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true property
Theme: true property
Source: The gospel according to spiritism, XVI: items, 9 and 10

INSTRUCTIONS FROM THE SPIRITS.

TRUE PROPERTY
9. The only true property that Man can own is that which may be taken with him on leaving this world. What
is found on arrival on Earth and that which is left behind on parting, is enjoyed only while living here. Therefore, as
humanity is forced to abandon all worldly possessions, it can be inferred that it has no real ownership of riches, only
their temporary usage. What then constitutes true property? Nothing which is for the use of the body, but everything
which is for the use of the soul, such as intelligence, knowledge and moral qualities. This is what man brings and
takes with him, which no one can take away and which will be far more use in the next world than in the present
one. It is up to him to be richer on departure than he was on arrival in this world, seeing that his future position will
depend solely on what qualities have been gained in the present life. When someone travels to a distant country
they take as part of their luggage only those things which will be useful to them in that place; they do not worry
about those things which will be of no use. Proceed in a like manner in relation to your future life and provide
yourselves with all that can be of use to you there.
The traveller who arrives at a hostel is only given a good room if he is able to pay for it.
Those who have sparse resources are forced to make do with something less agreeable. When they have
nothing which belongs to them, they must sleep on a pallet bed. The same applies to Man on his arrival in the world
of the spirits, for it will depend entirely on what he owns as to where he will go. Nor will payment be made in terms
of gold. No one will be asked what it was they had had on Earth, or what position they had occupied, nor even if
they were a pauper or a prince. Instead, they will be asked what they have brought with them. Neither worldly goods
nor titles will be valuated, only the total sum of virtues acquired. Well now, looked at from this aspect, it is possible
that the simple worker be far richer than the prince. In vain may the latter allege that before leaving the Earth his
entrance into the next world was paid for in gold. The only reply he would receive is that no one may buy a place
here; it must be conquered by each person by means of doing good to others. Earthly money may buy land, houses
or palaces, but in our world everything is paid for by means of the qualities of the soul. Are you rich in these
qualities? Then you are welcome and may go to one of the high places where all kinds of happinesses await you.
But if you are poor in these qualities then you must go to the low places, where you will be treated according to that
which you possess. - PASCAL (Geneva, 1860).

10. Earthly goods belong to God, Who distributes them in accordance with His wishes. Man is nothing more
than the usufructuary, a relatively honest and intelligent administrator of these goods or properties. They belong so
little to him that frequently God annuls all such provisions and these riches escape from even those who considered
themselves to hold the best entitlement.
You would say perhaps that this is understandable when related to inherited property, but not to that
acquired by work. Undoubtedly if there were such a thing as legitimate riches, then it would apply to the latter, when
honestly gained. However, a property is only legitimately acquired when during its acquisition there has been no
harm done to anyone. An account will have to be given of all ill-gotten gains, that is to say gains which may have
injured someone. But from the fact that a person may owe the acquiring of riches to themself, does it follow that,
upon dying, any advantage may be gained from this circumstance? Are not precautions that may have been taken
to transfer these riches to descendants frequently inutile? This is correct, for if God does not desire them to receive
certain riches, then nothing can prevail against His wishes. Can someone use and abuse what he owns during his
lifetime without needing to give an account of these acts? No, because in permitting the acquisition of this property it
is to be supposed that God had in mind to recompense the person, during the actual existence for their effort,
courage and perseverance. If however, the property be used exclusively for the satisfaction of pride and the senses,
or if they become the cause of failure, then it would have been better not to have received them seeing that
what is gained on the one hand is lost on the other, so annulling all merit for the work. In this case, upon
leaving the Earth, God will say that the recompense has already been received. - M. a Protecting Spirit (Brussels,
1861).
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Estudo de ‘A verdadeira propriedade’ dado por Martinho no Centro Espírita Joana d’Arc S.
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João de Meriti, RJ. a 07/ 12/ 2010

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 CONSIDERATIONS:
With Spiritism it has come the certainty that the life continues, because the world of the beyond is revealed
to us all over the world by the Spirits who came in sequences through the natural law of the second sight,
(mediumnity) not leaving doubt of their existence, should not Spiritism do any other thing it would be already of
plenty service done to the humanity. 2
Thence, with that knowledge one comes to know that the values of the Earth are not the same ones of
those of the beyond, because without a doubt the material goods or of titles or of hierarchies don't weigh up in the
beyond, they are not the acceptable values when the disincarnated arrives at the beyond, since the virtues and the
moral qualities are the pertinent ones to the spirit, and it is that the values that the beyond evaluates; and “it is
given according to their works", 3 confirming like this the teachings of our divine Master Jesus..
Jesus has much explained and given to be known to men the spiritual realities, but men were not convinced
very much on that respect, but for the will of God according to the arriving times the spiritist revelation was given
unto us.
It was not for Jesus not to have compared the life of beyond after death with the material life that the man
was incredulous, because it was always having a view of the future of our souls in the spiritual world that Jesus in
his thought and concern indoctrinated the people for the general welfare as much of the present as of the spiritual
future..
Thenceforth Jesus to teach, to notice, to prevent, to encourage, to moralize, to insist, to suggest, to ask
faith, to persuade the road of goodness for us to live in peace before God, before ourselves, before our close one
and before our future.
In all the teaching themes, which Jesus mentioned there were relationship with the spiritual world and
happiness of our souls and clearly indirectly stirring us to know that that future life was our true property, our true
acquired goods for us in our responsibility and ‘free will’4. on the spiritual road of life.

Here are some of the teachings of Jesus to that respect:

Teachings of rules for this life:
“Don't give your alms to be seen by men..." (Matthew, VI: 1)
"When you give alms, let not your left hand know what the right hand does" (Matthew, VI: 3)
"And praying do not use of vain repetitions, because your Father knows what is necessary for you, before you ask
Him”.(Matthew, VI: 7)
"If you forgive men their offenses, also the celestial Father will forgive you your offenses" (Matthew, VI: 14)
"Look for the kingdom of God and his justice firstly and all the more things shall be added unto you" (Matthew. VI: 33)
"If you keep my commandments, you shall abide in my love" (John, XV: 10)
"For I have given you an example that you should do as I have done to you" (John, XIII: 15)
"One has to give up most things of life to be a disciple of Jesus" (Luke, XIV: 26- 31).

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Warnings:
“Agree with thine adversary while in the way with him…" (Matthew, V: 25)
"judge not that ye be not judged; or what judgment ye judge ye shall be judged and with what measure ye mete, it
shall be measured to you again" (Matthew, VII: 1)
"Take heed, and beware of covetousness: for a man’ life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he
possesseth" (Luke, XII: 15)
"Not everyone that saith unto me , Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of Heaven; but he that doeth the will of
my Father which is in Heaven (Matthew, VII: 21)
"Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs on thistles" (Matthew, VII: 16)
"Every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment, For by thy words thou
shalt be justified and by thy words thou shalt be condemned" (Matthew, XII: 36)
“For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?” (Mark, VIII: 36)

2
Allan Kardec Book, Genesis, I: 37.
3
Revelation, XIV: 13 - XX: 12 & 13.
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The Spirits’ Book, Q. 843.

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"Enter you in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many
there be which go in thereat" (Matthew, VII: 13)

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Prevention for a better future:
"Agree with thine adversary quickly, whiles thou art in the way with him: lest at any time the adversary deliver thee
to the judge and the judge deliver thee to the officer, and thou be cast into prison" her, Matthew V: 25.
"Resist not evil, but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turns to him the other also", Matthew V: 39. -
"Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you and pray for them which despitefully
use you, and persecute you", (Matthew V: 44.)
"Be ye therefore perfect, even as you’re Father which is in Heaven is perfect", Matthew V: 48. -
"But when ye pray use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do; for they think that they shall be heard for their much
speaking" Matthew, VI: 7. -
"Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and thieves break through and
steal, but lay up for yourselves treasures in Heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do
not break through and steal for where your treasure is , there will your heart be also" (Matthew., VI: 19-21)
"Sin no more, lest a worse thing come unto you" (John, V: 14)
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To have faith and trust in God:
"Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what shall ye put on. Is
not the life more than meat and the body than raiment" (Matthew, VI: 25-32)
"Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? And not one of them shall fall on the ground without your Father, but the
very hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear ye not therefore ye are of more value than many sparrows. (Matthew,
X: 29-31)
"Take therefore no thought for the morrow; for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto
the day is the evil thereof. (Matthew, VI: 34)
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How to live together in this world:
“Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to hem; for this is the law and
the prophets" (Matthew, VII: 12)
"Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, the same is greatest in he kingdom of heaven"
(Matthew XVIII: 4)
"Be ye therefore merciful, as your Father also is merciful" (Luke, VI: 36)
"He that is greatest among you, let him be as the younger; and he hat is chief, as he that serveth" (Luke, XXII; 26)
"Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which that is in
Heaven" (Matthew, V: 16)
"But I say unto you love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them
which despitefully use you, and persecute you" (Mathew, V: 44)
"My peace I give unto you; not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be
afraid" (John,XIV: 27);
"In the world ye shall have tribulation; but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world" John, XVI: 33)
"Ye are the salt of the earth; but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? It is thenceforth good
for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men" (Matthew, V: 13)
"Ye are the light of the world; a city that is set on an hill cannot be hid . Neither do men light a candle, and put it
under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it giveth light unto all that are in the house" (Matthew V: 14, 15)
"Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves"(Matt, VII: 15)
'Be not ye called Rabbi; for one is your Master, even - Christ; and all ye are brethren" (Matthew, XXIII: 8)
“Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under
their feet, and turn again and rend you" Matthew, VII:6)
“Then said Jesus unto him. Put up again thy sword into his place; for all they that take the sword shall perish with
the sword" (Matthew, XXVI: 52)

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How to entrust somebody in this world of disappointments:
"A good man out of the good treasure of his heart, bringeth forth that which is good; and an evil man, out of the evil
treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is evil; for of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaketh" (Luke, VI:
45)
"Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles. Even so every good tree
bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit" (Matthew, VII: 16, 17)
"He that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in much; and he that is unjust in the least is unjust also in
much" (Luke,XVI: 10)
“Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment" (John, VII: 24)

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How to progress spiritually:
"Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart; and ye shall find rest unto your souls.
For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light" (Matthew, XI: 29, 30)
"If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you" (John, XV: 7)
"…The kingdom of God cometh not with observation; neither shall they say, Lo here! Or lo there! For behold the
kingdom of God is within you" (Luke, XVII: 20, 21)
"…I am the light of the world; he that followeth me shall no walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life"
(John, VIII: 12)
"Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is Heaven is perfect" (Matthew, V: 48)
"A new commandment I give unto you: that ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another"
(John, XIII: 34)
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Investment in the spiritual life:
"And whosoever shall give to drink unto one of these little ones a cup of cold water only in the name of a disciple,
verily I say unto you, he shall in no wise lose his reward" (Matthew, X: 42)
"If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in
Heaven give good things to them that ask Him?" (Matthew, VII: 11)
"Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of them; otherwise ye have no reward of your Father
which is in Heaven" (Matthew, VI: 1)
"But love ye your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again; and your reward shall be great, and ye
shall be the children of the Highest: for he is kind unto the unthankful and to the evil" (Luke, VI: 35)
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Evolution and progress of our souls:
"…Blessed are the dead which die in he Lord from henceforth; Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their
labours; and their works do follow them” (Revelation, XIV: 13)
“And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues
and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men. Verily I say unto you. They have their reward"
(Matthew, VI: 5)
“…First cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy
brother’s eye” (Matthew, VII: 5)

There is no denying that the spirit develops itself in the material world waking up for the spiritual in the
moral and intellectual feelings and notions, leaving out the having for the self being, leaving the material for the
spiritual, leaving the human for the divine, leaving the mortal for the immortal, leaving the temporary for the eternal.
Thence with Jesus to have given in the sermon of the Mountain several categories of spirits who reached a
good spiritual standard average, having Jesus explained them in the form of' Blessedness.
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Let us verify in the Gospel according to St. Matthew, chapter, V: 1 - 11:
1- And seeing the multitudes, he went up into a mountain: and when he was
set, his disciples came into him:
2- And he opened his mouth, and taught them, saying:

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 3- blessed are the poor in; spirit; for theirs is the kingdom of Heaven;.
4- blessed are they hat mourn; for they shall be comforted;.
5- blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth.
6- blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they
shall be filled.
7- blessed are the merciful; for they shall obtain mercy;.
8- Blessed are the pure in heart; for they shall see God;
9- Blessed are the pacemakers; for they shall be called the children of
God;
10- Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness sake; for
theirs is the kingdom of Heaven;.
11- Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and
shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake.
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All shall be Blessed if they practice Jesus' teachings 5 and who observes them is similar to the man which,
built a house and digged deep, and laid the foundation on a rock; and when the flood arose, the stream beat
vehemently upon that house, and could not shake it; for it was founded upon a rock.
But he that heareth and doeth not, is like a man that without a foundation built an house upon the earth;
against which the stream did beat vehemently, and immediately it fell; and the ruin of that house was great."
(Luke, VI: 47-49).
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The Gospel according to Spiritism, is not "another Gospel", but the one of Jesus, because the spiritist moral
is the one of Jesus, 6 what the Gospel according to Spiritism does is to explain, to interpret, to develop Jesus'
teachings for our spiritual learning to the light of the experience of the spirits and of reason, 7 because we are not
only made of flesh, but body-perispírit-soul.
BY reason of us being incarnated spirits passing through this world improving ourselves for better worlds,
we have relatively consequences to the spirit so much moral as intellectuals.
Thence the love of God to have granted us Jesus to come to help us in our spiritual walking way. 8
Spiritism not only accepts the Gospel of our Lord as it believes faithfully that Jesus is a pure Spirit 9 who
embodied. a body like us, he lived among us and he died as we all do, accomplishing his mission which God the
Father assigned to him faithfully;10 in his mission he suffered, he cried, he prayed and he had hideous death in this
world of spiritual backwardness, in spite of that the sowing of the good and love planted by Jesus is growing and
thanks to the sacrifice of the Master the world is changing for a regenerating world. 11
The world is sorry of not having accepted Jesus properly and having mistreated improperly, wrongly and
cowardly.
May God have compassion and mercy on all the criminals, might God show them their great mistake and
help them to contemplate, to admit their error and to bring them to the regret on seeing clearly the evil which they
caused to the saint and pure messenger of God to this world..
Jesus didn't come to condemn the world.12 Jesus came so that we might have life and have it more
abundantly. 13

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5
John, XIII: 17.
6
The Gospel according to Spiritism, XV: - The Spirits’ Book, Q. 625.
7
Allan Kardec Book, Genesis, I: 41.
8
João, III? 16. - VII: 218 - XVI: 28.
9
The spirits’ Book, Q. 625.
10
John, VII: 16- 29.
11
The Gospel according to Spiritism, III: 16.
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John, III: 17.
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João, X: 10

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 As support to the study an extract from the Gospel according to
Spiritism, II: paragraph of the item 6 and item 7:
“…Those who identify themselves with a future life are as a rich person who loses a small sum without
emotion. Those whose thoughts are concentrated on earthly things are as the poor man who loses all be bas, and
so becomes desperate.

7. Spiritism opens up and broadens out the thought process, so offering new horizons. In place of a short-
sighted vision concentrated only on the present, which makes this fleeting moment passed on Earth the unique and
fragile axis of the eternal future; Spiritism shows us that this life is nothing more than a link in the magnificent,
harmonious assembly which is God's work. It also shows us the solidarity which joins together all the different
existences of one being, of all beings of the same world, and all the beings of all the worlds.
It offers the base and the reason for universal fraternity, whereas the doctrine of the creation of the soul at
the birth of the body, makes each creature a stranger one to the other.
This solidarity between parts of a whole explains what is inexplicable when only one of these parts is
considered. This entirety would not have been possible to understand at the time of Christ, and for this reason He
waited till later to make this knowledge known.

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Spiritism as well as Jesus considers the true property the one of the spirit and it encourages faithfully that:
“all love each other and educate themselves" 14 concernly to the spiritual life, because that is the true purpose of all
of us to develop and to progress in the infinite escalade of the Will of God for his children in the house of our
Heavenly Father. 15
Since soever we are eternal, we have already lived before, we will continue in the beyond after our
disincarnating and we will be reincarnated other times,' as many are necessary', 16 therefore let us not be ignorant
as for the future to us reserved, because' it is given us “according to our works” 17 and not according to the works of
somebody else, who themselves receive their own merit.18

May God be with us, as He did formerly,19 today and always.

14
the Gospel according to Spiritism, VI: 5.
15
John, XIV: 2.
16
The Spirits’ Book, Q. 69.
17
Matthew, XVI: 27. - Mark, XIII: 34.
18
Allan Kardec Book, ‘Heaven and Hell’, III: 7-13.
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Jeremiah, I: 5.

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 With Spiritism, it has come the certainty that life continues,
Because the world of the beyond is revealed to us all over the
world by the Spirits who came in sequences through the natural law of
the second sight, (mediumnity) not leaving doubt of their existence,
Should not Spiritism do any other thing it would be already
Of plenty service done to the humanity.20
Thence, with that knowledge one comes to know that the values of
the Earth are not the same ones of those of the beyond, because
without a doubt the material goods or of titles or of hierarchies don't
weigh up in the beyond, they are not the acceptable values when the
disincarnated arrives at the beyond,
Since the virtues and the moral qualities are the pertinent ones to
the spirit, and it is that the values that the beyond evaluates; and “it is
given according to their works", 21
Confirming like this the teachings of our divine Master Jesus..
Jesus has much explained and given to be known to men the
spiritual realities,
But men were not convinced very much on that respect, but for the
will of God
According to the arriving due times the spiritist revelation was
given unto us.
It was not for Jesus not to have compared
the life of beyond after death with the material life

20
Allan Kardec Book ‘Genesis, I: 37
21
Revelation, XIV: 13 - XX: 12 and 13.
Revelation, XX: 12 -… And the dead were judged out of those things
which were written in the books, according to their works.
(Latin:; XX: 12...et judicati sunt mortui ex bis quae scripta erant in libris,
scundum opera ipsorum. -
Revelation, XX: 13 - ... and they were judged every man according to
their Works.
(Latin:; XX: 13... et judicatum est de singulis secundum opera ipsorum.

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 That the man was incredulous, because it was always having a
view of the future
of our souls in the spiritual world
That Jesus in his thought and concern indoctrinated the people
For the general welfare as much of the present as of the spiritual
future..
Thenceforth Jesus to teach, to notice, to prevent, to encourage, to
moralize, to insist, to suggest, to ask faith, to persuade the way of
goodness for us to live in peace before God,
Before ourselves, before our close one and before our future.
In all the teaching themes, which Jesus mentioned there were
relationship with the spiritual world and happiness of our souls and
clearly indirectly emotive us to know that, that future life was our true
property,
Our true acquired goods for us in our responsibility and free will 22
On the road of spiritual life.
(Extract of the study 'the true property' given in the Spiritist Center, Joana d’Arc S. J. of Meriti RJ. to
07 / 12 / 2010)

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The Spirits’ Book, Q. 843.