Some people dispute the doctrine of reincarnation, as contrary to the dogmas of the Church, concluding that it does not exist. What can you answer? The answer, certainly sought after by many, can be found in the issue of December 1862 , in which Allan Kardec includes an interesting comment resulting from a letter received from the friend of a French socialist from the first part of the 19th century, disincarnated in 1837, François Marie Charles Fourier , and that he had elaborated a theory that, according to the writer, he had also found in the Spiritist Doctrine. In his letter summarizing some of the main points of Fourier 's vision , the sender also comments that he had found the same vision in a booklet prepared by the editor of the newspaperSiècle , Mr Louis Jordan first published in 1849 before, therefore, that Spiritism was considered, revealing a perfect intuition of this law of nature so forgotten until the emergence of Spiritism. Wrote Kardec:-"The answer is very simple. Reincarnation is not a system that is up to men to adopt or not, as is done with a political system; it is a law inherent in Humanity, like eating, drinking and sleeping; an alternative of the life of the soul as waking and sleep are alternatives of the life of the body. If it is a law of nature, it is not a contrary opinion that can be prevented from being. The Earth does not revolve around the Sun because it is believed, but because it obeys a law; and the anathemas that were hurled against this law did not prevent the earth from turning. So, like reincarnation: it will not be the opinion of some men that will prevent them from being reborn, if they have to be reborn. Admitting that reincarnation is a law of nature, let us suppose that it cannot accommodate itself to a dogma: it is a question of knowing whether reason is with dogma or with the law. Now, who is the author of the law of nature but God? In this case, I will say that it is not the law that contradicts the dogma, but the dogma that contradicts the law, since any law of nature is prior to dogma and men were reborn before dogma was established. If there were absolute incompatibility between a dogma and a law of nature, this would be proof that dogma is the work of men, who did not know the law, for God cannot contradict himself, undoing on one side what he made on the other. To sustain this incompatibility is, therefore, to carry out the process of dogma. Does it follow that the dogma is false? No, but only that it is susceptible of interpretation, as Genesis was interpreted, when it was recognized that the six days of Creation did not conform to the law of the formation of the Globe. Religion will gain from this, as there will be fewer unbelievers. The question is whether or not reincarnation exists. For spiritualists there are thousands of proofs against one that it is useless to repeat. I will just say that Spiritism demonstrates that the plurality of existences is not only possible, but necessary, indispensable; and he finds his proof, not to mention the revelation of the Spirits, in an incalculable multitude of moral, psychological and anthropological phenomena. Such phenomena areeffects that have a cause . Searching for the cause, we find it in reincarnation, made evident by the observation of those phenomena, as the presence of the Sun, although hidden by clouds, is made evident by the light of day. In order to prove that it is wrong, or that it does not exist, it would be necessary to better explain, by other means, everything that he explains that no one has yet done. Before the discovery of the properties of electricity, if someone had announced that it could correspond to five hundred kilometers in five minutes, there would have been no shortage of scientists who scientifically proved to him, by the laws of mechanics, that the thing was materially impossible, because they didn't know any other laws. For that there was a need for the revelation of a new force. So with reincarnation. It's a new law, which will shed light on a lot of obscure issues and will profoundly change all ideas when it's recognized. So it is not the opinion of some men that proves the existence of the law: it is the facts. If we invoke his testimony, it is to demonstrate that he had been interviewed and suspected by others, before Spiritism, which is not its inventor, but developed it and deduced its consequences”.
EM BUSCA DA VERDADE COM O
PROFESSOR JOSÉ BENEVIDES
CAVALCANTE
Question from our friend from Vera Cruz, Cristiano: “What teaching did Jesus leave us when, after his death, he first appeared in the perispirit to Mary Magdalene?”
This question is important, Cristiano, for several reasons. First, because it was because of his appearances after his death that the news spread that he had been resurrected. But, in fact, Jesus appeared with his spiritual body (what in Spiritism we call perispirit) and not with his physical body. But the idea of the resurrection of the body that prevailed in the midst of that people, was inherited from the Persian religion that, at least two centuries ago, preached the resurrection, but only in the final judgment.
Jesus, on the other hand, returned in spirit (that is, with his perispirit) to confirm what he had taught, that is, that life continues and that, therefore, everything he taught was valid, since the Spirit is immortal and the true rewards are not in this life. The gospel tells that it was to Mary Magdalene and other women that he first showed himself, certainly with the idea that they would be in charge of spreading the news to their disciples and followers, as in fact happened.
The women had gone to visit the tomb. Arriving there, they realized that the body had been removed, but there was a man who they mistook for the gardener. The man spoke to them and, to his astonishment, he identified himself as Jesus. Now, even they did not recognize him, except because he said so himself. Allan Kardec considers that it is common for the Spirit not to be recognized immediately in case of materialization, because of some differences in the perispirit. In fact, on other occasions, as a Spirit, he was not recognized even by the disciples, except when he announced himself.
However, the fact that it first appeared to women does not fail to call attention to these two points: first, because they would publicize their return and survival and, secondly, because Jesus had given a very special value to the woman who, in that people, was very discriminated against. Later, with the advancement of the Christian movement, women would stand out even more, making Christianity the religion of antiquity that most attracted the female audience.
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