1. Aspects of Spiritism:
Spiritism:
Science, Philosophy and
Religion
Marian Sabat Ramos
Centro Resurreccion (Region 7)
2 May 2009

2. Outline
• What is Spiritism?
• What is Science?
• The Science of Spiritism
• What is Philosophy?
• The Philosophy of Spiritism
• What is Religion?
• The Religion of Spiritism
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3. Anong religion mo?
Ano yon?
Ah… ok!
Ah…
Espiritista ka pala. ☺
pala.
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4. Background
• Three revelations of God’s Law
Mosaic Law
Ten Commandments
Civil Law
Christ’s Law
Love God above all things and your
neighbour as yourself
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5. Background
Third revelation of God’s Law is
Spiritism
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6. Sa iyong sariling salita,
salita,
ano ang Espiritismo?
Espiritismo?
Sino ang Espiritista
para sa iyo?
iyo?
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7. What is Spiritism?
laws principles,
• Is the set of and as
revealed by the Superior Spirits, contained
Kardec, which
in the works of Allan
constitute the Spiritist Codification
Spirit’s Book
Medium’s Book
Gospel According to Spiritism
Heaven and Hell
Genesis
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8. What is Spiritism?
• A science which deals with the nature,
origin and destiny of Spirits as well as
their relationship with the corporeal world
• It realises what Jesus said about the
promised Consoler
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9. What is Spiritism?
• Karunungan nauukol sa uri, simula
at patutunguhan ng espiritu at sa
pakiki-ugnay ng daigdigang
nakikita (materia) sa daigdigang hindi
nakikita (espiritu) sa pamamagitan ng
talaytayan o medium
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10. What is Spiritism?
• It reveals
what we are;
where we came from;
Where we are going;
objective
What is the of our existence;
and,
What is the reason for pain and suffering.
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11. What it comprises?
• Spiritism touches on all areas of
knowledge, human activities and behavior
• Spiritism can and should be studied,
analyzed, and practiced in all the
fundamental aspects of life such as
scientific, philosophical,
religious, ethical, moral, educational and
social.
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12. What is Spiritism?
• Nagtuturo at nagpapaliwanag
ng mga karunungang
filosofia
ciencia
at moral
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13. What is Science?
• the concerted human effort to
understand, or to understand better,
the history of the natural world and
how the natural world works, with
observable physical
evidence as the BASIS of that
understanding
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14. What is Science?
• It is done through observation of
natural phenomena, and/or through
experimentation that tries to
simulate natural processes under controlled
conditions
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15. The Science of Spiritism
“Spiritism goes from a Philosophy to a
Science, when it confirms, by
experimentation, the philosophic
knowledge that it preaches and
disseminates. quot; - Emmanuel, in quot;O Consolador
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16. The Science of Spiritism
“Spiritism and Science
complement one another; Science
without Spiritism is unable to explain
certain phenomena by the material laws
alone; Spiritism without Science,
would be without support and
examination.quot;- Kardec, in quot;Genesisquot;
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17. The Science of Spiritism
• Ang Espiritismo ay batayan ng
Agham o ciencia
• Ito ay MAHAHAYAG sa
pamamagitan ng agham o
siyensiya
• Anumang uri ng karunungan ay
isang kasangkapan sa
pagpapahayag ng karunungan,
filosofia at lihim ng Espiritismo
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18. Lemma ng Espiritismo
• Patungo sa Dios sa pamamagitan ng
Karunungan at Pag-ibig
• Karunungang walang pag-ibig ay
kamangmangan
• Pag-ibig na walang karunungan ay
panatismo
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19. Scientists Investigate Spiritism
• Particularly the existence of spirit, Creation,
Evolution of Man, Reincarnation, etc.
• Denizard Hippolyte Leon Rivail aka Allan Kardec
• Carl Gustav Jung
• William Crookes
• Russel Wallace
• Elizabeth Kluber-Ross
• Ian Stevenson
• and many more…
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20. Science vs Spiritism?
• Hindi nakatitigatig sa Espiritismo ang hindi
pagkilala ng ciencia, sapagkat walang
sapat na aparato na sadyang sensible at
pino upang makita ang sutil at penomeno-
sikiko.
• Huwag manghinayang na hindi marating ng
ciencia sa labotoryo ang Espiritismo
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21. Scientific Methods
• avoid preconceived notions
• observe attentively
• compare observations
• deduce the consequences
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22. Scientific Method of Spiritism
• identify the causes of the
phenomena by linking the facts
logically
• do not accept an explanation as
valid unless it could resolve all the
difficulties of the question
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23. What is Philosophy?
• Love of knowledge/wisdom
• Philo = love
• Sophia= knowledge, wisdom
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24. What is Philosophy?
• An activity people undertake when
they seek to understand fundamental
truths about themselves, the world in which
they live, and their relationships to the
world and to each other
• perpetually engaged in asking,
answering, and arguing for their
answers to life’s most basic questions
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25. The Philosophy of Spiritism
• Metaphysics
study of the nature of reality
of what exists in the world
what it is like
how it is ordered
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26. The Philosophy of Spiritism
• Metaphysics
May Dios ba?
Ano ang Katotohanan?
Sino ang Tao?
May free will ba talaga ang tao?
May iba pa bang nilalang na katulad
natin sa ibang mundo?
Ano kaya ang nasa isip ng tao?
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27. The Philosophy of Spiritism
• Epistemology
study of knowledge
Ano ang pede nating matutunan
tungkol at sa Espiritismo?
Paano natin matutunan ito?
Totoo bang may natutunan na tayo sa
Espiritismo?
Paano natin malalaman na alam na
atin ang mga karunungang espiritual?
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28. The Philosophy of Spiritism
• Ethics
Concerns what we ought to do and
what it would be best to do
Ano ang mabuti at masama?
Bakit may taong mabuti at masama?
Bakit sila nagiging mabuti at
masama?
Paano ako makitungo sa aking
kapwa?
Ang kagandahang asal ba ay tinuturo
sa Espiritismo?
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29. The Philosophy of Spiritism
• Logic
study the nature and structure of
arguments
Tama ba ang kanyang
pangangatwiran?
May katotohan ba sa kanyang
pagpapaliwanag?
Wala bang nilalabag na katwiran ang
aral na ibinaba ng Batlaya?
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30. The Philosophy of Spiritism
Ang pag-sulong tungo sa kasakdalan o
kabanalan ng Espiritu ay bukas lagi na sa
lahat ng tao at bawat isa.
Reencarnacion o
Muli at muling pagsapi ng
espiritu sa katawan laman
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31. The Philosophy of Spiritism
• Studies the communications with the
spiritual world deducing with logic and
reasoning the foundations of science
and of religion
• Spiritism does not impose its
principles: Spiritist Doctrines
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32. The Philosophy of Spiritism
• Kung Banal ang espiritu ni JesuKristo at si
JesuKristo ay mapagkawanggawa at
mahinahon. Samaktuwid, ang banal na
espiritu ay mapagkawanggawa at
mahinahon.
• Kung ang Dios ay hindi nagtatangi, may
nilikha ba siyang banal na sa simula’t
simula pa?
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33. What is Religion?
ritual,
• a cultural or behavioural aspect of
liturgy and organized worship,
often involving a priesthood, and societal
norms of morality (ethos) and virtue (arete)
• a set of myths or sacred truths held
in reverence or believed by adherents
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34. Classification of Religion
• Christianity • Shinto
• Islam • Chondogyo
• Judaism • Caodaism
• Hinduism • Yiguandao
• Buddhism • Zoroastrianism
• Sikhism • Yazdanism
• Jainism • Paganism
• Taoism
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35. The Religion of Spiritism
• Spiritism is not actually a separate,
distinct religion
Samaktuwid, ang Espiritismo ay
•
hindi relihiyon positibo
• Ayon sa UECFI By-Laws 2001, ang
UECFI ay isang NON-
SECTARIAN asosasyon
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36. The Religion of Spiritism
• Spiritism is practiced with simplicity,
without any external forms
of worship, within the Christian
principle that God
should be
worshipped in spirit and in truth
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37. The Religion of Spiritism
• Has NO clergy, ministry,
altars, images, candles,
processions, sacraments,
communion of sins, incense,
amulets or any other objects,
rituals or external forms of
worship
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38. The Religion of Spiritism
• Spiritism establishes a moral tie
between men, leading them in the
direction of the creator, through the
application of the moral
teachings of Christ
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39. The Religion of Spiritism
• Kung ang relihiyon ay pakiki-
ugnay sa kataas-taasang
simulaing buhay o sa Dios,
samaktuwid ang Espiritismo ay
relihiyon “per se”
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40. The Religion of Spiritism
Kung ang mga relihiyong positiba ay
nagsisimula sa pananampalataya, natutupad
sa puso ang katapatan ng paninikluhod at
pagpapatirapa sa kadaki-dakilang simulain
ng buhay, ang Espiritismo ay nagsisimula,
hindi sa paninikluhod, paghanga at
pagpintuho na tutop ang puso sa katapatan
kundi sa pagsusuri, pag-aaral, pagkaunawa
at pagkaranas sa kaugnayan ng mga bagay
na hayag sa mga bagay na lihim
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41. The Religion of Spiritism
• Nagtatagpo ang relihiyon at ang Espiritismo
sa suliranin ng kabatlayaan ng mga bagay
na likas
• Kung papaanong ang ginagamit sa
pananampalatalaya ng relihiyong positiba
ay ang tibukin ng puso, ginagamit ng
Espiritismo sa kanyang paniniwala sa Diyos
ang katutubong udyok ng pag-iisip at ng
katwiran
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42. The Religion of Spiritism
• Ang relihiyon at Espiritismo ay kapwa
darating sa isang hangganan ng
mananampalataya
• Ang dalawa ay hindi magkalaban sapagkat
sa kaluwalhatian ng katotohanan, kumaliwa
at kumanan ay sasapit ka sa simulaing
pinanggalingan ng lahat
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43. The Religion of Spiritism
• Ang Espiritismo ay siyang simulaing
kadluan ng kabatiran ng lahat ng
pananampalataya
• Ito ay siyang pilosopiya o palapahaman ng
relihiyon sapagkat ang tanging relihiyon ay
ang katotohanan
• Ang Espiritismo ay siyang kaluluwa ng
lahat ng pananampalataya, lahat ng
karunungan, lahat ng palapahaman
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44. The BEST of all religions is that which
• Nagtuturo ng ayon lamang sa kabutihan
at katarungan ng Dios
• Tumutulong na maging isang mabuti o
ng may kabutihang loob ang isang tao
• Nagtuturo na ibigin ang kapwa
katulad ng sarili at parang isang
kapatid
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45. The BEST of all religions is that which
• Di gumagawa ng masama
• Di nagtuturo ng bagay na labag sa
batas natural
• Nagtuturo ng kababaang loob,
nilalabanan ang Kataasan at
pita ng laman
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46. The Religion of Spiritism
batas ng Dios ang
Ang
sumasakop sa lahat ng
bagay at sa bawat
pangyayari, at ang umayon
dito ay siyang tunay na
relihiyon
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47. Simulain ng Espiritismo
Sa Labas ng Kawanggawa
ay Walang Kaligtasan
=
Sin Caridad No Hay Salvacion
Posible
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48. Spiritism
respects all religions,
values all efforts towards
the practice of goodness
O
Pagkakapatirang Pandaigdig
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49. Conclusion
Unshakable faith is only that
which can meet reason face to
face in every human epoch
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