- To believe in an Almighty God, supremely just and good;
- To believe in the soul and its immortality; in the pre-existence of the soul as the only justification for the present; in the plurality of existences as a means of atonement, reparation, and moral development and happiness increasing with perfection; in the equitable intellectual compensation; in the perfectibility of the most imperfect beings; in goodness and evil according to the principle: to each according to his/her deeds; in the equality of justice for all, without any exceptions, favors or privileges towards any creature; in the duration of the expiation as limited by imperfection; in free-will of men and women who can always choose between good and evil;
- To believe in the continuity that bind all beings passed, present, and future, incarnated and discarnate; to consider earthly life as transitory and one of the phases of the life of spirit who is eternal;
- To accept courageously the tribulations, in the light of a future more enviable than the present; to practice charity in thoughts, words, and deeds in the wider sense of the word;
- To make efforts each day to be better than the day before, uprooting some imperfection from our soul;
- To submit all beliefs to the control of the free examination and reason and nothing accept through blind faith;
- To respect all sincere beliefs, no matter how irrational they appear to us, and not to violate anyone’s conscience;
- Finally, to see in the discoveries of science the revelations of the laws of nature, which are the laws of God;
That is the CREED, THE RELIGION OF SPIRITISM, a religion that can reconcile itself with all cults, that is, with all forms of adoration of God. It is the bond that will unite all spirits in a sacred communion of thoughts, linking all men and women under the banner of universal fraternity.
(Allan Kardec – Revista Espírita – December 1868, Vol. 12 – EDICEL)
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