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Welcome to the website of the Spiritist Society of Miami
The Spiritist Society of Miami is the successor of
The Spiritist Society of Cuba and represents a group of organizations that
appeared in Cuba during the second half of the XIX century and the
beginnings of the XX century when the ideals of Spiritism (based on the
works of Allan Kardec) and the movement Modern Spiritualism arrived in
Cuba from Europe and North America.
These societies had many different names and structures, from small
spiritual centers to national federations that organized international
events, but as a general rule, they were non-profit organizations devoted to
the spreading of the ideals of Spiritism through education and charity work.
After the political events of 1959 most of the members of the Society began
emigrating to the United States, where many of them continued their
spiritual labor in Miami, Florida, and in several other cities. These
initially small groups eventually evolved into more organized centers. Today
these centers exist as independent organizations with members from many
different countries, including people from Cuba, Brazil, Venezuela, Puerto
Rico, and of course Americans, all sharing a common philosophy of life we
call Spiritism.
The first purpose of this website is to recover and maintain
the history of the
Spiritist Society, including all documents related to
spirit communications received through the mediums that worked there. The book
The Cuban Spiritist Society
(La
Sociedad Espiritista Cubana)
is a selection of these spirit communications, which contain timeless
lessons about the application of the Spiritist Doctrine through the life of
some of the members of the Society. These teachings can help all seekers of universal spiritual truth
by providing hope in life and answers to perennial questions.
Our second objective here is to present the
scientific evidence that support the philosophy we call Spiritism or
Spiritist Doctrine. Regarding the Spiritist Doctrine, oftentimes we as
Spiritist are asked questions like, what is the essential message of
Spiritism, what is actually new in Spiritism compared to the other
philosophies and religions, and so on. Well, a full understanding
of Spiritism would require reading what we call the Spiritist Codification,
which are the five books written by Allan Kardec, but for the reader's
convenience, we have come up with an ultra brief summary of the essence of
Spiritism in just three lines:
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Spiritism in three lines (the essential message):
 | The spirit world is real. This is the dimension where spirits
dwell. The community of all spirits connected, form a greater unity,
which is the Spirit. |
| Spirits R Us. We are all spirits
having a human experience. In other words, humans are incarnated
spirits. We have been
spirits before we were born, and will be spirits again when we cross
over into the spirit world through the process called death. Some
people living on Earth have the ability to communicate with spirits
in the spirit world; whether they are called mediums, intuitive
psychics, or channellers, the name doesn't matter, but in many cases the phenomena
is real, subject to natural laws. |
| Reincarnation happens.
Reincarnation is soul evolution. We have free will and we live on
a planet of free choice, although we are subjects to the natural
laws including the Law of Cause and Effect. When we are in the
spirit world we have the option to return to Earth for another life
lesson. Most of us have chosen this option many times before. |
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We sincerely hope you find this site interesting, informative, or at least
intriguing. If that is the case, we invite you to please continue reading the
other pages of this website and judge for yourself. Just follow the menu on
the upper left side of the page or continue here:
What is Spiritism.
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The Spirist Doctrine
of Spiritual Evolution seen through the metaphor of the Nautilus
Oliver Wendell Holmes, a century and a half
ago, saw the metaphorical significance of the chambered home of the
Nautilus. These fascinating seashells are spiral in shape and consist of
a series of ever-larger chambers in each of which the sea creature lives
for a season until it outgrows that particular space. The Nautilus then
enlarges its shell by the addition of a new chamber suitable for the
next stage of its life.
Holmes wrote, in a poem entitled The
Chambered Nautilus, "Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul….Let
each new temple, nobler than the last, Shut thee from heaven with a dome
more vast, Till thou at length art free, Leaving thine outgrown shell by
life's unresting sea!"
What a perfect image for spiritual
evolution! In order to begin a new stage in our growth, we have to think
"outside the box." Yet, every time we abandon an old worldview for a new
and wider vision, we merely find ourselves in a larger box. And while
each box serves its particular function for a time, we are always in
danger of claiming that the chamber we currently occupy is the ultimate
one.
The spiral shape of the Nautilus shell
suggests that it can keep growing forever. There is no design for a
"final" chamber. The creature must keep building new chambers as long as
it lives. It cannot go back to the previous ones; they no longer fit. It
cannot stay in its present space or it will die. It has no choice but to
move on. And on.
Perhaps one day we might be able to create
for ourselves a box so large that it would encompass all of God. But
that space would then include everything, even those realities which we
now purposely exclude by limiting the size of today's chamber.
Nautilus
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