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

209
THE SPIRITS’ BOOK
we make to recall them, are effaced from our memory on waking,-whence come these ideas?
"They are the result of the freedom of the spirit, who emancipates himself from the body, and
enjoys the use of other faculties during this moment of liberty; and they are often counsels
given you by other spirits."
- What is the use of such ideas and counsels, since we lose the remembrance of them, and
cannot profit by them?
"Those ideas often belong rather to the world of spirits than to the corporeal world; but, in
general, though the body may forget them, the spirit remembers them, and the idea recurs to
him at the proper time, in his waking state, as though it were an inspiration of the moment."
411. Does the incarnated spirit, when he is freed from matter and acting as a spirit, know' the
epoch of his death?
"He often has the presentiment of it. He sometimes has a very clear foreknowledge of it; and
it is this which gives him the intuition of it in his waking state. It is this, also, which enables
some persons to foresee the time of their death with perfect exactness."
412. Can the activity of the spirit, during the repose or the sleep of the body, cause fatigue to
the latter?
"Yes, for the spirit is attached to the body, as the captive-balloon is fastened to the post; and,
just as the post is shaken by the movements of the balloon, so the activity of the spirit reacts
upon the body, and may cause it to feel fatigued."
Visits Between the Spirits of Living Persons
413. The emancipation of the soul during sleep would seem to indicate that we live
simultaneously two lives; the life of the body, which is that of exterior relation, and the life of
the soul, which is that of occult relation,-is this so?
"During the emancipation of the soul, the life of the latter takes precedence of the life of the
body; this, however, does not, strictly speaking, constitute two lives, but rather two phases of
one and the same life, for a man does not live a double life."
414 Can two persons, who are acquainted with each other, visit one another in sleep?
"Yes; and many others, who, in their waking state, do not know that they are acquainted, meet
and converse together. You may, without suspecting it, have friends in another country. The