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- God
is the supreme intelligence, the first cause of all things, God is
eternal, immutable, immaterial, unique, omnipotent, supremely just
and good.
- The Universe is God's
creation. It encompasses all rational and non-rational beings, animate
and inanimate, material and immaterial.
- In addition to the corporeal
world inhabited by incarnate Spirits, which are Human Beings, there
exists the spiritual world, inhabited by discarnate Spirits.
- Within the Universe
there are other inhabited worlds, with beings at different degrees
of evolution: some equal, others more or less evolved than Human Beings.
- All the Laws of Nature
are Divine Laws because God is their author. They cover both the physical
and moral laws.
- A Human Being is a Spirit
incarnated in a material body. The Perispirit is the semi-material
body that unties the Spirit to the physical body.
- The Spirits are the
intelligent beings of creation. They constitute the world of the Spirits,
which pre-exists and outlives everything.
- Spirits are created
simple and ignorant. They evolve intellectually and morally, passing
from a lower order to a higher one, until they attain perfection,
where they will enjoy unalterable bliss.
- Spirits preserve their
individuality before, during, and after each incarnation.
- Spirits reincarnate
as many times as is necessary for their spiritual advancement.
- Spirits are always progressing.
In their multiple physical existence, they may sometimes become stationary
but they never regress. The speed of their intellectual and moral
progress depends on the efforts they make to attain perfection.
- Spirits belong to different
orders according to the degree of perfection they have attained: Pure
Spirits, who have attained maximum perfection; Good Spirits, whose
predominant desire is towards goodness; and Imperfect Spirits, characterized
by their ignorance, their tendency towards evil, and by their lower
passions.
- The Spirits' relations
with Human Beings are constant and have always existed. The Good Spirits
attract us towards goodness, sustain us in life's trials, and
help us bear them with courage and resignation. The Imperfect Spirits
induce us towards error.
- Jesus is the Guide and
Model for all Humankind. The Doctrine He taught and exemplified is
the most pure expression of God's Law.
- The morality of Christ,
as contained in the Gospels, is the pathway for the secure progress
of all Human Beings. Its practice is the solution for all human problems
and the objective to be attained by Humankind.
- Human Beings are given
the free will to act, but they must answer for the consequences of
their actions.
- Future life reserves
for Human Beings penalties and pleasures according to the respect
they do or do not show for God's laws.
- Prayer is an act of
adoration for God. It is found in the natural law and is the result
of an innate sentiment in every Human Being, just as the idea of the
existence of the Creator is innate.
- Prayer makes Human Beings
better. Whoever prays with fervor and confidence grows stronger against
evil temptations, and God sends the Good Spirits to assist them. This
type of assistance will never be denied when requested with sincerity.
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