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Suicide:
is it possible
to alleviate the
sufferings of
its victims?
The sweet mother
of Jesus is the
sublime Spirit
who yearns over
the suicides
and extends her
hands, rescuing
infirm spirits
who voluntarily
departed from
Earth
"Which is the
first of all the
natural rights
of man? - The
right to live.
And
therefore no one
has the right to
take the life of
his
fellow-creature,
or to do
anything that
may compromise
his personal
existence."
1
If man has no
right to
endanger the
life of the
neighbour, but
the duty to love
him "as
himself", let
alone to
eliminate his
own life,
especially for
being faithful
to the fifth
commandment,
which says:
"Thou shalt not
kill"!
In their
imbalance,
suicides ignore
that there is no
harm that time
does not
heal. And they
welcome cruel,
unforgiving
obsessors who
lead them to the
fall and, little
by little, they
get subdued by
their sick,
spiteful will.
They do not
meditate on the
pain that their
extreme gesture
may cause on
those who love
them; do not
take into
account the
consequences on
those left
behind and who
are the many
other victims of
their
thoughtless act:
family and
friends in the
two planes of
life.
They only
belatedly regret
this
thoughtlessness.
One can well
imagine how
poignant pain
comes to these
souls, when
sensitive and
loving: to the
hearts of
mothers,
fathers,
husbands, sons,
sisters,
brothers, or
beloved friends!
It is the
everlasting,
bitter,
atrocious pain
that only time,
prayer, doing
good and the
action of noble
Spirits can
mitigate.
The Spiritist
teachings are
also abundant in
consolations for
them, suggesting
ways that
alleviate
suffering,
shortening
trials, and
assuage the
souls of those
who are gone and
those who
stayed.
They can all,
"by following
the
prescription"
given by the
Precepts of
Love, help
themselves
ridding their
hearts and minds
of anxiety and
sustain the
departed.
It opens the way
to faith and
infinite mercy
of God, by
earnest prayer
and constant
practice of good
- in short, to
Charity, the
best prayer that
rises from Earth
to Heaven!
The aggression
on the physical
body also harms
the spiritual
one
Relieved to know
that the sweet
mother of Jesus
is the sublime
Spirit who
yearns over the
suicides and
extend her hands
to them, and
that the "Legion
of the Servants
of Mary" rescues
the infirm
Spirits who
voluntarily
departed from
Earth, leading
them to the
"Mary of
Nazareth
Hospital", where
they are
treated,
re-educated and
prepared for
remedial
reincarnations!
That is
what the Spirit
Camilo Candido
Botelho tells us
through the
medium Yvonne A.
Pereira in the
book
"Memoirs of a
Suicide."2
The aggression
on the physical
body also harms
the spiritual
one, denominated
by the Apostle
Paul as
"celestial body"
(I Corinthians
15-40), called
perispirit by
Allan Kardec. It
is
the matrix that
will register in
the bodies of
subsequent
incarnations,
the result of
those injuries,
in the form of
diseases
hardly curable.
It is
the price to pay
for the
rebellion
against God's
implements, for
the misuse of
free will.
In the book
"Religiao dos
Espiritos
(Spirits'
Religion)"
3,
Emmanuel,
commenting in
the Chapter
titled
Suicide
the question 957
of "The Spirits'
Book" states
that "the
results (of
suicide) are not
limited to the
phenomena of
intimate
suffering
because
imbalances arise
(...) with
adjustment
impositions
in
future
existences."He
also lists
maladies as a
result of
suicide that the
Law imposes onto
the rebels. It
is recommended
that
this chapter is
thoroughly
known.
Whoever reads
the reported
books or the
work "Heaven and
Hell"
4
(in Chapter V of
Part 2 there are
testimonies of
suicide spirits,
with
commentaries by
Kardec), or even
"The Spirits'
Book,"
especially the
questions 943 to
957, will never
think of
attempting
against their
own lives. On
the
contrary, they
will offer
prayers and do
good for those
who fell in that
deep abyss.
God always gives
us the means to
overcome the
hardships
If, to many, the
revelation of
tremendous
suffering
experienced by
the suicides is
frightening, not
only in the
spiritual world,
but also in
remedial
reincarnations -
especially those
who naively
encourage the
illusion that
the forgiveness
of God removes
everything
magically,
instantly - it
also makes us
all aware of the
duty one has to
value the flesh
body, to prevent
suicide,
promoting the
Truth,
comforting and
encouraging
those afflicted,
stressing the
value of prayer
as the mainstay
throughout the
trials or as an
intercessory
resource and
alleviation in
favour of those
who fell,
committing the
tragic, painful
act.
Spirits warn us
of the trials to
which the
fragile ones
trying to escape
life are
conducted.
But God always
gives us the
means to
overcome the
hardships, no
matter how great
they are. If
this suffering
is
extraordinary,
greater still is
the love of God
that renews all
the
opportunities to
rebuild the
balance.
Alexander
5,
the Spirit,
comforting a
suicide, says to
him:
"- In the
greatest depths,
Raul, there's
always room for
hope.
Do not be
overwhelmed by
the idea of
impossibility.
Consider the
renewal of
your
opportunity;
meditate on the
greatness of
God. Turn
remorse in to
purpose of
regeneration.
(...)
The work of
fraternal
assistance had
been initiated
through the
prayers of the
loving and
desolate wife.
"
Be of good
cheer. If these
ideas have
come to mind, or
if a family
member or friend
has left the
Earth in this
way which does
not eliminate
life but causes
excruciating
pain and submits
to trials beyond
those one tries
to escape, we
should turn to
earnest prayer
and the practice
of good.
We must learn to
trust, acting,
praying, loving,
renouncing,
abating the
pride, accepting
poverty if we
have lost our
fortune, or a
loved one
through death,
abandonment or
other reasons;
subjecting us,
at long last, to
the trials,
which soon pass.
All suicides,
without
exception,
regret the error
committed
All
circumstances
change. In the
next minute or
tomorrow
opportunities
arise to
overcome
seemingly
insurmountable
obstacles and
rough trials. It
takes trust,
making the best
of us.
We must pray for
the suicides and
other sufferers,
sympathizing in
their sorrows,
without
condemning them.
That is what
tells us the
loving mentor
Emmanuel, in
"Escrinio de Luz
(Box of Light)”,
inspiring and
encouraging us
to overcome
trials, which
are "educational
material of the
temple where we
shelter."
J. D. Innocencio
explains:
"All suicides,
without
exception,
regret the error
committed and
agree on the
information that
only the prayer
relieves the
suffering they
are in and which
seemed endless."7
Prayer is an
instrument that
attracts
heavenly balm
which descends
from Heaven to
Earth, easing
the pain! Prayer
and faith are
levers that lift
up the fallen on
the ways of
evolution.
Resort, then,
those who suffer
this tragedy to
prayer and,
above all, to
the loving
intercession of
the Heavenly
Mother!
The Spirit Saint
Augustine urges:
"If you knew how
much good faith
does to the
heart and how it
induces the soul
to repentance
and to prayer!
Prayer! "Oh!"
How touching are
the words coming
out of the mouth
of those who
pray! Prayer is
the divine dew
which calms the
excessive heat
of passion. The
eldest daughter
of faith, it
leads us to the
path that leads
to God (...)
8
There are
religions, as
opposed to
everything that
the Doctrine of
Jesus recommends
us
that deny the
prayer to the
"dead" - as
taught, it is
forever sealing
their fate,
forgetting that
the Father's
mercy encourages
brotherhood and
pities the
fallen and seek
them to lift
them up.
"God is Love"
and that Love is
expressed in
everything
Others refuse to
pray for the
suicides - the
neediest of the
sufferers and to
which the prayer
relieves - or
even bury them
in the "holy
ground", as if
there were in
the universe a
region other
than the work of
the Father of
Love, and
therefore,
sacred, or that
the wise Divine
Laws submit
themselves to
ignorance, to
the whim of men.
"God is Love and
that Love is
expressed in
everything.
The Spiritist
Doctrine
clarifies the
minds and helps
to prevent
suicide, in
addition to
contribute to
the restoration
of balance both
of those with
the idea of
fleeing life and
those that made
this dramatic
act and to
console the
'victims' that
were left:
relatives and
friends.
Knowing it,
studying it,
propagating its
teachings is an
effective way to
prevent
suicides; to
guide and
comfort family
and friends,
because it
speaks to the
hearts through
the lively
testimony of
those who tried
to escape
problems, diving
in unimaginable
pain, as well as
from what
soothes and
helps: prayer.
Under no
circumstances
the act of
attempting
against one's
own life is
justified.
Only ignorance,
lack of faith in
God, in His
goodness might
lead the
creature to
rebel against
His designs.
Superior Spirits
highlight the
importance of
submitting to
the sovereign
will of the
Father who loves
us all and leads
us to the
necessary trials
for our
evolution. We
must therefore
preserve the
body, an
essential tool
for the progress
that we all
long, attentive
to the words of
Emmanuel:
"The blessing of
a body, though
mutilated or
deformed, on
Earth, is like
precious
opportunity for
spiritual
perfection, the
greatest of all
gifts that our
planet can
offer."9
References:
1 - KARDEC,
Allan.
The
Spirits' Book.
75th ed.
Rio de Janeiro:
FEB, 1997. 494p.
p 406: 3rd
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11, Q. 880;
2 - PEREIRA,
Yvonne A.
Memoirs of a
Suicide.
8th ed.Rio de
Janeiro: FEB,
1979.
568 p;
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Francisco C.
Spirits'
Religion,
by the Spirit
Emmanuel. 3rd
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1974, 255p. p
118-119;
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Allan.
Heaven and
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Missionaries
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Francisco C.
Escrinio de
Luz (Box of
Light)
by the
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2nd ed. Matão:
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JD Suicide.
REFORMER,
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