Systematic Study of Spiritism

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SSS 1

Class 35

Systematic Study of Spiritism – Level 1

Classes 2 to 34

2. What is the year and the country where Spiritism started?

1. What are the phenomena that preceded Spiritism?

5. Who did the coding of the Spiritist Doctrine?

4. What are the basic works of Spiritism?

Hysdesdeville and the turning tables.

1857/France.

1857 1861 1864 1865 1868

Hippolyte Léon Denizard Rivail under the pseudonym Allan Kardec.

3. What is the Spiritism? A set of laws and principles for humanity.

6. What are the three aspects of the Spiritist Doctrine?

7. What are the basic fundamentals of Spiritism?

Spiritism

science philosophy

religion

The Existence and Unicity of God The Existence of the Spirits

The Hierarchy of Spirits Reincarnation

Communicability of the Spirits Law of Cause and Effect

Free Will Plurality of the Inhabited Worlds

The Inexistence of Heaven and Hell

God is the Supreme Intelligence -First Cause of all things.

9. What are His attributes?

Eternal Infinite

Immutable Immaterial

Unique Omnipotent

Sovereignly Just and Good

8. What is God?

10. What is the Universal Trinity in Spiritism?

11. What is spirit?

12. What is matter?

the intelligent principle of the universe

the material principle of the universe

God

spirit = Intelligent

Principle of Universe

matter = Material

Principle of Universe

13. How did the formation of worlds and living beings happen?

Through condensation of matter disseminated in space.

14. What are the four kingdoms of nature?

Mineral, Vegetable, Animal and Hominal (since the primitive to the angel)

15. What are the different categories of inhabited worlds?

Lower: primitive worlds Intermediate: trial and expiation worlds/regenerative worlds

Superior: happy worlds/heavenly or divine worlds

16. What is UCF – Universal Cosmic Fluid?

17. What is VP – Vital Principle?

It is the purest form of matter and the intermediary between spirit and matter.

Fluidic component originated from UCF that animates matter. VP gives life - can not be transmitted

18. What is VF – Vital Fluid?

Fluidic component originated from UCF that keeps the matter alive.

VF maintains life – can be transmitted

19. What is Perispirit?

Is an intermediate between the Spirit and the physical body.

20. What is its …

It has the form in accordance to the free will and the autonomy of the Spirit.

It is a variant of the UCF, therefore, it is material, but a matter more subtle.

- Constitution:

- Form:

- Properties:

- Function: Instrumental, Individualizer, Organizational and Maintainer

Oneness, Density, Porosity, Reflective Capacity, Plasticity, Intangibility, Invisibility, Penetrability, Expansibility, Corporeity, Global Sensitivity, Magnetic Sensitivity, Odor, Temperature, Depository Archive, Transmitter and Intermediary, it does not think, it does not have any will, it does not make choices.

21. What is Spirit?

Indivisible unit - individualizations of the intelligent principle of the universe and not the

intelligent universal principle.

22. For their condition, the Spirits can be:

Incarnated (embodied) Errant (wandering)

Pure

23. Are there soul mates?

There is no such thing as any special and fated union between any two souls. If one Spirit were the half of another Spirit, he

would, if separated from that other, be incomplete.

24. Are all Spirits equal or is there some kind of hierarchy among them?

They are of different orders, according to their individual degree of self-purification. The Spirits generally

acknowledge three main categories or large divisions:

Imperfect Spirits: impure, frivolous, pseudo-learned, neutral, boisterous and disturbing Spirits. Good Spirits: benevolent, learned, wise and high Spirits. Pure Spirits: first and only class.

There are no perfect beings created nor perpetually evil beings.

25. Are there angels and demons?

26. What is the purpose of reincarnation?

It is to improve, progress of the Spirit.

28. How can we prove the reincarnation?

Innate Ideas Memories of Past Lives

Mediumnistic Communications Instrumental Transcommunication Phenomena

Near Death Experience

The great part of the earthly incarnations are done under general laws, and others by

intervention of Spirits.

27. How are most of the incarnations processed?

29. What determines the Spirit’s incarnation in this or that planet?

The incarnation in different worlds happens due to a criterion of moral progress.

Trial and Expiation World (World of Tests and Atonements)

30. What kind of world is the Earth classified?

31. Do we accomplish all our different corporeal existences upon this earth?

Not all of them, for those existences take place in many different worlds. The world in which you now are is neither the first nor the last of these, but is one of those that are the most material, and the furthest removed from perfection.

32. How does the union of the soul with the physical body occur?

The union of the physical body with the soul begins at the moment of

conception and is completed in the moment of birth.

33. Why is it necessary to forget the past?

If God has seen fit to throw a veil over the past, it must be useful, but at moment you do not remember,

every life comes to be like the first, which is equivalent having to restart always.

34. Are there intervention of Spirits in the corporeal world?

The Spirits can see everything that incarnated beings do; they influence their thoughts and actions.

35. Whom is a medium?

36. Who has the skills of a medium?

Every one who is in any degree influenced by Spirits.

This qualification is only practically applicable to those in whom the mediumship faculty is clearly characterized,

producing well-marked results.

37. What is mediumship?

Mediumship stems from a certain organic disposition and therefore anyone may be gifted

with this ability, in the same way that we are gifted to see, hear and speak. It is merely an aptitude to

serve as an instrument, which may be more or less useful to Spirits in general.

38. Ways to Express the Mediumship:

Physical Effects and Intellectual Effects

39. Kind of the Mediumship:

1. Pneumatophony 2. Pneumatography 3. Musical Effects 4. Of Transport of Things 5. Of Suspension 6. Of Materialization 7. ITC and EVP 8. Fluidic Therapy 9. Healing

10. Sensitive or Impressionable 11. Intuitive 12. Inspired 13. Of Presentiment 14. Prophetic 15. Seeing 16. Clairvoyance 17. Psychograph 18. Speaking 19. Polyglot 20. Hearing 21. Psychometric 22. Artistic Effects

40. What is mediumship with Jesus ?

Mediumship with Jesus is to watch over life itself, to discipline emotions and cultivate Christian virtues.

41. What is the nature and purpose of the Gospel According to Spiritism?

Articles which constitute a universal moral code; its purpose is to make the lesson useful for humanity, and not

for only one community, an organization or a religion.

42. Why is important to practice

The Gospel at Home?

Because it enables the family environment to become an advanced post of light where the Spirits dedicated to the

good, will always be present.

43. What is prayer? Prayer is a communication process that allows us to talk to God.

44. Types of Prayer :

Exalt Gratefulness Emergency Intercede Request

45. Where does the power of prayer lie?

The power of prayer lies in the thought!

Between teaching and learning,

Conclusion:

it all depends on the student!

Systematic Study of Spiritism

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SSS 2

Starts: September 8, 2013. Finishes: July 1st , 2014. Horary: 8:00 to 9:30 PM

30 Classes Language: English

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