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

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THE SPIRITS’ BOOK
"There is a reason for everything; nothing takes place without the permission of God."
Have these phenomena always some reference to mankind?
"They have sometimes a direct reference to man; but they have often no other object than the
re-establishment of the equilibrium and harmony of the physical forces of nature."
- We fully admit that the will of God must be the primal cause of these phenomena, as of
everything else; but, as we know that spirits exercise an action upon matter, and that they are
the agents of the divine will, 'we ask whether some among them do not exert an influence
upon the elements, to rouse, calm or direct them.?
"It is evident that they must do so; it could not be otherwise. God does not exercise a direct
action upon matter; He has His devoted agents at every step of the ladder of worlds."
537, The mythology of the ancients is entirely based on spiritist ideas with this difference that
they regarded spirits as divinities. They represented those gods or spirits with special
attributes; thus, some of them had charge of the winds, others of the lightning; others, again,
presided over vegetation, etc. Is this belief entirely devoid of foundation?
"It is so far from being devoid of foundation, that it is far below the truth."
- May there, in the same way, be spirits inhabiting the interior of the earth and presiding over
the development of geological phenomena?
"Those spirits do not positively inhabit the earth, but they preside over and direct its
developments according to their various attributions. You will some day. have the
explanation of all these phenomena, and you will then understand them better."
538. Do the spirits who preside over the phenomena of nature form a special category in the
spirit-world; are they beings apart, or spirits who have been incarnated like us?
"They are spirits who will be incarnated, or who have been so."
- Do those spirits belong to the higher or lower degrees of the spirit-hierarchy?
"That is according as their post is more or less material or intelligent; some command, others
execute; those who discharge material functions are always of an inferior order, among spirits
as among men."