The Spiritist Review - Journal of Psychological Studies - 1862

Allan Kardec

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1st – Formation of the Earth

There are two methodologies about the origin and formation of Earth. The most common opinion, generally adopted by science, is that Earth is the product of the gradual condensation of cosmic matter in a specific region of space. The same happens to other planets. According to the other methodology, more recently preconized according to the revelation of one spirit, Earth was formed by the incrustation of four satellites of a former planet that disappeared. Such a junction would have been the result of the will of the souls of those planets. A fifth satellite, the Moon, would have refused such association, given its free will. The voids that were formed due to the absence of the Moon would have created cavities that were filled up by the oceans. Each of those planets would have brought their typical beings in a cataleptic state: humans, animals and plants. After the joining and an equilibrium was reached, those creatures left their lethargic state and populated the globe. That would have been the origin of the primitive races on the planet: the black race in Africa, the yellow in Asia, the red in the Americas and the white in Europe.


Which of these two methodologies may be considered as an expression of truth? We request a thoughtful and explicit solution to this issue as to the others.


NOTE: This and other related questions are naturally marginal from a moral point of view that is the essential objective of Spiritism. Therefore there is no reason to take them as object of continual concern. As a matter of fact we are aware that the Spirits do not know everything about the origin of things and that they only say what they know or believe to know. However, since the divergence of systems could lead some people to see rupture in the unity of Spiritism, particularly because those systems were formulated by the Spirits, it is convenient to compare the pros and cons in the interest of Spiritism itself, supporting the judgment of worth of certain communications on the agreement of the majority.

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