Allan Kardec-THE Spirit's Book_ The Principles of Spiritist Doctrine (1989)

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THE SPIRITS’ BOOK
"He does not see God, but he feels His sovereignty; and when anything is not to be done or
said, he feels a sort of intuition, an invisible warning, which commands him to abstain. Are
not you yourselves sometimes conscious of a secret impression, enjoining on you to do or not
to do, as the case may be? It is the same thing with us, but in a higher degree; for you can
easily understand that, the essence of spirits being more supple than yours, they are better able
to receive the divine monitions."
- Are the divine commands transmitted to each spirit directly by God, or through the
intermediary of other spirits?
"Those commands do not come direct from God; in order to communicate directly with God,
a spirit must have made himself worthy of such communication. God transmits His orders
through spirits of higher degrees of wisdom and purity."
245. Is spirit-sight circumscribed, as is tile sight of corporeal beings?
"No ; it resides in them."
246. Do spirits require light in order to see?
"They sec of themselves. and have no need of any exterior light. There is, for them, no other
darkness than that in which they may be made to find themselves as expiation."
247. Do spirits need to travel in order to see two different points? Can they, for instance, see
the two hemispheres of the globe at the same time?
"As spirits transport themselves from point to point with the rapidity of thought, they may be
said to see everywhere at the tame time. A spirit's thought may radiate at the same moment on
many different points; but this faculty depends on his purity. The more impure the spirit, the
narrower is his range of sight. It is only the higher spirits who can take in a whole at a single
glance."
The faculty of vision. among spirits, is a property inherent in their nature, and which resides in their
whole being, as light resides in every part of a luminous body. It is a sort of universal lucidity, which
extend. to everything. which embraces at once time, space, and things. and in relation to which, darkness
or material obstacles have no existence. And a moment's reflection shows us that this must necessarily be
the case. In the human being. sight being produced by the play of an organ acted upon by light, It follows
that, without light. man finds himself in darkness but the faculty of vision being an attribute of the spirit
himself, independently of any exterior agent, spirit-sight is independent of light. (Vide Ubiquity, Nº 92, p.
91.)