2. Diversity
1. the state of being diverse; variety.
2. the practice or quality of including or
involving people from a range of different social
and ethnic backgrounds and of different
genders, sexual orientations, etc.
Definitions from Oxford Languages
3. Equality
In question 803 of the Spirit’s Book, Allan Kardec asks: are all human
being equal before God?
“Yes, all tend towards the same goal, and God has made His laws for
everyone.”
(…)
“Therefore, God has not granted a natural superiority to anyone in regard
to either birth or death: all are equal before God.”
TSB - Part 3: Moral Laws - Chapter 9: The Law of Equality
4. Equality
“All are created simple and ignorant, acquiring
knowledge through the struggles and tribulations
of corporeal life. Being just, God would not have
created a blessed few who, without trouble and
toil, would consequentially have no merit
either.”
TSB - Part 2: The Spirits World - Chapter 2: The Incarnation of Spirits Q133
5. Are we all equal?
“Spirits are the individualisation of the
intelligent principle, just as bodies represent
the individualisation of the material principle.”
TSB - Part 1: The Spirit World - Chapter 1: Spirits Q79
“In each existence, a spirit takes a step forward
along the path of progress.”
TSB - Part 1: The Spirit World - Chapter 4: Plurality of Existences Q168
“A spirit may find himself each time there
(Earth) in a very different situation, each of
which will be a different opportunity to acquire
experience.”
TSB - Part 1: The Spirit World - Chapter 4: Plurality of Existences Q177
6. Equality and Diversity
“God has created all spirits equal, but each one
has lived over a longer or shorter period of time,
and has consequentially developed their aptitudes
to varying degrees. The difference stems from the
amount of experience acquired and their degree
of resolve - their free will.”
TSB - Part 3: Moral Laws - Chapter 9: The Law of Equality Q804
7. Diversity
“Thus, the diversity of aptitudes among individuals is not related to the
instinct nature of their creation, but to the degree of perfection, they
have reached as spirits throughout several incarnations. God has not,
therefore, created an inequality of faculties, but allowed spirits of
different degrees of development to be in contact with one another so
that those who are more evolved can help in the progress of the less
advanced, and so that all men, realising that they mutually need one
another, may appreciate the law of charity that is to unite them.”
TSB - Part 3: Moral Laws - Chapter 9: The Law of Equality Q805
8. Being Spiritist is being inclusive
“Therefore make every effort so that your
fellow beings, on observing you, are induced to
recognise that the true Spiritist and the true
Christian are one and the same, given that all
those who practise charity are the disciples of
Jesus, without putting any embargo on
whatever sect they may belong to. - PAUL, the
Apostle (Paris, 1860)”
GAS - Chapter XV - Without Charity, There is no Salvation, item 10
9. Charity and
neighbourly love
“Benevolence to everyone, with tolerance (…)”
“Love and charity are the complement of the law of justice
because loving our neighbour is to do to him all the good
within our reach, all that we would wish to be done to
ourselves.”
TSB - Part 3: Moral Laws - Chapter 11: The Law of Justice, Love and Charity
Q886
10. Bibliography
Definition of Diversity by Oxford Languages
The Spirits’ Book, Chapter 1: The Spirits
The Spirits’ Book, Chapter 2: The Incarnation of Spirits
The Spirits’ Book, Chapter 4: Plurality of Existences
The Spirits’ Book, Chapter 9: The Law of Equality
The Spirits’ Book, Chapter 11: The Law of Justice, Love and Charity
The Gospel According to Spiritism, Chapter XV, Without Charity, There is no Salvation - item 10
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