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Many devotees believe that spirit guides are chosen on "the other side" by those who are about to incarnate and wish assistance. Some early modern Spiritualists did not favor the idea of spirit guides. Spiritualist author and medium E.W. Wallis, writing in A Guide to Mediumship and Psychic Unfoldment, expressed the opinion that the notion of ...
Guardian spirit (disambiguation) Spiritual direction, the practice of being with people as they attempt to deepen their relationship with the divine, or to learn and grow in their personal spirituality; Totem, a spirit being, sacred object, or symbol that serves as an emblem of a group of people
The spiritual guide aims to discern and understand what the Holy Spirit, through the situations of life, spiritual insights in the fruit of prayer, reading and meditation on the Bible, tells the person accompanied. The spiritual father or spiritual director may provide advice, give indications of life and prayer, resolving doubts in matters of ...
Tao Te Ching: (Chinese: 道德經, Dào dé jīng) Roughly translated as The Book of the Way and its Virtue (see article on translating the title) is an ancient Chinese scripture. Tradition has it that the book was written around 600 BCE by a sage called Laozi (WG: Lao Tzu, "Old Master"), a record-keeper in the Emperor's Court of the Zhou dynasty.
Psychopomps (from the Greek word ψυχοπομπός, psychopompós, literally meaning the 'guide of souls') [1] are creatures, spirits, angels, demons, or deities in many religions whose responsibility is to escort newly deceased souls from Earth to the afterlife. [2] Their role is not to judge the deceased, but simply to guide them.
They address, from the spirits' point of view, topics related to the interaction with the spirit world (The Mediums' Book), Christian morality (The Gospel According to Spiritism), philosophy and justice (Heaven and Hell), and finally, science-related subjects (The Genesis). 1857 - The Spirits' Book - presents the principles of the Spiritist ...
The Trinity as Nous, Word and Spirit is, ontologically, the basis of humanity's being or existence. The Trinity is the creator of humanity's being via each component of humanity's existence: origin as nous ( ex nihilo ), inner experience or spiritual experience, and physical experience, which is exemplified by Christ ( logos or the uncreated ...
The soul is an incarnated spirit, whose body is only its envelope. There are in man three things: 1. The body, or material being, analogous to the animals, and animated by the same vital principle; 2. The soul, or immaterial being, a spirit incarnated in the body; 3.