The Spirits' Book

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This idea of polytheism versus monotheism is actually a relatively later kind of notion in Western intellectual history. The reason why the idea of monotheism was kind of come up with was to kind of group sets of religions together. We’re monotheists and Jews are monotheists and Muslims are monotheists, and over here you have polytheists, these other kinds of religions. But I don’t think anyone in the ancient world would have looked at it that way. I mean, that’s not the way religion works and the way people understood it. The question is really not, “Is there only one God?” which is what monotheism means, that there’s only one god. We see the Bible doesn’t teach only one god. The difference is that there’s only one God that you worship. The other significant difference is that the God whom we worship, the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, is a very different kind of divine being from all these other divine beings. Fr. Stephen: Right. “You will die like men.” So the thing we have to keep in mind is that when the Fathers talk about death, St. John of Damascus clearly disambiguates this. There is physical death, and there is spiritual death. Physical death is something that happens to humans where our soul is separated from our body. As you said, angels don’t have mortal bodies, so they can’t die physically in that sense. There’s also, however, spiritual death, which is the spiritual death, which is the separation of the soul or spirit from God. That is the fate that awaits the demonic spirits at the final judgment. Fr. Stephen: Well, just going along with what you were just saying, one of the questions that we will probably end up getting asked relatively frequently is sort of why people haven’t heard this stuff before. Fr. Stephen: [Laughter] Not really correct it. I’ll fill in blanks. I don’t have to “Um, actually” you yet. Fr. Stephen: That the other ones are made up. But remember what we were saying earlier in our discussion. The idea of being god is the idea of exercising authority and dominion and reign. So God is the one true God. He is the one who truly holds all authority and power and dominion over the entire creation. Anyone else who has any authority or power or dominion has received it from above, has received it from him, or they don’t have it.

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Fr. Stephen: Before we freak everybody out, let me give one more proviso in terms of why we’re freaking everybody out. [Laughter] One might wonder why you might do this to people… 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. When we see this language, “God of gods,” it’s not just a superlative. It’s saying that the other gods have the God of Israel as their God. Fr. Stephen: Yes, it doesn’t even count for Orthodox people. And it’s not that it couldn’t. Monos and theos are both Greek words. And you do find polytheos used as a term by the Fathers to refer to pagans. But not monotheos. When they talk about the fact that we have one God whom we worship, like in the discussions about the Trinity and saying that they weren’t tritheists, the term they used was monarchia, that there’s one arche, one first principle. That’s how they chose to express themselves.Fr. Andrew: Yeah, right, sure! I mean, Mt. Hermon, we’re going to talk about the divine council over and over and over and over again on this show. So what does Mt. Hermon have to do with all of that then. In a nutshell. I know. But if the slave plainly says, “I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free,” then his master shall bring him to the gods, and he shall bring him to the door or the doorpost, and his master shall bore his ear through with an awl, and he shall be his slave forever.”

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Fr. Andrew: And you can’t just flip a switch and decide: I’m not going to be a materialist any more! [Laughter] Today I will believe in spirits!All Spirits preserve their individuality, before, during and after each life ( incarnation). However, the amount of memory one retains depends on one's level of spiritual progression. Fr. Andrew: Let me just say, actually, I just noticed the very next verse, after what you read, verse 9. I’m looking at the Orthodox Study Bible: This isn’t comparing God, the God of Israel, to imaginary characters. That wouldn’t be a big praise, like: who in the Marvel cinematic universe is like God? Book Three (Moral Laws) contains what Kardec regarded as the kernel of his doctrine, the special and fair (in his view) moral laws that provided explanations and consoled people in moments of anger or grief. Such laws were actually the following: The Angel of the Lord is mentioned dozens of times in the Holy Scriptures, yet the identity and nature of this figure is fuzzy for many Christians. Is he an…

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In this revolutionary work, we find a new comprehensive approach to understanding our true nature and that of the world around us. It speaks to the constant need to investigate the world around us (science), to make sense of our findings (philosophy), and to apply them to our day-to-day living so as to improve ourselves and the world around us (ethics/religion). This approach is often referred to as the triple-aspect of Spiritism: the conjoining of Science, Philosophy, and Religion. Thus, “ The Spirits’ Book ” presents us with both the foundations of Spiritism as well as a great place from which to start or deepen our personal search for meaning and purpose. The Making of The Spirits’ Book The Deer of Cernunnos ( Jek-Kookan to the Wendigo/Uktena and Kerdh-Dhue to the Get of Fenris, Kerheist)Fr. Andrew: It’s not about people, right. You can’t just read this as being about sort of theosis, because it’s “in the heavens.”

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Fr. Andrew: This is one of these things that there is a very long explanation for this, but I know that Fr. Stephen has covered this in some detail, so I’m going to punt this to him and say: Give us the short version, Fr. Stephen, as to what it is. Why does it say in 1 Corinthians 11:10 that a woman should have her head covered “because of the angels”? Fr. Stephen: It’s basically the belief that matter and energy and their co-relationships and interactions are all that exists.

So there is a ritual described here for what you do with that person who has decided they want to stay permanently as part of the household. I’ll read Exodus 21:5-6: But I wanted to start with this discussion of the question of materialism. I think in Christian circles we tend to use the word “materialism” as a synonym for greed. That person is very materialistic; they want to buy a lot of stuff, they’re obsessed with their stuff. But that’s not what we mean by “materialism” in what we’re talking about. So if you had to give a nutshell definition of “materialism,” Father, what would you say? Fr. Andrew: Yeah, right, sure! Let’s roll on with some more. Let’s just leave that question hanging… For Yahweh, your God, is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great, the mighty, and the awesome God, who is not partial and takes no bribe.