Garment of the Spirits
We present in this issue
the topic #92 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.
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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.
What kind of garment do
the disincarnated
Spirits present
themselves?
2. Are there
disincarnated who show
themselves wearing just
a plain tunic?
3. Has any psychic
medium related seeing
Spirits completely naked?
4. Where do the Spirits
get their clothes and
articles?
5. Why do some Spirits
present themselves
covered in rags and
tatters?
Text
Many Spirits wear a
plain tunic as garment
1. Testimonies of
psychic mediums agree on
the fact that Spirits
are usually seen wearing
any garment. In some
cases, the outfits of
the Spirits present a
great abundance of
details, several
patterns and amazing
colours.
2. Some of them present
themselves wearing
costumes or typical
garments, with
characteristic
adornments of a certain
historic period.
Psychics have registered,
regarding to this fact,
the most various types
of clothes, which
resembles from light
fabric, vaporous, lacy,
to the heavy or gross
ones. Tunics of
diversified colours,
trousers, shirts,
jackets, vests, ties,
short or long skirts,
blouses, coats, uniforms,
rich apparel, modern and
ancient, modest clothes,
poor and even covered in
rags or tatters – that’s
what the mediums have
related about the
subject.
3. Some garments
described by psychics
favour printed vivid
colours, as it happens
with Spirits who present
themselves with the
appearance of gypsies,
who still exhibit,
necklaces, big earrings
and bracelets. Some
others present
themselves wearing
uniforms, showing off
armours, helmets and
even guns, while there
are those who hide their
head with a hood.
4. Among the observed
garments, it is verified,
however, that the most
common is the tunic.
Such is the case of
Spirits fully
spiritualized, as Adolfo
Bezerra de Menezes and
Bittencourt Sampaio, who
Yvonne A. Pereira has
seen wearing a long
vaporous tunic, white,
sparkling, slightly
graduated in blue, as
the notable medium
depicts on her book
Penetrating the
Invisible, pages 51 to
55.
There are Spirits who
are seen completely
naked
5. As Yvonne Pereira
relates in the quoted
work, the Spirits show
themselves, quite often,
wearing what they used
to when they were
incarnated. Those who
were men present
themselves with the
usual suit; women show
themselves with dresses
of habitual usage. Few
present themselves with
clothes similar to the
one they were wearing at
the burial of their
physical body.
6. Some Spirits – adds
Yvonne – can be observed
completely naked. That’s
what happens with those
who were men and women
of low moral condition
who dragged themselves
into existences
consecrated to carnal
excesses and to the
corruption of customs
and, therefore, can
appear nude to psychic
mediums, even revealing,
in depressing scenes –
which were usual to them
in the state of
incarnated – the mental
degradation in which
they still remain.
7. One question that
imposes itself, in the
matter in focus, is to
know where they Spirits
get their clothes and
articles. Kardec deals
with the theme in two
works – The Book of the
Mediums and Genesis -,
in which he explains
that Spirits manipulate
the spiritual fluids
through their thought
and will. With the
action of thought, they
print on these fluids
such or which direction
and agglomerate, combine
or spread them,
organising clusters that
perform an appearance, a
shape, a certain
coloration.
8. The spiritual fluids
are, therefore, the
element of the spiritual
world, from which
substances are extracted
to the most various
purposes. It’s with the
help of this material
principle that the
perispirit covers itself
with garments similar to
those the Spirit used to
wear when incarnated.
The fluidic garment
indicates the
superiority of the
Spirit
9. There are Spirits,
however, who notice that
they are dressed and
they don’t have the
slightest idea of how
this happens, which
means, they not always
have the knowledge of
how their garments are
formed. Concur, that way,
to their formation
acting instinctively.
Yvonne A. Pereira gives,
in this purpose, an
interesting testimony in
her book Penetrating the
Invisible, in which she
describes the case of
Joaquim Pires, who
presented to her vision
wearing clothes with
dirt, or better,
impressions of portions
of dirt in which he was
buried. Joaquim Pires
was a suicide in the
last existence.
10 As a rule, the
Spirits dress themselves
and change the
appearance of their
garments according to
their please, exclusion
made to some who are
very inferior, like
criminals and obsessors
of nethermost moral
condition, whose mind
doesn’t possess the
necessary vibrations to
carry out the required
plastic operation. That’s
why the appearance of
those last mentioned is
usually shocking to the
psychic, by the ugliness
or simply by the poverty
of shapes, since they
present themselves
covered in rags and
tatters, as if soaked
with mud or hidden in
long black palls, with
cloaks or capes
enfolding shoulders and
head.
11. Léon Denis teaches
in his book After Death
that the fluidic garment
indicates the
superiority or
inferiority of the
Spirit. It is like a
covering formed by your
merits and by the
qualities acquired along
the succession of your
existences.
12. Opaque and shady in
the inferior soul, its
purity increases
according to the
progress achieved,
becoming more and more
pure. Bright in the
elevated Spirit, it gets,
in superior souls, to
obfuscate other Spirits.
Answer
Key
1.
What kind of garment do
the disincarnated
Spirits present
themselves?
A.: Spirits are usually
seen wearing any garment,
in some cases, presents
a great abundance of
details, several
patterns and amazing
colours. Some of them
present themselves
wearing costumes or
typical garments.
Psychics have registered,
regarding to this fact,
the most various types
of clothes, which
resembles from light
fabric, vaporous, lacy,
to the heavy or gross
ones.
2. Are there
disincarnated who show
themselves wearing just
a plain tunic?
A.: Yes and such fact is
quite common.
3. Has any psychic
medium related seeing
Spirits completely naked?
A.: Yes. Yvonne A.
Pereira refers to this
saying that such fact
can occur to those who
were men and women of
low moral condition who
dragged themselves into
existences consecrated
to carnal excesses and
to the corruption of
customs and, therefore,
can appear nude to
psychic mediums.
4. Where do the Spirits
get their clothes and
articles?
A.: Kardec says that
Spirits manipulate the
spiritual fluids through
their thought and will,
with what they print on
these fluids such or
which direction and
agglomerate, combine or
spread them, organising
clusters that perform an
appearance, a shape, a
certain coloration. It’s
with their help that the
perispirit covers itself
with garments similar to
those the Spirit used to
wear when incarnated.
5. Why do some Spirits
present themselves
covered in rags and
tatters?
A.: It happens in some
cases with criminals and
obsessors of nethermost
moral condition, whose
mind doesn’t possess the
necessary vibrations to
carry out the required
plastic operation. That’s
why their appearance is
usually shocking by the
ugliness or simply by
the poverty of shapes,
since they present
themselves covered in
rags and tatters, as if
soaked with mud or
hidden in long black
palls, with cloaks or
capes enfolding
shoulders and head.
Bibliography:
The Genesis, by Allan
Kardec, Chapter 14, item
14.
The Book of the Mediums,
by Allan Kardec, Chapter
VIII, items 126 to 131.
After Death, by Léon
Denis, FEB, Page 226.
Penetrating the
Invisible, by Yvonne A.
Pereira, FEB, Pages 47
to 60.