Author of quotes: Allan Kardec. Page 7

Question: since spirits can't improve otherwise, how enduring the vicissitudes of bodily existence, does it not follow from this that the material life is some kind of test or purgatory, through which the beings of the spiritual world, to achieve excellence?
Answer: Yes, it is. They improved in these trials, avoiding evil and practicing goodness. But only after many incarnations, after a longer or shorter time, depending on their efforts, they reach the goal of perfection to strive for.

Question: People in their existences can be lower than it was?
Response: Regarding public position - Yes, but as a spirit.
Question: the Soul of a virtuous man can in a new incarnation to animate the body of a villain?
Answer: No, because it could not get worse.

Question: Can the condition of earthly life, behaving well, to become pure spirit, passing through all the intermediate stages?
Answer: No, because what a person considers perfect is far from perfection; there are quality, he does not known whom he not only to achieve, but can not comprehend. He can become as perfect as only available to his earthly nature, but is still far from complete perfection.

The life of the spirit consists of a series of bodily existences, each of which represents a favorable case for its improvement, just as bodily existence consists of a number of days, the continuance of which he can acquire experience and knowledge. But, just as in human life there are days of fruitless for him, in the life of the spirit there are also bodily existence without any result, if he didn't know how to use them.

Question: the Physical and moral status of living beings is constantly the same on each ball?
Answer: No. The worlds are also subject to the law of progress. All, like your world, began its existence in a lower state. Subsequently, the Earth will be a Paradise, when all people will become virtuous.

Question: does the spirit immediately after his death those whom he knew on earth and who died before him?
Answer: Yes, depending on the feelings that bind them. Often they greeted him at his entry into the spirit world and help him to break free from the bonds of matter. Sometimes he finds those who lost sight during their stay on earth; he is alone in the vagus as, others incarnate, and visits them.

Question: the moment of death the soul does not does sometimes in a state of ecstasy in which she might have foreseen the world is waiting for it at the separation from the body?
Answer: Often, the soul feels as broken bonds between her body, then she makes every effort to terminate them completely. Even poluosoznannye from matter she already sees opening before her a future and enjoying the premature state of mind.

Question: Can a body exist without a soul?
Answer: Yes, and meanwhile, as the body ceases to live, the soul leaves it. Before birth there is no final connection of the soul with the body; whereas after this connection is the death of the body destroys its connection with the soul, and the soul leaves it.

Question: the souls of our savages is not whether the essence of perfume in a state of childhood?
Answer: Yes, childhood is relative; but it is the souls of a few developed; they have passion.
Question: So the passions are a sign of development?
Response: Development - Yes, but not perfection; they are a sign of activity and consciousness.

Question: What is the purpose of reincarnation?
Answer: the Atonement and the gradual improvement of mankind. Without it, where would be the justice?!

Question: Can a perfume get worse?
Answer: No, but as they advance in their development, they will better understand what separates them from perfection. When the spirit has stood the test, he took a step forward, he has experience and he does not forget it ever. He can stay on the same degree of development, but back he's not coming back.

Question: do All spirits are evil before you become good?
Answer: No, there are not all evil, and ignorant - all without exception.

The question is Not whether some spirits created good and others evil?
Answer: God created all the spirits of the simple and ignorant, without any knowledge.

Question: Perfume by nature are good or evil, or are they the same, but gradually improve?
Answer: the same spirits that are improving and improving, they are moving from lower class to higher.