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

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consequences would have been the punishment of some fault you have committed, or of some
duty you have neglected. God thus warns you to look into your hearts, and to pursue the work
of your self-amendment." (526-532.)
856. Does a spirit know beforehand the kind of death to which he will succumb in the earthly
life?
"He knows that he has exposed himself by the life he has chosen to die in some particular
manner rather than in another; but he also foresees the efforts he will have to make in order to
avoid the danger, and he knows that, if God so permit, he will escape it."
857. There are men who brave the perils of the battlefield with the full persuasion that their
hour is not come; is there any foundation for such confidence?
"A man often has a presentiment of his end; he may, in the same way, have a presentiment
that his time for dying has not yet come. These presentiments are due to the action of his
spirit-protectors, who may 'wish to lead him to hold himself ready to go away, or to raise his
courage in moments when he has especial need of it. They may also come to him from the
intuition he has of the existence he has chosen, or of the mission he has accepted, and which
he knows, as a spirit, that he has to fulfil." (411-522.)
858. How is it that those 'who have a presentiment of their death generally dread it less than
others?
"It is the man, and not spirit, who dreads death; he who has the presentiment of his death
thinks of it rather as a spirit than as a man. He understands that it will be a deliverance, and
awaits it calmly."
859. If death is inevitable when the time appointed for it has arrived, is it the same in regard
to all the accidents that may happen to us in the course of our life?
"They are often small enough to permit of our warning you against them, and sometimes of
enabling you to avoid them by the direction we give to your thoughts, for we do not like
physical suffering; but all this is of little importance to the life you have chosen. The true and
sole fatality consists in the hour at which you have to appear in, and disappear from, the
sphere of corporeal life."
- Are there incidents which must necessarily occur in a life, and that spirits will not avert?