The Spirits' Book

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Who is like you, O Yahweh, among the gods? Who is like you, majestic in holiness, awesome in glorious deeds, doing wonders? If the idea of having acid indigestion sounds like it’s too trivial to involve God in, then that means that you are a materialist by habit. And I am. I think everybody listening to this probably is. Now, it’s possible that there’s some very spiritual people who are listening to this who aren’t, and if you are, please pray for us! But I think most of us are materialists by habit. Elias Ashmole, ed. David Rankine, The Book of Treasure Spirits, Avalonia books, 2009; p. 2 and 109 (fn.88)

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Michael: Good, thank God. I have a question for Fr. Stephen De Young. I was told once that there may have been a change at some point in just the way we’re educated about religion, and I remember being taught about monotheism and polytheism, and I wonder if in the ancient world it was taught the same way. How could this maybe contribute to our perceptions when we read “gods” in the Bible?Chapter 11 (The Three Reigns) is about the differences between inanimate beings (mineral), plants, and animals and contains the standard Spiritist Doctrine on Metempsychosis. Fr. Andrew: Because, I mean, he’s the expert, but I do have a couple things I want to throw in here, if only so we can hear him correct me. [Laughter] Keep collections to yourself or inspire other shoppers! Keep in mind that anyone can view public collections - they may also appear in recommendations and other places.

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Fr. Stephen: If you’re in your Orthodox Study Bible. This is when Saul, near the end of his reign as king, in his disobedience goes to consult with the witch or the medium at Endor, not the one with the Ewoks.

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Fr. Andrew: Right, so we sing, right in the anaphora of the Divine Liturgy, we sing what in Latin is called the Sanctus: Holy, holy, holy, Lord of Sabaoth, heaven and earth are full of thy glory. So this is one of those things we’re talking about here now: this is one of those things that’s right there, a core piece of our liturgical tradition—I mean, it is right there at the heart of the Divine Liturgy—we call God the Lord Sabaoth, the Lord of hosts. It’s there, and it doesn’t just mean that he’s got a lot of angels available to him—we’re going to be talking about all of that—but he is Lord of hosts. Fr. Andrew: Right, another piece that probably just rattles by most of us. I’ve prayed it for years as a priest: “O God of spirits and all flesh…” But I never paused and thought, “Wait, who are the spirits that we’re saying he’s the God of, exactly?” Well, this is what we’re talking about. That’s what this is. And now the one that will be most controversial, that I kind of warned you about, but we’re going to go there. [Laughter] This is in Exodus 21:1-6, which is in the context of laws governing slavery—so not controversial at all, this passage in the Torah. This particular rule that’s being made in the first six verses of Exodus [21] is for a situation where someone has been in a period of indentured servitude, so they’ve been working for and part of a household for some period of time to pay off a debt. They come to the end of their term of service, but they like the household and the family and they want to stay on. There were strict rules about how long you could keep someone in slavery and all of these things that are outlined in the rest of the chapter. If a person voluntarily says, “I rather like being the tutor or nanny for your children and I want to stay. I feel like I’m part of the family,” there was a provision to do that.

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There’s not a way to get around the fact that he says he will bring him to the gods. In the Hebrew, there’s a definite article, the word “the.” So you can’t say, “Bring him to God.” It’s “the gods.” And St. Jerome translated this just woodenly literally. If you look in the Vulgate, he has dei; it’s just the plural of god: “bring him to the gods.” He just translated it directly from the Hebrew. The Greek is interesting, because the Greek says that you should “bring him before the court of God.”Fr. Andrew: And, by the way, Ugaritic is one of the obscure languages that Fr. Stephen knows how to read. [Laughter] Congruent, validated answers were eventually compiled and organized into what become known as “The Spirits’ Book”. “The Spirits’ Book” was first published on April 18, 1857 containing 501 questions and answers. The second edition was published in 1860 and contained 1,018 — a testament to the ever-growing, ever-learning nature of Spiritism. The third edition — considered final and the one we use today — included minor revisions and numbered one more question to end at the total of 1,019 we know today. As an educator, Kardec also understood the importance of primary sources and thus chose to reproduce the answers from the spiritis verbatim, avoiding editorializing unless greater context would help. Finally, Kardec organized The Spirits’ Book into four parts to facilitate understanding: 1) Primary Causes; 2) The Spirit World; 3) Moral Laws; and 4) Hopes and Solaces.The result is an impactful work which begs the reader to reach its own conclusions about the facts presented. Spiritism After The Spirits’ Book Fr. Stephen: I think it may even be our next show in a fortnight. We’re going to go deeper into this, but this is a big part of what’s going on when the Fathers talk about theosis and talk about us becoming gods. That’s directly connected to the idea in the New Testament of Christ exercising his rule and authority through the saints in glory, that they rule and reign with him and share in his dominion. But we’ll get more into that. Barbaryes, [26] Barbates, or Barbares (separate duplicate entries within the first eighty demons), [27] [11] later Barbais [28]

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This subtext is made explicit in The Labyrinth of the Spirits when a librarian directs Alicia to a text that was doubly suppressed: “Be careful because this is a censored book, not only by the government but also by the Holy Mother Church.” Fr. Stephen: In terms of what we’re here to accomplish, if anyone knows anything about me, you know I’m a Bible guy and I do Bible stuff. I think what I really want to do is do a little part of the work of helping English-speaking American Orthodox Christians kind of appropriate more of the fullness of the Orthodox faith, particularly as it pertains to our spiritual sensibility, our sense of the spiritual world, and the way that can and should infuse our whole lives.I’m super interested in this show because I think that there’s so much about spiritual life that it’s easy for us, not just to miss, but to have kind of endless struggles with that we don’t necessarily have to have. We’re going to talk about this a lot as we go, and of course not just in this episode, but it’s going to be a perennial issue: the sense that we have that the 3D world that we experience is kind of like all we feel we can access most of the time, but as Christians we want to access something beyond this, and it’s very frustrating when you maybe reach out for God and the saints and you’re like: Where are you? What’s going on? Serving as a pastor for 11 years, this is a perennial issue, and I think any pastors that are out there listening to this, I’m sure you’ve had the same experience, but even just Christians, we all have this difficulty because we’re modern people living in a way of thinking and looking at the world that makes it difficult to access spiritual reality. Axis Mundi: The Book of Spirits is a sourcebook detailing many of the myriad spirits serving Gaia. Here are the elementals, Enigmatics, Epiphlings, Naturae, and the broods of the great Tribal Totems themselves. Can you afford not to seek their favor? Although Spiritism started with “ The Spirits’ Book ”, it has certainly not stopped there. As a progressive body of knowledge, Spiritism too has continued to evolve and grow. Kardec himself would go on to edit and publish four other books through this cooperation with the invisible world before passing in 1869: “ The Mediums’ Book ” (1861), “ The Gospel According to Spiritism ” (1864), “ Heaven and Hell ” (1865), and “ The Genesis ” (1868). In the same manner, many others have continued to help generate more and more Spiritist content every after year.