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

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"Not always; the remembrance of past existences would be attended with greater
disadvantages than you suppose. After death they would recognise one another, and would
then remember the periods they had passed together." (392.)
387. Is sympathy always the result of anterior acquaintanceship?
"No; two spirits who are in harmony naturally seek one another, without their having been
previously acquainted with each other as men."
388. May it not be that the meetings which sometimes take place between two persons, and
which are attributed to chance, are really due to the action of some sort of sympathetic
relationship?
"There are, among thinking beings, orders of relationship with 'which you are not yet
acquainted. Magnetism is the pilot of the science that will enable you to understand them at a
future period."
389. What is the cause of the instinctive repulsion sometimes excited in us by persons whom
we see for the first time?
"The latent antipathy of two spirits who divine each other's nature, and recognise one another,
without the need of speaking together."
390. Is instinctive antipathy allays the sign of an evil nature on the part of one or both of the
parties who feel it?
"Two spirits are not necessarily evil because the)' are not sympathetic; for antipathy may
spring from a want of similarity in their way of thinking. But in proportion as they ascend,
these shades of difference are effaced, and their antipathy disappears."
391. Does the antipathy of two persons take its first beginning on the part of the better or the
worse one of the two?
"It may begin simultaneously on the part of both; but, in such a case, its causes and effects are
different. A bad spirit feels antipathy against whoever is able to judge and to unmask him. On
seeing such a person for the first time, he knows that he will be disapproved by him; his
repulsion changes into hatred or jealousy, and inspires him with the desire of doing harm to
the object of his antipathy. A good spirit feels repulsion for a had one, because he knows that
he will not be understood by him, and that they do not share the same sentiments; but, strong
in his own superiority, he feels neither hatred nor jealousy towards him, and contents himself
with avoiding and pitying him."