In my fathers house are many mansions - Joana d rc.

- 03 05 2016
Theme: In my fathers house are many mansions.
Source: the Gospel according to Spiritism, III items 1 to 5.

INMYFATHER'SHOUSEAREMANYMANSIONS
The different states of the soul in its spiritual wanderings. -The different categories of inhabited worlds.
Earth's destiny. The cause of earthly miseries. - INSTRUCTIONS FROM THE SPIRITS: Superior and inferior worlds.
Worlds of tests and atonement. Regenerating worldsThe progression of the worlds.
1. Let not your heart be troubled: Ye believe in God, believe also in me. In my Father's house are many
mansions: If it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for
you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself that where I am, there ye may be also (John,14:1-3).
THE DIFFERENT STATES OF THE SOUL IN ITS SPIRITUAL WANDERINGS
2. The house of the Father is the Universe. The 'different mansions' are the worlds which circulate in infinite
space and offer the Spirits who incarnate on them dwelling places which correspond their progress. Independently from
the diversity of the different worlds, the words of Jesus also refer to the fortunate or wretched states of the soul in the
spirit world. Conforming to whether the soul is more or less purified and detached from material lies, the ambient in
which it finds itself will vary infinitely: in the aspects of things, in the sensations it feels and in the perceptions it has.
While some cannot leave the ambient where they live, others raise themselves and travel all over space and the other
worlds. While some guilty Spirits wander in darkness, there are others who have earned happiness, and these rejoice
in a stale of shining brightness while they contemplate the sublime spectacle of the great infinity. Finally, while inferior
Spirits are tormented by remorse and grief, frequently isolated without consolation, separated from those who were the
object of their affections and punished by the iron gauntlet of moral suffering, the just Spirit, together with those he
loves, enjoys the delights of an indescribable happiness. Also in that sense there are many mansions, although they
are not circumscript or localized.

THE DIFFERENT CATEGORIES OF INHABITED WORLDS

3. As a result of Spirit teaching, we know that the conditions of the various worlds differ one from the other, with
respect to the degree of elevation or inferiority of their inhabitants, amongst whom are those inferior to the inhabitants
of Earth, both physically and merrily; some in the same category, yet others which are more or less superior in every
aspect In the inferior worlds, existence is all material, passions are sovereign and morality is almost nil. At the same
time as the soul is progressing the material influences diminish, to such an extent that in the elevated worlds life is, by
way of saying, all spiritual.
4. In the intermediate worlds good is mixed with evil, one or the other predominating according to the degree of
advancement of the majority of the inhabitants. Although it is not possible to make an absolute classification of the
different worlds, we can at least divide them in general terms by virtue of the state in which they are in, and the destiny
they bring with them, based on the most predominant features upon each planet in the following manner: primitive
worlds, destined to receive the initial incarnations of the human soul; worlds of tests and atonements, where evil
predominates; regenerating worlds, where souls who still have to atone may absorb new strength by resting from the
fatigue of fighting; blessed worlds, where goodness outweighs evil; celestial or divine worlds, inhabited by purified
Spirits, where only goodness exists. Earth belongs to the category of worlds of tests and atonements, which is why
mankind lives encompassed by such misery.
5. Spirits who find themselves incarnated in any world are not bound to that same world indefinitely, nor do they
go through all the phases of progress needed to achieve perfection in that one world. When they reach the maximum
degree of advancement their world has to offer, they then pass on to a more elevated one, and so on successively till
they reach the state of purified Spirits. These different worlds are stations where the Spirits find the elements they need
for their progress that are in accordance to their degree of perfection. It is a recompense to ascend to a world of higher
elevation, just as it is a punishment to prolong their stay in a miserable world, or to be relegated to another even more
unhappy than the one they were forced to leave, due to persisting badness.

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THE ITEMS IN SHORT:
2. The house of the Father is the Universe. The 'different mansions' are the worlds which circulate in infinite
space and offer the Spirits who incarnate on them dwelling places which correspond their progress.
3. As a result of Spirit teaching, we know that the conditions of the various worlds differ one from the other, with
respect to the degree of elevation or inferiority of their inhabitants,
4. In the intermediate worlds good is mixed with evil, one or the other predominating according to the degree of
advancement of the majority of the inhabitants.
5. Spirits who find themselves incarnated in any world are not bound to that same world indefinitely, nor do they
go through all the phases of progress needed to achieve perfection in that one world.
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CONSIDERATIONS:
Jesus to say that in the Father's house are many mansions consequently claimed that the universe was
inhabited. Certainly, there are two points of views: One in which the disembodied spirit will go to the beyond to a place
designated by Jesus, but exist as spirit in a state of eternal life in a state of mind.
But there is the view that as has been revealed that there is incarnation, must be born of water, ie,
reincarnation is obvious that Jesus can prepare for reincarnation in this world or another. According to our merits,
because we need the physical body for the exercising until our condition no longer need to incarnate and then to live
the spiritual life, ascending to the summit deserved, in the laws designated by God according to His will.
It is worth considering that there is a lack of understanding of the revelation of Jesus to the house of our
Father, because while science admits that the universe by mathematical deduction is inhabited, religion not stated
although has greatly helped the mankind.
Jesus on speaking in many mansions and that he would prepare a place for us was alleging that way also in
that teaching that we have immortality that we survive physical death and that we will live in others or in this world.
The Jews did not understand about immortality so in the Old Testament laws were told that if they should love
their parents they would receive the benefit of having a long life, while Jesus as a benefit shows the Kingdom of
Heaven in which up to the giving a glass water one will receive reward, sure it would be alluded to the keeping our
treasure in heaven for our own benefit which is in accordance to our future and to be according to our works, because
our works do follow us. Those in charge of the Jewish religion at the time of Jesus did not accept the revelations of
Jesus because they were attached to the laws of Moses and came to tell the man born blind: With Jesus you stay as
for us, we have Moses'
At that time the men did not understand all the teachings of Jesus, that's why Jesus said many things I have
to tell you, but you would not understand; thus it is understood that in order to understand one needed the science
knowledge or others in relation to the laws of nature or the laws of the soul that was gradually given to the world so that
only the last times of Kardec onwards the men were ready to understand the teachings which Jesus wanted to teach
and could not.
Of course Jesus by revealing that in the Father's house has many mansions referred to the ranks of the
worlds, and the spiritual ranks of our soul, then in accordance with the degree achieved of our soul, the preparation of
Jesus of where we will live in the future spiritual, our moral / result achieved will certainly be the rule and measure
which Jesus will have to prepare a place for us.
In our Earth there are hundreds of ranking degrees, because if we look around us we have great moral
elevation of souls as we have inferior souls of low morale, and between these two levels there is hundreds of degrees,
of all intelligence and inclinations, vocation, gifts from intelligent, but inclined to evil and selfishness, to the ignorant, but
with a good moral, good people, and bad people as well as evildoers, corruptible people, of course dignified and
respectable people, and people of very elevated moral living a saintly life, etc.
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FROM THE REVELATIONS OF THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH LET US SEE IN THE SPIRITS BOOK THE QUESTIONS
614 to 621:
DIVINE ORNATURAL LAW
1. CHARACTERISTICS OF NATURAL LAW - 2. SOURCE AND KNOWLEDGE OF NATURAL LAW - 3. GOOD AND
EVIL - 4. DIVISIONS OF NATURAL LAW.

Characteristics of Natural Law

614. What is to be understood by natural law? "The law of nature is the law of God. It Is the only rule that
ensures the happiness of man, for it shows him what he should or should not do, and he only suffers because he
disobeys it."
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615. Is the law of God eternal?" It Is eternal and unchangeable as God Himself."

616. Can God have prescribed to mankind in one age what He has forbidden in another? "God cannot be
mistaken. Men are obliged to change their laws, because they are imperfect ; but the laws of God are perfect. The
harmony which regulates both the material universe and the moral universe is founded on laws established by God
from all eternity."
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617. What are the objects embraced by the divine laws? Have they reference to anything but our moral
conduct? "All the laws of nature are divine laws, since God is the author of all things. The seeker after science studies
the laws of nature in the realm of matter; the seeker after goodness studies them in the soul, and practices them." - Is it
given to man to fathom both these divisions of natural law? "
Yes; but a single existence does not suffice for doing this." What, indeed, are a few years for acquiring all that is
necessary to constitute a perfect being. if we consider only the distance that separates the civilized man from the
savage? A human life, though prolonged to its utmost possible length, is insufficient for such a Work ; much more is it
so when cut short before Its term, as is the case with so large a proportion of the human race. Some of the divine laws
regulate the movements and relations of inert matter; they are termed physical laws, and their study is the domain of
science, others of these laws concern man, as considered in himself and in his relations to God and to his fellowcreatures they are termed moral laws, and regulate the life of relation as well as the life of the soul.
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618. Are the divine laws the same for all worlds? "Reason tells you that they must be adapted to the special
nature of each of those various worlds, and proportioned to the degree of advancement of the beings who inhabit
them."
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Knowledge of Natural Law
619. Has God given to all men the means of knowing His law? "All may know it, but all do not understand it.
Those who understand it best are they who seek after goodness. All, however, will one day understand it; for the
destiny of progress must he accomplished." The justice of the various incarnations undergone by each human being is
evident when seen in the light of the principle just enunciated; since, in each new existence, his intelligence is more
developed, and he comprehends more clearly what is good and what is evil. If everything had to be accomplished by
each man in a single existence, what would be the fate of the many millions of human beings who die every day in the
brutishness of the savage state, or in the darkness of ignorance, without having had the possibility of obtaining
enlightenment? (177,222.)
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620. Does a spirit, before his union with the body, comprehend the law of God more clearly than after his
incarnation? "He comprehends that law according to the degree of development at which he has arrived, and
preserves the intuitive remembrance of it after being united with a body; but the evil instincts of man often cause him to
forget it."
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621. Where is the law of God inscribed? "In the conscience." - Since man carries the lawn' of God in his
conscience, where was the need of revealing it to him? "He had forgotten and misunderstood it; God willed that it
should be recalled to his memory."
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STILL MORE REVELATIONS, LET US SEE IN THE SPIRITSBOOK QUESTIONS 175 TO 180:
175. Is there any advantage in coming back to inhabit this earth? "No special advantage, unless it be the
fulfillment of a mission; in that case the spirit advances, whether incarnated in this earth or elsewhere." - Would it not
be happier to remain as a spirit? "No, no! for we should remain stationary; and we want to advance towards God."
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176. Can spirits come to this world, for the first time, after having been incarnated in other worlds.' "Yes; just as
you may go into other ones. All the worlds of the universe are united by the bonds of solidarity; that which is not
accomplished in one of them is accomplished in another." - Some of those who are now upon this earth are here, then,
for the first time? "Many of them are so; and at various degrees of advancement." - Is there any sign by which we can
know the spirits who are here for the first time? "Such knowledge would not be of the slightest use to you."
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177. In order to arrive at the perfection and the supreme felicity which are the final aim of mankind, is it
necessary for a spirit to pass through all the worlds that exist in the universe? "No; for there are a great number of
worlds of the same degree, in which a spirit would learn nothing new." - How, then, are we to explain the plurality of his
existences upon the same globe? "He may find himself, each time he comes back, in very different situations, which
afford him the opportunity of acquiring new experience."
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178. Can spirits live corporeally in a world relatively inferior to the one in which they have already lived? "Yes;
when they have to fulfil a mission in aid of progress; and in that case they joyfully accept the tribulations of such
existence, because these will furnish them with the means of advancement."

- May this not occur also as an expiation and may not rebellious spirits be sent by God into worlds' of lower
degree? "Spirits may remain stationary, but they never retrograde; those who are rebellious are punished by not
advancing, and by having to recommence their misused existences under the conditions suited to their nature." - Who
are they that are compelled to recommence the same existence? "They who fail in the fulfillment of their mission, or in
the endurance of the trial appointed to them."
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179. Have all the human beings who inhabit any given world arrived at the same degree of perfection? "No; it is
in the other worlds as upon the earth; there are some who are more advanced, and others who are less so."
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180. In passing from this world into another one, does a spirit retain the intelligence which he possessed in this
one? "Undoubtedly he does; intelligence is never lost. But he may not have the same means of manifesting it for that
depends both on his degree of advancement and on the quality of the body he will take." (Vide, Influencie of organism.)

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CONCLUSIONS:
The revelation of Jesus 'in the house of my Father' makes a difference on our life and spiritual life, for it has
everything to do with our immortality of our spirit which up to today there is doubt of what will happen to us after we die,
ie disincarnating, but those doubts were inherited and maintained by traditions of dogmatism and stubbornness in not
wanting to change or accept evolution and progress of the soul, I know because many believe that as God is perfect,
He created the soul itself perfect, but the fact is that the soul is perfectible and were created "simple and ignorant' with
the divine impulse to progress with the laws of God for its own spiritual journey already designated by God as the seed
already has in it the growing pulses to become tree. Hence in this revelation of Jesus it is contained our present, our
future and in the teachings of Jesus the rules which we are asked to get to happiness and to know the will of God.
Folk! - How should we be happy to know and know our soul, our destiny, our heritage, we are heirs of the
universe, we are heirs of immortality, we are heirs of much more, which we do not know or reckon, folk how different
and happy is our knowledge nowadays compared to our formerly elders who only knew this life and hence only had
selfish dreams of living, with selfishly living at all only for the present and only for the material life, in a way such modus
vivendi still coexists with us, for it is imbued with the survival instinct; no wonder that Kardec suggests: 'One knows a
Spiritist by the effort he makes to overcome his inferiority'.
Then Jesus Having come in due time to direct to have a future with God.
We are what we are by the grace of God, but much of what we are is of our responsibility, as Jesus asks us
some care as: to walk the narrow paths because wide are the ways that lead to destruction '-' to want others what we
would want for us '-' to forgive others as we wish to be forgiven '-' to love others as Jesus loved us '-' so let your
light shine before men, that they may see your good works and give glory to your father which is in heaven. '-' be
reconciled with your opponent while you are with him on the way '-' be perfect as perfect is your father who is in
heaven "- 'do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven. "-" Seek first
the kingdom of God and his righteousness and all other things shall be added unto you' .-- 'first take the plank out of
your eye, and then take care to remove the speck from your brother's eye '-' beware of false prophets, who come to
you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves '.-' Do not judge and you will not be judged, condemn
not and you will not be condemned, forgive and you will be forgiven ' - 'The measure we take in will be given unto us'
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(See more teachings in Matthew Gospels, Luke, Mark, John). People to be a Christian is to have many laurels,
laurels in the promises of Jesus, laurels in the unshakable faith of our future with God , Jesus, with our loved ones, with
our families, with our friends, but also many thorns, thorns in our inferiority, thorns when dealing with others,
unexpected thorns of life, natural consequences derived from other past lives and so will go on, to live is to assume
responsibility and work which make us evolve and progress ourselves, because this is the law that points us to the
supreme happiness.
Well, our fate is, 'to be born, live, die, be born again and progress unceasingly, this is the law'

Well God be with us, as well as before, today and forever.