The document discusses Spiritism beliefs about the end of the world and future of humanity. It asserts that periodic revolutions are part of a natural law of progress for both the physical world and moral/spiritual development. When humanity is ready for a higher stage of progression, changes will occur through both gradual and sudden transformations. While changes may involve temporary perturbations, the goal is for humanity to attract more advanced spirits and establish the reign of goodness on Earth through moral and intellectual advancement.

1. The End of the
World in the
Spiritism Vision

3. Genesis
CHAPTER I
FUTURE LIFE AND ANNIHILATION
1. It is certain that we live, think, and act; it is no
less certain that we shall die. But, on quitting
the earth, whither shall we go? What will
become of us? Shall we be better off, or shall we
be worse off? Shall we continue to exist, or shall
we cease to exist?

5. “To be, or not to be,” is the alternative
presented to us; it will be for always,
or not at all; it will be everything, or
nothing; we shall live on eternally, or
we shall cease to live, once and
forever.
The alternative is well worth the
consideration.

6. 2. The belief in annihilation
necessarily leads a man to
concentrate all his thoughts on his
present life;
for what, in fact, could be more
illogical than to trouble ourselves
about a future which we do not
believe will have any existence?

7. 2012 phenomenon
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
• The 2012 phenomenon comprises a
range of eschatological beliefs that
cataclysmic or transformative events will
occur on December 21, 2012.[1][2][3] This
date is regarded as the end-date of a
5,125-year-long cycle in the
Mesoamerican Long Count calendar

8. • A New Age interpretation of this transition
postulates that this date marks the start of
time in which Earth and its inhabitants may
undergo a positive physical or spiritual
transformation, and that 2012 may mark the
beginning of a new era.[4] Others suggest that
the 2012 date marks the end of the world or a
similar catastrophe. Scenarios suggested for
the end of the world include the arrival of the
next solar maximum, or Earth's collision with a
black hole or a passing planet called "Nibiru".

9. • Scholars from various disciplines have
dismissed the idea of such cataclysmic
events occurring in 2012. Mainstream
Mayanist scholars state that predictions
of impending doom are not found in any
of the existing classic Maya accounts, and
that the idea that the Long Count
calendar "ends" in 2012 misrepresents
Maya history.[3][5]

10. Book of Revelation
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
• The Book of Revelation is the final book of the
New Testament corpus
• It is also known as the Book of Revelation of
St John the Divine or the Apocalypse of John.
Revelation brings together the worlds of
heaven, earth, and hell in a final confrontation
between the forces of good and evil. Its
characters and images are both real and
symbolic, spiritual and material.

12. Kardec
The Spirit’s Book
• 728. Is destruction a law of nature?
• "It is necessary that all things should be
destroyed that they may be re-born and
regenerated; for what you call destruction is
only a transformation, the aim of which is the
renewing and amelioration of living beings."

13. 737. What is the aim of God in
visiting mankind with destructive
calamities?
"To make men advance more
quickly.”

14. • 1019. "Will the reign of goodness ever be
established upon the earth?
• "Goodness will reign upon the earth when,
among the spirits who come to dwell in it, the
good shall be more numerous than the bad;
for they will then bring in the reign of love and
justice, which are the source of good and of
happiness. It is through moral progress and
practical conformity with the laws of God, that
men will attract to the earth good spirits .

15. • "The transformation of the human race has
been predicted from the most ancient times,
and you are now approaching the period
when it is destined to take place. All those
among you who are laboring to advance the
progress of mankind are helping to hasten this
transformation, which will be effected through
the incarnation, in your earth, of spirits of
higher degree, who will constitute a new
population, of greater moral advancement
than the human races they will gradually have
replaced.

16. • The spirits of the wicked people who
are mowed down each day by death,
and of all who endeavor to arrest the
onward movement, will be excluded
from the earth, and compelled to
incarnate themselves elsewhere.

18. • Do you not see, in this exclusion of backward
spirits from the transformed and regenerated
earth, the true significance of the sublime
myth of the driving out of the first pair from
the garden of Eden? And do you not also see,
in the advent of the human race upon the
earth, under the conditions of such an exile,
and bringing within; itself the germs of its
passions and the evidences of its primitive
inferiority, the real meaning of that other
myth, no less sublime, of the fall of those first
parents, entailing the sinfulness of their
descendants?

20. Genesis
Chapter XVIII
The Time Has Arrived

21. Our Globe is submitted to the Law of
Progress:
Physically: by the transformation of
elements
Morally : By the purification of the
incarnated and disincarnated spirits who
people it.

22. This double progress is accomplished
by two ways:
• One slow, gradual and more
insensible
• The other one by sudden changes

23. • Progressive movement is sometimes
partial.
• When humanity is ready to take a
higher degree in progression the
time appointed by God has arrived.
• The Progressive Movement of
humanity is inevitable, natural and is
effected by virtue of a law.

24. The Two Wings of Progress

25. • Intelligence: Knowledge of
Science, Arts and material
comforts.
• Moral: Charity, Fraternity, Union

26. A new order of things is being established.
The old world will die, and live in History,
as that of the Middle ages.

27. • Radical changes cannot be
accomplished without
commotion. There will be an
inevitable conflict in ideas,
temporary perturbations until the
rubbish be cleared away, and the
equilibrium reestablished

28. Periodical Revolutions

29. Everything is interconnected in the
Universe.
Organic matter suffer
influences.
Organic matter has an
effect on the Spirit.

30. Conclusion

31. • “If by the sequence and reciprocity of causes
and effects these periods of moral renovation
of Humanity shall also coincide with the
physical revolutions of the globe, as
everything leads us to think, then such periods
can be accompanied or preceded by natural
phenomena.
• It is one of those periods of transformation or
of Moral Growth ,which has reached
humanity.

33. Good Night
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