Giving a glance of the second commandment that Jesus told us in lights of the Spiritist view.

1. Love Your Neighbour
A SPIRITIST VIEW

2. The Greatest Commandment
“37 And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your
heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. 38 This is the great and
first commandment. 39 And a second is like it: You shall love your
neighbour as yourself. 40 On these two commandments depend all the
Law and the Prophets.”
Matthew 22, 37:40 - The Holy Bible (ESV)

3. The Law of Love
“Through spiritual progress instincts
become sentiments which are more
or less elevated. Love, being the
finest sentiment that exists,
summarises the complete doctrine
of Jesus.”
GAS - Chapter XI - Item 8
Instincts
Emotions
Sentiments

4. The Law of Love
“The most delicate apex of sentiment is
love, not the vulgar sense of the word,
but that inner sun which condenses
and reconciles all aspirations and
superhuman revelations at its ardent
focal point.”
GAS - Chapter XI - Item 8

5. Love is…
“Love is of a divine essence, and everyone,
from the most humble to the most elevated,
has a spark of this sacred fire in the bottom
of their hearts.”
GAS - Chapter XI - Item 9

6. Selfishness
“Every wrongdoing can be traced
back to selfishness. Study all the
vices, and you will see that
selfishness is at the root of them
all.”
TSB - Chapter XII Moral Perfection - Question 913

7. Selfishness and Reincarnation
“Consequently, those spirits, in
purifying themselves through
successive lives, shed their
selfishness like all their other
impurities.”
TSB - Chapter XII Moral Perfection - Question 915

8. How do we
tackle
selfishness?
“Charity and fraternity must become the
basis of all social institutions, the legal
relations between nations and individuals.
Only then will individuals think less of their
own personal interests, because they will
realise that others have thought of them.”
TSB - Chapter XII Moral Perfection - Question 917

9. Love Your Neighbour
“‘To love your neighbour as yourself: to do unto others as you would
have them do unto you’, expresses the most complete form of
charity because it summarises all of man's obligations towards his
fellow men.”
“What right have we to demand that they behave in any better
manner, that they be more benevolent or more devoted to us than
we are to them?”
GAS - Chapter XI - Item 4

10. Love Your
Neighbour

11. Bibliography
• The Holy Bible, English Standard Version. ESV® Text Edition: 2016.
Copyright © 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a publishing ministry of Good News
Publishers.
• The Gospel According to Spiritism - Chap XI - Love Your Neighbour as
Yourself
• The Spirit’s Book - Book 3: Moral Laws - Chap XII - Moral Perfection

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