The Spiritist teachings and their target 

 
 
There are many people, even in our circle, that have not realized yet what Allan Kardec said once about the Spiritist purpose when, in response to a reader from Bordeaux, he explained that Spiritism does not turn towards those individuals who have a specific religious faith, aiming to deviate them, but to a vast category of doubting and unbelieving ones (Revue Spirite from 1863, pages 17 to 20).

The proselytism’s impetus sometimes reveals itself in attitudes apparently naive but that harms profoundly what the Codifier taught us.

We have already seen in a certain institution people defending the access to the soup offered to the needy, but under the condition of listening to the Spiritist speech or receiving the magnetic healing first, thus ravishing the convictions that they supposedly have, given that the need for material assistance does not mean that the people is indifferent to this or that religion.

To invite them to the lecture and offer the resource of magnetic healing is not offensive, but to subordinate the assistance to the acceptance of such invitations is something that cannot be approved by those who studied and assimilated the Spiritist proposal.

There also, in our circle, those we call the exalted Spiritists, to whom Kardec refers in the item 28 of The Mediums’ Book. Believers by nature, they easily accept, without reflection, everything that comes from the spiritual plane. Exaggerated in their belief, reveal a blind and sometimes puerile trust in things from the invisible world. They are, therefore, the less indicated to convince someone, what does not prevent them to exercise their proselytism and try to convert everybody at every opportunity.

The theme has also a great impact in either the tribune or the press, for the way it happens in the divulgation of the Doctrine.

In the most advanced sectors of Spiritist social communication is understood that the Spiritist speech must be doctrinaire but must never indoctrinate.  The authoritative and sometimes intolerant language of indoctrination, ideal for certain religious circles, does not line up with the Spiritist methodology.

If we intend to treat any vice, such as alcoholism, we should try to expose its harmful effects to health, family and society, but try not to condemn or curse those ones who still drink.

The individuals should always be respected, not only in regard to what they do, but also for what they believe in.

Thus, it is necessary for us to become aware that Spiritism has not appeared in this world to take followers away from any religious denomination, but it came to those ones who either doubt or are unhappy with a specific belief.

The divulgation we make of the Spiritist Doctrine via the worldwide computer network is open and directed to everybody, although we know that only those individuals who decide to visit the website will do so, with nobody compelling them to, being motivated only by the desire to meet something able to answer many questions that may exist in their intimate world.