We continue the methodical study of the Pentateuch Kardec, which focuses on the five major works of the spiritual doctrine, in the order they were first published by Allan Kardec, the Encoder of Spiritualism.
The answers to the questions suggested for discussion was the end of the text below.
Questions
A. There is inconvenience in seeing spirits all the time?
B. How can spirits become visible?
C. Why do not we see the spirits who want to see?
D. What is the principle of visual manifestations?
Text for reading
111. A property's own ethereal nature of the perispirit is the penetrability. Matter is no obstacle opposed to it: he goes through all, as the light passes through transparent bodies. (Item 106)
112. The perispirit is, as already stated, the principle of all manifestations. Knowing it was the key to the explanation of a multitude of phenomena and allowed the spirit of science large step, taking him all the hallmarks of wonderful. (Item 109)
113. How can the body live, while the Spirit is absent? The body lives the organic life, which is independent of the Spirit, and the proof is that the plants live and not the spirit. But we must add that, during life, the spirit is never completely separated from the body. The mediums and spirits recognize the Spirit of a living person, for a luminous track, ending in the body, a phenomenon that absolutely does not happen when it is dead, because then the separation is complete. (Item 118)
114. Isolated from the body, the spirit of a living person can, like a dead show up with all the appearances of reality and even acquire momentary tangibility. It is the phenomenon known as bi-corporeity. (Item 119)
115. St. Alphonsus Liguori was canonized before the time prescribed in that they are shown simultaneously in two different places, which passed by a miracle. St. Anthony of Padua was preaching in Italy when his father, in Lisbon, would be tortured. At runtime, St. Anthony appeared and proved the innocence of the accused. It was shown that at that moment St. Anthony in Padua preached. (Item 119)
116. The Spirit of St. Albans, interrogated by Kardec, explained that the Spirit, feeling detached from the matter as the degree of its elevation, can become tangible. (Item 119, question 2)
117. Tacitus says that Vespasian in Alexandria received a visit from Basilide, one of the most eminent Egyptians of his time, he knew to be sick rather distant from Alexandria. At the time of visit Basilide, it was eighty miles away, as was proven afterwards by emissaries of Vespasian. (Item 120)
118. It therefore has two bodies that the individual shows simultaneously in two different places. But only one is real, the other is mere appearance. The first is organic life, the second is the life of the soul. It follows that the apparent body could not be killed, because it is not organic, is not made of flesh and blood. It will disappear in time when the wanted kill. (Item 121)
119. The Spirit can give your perispirit all appearances, and by a change in molecular arrangement, can give you the visibility, tangibility and opacity. The perispirit of a living person, isolated from the body, is liable to the same transformations. This change of state takes place by a combination of fluids. (Item 123)
120. The weight difference is observed sometimes in the phenomena of transfiguration, explains it this way: The intrinsic weight of the body does not vary, because it increases the amount of matter. It suffers, however, the influence of an external agent, which can increase or decrease their relative weight. (Item 123)
Answers to questions
A. There is inconvenience in seeing spirits all the time?
There would be so inconvenient to constantly find ourselves in the presence of the spirits to see how the air we breathe or the myriad microscopic creatures that swarm around us and about us. Being surrounded by spirits every moment, man would be upset with his relentless vision, which will embarrass the actions you would take the initiative and in most cases, while, judging only acts more freely. God knows better than we do what suits us and allowed us to see the spirits in some cases is to give a proof that everything does not die with the body and the soul retains its individuality after death. (Item 100, in questions 7 and 8)
B. How can spirits become visible?
The principle is the same as that of all manifestations, refers to the properties of the perispirit, which may experience various modifications, according to the will of the Spirit. In our world spirits can only manifest itself with the help of his semi-material envelope and is thus sometimes appearing with the human form or a different, either in dreams, or even in the waking state. By combining the fluid medium and of itself, is produced in the disembodied perispirit a provision that has no analogy for us and that makes it noticeable. (Item 100, in questions 21 to 23)
C. Why do not we see the spirits who want to see?
Spirits do not always have the opportunity to express their sight, even in dreams, despite the desire of seeing them embodied. Causes beyond his control can prevent it. It is also often a race whose most fervent desire not depart. (Item 100, in question 15)
D. What is the principle of visual manifestations?
The perispirit, as we have seen, is the principle of all events, his knowledge gave us the key to a lot of science phenomena and spirit did take a huge step, taking you all the wonderful character. By its nature and its normal state, the perispirit is invisible and that he has in common with many fluids and that we know exist but never seen, but can also, as some fluid, undergo changes which render perceptible by sight or by a kind of condensation or by a change in its molecular arrangement, which is then displayed in a form vaporous. Condensation (it should not take this word literally, since we use only one missing and another way of comparison) may be such that the perispirit acquire the properties of a solid and tangible, instantly resuming his ethereal state and invisible. We can understand this change in status that goes with the steam, which can move from invisibility to the mistiness, then liquid, then solid and vice versa. These different states of perispirit are the result of the will of the Spirit rather than a physical cause abroad, as in gases. When we appear, it is because the state puts its perispirit needed to become visible, but this only his will is not enough, because the change of the perispirit operates by its combination with the fluid of the medium itself, now, this combination is not always possible, which explains why the visibility of spirits is not general. Thus it is not sufficient that the spirit want to show up, and it is not enough for a person wants to see it, it is necessary that the two fluids can be combined, that between them there is a sort of affinity, the issue of the fluid of a person is sufficient to operate the transformation of perispirit, and, finally, that the Spirit has permission to show a particular person. (Items 105 and 109)
