Collective expiations
Before the divine laws
all the men are equal.
The diversity of
instincts and
intellectual and moral
inborn aptitudes
observed result from
living, experiences and
skills conquered along
the time through
countless
reincarnations. When we
badly use the free-will,
suppressing the freedom
of our fellows, imposing
violently our ideas,
harming our next one, we
are against the natural
laws, being considered
by the Divine Laws as
defendants, bringing the
sentence written in our
conscience, living
intense inner suffering.
In the spiritual
domains, remorse comes
calling, suffering seems
endless, never-ending
really; without peace,
we long for hope, in the
Divine mercy, that
allows the remission of
our faults. We get on,
then, making up for our
previous mistakes.
The apostle of Gentiles,
Paul, said that the man,
in “flesh” (physical
existence), since he
planted corruption, he
will have the chance to
get rid of it, being
free (Galatians 6:7-8).
The infinite love of God
allows us the experience
of coming back to the
road in the same point
we had stopped before (“the
sowing is free, the
harvest, mandatory”).
The Psalm 28 of David
also has this teaching,
as it follows: “Give
them according to their
deeds, and according to
the wickedness of their
endeavors: give them
after the work of their
hands; render to them
their desert.” All
of this confirmed by the
Master: “...and my
reward is with me, to
give every man according
as his work shall be”
(Revelation 22:12).
Breaking the law, we are
conduced to the court of
our own conscience,
penetrating into the
spiritual world as
executioners. With the
opportunity of
reincarnation in the
flesh, we return as
victims, getting rid of
the unpleasant feeling
of guilt. The burden has
become temporary,
according to Jesus:
“But I say unto you,
that whosoever is angry
with his brother without
a cause shall be in
danger of the judgment:
and whosoever shall say
to his brother, Raca,
shall be in danger of
the council: but
whosoever shall say,
Thou fool, shall be in
danger of hell fire.”
(Matthew 5:26).
The action of the
expiation may happen,
according to the
previous fault. If the
bad deed was committed
collectively, it means,
along with a group of
people (“Woe unto the
world because of
offences! For it must
needs be that offences
come; but woe to that
man by whom the offence
cometh!”- (Matthew
18:7), the solving
of debts will happen
with the presence of all
protagonists involved,
process known, in the
Spiritist Doctrine, as a
collective expiation.
Clelie Duplantier says
that collective
faults must be expiated
collectively by
those who committed them
before
Social misfortunes
involving many victims
are related to casual
facts by materialists
and spiritualists, which
characterizes a very
poor hypothesis, not to
deserve consideration,
since the harmony and
order of the Universe,
as well as the greatness
of the galaxies, hint at
an intelligent cause.
Besides, this sentence
by Teófilo Gautier is
considered: “Chance
is perhaps pseudonym of
God when He does not
want to sign His own
name”.
The in-depth study of
Spiritism leads us to
understand the casual
factors of calamities,
opposing to those who
disregard the cause, for
the lack of good
explanations. In
“Posthumous Works”, in
the chap. entitled
“Questions and
Problems”, there is a
special approach by
Kardec and the Spirits
as to collective
expiations and the
entity called Clelie
Duplantier says that
collective faults must
be expiated collectively
by those who committed
them before. It was
also said that all the
faults, no matter what
they are, follow this
same law. As there is
the individual
expiation, the same is
applied when considering
deeds performed by more
people. By the way,
Allan Kardec, in
“Genesis”, chapter 18,
item 9, says that
humanity changes as it
has changed in other
times; and each
transformation is marked
by a crisis which is,
for mankind, similar to
the crises of the growth
of individuals.
Duplantier also says
that, thanks to
Spiritism, the justice
of probations is now
understood and does not
necessarily relate to
the current life,
because it corresponds
to the debts from the
past. He, then, says
that the same applies to
the collective
expiations, which are
expiated together by the
individuals who did it
previously, as they say
“an eye for an eye”.
It is only the great
sorrows, the events of
serious
importance and capable
of influencing your
moral state, that
is foreordained by God
Tragedies, leading to
collective
disincarnating, do not
happen by chance. In the
question 258, from “The
Spirits’ Book”, A.K.
asks if, before
reincarnating, the
Spirit is aware of what
might happen in his
earthly life. The
answer: “He chooses
for himself the kind of
trials which he will
undergo, and it is in
this freedom of choice
that his freewill
consists.”
Disincarnating, the
right moment of death,
really is predetermined,
as it is written in “The
Spirits’ Book”, Q. 853
that goes: “There is
nothing fatal, in the
true meaning of the
word, but the time of
death. When that time
has come, no matter
under what form death
presents itself, you
cannot escape it.
Question 853(a) says: “You
will not be allowed to
die-and of this you have
thousands of examples;
but when your hour has
come, nothing can save
you. God knows
beforehand the manner in
which each of you will
quit your present life
and this is often known
also to your spirit; for
it is revealed to you
when you make choice of
such and such
existence.” It is
also important the
remark by A.K., in Q.
738, saying that”
Whether our death be the
result of a public
calamity or of an
ordinary cause. We are
none the less compelled
to go when the hour of
our departure has
struck: the only
difference is that, in
the former case, a
greater number go away
at the same time.”
In Q. 859, the Spirits
tell A.K. the true
and sole fatality
consists in the hour at
which you have to appear
in, and disappear from,
the sphere of corporeal
life. In Q. 872, A.K.
emphasizes: “It is
only in regard to his
death that man is placed
under the law of an
absolute and inexorable
fatality; for he can
neither evade the decree
which has fixed the term
of his existence, nor
avoid the kind of death
which is destined to
interrupt its course”.
We should point out that
only the great
sorrows, the events of
serious importance and
capable of influencing
your moral state, that
is foreordained by God,
because they will be
useful to your
purification and
instruction.
(”The Spirits’ Book”, Q.
859a).
However, “He can do so
if this seeming
deviation is compatible
with the life he has
chosen. And, in order to
do well, which should
be, and is, the sole end
of life, he may prevent
evil, especially that
which might contribute
to a still greater evil.
(”The Spirit’s Book”, Q.
860).
Therefore, chance does
not take part in divine
determinations. Our Holy
Father loves us
unconditionally and
provides us the
opportunity of spiritual
redemption, giving us
another chance of paying
the debts from the past
opposed to His Laws, in
various forms, including
collectively. Collective
expiations, according to
“The Spirits’ Book”,
question 737, make
men advance more
quickly. Have we not
told you that
destruction is necessary
to the moral
regeneration of spirits,
who accomplish a new
step of their
purification in each new
existence? In order to
appreciate any process
correctly, you must see
its results. You judge
merely from your
personal point of view,
and you therefore regard
those inflictions as
calamities, because of
the temporary injury
they cause you; but such
upsetting are often
needed in order to make
you reach more quickly a
better order of things,
and to effect, in a few
years, what you would
otherwise have taken
centuries to accomplish.
The Spirits, according
to the immortals,
influence
upon our acts and
thoughts more than we
suppose,
for it is very often
they who direct both
How does the summoning
of incarnated ones for
the event of a
collective
disincarnating happen?
What is the spiritual
explanation for the fact
that many people get out
of calamities alive,
sometimes even by
missing the
transportation that is
about to suffer an
accident? The answers
are based on the
premises that chance
cannot provoke
intelligent phenomena
and the certainty of the
Divine Law being
flawless, being
performed by the Spirits
of High Degree.
In Q. 459 from “The
Spirits’ Book”, A.K.,
asking if Spirits
influence our thoughts
and our actions,
obtained the following
answer: “Their
influence upon them is
greater than you
suppose, for it is very
often they who direct
both.” Therefore,
there is definitely an
influence, though
invisible, of the
Spirits upon our acts,
suggesting thoughts,
“like a voice speaking
to you.” (Q. 461). We
receive a mental
suggestion, our mind
working like a radio,
according to our line.
The questions 526, 527 e
528 of “The Spirits’
Book” are so important
for this understanding,
since the Spirits,
exercising the divine
laws, act upon the
matter for the
accomplishment of the
Divine Laws.
In the production of
volunteer facts,
entities make use of
natural circumstances to
create events. If it is
time to someone
disincarnate and “it
was his destiny to look
like an accident”,
the spirituality may
inspire him to go up a
broken ladder for him to
fall. The Spirits did
not break the ladder,
though.
In another example,
“a man has to die
electrocuted by a
lightning”. The
Spirits inspired him the
idea of seeking shelter
under a tree that is
about to be stroke. The
entities did not provoke
this lightning, but they
knew which tree would be
hit.
In another practical
teaching, an
ill-intentioned person
hurls against someone a
projectile which passes
close by him, but does
not touch him.
If the individual aimed
at were not destined to
be struck, a friendly
spirit would have
suggested to him the
thought of turning aside
from the path of the
missile, or would have
acted on his enemy's
sight in such a way as
to make him take a bad
aim; for a projectile,
when once impelled on
its way, necessarily
follows the line of its
projection. Important
teaching, since many
people live and work in
dangerous places, mainly
in major Brazilian
cities, and they will
only be victims of stray
bullets if they were
subjected to.
Question 470 of “The
Spirits’ Book”: “No
spirit ever receives a
mission to do evil; when
he does it, he does it
of his own will, and,
therefore, undergoes the
consequences of his
wrongdoing. God may let
him take his evil way,
in order to try you; but
He does not command him
to do so, and it is for
you to repel him.”
The sinking of Titanic
was sensed by
some people, among
them, the
English entrepreneur
Middleton
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Many people who possess
abilities in the field
of precognition or
premonition get to
forecast future
tragedies. We quote the
Irish Zak Martin,
describing a place
crashing into a
skyscraper and being
on fire. Six days
later, two
commercial planes
crash into the Twin
Towers, in New York. The
terrible sinking of
Titanic was sensed by
some people like the
English entrepreneur
Middleton who dreamed
during two nights in a
row with a |
ship sinking,
surrounded by people
and baggage
floating. He
decided, then, to
cancel his trip and
his relatives’.
A sailor rejected
traveling because of a
premonition.
The American Sylvia
Browne, in October 2004,
said on a TV program
that tourists should
avoid traveling to
India. Two months later
part of the
aforementioned country
was
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hit by a tsunami.
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In the Spiritist
literature we have some
information about the
current topic: 1- On
December 17, 1961, in
Niterói (RJ), happened a
tragic tragedy in a
circus, related,
according to the Spirit
Humberto de Campos, as a
collective expiation,
involving Romans who
killed dozens of
Christians, in a circus
in Lyon, in the year of
177 ("Letters and
Chronicles, chap. 6,
FEB); 2- The fire of the
building
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Joelma (picture), in São
Paulo, with many
casualties, was
explained by debts back
to the time of the
Crusades (“Dialog of the
Live Ones", chap. 26);
3- Emmanuel, through the
psychographed by Chico
Xavier, in the item 250
of the book “The
Consoler”, tells us:
“In collective probation
we verify the summoning
of incarnated
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Spirits, partners of
the same debts, when
it comes to their
past. The mechanism
of justice, in the
Law of
compensations, works
spontaneously,
through the
teachings of Christ,
who summon the
partners of the
previous debts for
common expiations,
reason why, many
times, people say –
painful coincidence
– about the
circumstances that
gather the most
different ones in
the same accident,
which cause them the
death of the
physical body or the
most varied
mutilations, in the
picture of their
individual
compromises”
and André Luiz, in
the chapter 18, of the
book “Action and
Reaction”, psychographed
by Chico Xavier,
describes the words of
the Spirit Drusus, about
an accident occurred
with an aircraft, in
which 14 people
perished. We point out
the information that
“millions of criminals
who commit heinous
crimes against the
Divine Laws have not yet
been charged of them”. |
May we be sure that the
love of God is immense
and there is a spiritual
reason for the tragedies
everybody dreads.
And, there is no thing
such chance. Holy Father
provides his children
his Eternal Mercy.
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