really pure affections are not shattered beyond hope (See chapter 4, item 18 & chapter 5, item 21).
63. PRAYER: O Lord, may You see fit to favorably receive this prayer in the name of X... Help them perceive the divine lights that will make their pathway to eternal happiness easier. Permit the good Spirits to take them my words and thoughts. You who were so dear to me in this world, listen to my voice which calls to offer anew my pledge of affection. God allowed you to be liberated before me and I cannot complain about this without being selfish, because this would be equal to a wish that you be still subject to the sufferings of life. So wait with resignation for the moment of our reunion in this happier world, where you have arrived before me. I know that this separation is only temporary, and that however long it may appear to be, its duration is nothing compared to the blessed eternity which God has promised to His chosen ones. May His goodness preserve me from doing whatever it might be that could delay this longed for moment, so that I may be saved from the pain of not encountering you when I leave my earthly captivity. Oh, how sweet and consoling is the certainty that there is nothing between us but a material veil which hides you from my sight! That you can even be here at my side, hear me speak as of old, or perhaps even better than then; to know that you do not forget me as I do not forget you; that our thoughts are constantly intermingling and that your thoughts accompany me and uphold me. May the peace of the Lord be with you. ***************** CONSIDERATIONS: A Prayer for a person whom is no longer in the physical world, if we have to explain to someone who is not spiritist it is very complicate, because in general few religions admit Prayer for the so called dead, that is, our disincarnated ones, hence there is people who tremble and have cold chills on speaking of that, it is because it is not in the people realities in their daily living, firstly because he who dies is discarded, and thence they are called spirits of the other world. That sounds frightening and many are conditioned by many religious entities to associate the spirits of the other world as demons or spirits who only come to do us harm, that because those religious entities have a dogma that people who are good and dignified go to a circumscribed Heaven and that God does not permit communication of any form with the physical world. Hence it is constant in their explanations that only bad spirits communicate themselves with men; it is a question of comprehension, a spiritist believes that life goes on, that no one dies, that a spirit is immortal, that if he was a good person when he lived among us he does not turn a demon after he dies, that yes in the beyond
2 there is spirits good and bad like the manner that we have amongst us good and bad persons, charitable persons and selfish ones, them all accordingly to the spiritual degree of merit that they may have reached out/up. It might be needed to explain that in the Spiritist doctrine there are not lost or fallen spirits in sin eternally, but evolution and progress of the souls, with repentances, readjustments and rescues, in the Spiritist Doctrine there is the explanation that the spiritual world and the physical world march together, that God is in both sides of life, that God cares for our wellbeing, that in Gods laws there is reincarnation given to understand that we all have the need of progress for perfection, be it moral perfection, be it the intelligence perfection, be it the sentiments of the hearts, be it the sensibilities in spiritual gifts, be it the one of tolerance, be it being sensible towards injustice, sensible to the point of crying with those who cry, pardon or mercy before the neighbor, etc. On face to this demand which Jesus asks us Be perfect. He himself does give us example and says: Example I give you, which example did Jesus give, was it the one of selfish person, was it the one of having a full barn house, no, no, it was the one of love and total love, love from the bottom of the heart, would it be so that we are already ready with that love or we are of need of much more time or progress in our evolution to deserve a Heaven in which our Master and Lord is living although he is amongst us. I am with you always, even unto the end of the world. (Matthew, XXVIII: 20). Being the Spiritual world marching with the physical world there is what one could call; an agreement between the two worlds in the laws of God, would no one think so, and that existing, that union of worlds in spiritualization, can anyone contest reincarnation, considering that it is not but the coming of spirits from the beyond to here to this world in the same manner that one dies and goes to beyond, thence life is: Naitre mourir, renaitre encore et progresser sans cesse, telle est la Loi, (to be born to die, to be born again and to have progress without ceasing, that is the law). In this sentence is contained in short the spirits motion, that is, our moving to and fro, because we are immortal spirits and the physical world cannot hold but temporarily. Let us understand that when someone wishes well to one else, be the other person alive or disincarnated one should yes make a prayer to God in favor of that person and he/she will receive the good desired to him/her, even though one does not form prayer in words, but formed in thoughts of good wishes it will reach the person despite distances life or death, because our spirit is a dynamic force with powers to across the Universe instantaneously, better than a move cell-phone. We do communicate one another though telepathy or the power of desire in good, and consequently we influence and are influenced, and if we are persons of well desiring we acquire protection from bad influences, since we attract good affinities, and in our living let us practice praying habits suggested by Jesus who has said: watch and pray, it is because prayer is as an armor of protection against undesirable influences of which we all are subjected due of the world still to contain many inferior spirits, until the world turns to be world of regeneration, when then many inferior spirits will be taken out for the good of their own evolution and for the well- being of the persons of good will who by merit will stay on permanently. (Genesis, XVIII: 27, 28 the new generation).
********************************** Let us appreciate in the Allan Kardecs book Heaven & Hell, Part one, 3 rd Chapter, items 5-10: 5. With the aid of the knowledge thus derived, we have ascertained that man is a compound being, consisting of a body and a spirit; that the spirit is the principal element of this compound existence, its reasoning and intelligent element; that the body is merely a material envelope which is temporarily assumed by the spirit for the accomplishment of his mission upon the earth and the execution of the labors that are necessary for his advancement. The body, worn out, is destroyed, and the spirit outlives its destruction. Without the spirit, the body is only a mass of inert matter, like an instrument deprived of the arm that made it act. Without the body, the spirit is still itself; that is to say, the essential element of the compound being called man, viz., life and intelligence. On quitting his material envelope the spirit returns to the spirit-world, which he had quitted in order to incarnate himself in a corporeal body. There is, then, the corporeal world, composed of spirits incarnated in corporeal bodies, and the spirit world, composed of spirits who have put off their corporeal body. The beings of the corporeal world, in virtue of their material envelope, are attached to the earth or to some similar globe; the spirit world is everywhere, around us and in space, and has no boundaries or limits of any kind. In virtue of the fluidic nature of their body envelope, the beings that compose that world instead of creeping laboriously upon the ground transport themselves through space with the rapidity of thought. The death of the body is the rupture of the bonds that held them captive.
3 6. Spirits are created simple and ignorant, but with the aptitude for acquiring all knowledge, and for progressing in every direction, through the exercise of their free will. Through the progress achieved by them, they acquire new knowledge, new faculties, new perceptions, and, as a consequence of these, new enjoyments unknown to spirits of less advancement; they see, hear, feel, and comprehend, what more backward spirits can neither see, hear, feel, nor comprehend. The happiness of each spirit is in proportion to the amount of progress accomplished by him; so that, of two spirits, one may be more or less happy than the other, simply as a consequence of his greater or less degree of moral and intellectual advancement, and this, without their being in two different places. They may be close to one another, and yet one of them may be in utter darkness, while the other is in the midst of resplendent light; just as a blind man and one who sees may be in the same place, and yet the former will be unconscious of the splendors seen by the latter, who perceives the objects which are invisible for the former. The happiness and unhappiness of the spirits being inherent in the qualities possessed by them, they find that happiness or unhappiness wherever they may be, on the surface of the earth, in the midst of incarnates, or in space. A commonplace comparison will render this difference of situation more comprehensible. If, of two men who are at a concert, one is a trained musician possessing a good ear for music, while the other knows nothing of music and has only a defective ear, the first will derive enjoyment from the concert, while the other will remain unmoved, simply because one of them perceives and understands what makes no impression upon the perceptions of the other. It is thus with all the enjoyments experienced by spirits, those enjoyments being proportioned to their aptitude for perceiving them. The spirit-world is full of splendors, harmonies, and sensations that spirits of low degree, who are still under the influence of materiality, do not perceive, and which are only perceptible, and accessible, to spirits of greater purity.
7. Progress, among spirits, is only achieved as the fruit of their own labor; but, as they have their free will, they labor more or less actively for their own advancement, according to their will; they thus hasten or retard their own progress, and, consequently, their own happiness. While some of them advance quickly, others stagnate for long ages in the lower ranks. Thus, spirits are always the artisans of their own situation, whether happy or unhappy, conformably with the words of Christ, each according to his works. A spirit who remains behind has, therefore, only himself to thank for his backwardness; in the same way, he who advances has all the merit of his advancement and the happiness he has conquered appears to him all the greater in consequence. Perfect felicity is the lot only of the spirits who have attained to perfect purity, in other words, of those whom we designate as Pure-Spirits.3 Happiness is only obtained by spirits in proportion as they progress in intelligence and morality. Intellectual progress and moral progress are rarely achieved together, and at the same time; but what a spirit fails to accomplish in one lifetime he accomplishes in another, so that his advancement in each of those two branches of progress is equalized in the long run. It is for this reason that we so often find highly intelligent men who are but slightly advanced in morality, and vice versa.
8. Incarnation is necessary to the double progress, intellectual and moral, that has to be accomplished by a spirit; it ensures his intellectual progress by compelling him to employ his activity in the various pursuits of the earthly life, and it ensures his moral progress by making him feel the need which men have for one another. Social life is the touchstone that reveals the good or bad qualities of a spirit. Kindness, malevolence, gentleness, violence, charity, selfishness, generosity, avarice, humility, pride, sincerity, hypocrisy, loyalty, and treachery in a word, all that constitutes human goodness and human badness find their motive, aim, and stimulus, in the relations of each man with his fellows. If it were possible for a man to live alone, he would have neither vices nor virtues; for, though isolation may preserve from evil, it also annuls the possibility of goodness.
9. A single corporeal existence is manifestly insufficient to enable a spirit to acquire all the goodness he lacks, and rid himself of all the evil that is in him. Would it be possible, for an instant, for a savage to attain, in a single incarnation, to the intellectual and moral level of the most advanced European? It is physically impossible for him to do so. Must he, then, remain eternally in ignorance and barbarism, deprived of the enjoyments that can only be reached through the development of the intellectual and moral faculties? The simplest common sense suffices to show us that such a supposition would be the negation, both of the justice and goodness of God and of the law of progress, which is the law of nature. And it is for this reason that God, being supremely just and good, grants to the spirit of each man as many successive existences as he needs for attaining to the perfection which is the aim of his being. In each new existence, a spirit brings with him, under the form of natural aptitudes, of intuitive knowledge, of intelligence, and of morality, all the gains that have been made by him in his previous existences.
4 Thus each new existence takes him on a step further upon the road of progress.4 Incarnation is inherent to the condition of the inferiority of the Spirit. It is no longer necessary when inferiority is overcome and there is continued progress in the spiritual state or in the physical existences of more advanced worlds that do not maintain earthly materialization.
10. In the intervals between his successive incarnations, a spirit return, for a longer or shorter time, into the spirit- world, where he is happy, or unhappy, according to the good, or the evil, he has done in his previous lives. The life of the spirit-world is the normal state of the spirit, the definitive state towards which he is tending; for it is his spirit that is undying, while the state of incarnation is one of transition and of passage. It is especially in the spirit- state that he reaps the fruit of the progress accomplished by him during incarnation; it is also in that state that he prepares for a new struggle with ignorance and evil, and forms the resolutions which he will strive to put into practice in his next return to the discipline of human life. The spirit progresses also in erraticity,5 in which state he acquires special knowledge that he could not acquire upon the earth, and modifies the ideas acquired by him through his subjection to the actions of matter. The state of incarnation and the spirit-state are for him the source of two kinds of progress, each of which is equally necessary to his advancement; and it is in order that he may reap the special benefits of each that he is made to alternate between these two modes of existence.
****************************** REFLECTIONS: A prayer or wish to a person whom we love or wish well is also reciprocal, mutual, since the disincarnated person can also desire well to the person or persons who do stay some more time in the physical world, because love is eternal love does not faint away and if that person in the beyond has condition to help us or protect, God will not forbid him/her to do so, as well faring is of His Will, for sure one uses to say: if one cannot help please do not confound nor upset, that is a just thought, we take then that our prayer is for God to help us and that also bless the ones whom we have affection, in this awareness and faith we do feel always linked some to another without desperate outbursts of crying. Hence be them incarnated or disincarnated persons and us being incarnated, we surely have lived in conflicts with the ones who upset us, and why it, it is because we do differ very often one from the other and in the living together sometimes necessary considering that from the rights and wrongs it is when we learn, develop and have progress, life is thus like, one can live well, yes, assuredly that it be in love some to the others, loving, forgiving, in begging pardon too, doing the best we can with tolerance and respect, even though our differences from one to the other, let us walk on step by step always with faith in God. As for our neighbor everything is going to turn rightly, for as much effort one may do we always cause blunders in life, but with faith in God who knowing about our imperfections He writes rightly through twisted lines, and takes us to the sheepfold of good and of happiness, to love our neighbor in our sincere measure it is the best that sometimes we could do, although our aim be the one of a relative perfection considering that we are still in an evolutionary state, if Jesus suggested to us the perfection, it is because sooner or later we will succeed in perfecting ourselves through our efforts with the continuous help of God, of Jesus or the Spirituality on service of God doing His Will, since we are all interlinked one to another from the atom to the archangel Pure Spirit in the highest elevation before God.
May God be with us, as formerly, today, and always?