{"id":40,"date":"2016-03-11T21:59:47","date_gmt":"2016-03-11T21:59:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/akssmaryland.org\/new\/?page_id=40"},"modified":"2016-03-11T22:35:40","modified_gmt":"2016-03-11T22:35:40","slug":"the-spiritist-creed","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.akssmaryland.org\/new\/the-spiritist-creed\/","title":{"rendered":"The Spiritist Creed"},"content":{"rendered":"<table class=\"contentpaneopen\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\">\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">To believe in an Almighty God, supremely just and good;<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">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;<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">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;<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">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;<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">To make efforts each day to be better than the day before, uprooting some imperfection from our soul;<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">To submit all beliefs to the control of the free examination and reason and nothing accept through blind faith;<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">To respect all sincere beliefs, no matter how irrational they appear to us, and not to violate anyone&#8217;s conscience;<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Finally, to see in the discoveries of science the revelations of the laws of nature, which are the laws of God;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"style3\" style=\"text-align: justify;\" align=\"left\">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.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><strong>(Allan Kardec &#8211; <em>Revista Esp\u00edrita <\/em>&#8211; December 1868, Vol. 12 &#8211; EDICEL)<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.akssmaryland.org\/new\/the-spiritist-creed\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-40","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-08 03:16:42","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akssmaryland.org\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/40","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akssmaryland.org\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akssmaryland.org\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akssmaryland.org\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akssmaryland.org\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.akssmaryland.org\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/40\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57,"href":"https:\/\/www.akssmaryland.org\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/40\/revisions\/57"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akssmaryland.org\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}