The document discusses different religious views of heaven and provides an alternative view according to Spiritism. It states that according to Spiritism, there is a corporeal world of embodied spirits and a spiritual world of disembodied spirits. The spiritual world exists everywhere and spirits can transport rapidly through space due to their fluidic bodies. In the Spiritism view, a spirit's happiness depends on its own progress achieved through work. Progress occurs through multiple lifetimes as spirits strive to better themselves and acquire virtues while ridding themselves of vices.

1. The Gospel According to Spiritism – Chapter 25
José Augusto Chagas
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2. The Heaven - Religious View
 The term heaven is employed, in a general sense, to
designate the boundless expanse of space that surrounds the
Earth, and, more specially, the part of the expanse that is
above our horizon. (…) The Ancients believed in the
existence of several “heavens”, placed one above the other,
composed of a solid, transparent matter, and forming a
succession of hollow, concentric spheres, and the center,
immovable, stood the Earth. (…)
 This belief, that came from the lack of astronomical
knowledge, was the basis of various theogonies that
represent those concentric heavens thus superposed on one
another, as localization of progressively increase degrees of
beatitude, the topmost one being the region of supreme
happiness.
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3. The Heaven - Religious View
 Man's opinions are always proportioned to his knowledge;
and the discovery of the constitution of worlds around him,
like all the other great discoveries of the human mind, has
necessarily given new direction to his ideas.
 Under the rule of this new knowledge, beliefs had changed,
the heaven has been displaced from its former position.
 The region of the stars, having no limits, can no longer be
assigned as its locality.
 Where, then, is heaven? To this question none of the
religions of the world can furnish an answer.
Heaven and Hell – Allan Kardec- Chapter 3 – The Heaven
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4. Heaven - According to Spiritism
There is, therefore, the
corporeal world,
composed of
embodied Spirits,
and the spiritual
world, formed by the
disembodied Spirits.
Spirits
Embodied Disembodied
Perispirit and
Physical Body
Perispirit
Heaven and Hell – Allan Kardec- Chapter 3 – The Heaven
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5. The Spiritual World
• The spiritual world is
everywhere, around us and in
the space, since that has no
limits.
• In virtue of the fluidic nature
of their body envelope, the
beings that compose that
world instead of creeping
laboriously upon the ground,
transport themselves through
space with the rapidity of
thought.
Heaven and Hell – Allan Kardec- Chapter 3 – The Heaven
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6. Spiritism View
 The happiness of each Spirit is in proportion to
amount of progress accomplish by him.
 Progress among Spirits are only achieved as the fruit of
their own labor, but as they have their free-will, they
labor more or less actively for their own advancement.
 A single corporeal existence is manifestly insufficient
to enable a Spirit to acquire all godness he lacks
(kindness, gentleness, charity, generosity, humility...),
and rid himself of all the evil that is in him
(malevolance, selfhisness, pride, hypocrisy...).
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7. Law of Labor
SEEK AND YOU SHALL FIND
(Mathews, chap. VII, v. 7 to 15)
HELP YOURSELF AND HEAVEN WILL
HELP YOU
From the earthly point of view, the maxim: Seek and you shall find,
is analogous to this one: Help yourself and heaven will help you. It is
the principle of the Law of Labor and consequently, of the Law of
Progress, because progress is the son of labor, and labor sets in
motion the powers of intelligence.
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8. The Progress
The incessant desire to better themselves
This desire is that drives them to seek out
means of improving their situation, which in
turns leads them to discoveries, inventions and
the development of science, because it is science
that provides them with what they lack.
Through their research, their intelligence
expands and their morals become purified.
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9. Help Yourself and
Heaven will Help You
From the
moral point
of view, the
words of
Jesus mean:
Ask that light may enlighten your way and you will be
given to youç
Ask the strength to resist evil, and will have it;
Ask the assistance of good Spirits, and they come to
accompany you.
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10. Observe the Birds in the Sky
Therefore, one should see in these words only a poetic allegory of
Providence, that never abandons those who put their trust in it, but
which wills that they work alongside it. If Providence does not always
come to them with material help, it inspires them with ideas which
they may find the means of freeing themselves from the difficulty.
Therefore, seek first the Kingdom of God and his righteousness,
and all these things will be given to you in abundance. So do not
be anxious for tomorrow, for tomorrow will take care of itself.
Each day has enough evil of its own. (Matthew, chapter VI, v. 19-
21 and 25-34).
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11. Conclusion
Progress among Spirits are
only achieved as the fruit of
their own labor, but we are
not alone
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12. Thank you!
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