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Program III: Moral laws 

Year 2 - N° 54 - May 4, 2008

THIAGO BERNARDES
thiago_imortal@yahoo.com.br

Curitiba, Paraná (Brasil)  
Translation
FELIPE DARELLA - felipe.darella@gmail.com

 

Celibacy e polygamy


We present in this issue the topic #54 from the Systematized Study of the Spiritist Doctrine, that is being presented weekly, according to the programme elaborated by the Brazilian Spiritist Federation (FEB), structured in 6 modules and 147 topics.

If the reader uses this program for a study group, we suggest that questions proposed be discussed freely before the reading of the text that follows. If you would like to study alone, we ask you to try to answer the questions at first and only then read the text that follows. The answer key can be found at the end of the lesson.

Questions

1. Why is polygamy contrary to the natural law?

2. What advantages can one have with monogamy?

3. In what is consisted celibacy?

4. In which situation can celibacy concur to social progress?

5. What’s the meaning of this sentence by Paul, the Apostle: “But if you can’t help it, get married. Better married than frustrated”?

Text

Polygamy is about to end

1. The marriage, that is, the union of two beings, is a progress of Humanity. The halt of polygamy is a sign of social progress. Marriage, according to God, must be based upon the affection they have for each other. In polygamy there’s no real affection, there’s only sensuality.

2. If polygamy were according to the natural law, it would be impossible for it to go global, because of the numerical equality between men and women. It should be considered, thus, an unusual way of living and the social progress will make it disappear, little by little. With due effect, despite some nations still adopt polygamy, such as the Muslims from North Africa and several Asian countries, the tendency is the total abolition of this.

3. Building up the real happiness doesn’t lie in sexual satisfaction. The exchange of sex cells among human beings is just one of myriad forms of love. The interchange of forces alike, combined fluids, vibrations among souls that love each other, is the most meaningful form of love.

4. There is a great difference between polygamy and monogamy, and the conquest of the latter is without the shadow of a doubt a progress of Mankind when it comes to feelings. The relationship, by the vows of the marriage, is a real opportunity of progress, because the constitution of a home does not only allow the reincarnation of Spirits, so that, they make up from the acts of the past, as it represents the cell of the universal family, first unit of the spiritual education.

Those who practice celibacy are divided into two groups

5. Even though the marriage is important, there are people who prefer to live on celibacy, which is the state of a person who remained single. No sex and celibacy can basically mean two things: either the Spirit who decided to develop itself, or he was forced to do so.

6. People who are able to refrain from living a relationship, with the goal of being helpful towards others, are definitely on the way of improvement. It is the case of souls that, to obtain the sacred accomplishments of God in themselves, resign their lives, in existence of holy abnegation, refraining from relationships temporarily, in the sense of enhancing their affections and feelings.

7. Behaving this way, for love, aiding the siblings of Mankind, through various manners, convert the existence, with no sexual ties, into way of access to heaven, having different moods of creativity, because the sexual energy in them did not get stuck, but is canalized to other objectives: the ones of spiritual nature.

8. On the contrary, we find other fellows who were born to be out of sexual relations, either because of health issues or inversion processes so that they can make up for their mistakes of the past or incur in heavy punishments, in which facilitate the execution of determined compromises, spirit wise.

There is a great merit in giving away your life to get Heaven

9. Non-profit organizations, religious or cultural activities are valuable ways to conquer bad thoughts, related to sex, favouring the transformation of the creational forces into elements of exaltation and embellishing of life.

10. Numerous Spirits – teach the immortals – receive from Jesus permission to make this kind of effort, because this task to give away your life for the kingdom of Heaven enhance the process of redemption of loved beings, that are under scrutiny, and simultaneously, they can be more easily transformed, on Earth, into instruments of truth and good.

11. Any radical attitude operates disharmony and perturbation, with terrible consequences that follow, after the disincarnation, in process of shadows and undescriptible hardship. Thus, if the exercise of resignation, that certain people live, can make them sad and frustrated, need to follow the advice from Paul, the Apostle:  “But if you can’t help it, get married. Better married than frustrated.”

12. These considerations lead us to conclude that the sexual life of each person is a sacred land for himself. Therefore, refraining, affective bonds, constitution of a family, celibate life, divorce and other occurrences, in the field of love, are problems concerning to the responsibility of each one, not in a body-to-body sense, but in a heart-to-heart one. 

Answers:

1. Why is polygamy contrary to the natural law? A.: Marriage, according to God, must be based upon the affection they have for each other. In polygamy there’s no real affection, only sensuality. That’s why it is contrary to the laws of God.

2. What advantages can one have with monogamy? A.: Building up the real happiness doesn’t lie in sexual satisfaction. The exchange of sex cells among human beings is just one of myriad forms of love. The interchange of forces alike, combined fluids, vibrations among souls that love each other, is the most meaningful form of love. The relationship, by the vows of the marriage, is a real opportunity of progress, because the constitution of a home does not only allow the reincarnation of Spirits, so that, they make up from the acts of the past, as it represents the cell of the universal family, first unit of the spiritual education.

3. In what is consisted celibacy? A.: celibacy, which is the state of a person who remained single. No sex and celibacy can basically mean two things: either the Spirit who decided to develop itself, or he was forced to do so.

4. In which situation can celibacy concur to social progress? A.: People who are able to refrain from living a relationship, with the goal of being helpful towards others, are definitely on the way of improvement. It is the case of souls that, to obtain the sacred accomplishments of God in themselves, resign their lives, in existence of holy abnegation, refraining from relationships temporarily, in the sense of enhancing their affections and feelings.

5. What’s the meaning of this sentence by Paul, the Apostle: “But if you can’t help it, get married. Better married than frustrated”? A.: if  the exercise of resignation, that certain people live, can make them sad and frustrated, need to follow the advice from Paul, the Apostle.


B
ibliography:

O Livro dos Espíritos, de Allan Kardec, itens 695, 699 e 701.  

Vida e Sexo, de Emmanuel, psicografado por Francisco Cândido Xavier, 6a edição, pp. 33, 97, 98 e 100.

O Consolador, de Emmanuel, psicografado por Francisco Cândido Xavier, 8a edição, pergunta 331.

O Pensamento de Emmanuel, de Martins Peralva, 2a edição, p. 96.

Dimensões da Verdade, de Joanna de Ângelis, psicografado por Divaldo P.Franco, pp. 170 e 173.

No Mundo Maior, de André Luiz, psicografado por Francisco Cândido Xavier, pp. 161 e 162.


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