Returning to André Luiz and “Our Home”

A correspondent of ours highlighted the disparity between what André Luiz tells about the whole scenario he described, of the spiritual world, and what Allan Kardec says, in the quoted passage, extracted from the Spiritist Magazine of 1859. We repeat the quoted passages below. :

“She showed a desire to eat and was immediately served with a warm and comforting broth, which was delicious on her palate…”

André Luiz – And life goes on

“The Spirit does not experience fatigue nor the need for rest or nutrition, because it has no loss to repair. … Inferior Spirits have all the passions and desires they had in life – and their punishment is not being able to satisfy them.”

Kardec – Spiritist Magazine – April 1859

It is worth noting the observation that the book “E a Vida Continua”, by André Luiz, through the psychography of Chico Xavier, is the last book in the series that began with Nosso Lar. I mean: it is interesting that the ideas presented by this Spirit did not change throughout all these publications, which supposedly reflect a certain time, with various experiences and learnings, as previously reported by him. At this point, this Spirit continues to present ideas that are contrary to what formed the Spiritist Doctrine – the methodological study of the universality of the Spirits' communications.

Why did this happen? Why is it that, during all this time, this Spirit did not learn the reality of the Spiritual world? I suppose it is reasonable to accept that more enlightened Spirits do not shock those who are still in the illusions of material attachments, a fact for which they could even provide “soup” to Spirits who, in that state, requested them. From there, however, to dictate a whole psychographic work, considered as “complementary” to the Doctrine, without clarifying the reader the reality of the facts, goes a long way.

Having said that, let's proceed.

Here, it is interesting to take care not to take the exception as a rule, on the one hand, and, on the other hand, as a general rule, not to admit the exception. The Spiritist Movement currently takes isolated communications, full of its own ideas, false ideas and illusions, as a rule of natural law, while Kardec studied, in thousands of communications with Spirits, the foundations of this and other aspects of the law. Natural.

When Kardec says that the Spirit does not experience fatigue or need for rest or nutrition, he means that, as an aspect of natural law, the Spirit really does not have ANY of our physical needs, nor emotions, which are of the body, nor pain. However, he himself communicated with several Spirits who declared such needs or sensations. In the Spiritist Magazine of December 1858, the article Sensações dos Espíritos talks a little about this, starting with a quote from the communication of a Spirit who came to join them, around the fireplace, complaining of being cold.

It happens, of course – and this is what I insist on calling everyone to study – that the Spirit, like us, creates for itself the sensations arising from its state of attachment and/or suffering MORAL – I repeat: MORAL! Just as we can create pain and illness through the body, through the psychosomatic process, the suffering or attached Spirit does the same with his spiritual body - the perispirit - with the difference that, for us, the reversal process is more difficult, while that, for the Spirit, everything depends only on the change of its thought.

Through all of Allan Kardec's serious and profound study, it is evident that it is - I repeat - the degree of attachment to material things and false ideas, allied, almost always, to moral suffering, which creates such illusions to the Spirit, illusions these that are allowed by God, since He does not make us progress by blows, but guarantees time and autonomy to each one.

Finally, I add that this is the great problem of the current ME: to instill in the ideas of the masses the ATTACHMENTS to matter, based not on serious study, but on isolated opinions, thus promoting, instead of an awakening of the Spirit, an attachment continued to the ideas of matter, which HOLD spiritual progress, since the Spirit, when leaving the flesh, instead of seeing itself conscious and seeking to evaluate its state, its choices, etc., on the contrary, it puts itself to think if goes to Nosso Lar or Umbral, if he's going to get a little house to rest (sic!), if he's going to get soup, if he's going to eat broth or the meat he liked... Do you understand the problem?

Anyway: it's each one's time and head. I quote the article “On the Spirits who believe they are still alive”, from the Spiritist Magazine of 1864:

“Not everything is proof in existence; the life of the Spirit continues, as you have already been told, from its birth to infinity; for some, death is nothing more than a simple accident that has no influence on the fate of the person who dies. A fallen tile, an attack of apoplexy, a violent death, very often, do nothing but separate the Spirit from its material envelope; but the perispiritual envelope preserves, at least in part, the properties of the body that has just succumbed. On a day of battle, if I could open your eyes which you have, but which you cannot make use of, you would see many fights continue, many soldiers still rising to the assault, defending and attacking the redoubts; you would even hear them utter their hurrays! and their battle cries, in the midst of the silence and under the dismal veil that follows a day of carnage; the fight is over, they return to their homes to embrace their old fathers, their old mothers who are waiting for them. Sometimes this state lasts a long time for some; it is a continuation of terrestrial life, a mixed state between corporeal life and spiritual life. Why, if they were simple and wise, would they feel the cold of the grave? Why would they pass abruptly from life to death, from daylight to night? God is not unjust, and he leaves this joy to the poor in spirit, hoping that they will see their state by the development of their own faculties, and that they can pass calmly from the material life to the real life of the Spirit.”