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

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be perfect, he must know everything. Thus, in virtue of his greater advancement, there may be
no speciality for him-a fact to which I alluded in saying that everything blends into one
general aim. Take note, also, that what seems sublime to you, in your backward world, would
be mere child's play in worlds of greater advancement. How can you suppose that the spirits
who inhabit those worlds, in which there exist arts and sciences unknown to you, could
admire what, in their eyes, is only the work of a tyro?"
- We can easily conceive that this should be the case with very advanced spirits; but our
question referred to more commonplace place spirits, to those who have not yet raised
themselves above terrestrial ideas.
"With them it is different; their mental outlook is narrower, and they may admire what you
yourselves admire."
567. Do spirits ever take part in our occupations and pleasures?
"Commonplace spirits, as you call them, do so; they are incessantly about you, and take, in all
you do, a part which is sometimes a very active one, according to their nature; and it is
necessary that they should do so, in order to push men on in the different walks of life, and to
excite or moderate their passions."
Spirits busy themselves with the things of this world in proportion to their elevation or their inferiority.
The higher Spirits have, undoubtedly, the power of looking into the minutest details of earthly things but
they only do so when it will be useful to progress. Spirits of lower rank attribute to such things a degree of
importance proportioned to their remembrances of the earthly life, and to the earthly ideas which are not
yet extinct in their memory.
568. When spirits are charged with a mission, do they accomplish it in the state of erraticity,
or in the state of incarnation?
"They may be charged with a mission in either state. There are wandering spirits to whom
such missions furnish much occupation."
569. What are the missions with which wandering spirits may be charged?
"They are so varied that it would be impossible to describe them; and there are some of them
that you could not comprehend. Spirits execute the volitions of God, and you are not able to
penetrate all His designs."
The missions of spirits have always good for their object. Whether in the spirit-state, or as men, they are
charged to help forward the progress of humanity, of peoples, or of individuals, within a range of ideas
more or less extensive, more or less special, to pave the way for certain events, to superintend the
accomplishment of certain things. The missions of some spirits are of narrower scope, and may be said to
be personal, or even