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Year 2 - N° 80 – November 2, 2008

AMÉRICO DOMINGOS NUNES FILHO   
americonunes@terra.com.br    
Rio de Janeiro, RJ (Brasil)
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FELIPE DARELLA - felipe.darella@gmail.com


The dead live on 

The beloved Master Jesus was the greatest example of the certainty of life after life, because He endorsed immortality, revealing the death of death, continuing to live


On the date of November 2, the cemeteries are full of people that go there to honor their dead. Many take advantage of the opportunity to decorate the tombs, other lit candles and, fortunately, many also recall to manage their thoughts to disincarnated ones by prayer.
 

In The Spirits’ Book, in questions 320 through 329, the celebration of the so-called “All Saints’ Day” is described, very well, by the High Spirits. It is worth highlighting, mainly, the teaching that the Spirits remembered attend cemeteries, attracted by the thoughts of their friends and relatives. However, the Doctrine stresses that the praying is what sanctifies the act of remembrance and "the respect that, at all times and between all peoples, the man enshrined and enshrines the dead is effect of natural intuition that exists the future life", that is, that the dead live on.

The beloved Master Jesus was the greatest example of the certainty of life after life. He endorsed immortality, revealing the death  of   death,  continuing  to l ive.  Up

shows Madeleine, in full sepulcher, newly-materialized, ultra-electrified, and warning her to not touch him, which would give her a vigorous electroshock. Through, also, the mediumistic phenomenon of ectoplasm, dialoguing with some apostles, on the way to Emmaus and appears, in a closed room, proving through the mediumship of physical effects the immortality. Likewise, there is also the mediumistic interchange, talking to Thomas, skeptical at first, denying the return of Christ to his apostles.  

Christ, in physical life, kept contact with the disincarnated Spirits 

The Master’s materialization, highlighting the survival of the being, is a cornerstone of Christianity, as Paul says, in “But if there is no resurrection of the dead, neither hath Christ been raised. And if Christ hath not been raised, then is our preaching vain, your faith also is vain.” (1 Co. 15:14). The apostle of Gentiles says that the dead resurrect in a spiritual body (1 Co. 15:44) and claims, with conviction: “Death is swallowed up in victory. O death, where is thy victory? O death, where is thy sting? (1Co. 15:54-55).

Jesus, reincarnated among us, talked to the so-called dead. At Mount Tabor, he talked to the Spirits of Elijah and Moses, using mediums of physical effects, Peter, James and John, as they were giving their ectoplasm, responsible for the mediumistic process of materialization– “Now Peter and they that were with him were heavy with sleep” (Lc. 9:32). Only the hypothesis of being in a mediumistic trance explains the fact of sleeping after the transfiguration of the Master.

The Christ, in physical life, maintained contact with ignorant disincarnated Spirits, appearing as deaf-mute, legion, etc. The Master underlined immortality, stating that the dead are still alive. He said: “But as touching the resurrection of the dead, have ye not read that which was spoken unto you by God, saying,: I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? God is not of the dead, but of the living” (Mt. 22:32). They are alive and awake.

Death doesn’t exist, because life continues after the corporeal death. If there is no life outside the grave, there is no sense for life before death.  

The dead live and are aware of their individualities 

The Spirit preexists the body – “Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee...” (Jeremiah 1:4) – and lives beyond the sepulture, as many biblical passages prove, as following: 1) John, the beloved disciple, says: “...Beloved, believe not every spirit, but prove the spirits, whether they are of God” (1 Jo. 4:1); 2) “and coming forth out of the tombs after his resurrection the Spirits entered into the holy city and appeared unto many.” (Mt. 27:53); 3) When they went to the tomb, Mary Madeleine and the other Mary saw a Spirit, certainly materialized: “His appearance was as lightning, and his raiment white as snow” (Mt. 28:3); 4) The spiritual being called Gabriel (“Man of Light”) is described as a man by the prophet Daniel (Dn. 9:21), not being an entity created apart of the creation, different from the others. Also, an entity called Michael introduces himself as a warrior; 5) The apostle Peter, sure of the existence of life after death and the possibility of mediumistic communication, says that “after his death, he would try to remember all things he had preached” (1 Pe. 1:15); 6) In the Old Testament there is an account of a mediumistic session, in which up shows the Spirit Samuel, leaving a message to Saul, through the pythoness from En-Dor (1-Sm. 28:1); 7) Jó sees a spiritual being, as he says: “Then a spirit passed before my face; The hair of my flesh stood up; It stood still, but I could not discern the appearance thereof; A form was before mine eyes” (Jó 4:15-16); 8) In the book of Isaiah, called as the “Fifth Evangelist”, the dead talk at the “purgatorial zones”, “sheol” or “underworld”, surprised to see, in the same situation of suffering, the famous and powerful king of Babylon (Is. 14:10); 9) Jesus, dead in flesh but free as a Spirit, went on to preach, in these inferior zones, to those who were suffering in this (“prison”) (1 Pe. 3:18-20).

The dead live and are aware of their individualities, and so there is life in the beyond. We are sure that, after the phenomenon of death, continues life. Two astronomers left written, in their epitaphs, the following comforting message: “We love so passionately the stars that we don’t fear the night”. 

 


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