SPIRITISM ON LINE – 1º MODULE – LESSON 11 THE SPIRITS’ BOOK – Part I – Chapter III (questions 50 to 51) Peopling of the Earth – Adam 50. Did the human race begin with one man only? "No; he whom you call Adam was neither the first nor the only man who peopled the earth." 51. Is it possible to know at what period Adam lived? "About the period which you assign to him; that is to say, about 4000 years before Christ." The man of whom, under the name of Adam, tradition has preserved the memory, was one of those who, In some one of the countries of the globe. survived one of the great cataclysms which at various epochs have changed Its surface, and who became the founder of one of the races that people the earth at the present day. The laws of nature render it impossible that the amount of progress which we know to have been accomplished by the human race of our planet long before the time of Christ could have been accomplished so rapidly as must have been the case If it had only been In existence upon the globe since the period assigned as the date of Adam. The opinion most consonant with reason is that which regards the story of Adam as a myth, or as an allegory personifying the earliest ages of the world. Diversity of Human Races 52. What is the cause of the physical and moral differences that distinguish the various races of men upon the earth? "Climate, modes of life, and social habits. The same differences would be produced in the case of two children of the same mother, if brought up far from one another, and surrounded by different influences and conditions; for the children thus diversely brought up would present no moral resemblance to each other." 53. Did the human race come into existence on various points of the globe? "Yes, and at various epochs; and this is one of the causes of the diversity of human races. The people of the primitive periods, being dispersed abroad in different climates, and forming alliances with those of other countries than their own, gave rise perpetually to new types of humanity." - Do these differences constitute distinct species? "Certainly not. All of them constitute but a single family. Do the differences between the varieties of the same fruit prevent their all belonging to the same species." 54. If the human species do not all proceed from the same progenitor, should they, on that account, cease to regard one another as brothers? "All men are brothers in virtue of their common relation to the Creator, because they are animated by the same spirit, and tend towards the same goal. The human mind is always prone to attach too literal a meaning to statements which are necessarily imperfect and incomplete." THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO SPIRITISM Read also Resurrection and reincarnation
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