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Glossary
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Allegory (From the greek=allegoria)
- A metaphor, a tale or story used to ilustrate a point.
Animism - The action of a medium
disseminating his own ideas, memories and thoughts while
in trance as if this information was coming from a Spirit.
Animism may happen without the knowledge of the medium
himself if he is not well enough educated in the subject.
Angel - In its orthodoxal concept,
this term is not accepted by Spiritism as it refers
to beings whom were created as perfect and living in
eternal happiness, contrary to men. This assumption
would make God unjust. (See Guardian Angels and Enlightened
Spirits).
Apocryphal Communications - Dubious
communications; Spirit communications that appear to
come from enlightened spirits but actually come from
spirits who either want to confuse or control a group
of people. (See The Medium's Book - Chapter XXXI)
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Bi-corporeity (double body) - A
natural phenomena of visual manifestation. The spiritual
body (perispirit) of a person appears to other people
in a different location from where the person's physical
body is. (See The Medium's Book - Chapter VII)
Bonus-hour - a type of currency(money)
utilized in "Astral City", the spiritual city
described by the spirit Andre Luiz in his book "Astral
City" which was translated from the Portuguese
"Nosso Lar" - "Our Home"
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Capela - A star in the "Cocheiro"
constelation. While most of the population of Capella
took a step up in the stages of evolution, many of its
inhabitants were not moraly compatible with the new
situation of their fellow inhabitants. Being highly
advanced intellectually, they were brougth (reeincanated)
to Earth as part of the early Hindu, Jewish and Egiptian
people, bosting the progress of humanity and compensating
for their misconduct of the past.
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Death - the process of liberation of the spirit
from the material body. After death, the spirit preserves
its individuality, that is, all the psychological features
that characterized it as the living person before.
Disembodied Spirits - the general name given
to the spirit in its original state, meaning a spirit
without a body (here understood as the material body).
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Ectoplasm (from the latin ektos=outside, plasma=formed
or created) - a substance existent in the human body
and utilized by the spirits so they can materialize.
Only humans who possess a very specific type of mediumship
- physical effects mediunship - are capable of donating
enough ectoplasm in order for a materialization to occurr.
Embodied spirit - a synonym for incarnate spirit.
The state of a spirit during a reincarnation. Also known
as one's soul.
Enlightened Spirits - Spirits in higher stages
in evolution. They are in-charge of many aspects of
our lives. Some oversee works of religious groups, some
governments, others are even responsible for entire
solar systems. They help us with their thoughts of wisdom
but under no circumstances interfere with our free-will.
(See free-will)
Erraticity - the state of errant spirits, that
is, disembodied spirits, during the interval between
two material existences. It is not specific to either
a harmonic state of mind or place in the cosmos, but
to a stage in which the spirit is not encarnated.
Evocation - The act of evoking or calling the
spirit or spirits with whom we desire to communicate
. Allan Kardec advised us to remain skeptic to what
spirits actually answer our "call", meaning that they
could be impostors trying to persuade us into doing
wrong or simply playing with us. (See joking spirits)
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Free Will - A Divine Law which
states that spirits have the freedom to choose between
right and wrong. No enlightened spirit will ever interfere
with this right, even by knowing that our choices will
bring suffering to us and others.
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Guardian Angels - Spirits who are
dedicated to help us in our incarnate state. They are
usually our loved ones from past lives. These spirits
are not yet perfect and may indeed still have to reincarnate
themselves.
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Incarnate spirit - a spirit with
a material body, living on Earth or in other planets.
Opposite of disembodied spirit.
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Joking Spirits - Those spirits
who spend their time misleading people and mediums who
communicate with them and are less prepared to differentiate
them from serious
and enlightened spirits. They usually do not mean to
harm anyone, unlike rebel spirits who are looking for
revenge of some kind.
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Magnatized Water - Whater saturated
with beneficial fluids originated in the spiritual world
under the guidance of Spirit Benefactors. It is commonly
used as a complement to the pass (healing) as a means
to revitalize the human body.
Material body - as the name suggests,
the material part of an incarnate spirit. The immaterial
body is called the "perispirit".
Materialization - name given to
the phisical phenomenon produced by materialization
mediums. During a materialization, a spirit acquires
a pseudo-body and makes itself materially visible. Ectoplasm,
substance existent in the humam bodies is used by the
spirits so they can materialize. Not only spirits can
be materialized, but also ordinary objects (the transport
of objects to a closed environment occurs by means of
materialization).
Medium - A person who serves as
an intermediary between spirits and people.
Mediumship - the faculty(ability)
of mediums. Also called channelling in some places.
There is a large number of types of mediumships which
the interested reader can find it in "The mediums´ book"
by Allan Kardec.
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Perispirit - (perí in greek, or
surrounding) name given to the semi-material body of
the spirit. It has material properties that can be perceived
by mediums. In incarnate spirits, it is the link or
intermediary body between the spirit and the material
body. In disembodied spirits, it constitutes the fluidic
body.
Physical effects mediums - an exceptional
category of mediums who auxiliate spirits in their materialization
and in the transport and materialization of objects.
Pneumatography - name given to
a rare type of mediumship in which written communication
of spirits are obtained by "direct writing",
the writing of messages on a paper or any other object
without the participation of a medium or the need of
any writting object.
Psychic phenomenon - a general
name given to a class of phenomena produced by mediums.
They can be divided into physical and intellectual effects.
They generally involve the influence of disembodied
spirits.
Psycography - name given to a special
type of mediums (writting mediums) who write under the
guidance or influence of the spirits. The spirit commands
the hand of the medium as it writes.
Physical effects - name given to
material manifestation of the spirits such as movement
of inert bodies, noises, appearences, smells or materializations.
These cannot be produced unless a physical effects medium
is utilized by the spirits. See also intelectual effects.
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Quintessence - More purified, less
heavy, softer. The perispirit is formed of matter that
is more quintessenced than the physical body. (See The
Medium's Book - Chapter VIII)
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Rebel Spirits - Spirits who maintain
feelings of hate against either people, other spirits
or even God. They are usually responsible for obsession
and spend their time and energy trying to harm and destroy
their the ones they hate.
Reincarnation - return of the spirit
to the material body for the sake of spiritual improvement.
The purpose of reincarnation is "purification, to redress
previous mistakes thus generating human progress. Without
reincarnation, God would be unjust. Reincarnation is
a mechanism of spirit evolution.
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Sematology(in greek semá=signal)
- a language of signals. Name given to the communication
of spirits by the movement of static bodies.
Soul - An incarnated Spirit.
Spirit - The intelligent beings
of the Creation. They constitute the population of the
Universe. One of the three elements of the Universe,
God, Spirits and Matter. (See The Spirit's Book - Second
Book - Chapter I)
Spiritism - in a simplified definition,
it is the set of beliefs or principles founded upon
the existence of spirits and their manifestation. The
name was thought out by Allan Kardec. (See The Spirit's
Book - Introduction - Item I)
Spiritist - a believer in Spiritism.
There are several categories of spiritists. A good spiritist
is defined by his actions of goodness towards all and
determination to change himself in pursuit of perfection.
The name was thought out by Allan Kardec. (See The Spirit's
Book - Introduction - Item I)
Spiritualism - as opposed to materialism
(academical definition): Belief in the existence of
the spiritual (non material) counterpart of a being.
According to this meaning Spiritualism is the base of
all religions. As a religion: English name given to
the movement initiated in the XIX century founded on
spirit manifestation. Contrary to Spiritism, the Spiritualism
movement did not accepted reincarnation as a natural
way of spirit evolution. Nowadays many Spiritualists
do embrace reincarnation as a fact of life.
Spiritualist - a believer in Spiritualism
and/or anyone who believes in the existence of a spiritual
being besides the material ones.
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Tiptology (in greek tuptós=beat)
- a language of beats. Another name given to a kind
of spirit communication systems using beats or other
noises. Such as the ones that occurred with the Fox
Sisters.
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The Universal Cosmic Fluid - The
elementary primitive matter whose modifications and
transformations constitute the variety of bodies of
Nature. (See Genesis - Chapter XIV)
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Xenoglossy - name given to a type
of mediumship in which communication of spirits are
given in languages unknown to the medium. The communication
can be written or spoken.
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Zones - Each spirit inhabits a
different spiritual zone. The more enlightened ones
are said to be in the superior zones in contrast to
the inferior zones where the less enlightened spirits
are.
Zoophyte - Any of various invertebrate
animals resembling a plant such as a sea anemone or
coral or sponge. This term is used in Spiritism when
studying the progression of the spirit throught all
mineral, vegetable and animal kingdoms.
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