Pregnancy of Spirits
In a meeting of studies,
in our Spiritist Center,
someone asked us the
following: could Spirits
get pregnant? And we
said: as far as we know,
they can’t. He said,
then: but there is this
Spiritist book, he said
the title, which talks
about that. I didn’t
know, I said, however,
we’ll study it, since we
can’t talk about what we
don’t know.
We went then to look at
the book Countless
Homes, which we
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transcribe an
excerpt. It’s a
specific part of
the dialog
between Dr. Inácio Ferreira and
Odilon Fernandes, both
disincarnated already.
We start off with Dr.
Inácio: |
- With so
much greatness over our
heads and we insisting
on looking at what we
have under our feet...
Even if I try, I can’t
understand those who
leave the body and keep
in the same… It was not
supposed that, on the
Other Side, we had
hospitals, expiation
valleys or dark regions.
Not even these
brothers with problems
of deformity in their
spiritual body,
at the point that they
need to be reborn
here, with the
aim of reacquiring the
human shape, before
another dive into the
flesh.
- This is a subject that
transcends, Inácio, and
about what,
unfortunately, we
shouldn’t go further
with our incarnated
companions that, in
fact, are still
reluctant to accept
Reincarnation as it
is... They wouldn’t
understand the
perispiritual
“pregnancy” in the dark
regions, where beings
that suffer from
abnormalities need a
rebirth as a
therapeutic resource.
We let that the seed of
idea blossoms naturally.
If one can “die” here,
why not being born
again?...
- Or being born, isn’t
it?
- Yes, or being born,
because, if the High
Spirits told Allan
Kardec that in Nature
nothing comes out of
nothing, how can we
explain, for example,
without elements of
transition in our Plan,
the first human
incarnation of the
spiritual principle?
The human body is not
apt to receive primary
entities, without its
perispiritual organism
had, before, humanized
its shape. The
first births happen
here!... But, I
repeat, maybe this is
too much for the mind of
those who couldn’t, by
themselves, conceive
such a reality. This
subject has generated
controversies, and we
can’t compromise the
task that, despite the
odds, has produced
fruits of quality.
- Maybe I went over the
top...
(BACCELLI, 2003, pp.
59-60). (Our highlight)
Well, there’s no doubt
about what the confrere
told us about having a
book on this subject.
But it’s up to us to
verify if we find
support for that in the
basic works of the
Compilation, once that,
as Kardec said, the
opinion of a Spirit is
nothing but his opinion
and we can’t base our
doctrine on one single
opinion.
Initially, let’s see
what we have in The
Spirits’ Book, to
Kardec’s question if
Spirits had sex, the
answer of the Spirits
was: “Not as you
understand sex; for sex,
in that sense, depends
on the corporeal
organization. Love and
sympathy exist among
them, but founded on
similarity of
sentiments.” (q. 200, p.
134). According to this
answer, Spirits don’t
have sex, since they
don’t have bodies. If
there’s no sex, how
could that be a sexual
relation for the
consequent fertilization
of the ovum by the
spermatozoid? Besides,
where would the
fertilized gamete be?
Further on, when the
subject is the evolution
of the intelligent
principle, specifically
at the moment that it
comes out of the animal
kingdom to stage in the
human kingdom, Kardec
asks (607b) the Spirits
if the period of
humanization starts on
Earth. They say that
“the earth is not the
starting-point of the
earliest phase of human
incarnation; the human
period commences, in
general, in worlds still
lower than yours.” (p.
300).
Coming from the animal
kingdom, obviously, with
a perispirit suitable
for that kingdom, it,
the intelligent
principle, is not
connected to a human
body like ours, but to
one closer to it,
adapted to the
conditions of primitive
planets. This human
body, so close to the
animals’, doesn’t offer
any sort of difficulty
of adaptation to this
new evolutional stage in
which it’s going
through. Certainly it
doesn’t happen
overnight, but in
thousand of hundreds of
years without being a
solution of continuity:
“everything is chained
together in Nature”.
This is what happened on
Earth, when it still was
a primitive planet, with
the beings that we
descend from, who looked
more like animals than
human beings that we are
today. Kardec tells his
considerations about the
hypothesis of the origin
of the human body,
saying that “as there
are no sudden
transitions in Nature,
it is probable that the
first men appearing on
Earth have differed
little from monkeys in
exterior form, and
probably no more in
intelligence.” (Genesis,
p. 213).
In Heaven and Hell,
chapter II, of the
second part, when the
accounts about the Happy
Spirits, we find the
assertive that “Spirits
don’t reproduce” and
that “Spirits can’t have
sex”. Kardec explains:
“It has always been
asserted by Spirits that
they are of no sex,
because the sexes are
only needed for the
reproduction of bodies,
and as Spirits do not
reproduce themselves,
sex would be useless to
them.” (p. 183). Thus,
it’s clear that Spirits
don’t reproduce
themselves, therefore,
one can’t talk about
pregnancy of Spirits,
what happens, then, is
the perispiritual
pregnancy.
Again, we find Kardec
talking about the
subject, now in the
Revue Spirite:
The souls
or Spirits do not have
sex.
The affections that
unite them are not that
of the flesh and,
because of that, they
last longer, once they
are founded upon a real
empathy, and not
subordinated to the
vicissitudes of the
matter.
[...]
Sexes
exist only in the
organism; they are
necessary to the
reproduction of material
beings; but the Spirits,
being God’s creation,
don’t reproduce
themselves, and that’s
why sexes would be
useless in the
Spirit-world.
(Revue Spirite 1866,
p. 3). (Our highlight).
This last paragraph
summarizes all that we
look for in the
Compilation, we didn’t
need anything else, and
however, we are going on
with our research.
Let’s now fall back on
the Spirit André Luiz,
under the psychography
by Chico Xavier, to
explain even more the
subject. He talks about
a situation where it’s
necessary to recompose
the human spiritual
shape, as we can read
when he talks about
monodeism:
It happens to him the
monodeism by which
the other desires fade
away in his inner self.
By the occlusion of
other stimulus, the
organs of the spiritual
body either retract or
degenerate, for the
absence of function, and
they turn,
instinctively, to the
core of the mental
government, where they
are located, hidden and
atrophied, in the
fulcrum of thoughts in
closed circuit upon
itself, such as the
potential implements of
the living germen in the
walls of an egg.
In such circumstances,
if monodeism is only
revertible through
reincarnation...
[...]
In this period, we
normally state that
the disincarnated lost
his spiritual body,
becoming an ovoid body,
what happens, by the
way, to countless
disincarnated ones, in
situation of
unbalance... (XAVIER,
1987, pp. 90-91). (Our
highlight).
Therefore, some Spirits
lose the perispiritual
human shape to turn into
ovoid. Could they
reincarnate in such
conditions? Would they
have necessity to get to
their human shape again?
After all, what will
happen in this
situation? Let’s follow
André Luiz who, further
on, talks about the
necessity of
reincarnation, on an
overall form:
CORPOREAL FORM -
However, just like the
germen to develop in the
egg it needs the heat of
the bird which shelters
it like a mother or
proper thermal
environment, as if in an
incubator, and just like
the seed, to release the
germinating principles
of the gigantic
vegetable in which it
will become, doesn’t
prescind from the tepid
berth in the soil,
the disincarnated
Spirits, thirsty for
reintegration in the
physical world, they
need the genesic vase of
the woman that tunes
well with them, in the
lines of affinity and,
consequently,
inheritance, vase in
which they get together,
mechanically, and where,
according to the laws of
reincarnation, operate
in some days all the
occurrences of their
evolution on the
inferior kingdoms of
Nature.
Assimilating organic
resources with the help
of the female cell,
fertilized and
fundamentally marked by
the father’s genes, the
mind elaborates, by
itself, a new
physio-pyschosomatic
vehicle, attracting to
its hidden moulds the
physical cells to
reproduce through
karyokinesis, along with
the conformity that is
imposed upon them, it
means, reflecting the
conditions in which it,
the disincarnated mind,
finds itself.
This way is formed, with
a new corporeal form, a
new vehicle for the
Spirit, that is
remade or reconstituted
in recent formation,
interlaced with subtle
cells, and this vehicle
will also evolve after
berth and will keep
living after tomb.
(XAVIER, 1987, pp.
91-92). (Our highlight)
He clarifies the
question that the Spirit
has to comply with the
Law of Reincarnation,
entering again into a
female body, via
fertilized ovum, to
follow its normal course
of reincarnation
process. And, in
special, for the cases
of Spirits ovoid-shaped
he says:
Categorically inferior
Spirits, most of times,
suffering from monodeism,
enter into a fluidic
symbiosis with the
female organizations
they are linked to,
experiencing the
languishing of the
spiritual body or the
phenomenon called as
“ovoidization”, being
helplessly attracted to
the uterus vase, in
suitable circumstances,
for the reincarnation
that shows upon
themselves, in moulds
entirely dependent on
heredity, as to what
happens to the seed,
which, after being away
from the dry fruit,
germinates in the soil,
according to the
organogenic principles
it obeys, as soon as it
finds the right
environment. (XAVIER,
1987, pp. 152-153). (Our
highlight).
That’s how, even in this
case, there’s the
necessity of the
connection of the Spirit
ovoid-shaped to the ovum
already fertilized, with
no other procedure but
spiritual reduction.
Interesting is that for
the reincarnating, the
act of “limiting the
spiritual body” is
linking to to the ovum.
Curious is that the
process of perispiritual
reduction for
reincarnation is very
similar to the
ovoidization by mental
fixation of the Spirit,
still attached to
inferior feelings, from
which, it seems like, he
doesn’t want to get rid
of.
We can go even further,
with this information
brought to us by the
Spirit Adamastor:
The ovoidization is one
of the most pungent
illnesses that the
Spirit may come down
with after death. It
consists of the loss of
active
consciousness,
when the inner self is
completely fallen apart,
due to unbearable
sufferings, turning to
itself, nullifying
itself and losing all
sense of reality. The
conscious activity of
the souls gets into
lethargy, hiding in the
layers of
unconsciousness. The
continual thought is,
losing its conduction,
and the perispiritual
structure is completely
marred, losing its human
shape, acquiring the
shape of an egg, whose
dimensions are about the
same of a child skull.
The process is similar
to the bacteria that
convert into a cyst in
difficult times of life,
waiting for new
opportunities to come
back to their regular
activity. The
ovoidization has no cure
in the Spirit-world,
being one of the most
serious illnesses of our
world, and only
through expiatory
reincarnations can it be
reverted, when the
Spirit finds himself in
a new environment of
manifestation and can
rebuild the metabolism
of his consciousness.
Many reincarnations,
though, are consumed in
frustrating attempts,
in a way that the waste
of time is enormous for
these unhappy beings.
Many retreat to such
primary conditions of
life that they need to
reincarnate among
primitive peoples,
so that they can bear
this serious condition,
with no explanation for
human Biology. [...] (FREIRE,
2002, p. 28). (Our
highlight).
We also add to this
research, the
considerations of the
Spiritist writer
Eurípides Khül, in his
study of the chapter XII
– Soul and
disincarnating, of the
book Evolution in Two
Worlds. Let’s read:
5) What are ovoid and
what’s their origin in
the existence of the
spiritual world?
R – Ovoid are Spirits
that, still in a
primitive stage of
evolution, take on the
shape of an egg, after
disincarnating, due to
their incapability to
adapt to their new
place, now in the
Spirit-world. The single
idea, only one,
self-hypnotizing, of
being born again in the
flesh, keeps its psyche
connected to the
corporeal life and
magnetizes its mind,
repressing other
stimulus to the organs
of the spiritual body,
that retract and
degenerate, for the lack
of function. They turn,
then, these organs, to
the mind, where they are
dominated by thought.
Their cells are
degenerated by the only
idea of coming back to a
physical body. It’s a
similar process to the
reduction of the
perispirit for the sake
of reincarnation.
While this situation
happens, the Spirit
loses its human shape,
becoming an ovoid.
The egg shape is
explained for being the
birth of many other
beings, including the
man himself, who has his
physical body created in
the mother’s ovum.
That’s why the minds of
those Spirits, attached
to the idea of being
born again for the
physical life, they
create the ovoid form.
They remain like this
until another
reincarnation
opportunity arises. Once
this process is begun,
they assimilate new
organic resources, being
helped by the parents’
cells. Its mind starts
to elaborate the new
physiologic vehicle, in
moulds whose orientation
imposes. It is
created, this way, a new
corporeal form, a new
physical body, which
rebuilds and
reconstitutes the
perispirit, reacquiring
the human form.
André Luiz compares
these creatures to some
bacteria that, away from
their environment,
become insensible to
cold and heat, remaining
still for long stretches
of time, but get into
activity as soon as they
find themselves in a
suitable environment
again.
6) How is created the
new corporeal form in
which the reincarnating
Spirit will have?
R – For the
reincarnation process
that will release him
from the ovoid form, the
reincarnating Spirit
needs the genesic
organism of the future
mother, with whom he
has affinity and from
whom he will inherit
physical
characteristics, to
assimilate organic
resources through the
female cell, fertilized
by the father genes. His
mind, then, elaborates,
by itself, new
physio-pyschosomatic
vehicle, attracting
physical cells that
reproduce according to
what is imposed upon him
and his evolutional
state. It is created,
then, the new corporeal
form, which will affect
the perispirit, through
subtle cells, promoting
alterations in the
spiritual body since his
rebirth and will live on
after the tomb.
(Source:
http://www.cvdee.org.br/est_nltexto.asp?id=08&cap=12).
(Our highlight).
Therefore, we have here,
according to this
author, that
reincarnation is
necessary for the Spirit
to have its human form
again.
To Dr. Inácio’s
question: “Are children
born here?” André Luiz
answered: “Of course...”
(BACCELLI, 2002, p.
215), there’s no doubt
that pregnancy is
something real. However,
from this study, we
conclude that
perispiritual pregnancy
of Spirits,
according to our idea on
Earth, is not possible,
since the laws in the
Spirit-world are others.
By the way, if it
occurred, just at a
perispiritual level,
since the body of the
Spirit, in the spiritual
dimension, is the
perispirit. Obviously,
this is also a personal
opinion; our objective
is not to make you take
our opinion as the rule,
just to provoke a
reflection about the
subject, to find a way
to solve the question
raised. And we want to
say we are against
nobody, just analyzing
opinions, what will
certainly happen to us
as we speak.
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