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- Text below is an excerpt from The
Spirits' Book (Allan Kardec's) -
(Book First - Causes. Chapter I)
What proof have we of the existence of God?
"The axiom which you apply in all your scientific researches: 'There is no effect without a cause.' Search out the cause of whatever is not the work of man and reason will furnish the answer to your question." ¹
To assure
ourselves of the existence of God, we have only to look abroad on the
works of creation. The universe exists, therefore it has a cause. To
doubt the existence of God is to doubt that every effect has a cause,
and to assume that something can have been made by nothing.
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¹ The passage placed between inverted commas after each question
is the reply made by the communicating spirits, whose very words are
given textually throughout the whole of this book. The remarks and
developments occasionally added by the author are printed in normal
letters.
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"That God exists, because whence could the human mind derive this intuition if it had no real basis? The inference to be drawn from the fact of this intuition is a corollary of the axiom 'There is no effect without a cause.' "
May not our intuitive sense of the existence of God be a result of education and of acquired ideas?
"If such were the case, how should this intuitive sense be possessed by your savages?"
If the intuition of the existence of a supreme being were only the result of education, it would not be universal and would only exist, like all other acquired knowledge, in the minds of those who had received the special education to which it would be due.
Is the first cause of the formation of things to be found in the essential properties of matter?
"If such were the case, what would be the cause of those properties? There must always be a first cause."
To attribute the first formation of things to the essential properties of matter would be taking the effect for the cause, because those properties are themselves an effect which must have a cause.
Unshakable faith is only that which can meet reason face to face in every human epoch. (Allan Kardec)
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