Future belongs to God

Regarding the course of events, a question that always comes up is: If it is necessary to man that the future is forbidden, why God allows, in certain situations be revealed?

The matter was examined by Kardec in at least two of his works: The spirits’ Book and Posthumous Works.

In issue 869 of The spirits’ Book is said that man, no doubt, would neglect the present and would not work with the freedom which he acts if future things were revealed in advance.

The argument which is used in spirit doctrine is very simple. Many people just think: If something has to happen, it will be useless to occupy with it, or else seek to prevent such occur.

Knowing this, the Creator certainly has not meant things walked like that, where each individual can freely compete for the realization of things, even those that, if he could, would oppose it.

Thus, we prepare ourselves the events that will occur in the course of our existence. Ignorance about what it will happen if we succeed or not, it gives us the merits of the trial, a fact that is critical in the evolutionary process. After all, we cannot ignore that one of the goals of the incarnation is our own evolution and the goal is perfection.

In issue 868 of the same book, the immortals admit, however, that - although the future is hidden from us - God allows "in rare and exceptional cases" be revealed. But it is asked: why does the Creator allow it?

The answer we find in issue 870 of the same work, in which the spiritual benefactors report that God permits "when the foreknowledge of the future facilitates the execution of a thing, rather than hinder, forcing the man to act differently from the way he would act if it was not made ​​the revelation."

Often, however, such disclosure is simple proof, since the prospect of an event can suggest thoughts good or less good.

If a man comes to know, for example, he will receive an inheritance which he did not know, that revelation might occur awaken in him the feeling of greed, the prospect of his greatest joys on Earth become possible or the craving to possess quicker the inheritance, perhaps wishing for this to happen, even the death of the person who will inherit. Crimes with this goal have already been subject to chronic police and several novels.

The issue raises another question, which Kardec examined in Posthumous Works, on the gift of prescience attributed to the visionaries.

As it is said in the issue 454 of The Spirits´ Book, clairvoyance, also called second-sight or view, it can give certain people the foreknowledge of things, as well as feelings. The explanation is not difficult to understand. The phenomena of second sight, the soul being partly off the wrap material that limits its powers, there is no more to it duration or distance. Spanning time and space, everything is confused at present. Free of its impediments, it judges the effects and causes better than any man can do it. It can see, then, the consequences of present things and make us sensed them.

It is in this sense that we must understand the gift of foreknowledge attributed to the visionaries. Their predictions are nothing but the result of a clearer awareness of what exists, not a prediction of random things without loop with the present. It is a logical deduction from the known to the unknown, which depends very often, on our way of being. The seer is not, therefore, a diviner, but a being who realizes what we do not see. And if perhaps it reveals something relevant to the future, the fact is given within the limits and objectives mentioned in the issue 870 of The Spirits’ Book, which we refer above.