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

73
THE SPIRITS’ BOOK
"Infinite. Suppose the existence of boundaries, what would there be beyond them ? This
consideration confounds human reason; and nevertheless your reason itself tells you that it
cannot be otherwise. It is thus with the idea of infinity, under whatever aspect you consider it.
The idea of infinity cannot be comprehended in your narrow sphere."
If we imagine a limit to space, no matter how far off our thought may place this limit, our reason tells us
that there must still be something beyond It and so on, step by step, until we arrive at the idea of infinity;
for the "something beyond," the existence of which is recognised by our thought as necessity, were it only
an absolute void, would still be space.
36. Does an absolute void exist in any part of space?
"No there is no void. What appears like a void to you is occupied by matter in a state in which
it escapes the action of your senses and of your instruments."
__________________________________________________________________________________________________
of other substances. As there is but one primitive element, and as the properties of different bodies are only
modifications of this element, it follows that the substance of the most Inoffensive and of the most deleterious
bodies is absolutely the same. Thus water, which is formed of one equivalent of oxygen and two equivalents of
hydrogen, becomes corrosive if we double the proportion of oxygen. An analogous transformation may be
produced through the action of animal magnetism, directed by the human will.