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Together, their deceased relatives and friends carried on the dual roles of teachers and revealers,
adding formal and irrefutable proofs of identity to their teachings.
It was through such an approach that in fifty years Spiritism was able to stake its claim throughout the
world and to convey its enlightenment. There is a majestic accord in all these voices that have simultaneously
arisen to compel our incredulous societies to hear the Glad Tidings of the survival of the soul, and to solve the
problems of death and pain. The revelations brought forth by means of mediumship have penetrated the
hearts of families, reaching deep down into the atriums and social infernos. Did not the prisoners of Tarragona
Prison address, as it is well known, the International Spiritist Congress of Barcelona in 1888, a moving
adhesion in favor of a doctrine that, as they said, had converted them to goodness and reconciled them with
their duties? 13
The multiplicity of teaching sources and diffusion methods of the Spiritist Doctrine constitute a
permanent contrast, which frustrates and renders sterile all oppositions and intrigues. Due to its own nature,
the revelations of the Spirits escape all monopolization and falsification efforts. All attempts of domination or
dissidence are powerless against it, for if they succeeded in extinguishing or corrupting it in one point, it would
immediately re-emerge in a hundred other diverse points, thus rendering ineffective any harmful and
treacherous ambitions.
Within this immense movement of revelation, the souls declare that they obey orders derived from
Above. Their actions are regulated in accordance with a plan designed in advance, and which progresses with
majestic amplitude. From the bosom of space an invisible council presides over its execution. It is composed
of great Spirits from all races and religions. These enlightened and wholesome souls once lived in this world in
accordance with the laws of love and sacrifice. These charitable potencies hover between heaven and earth,
uniting the two through a trace of light through which prayers and inspirations continuously arise and descend.
Concerning the concordance of spiritual teachings, there is a fact - an exception - that most impressed
certain detractors, and which they have held as a capital argument against Spiritism.
Why did the Spirits announce to most Latin countries the law of successive lives and the soul’s
reincarnation on earth, while they either denied or bypassed them all together in Anglo-Saxon countries? They
question how one can explain such a flagrant contradiction?
Isn’t this enough reason to destroy the unity of doctrine that characterizes the New Revelation?
Let us mention that there is no contradiction, but simply a dissemination approach developed because
of prejudice inherited in the caste systems, races and religions that are deeply embedded in certain countries.
Since its beginning, the Spirits’ teachings were more complete and extensive in the Latin centers. For
reasons of opportunity, however, its start was restricted and gradual in other regions. It is verified that the
number of spiritist communications affirming the principle of successive reincarnations have increased daily
both in England and in America - many of them even offering precious arguments to the debates taking place
among spiritualist of different schools.
In fact, the idea of reincarnation has spread beyond the Atlantic in such a way that one of the main
American spiritualistic organizations 14 , is today fully favorable to it. The “Light” of London that until recently
pushed away this issue, is today discussing it with impartiality.
It seems that the shadows and contractions existent in the beginning were only apparent and offered
almost no resistance to a serious exam 15 .
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As it happens to all new doctrines, the Spiritist Revelation has incited many objections and criticisms.
Let us consider some of them. Firstly, we are accused of taking great satisfaction in philosophizing. We are
also accused of having edified - on the basis of phenomena - an anticipated system, a premature doctrine, and
having therefore jeopardized the positive character of modern Spiritualism.
A commendable writer, serving as interpreter for a certain number of psychics summarized his critique
in these terms: “A serious objection against the spiritist hypothesis is the “philosophy” that certain hasty men
have bestowed upon Spiritism. Spiritism which should only have been a science in its beginning, is already an
immense philosophy for which the Universe has no secrets.”
13 See Compte rendu du Congrès Spirite de Barcelone, 1888. Library of Psychic Sciences, Paris, 42, rue Saint-Jacques.
14 The Banner of Light, which distributes 30,000 copies.
15 See ahead, chapters XIV, XV and XVI, the testimonies obtained in America and England supporting reincarnation.
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