Spiritual Enlightenment with the Planets

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The headline I saw the other day about the “unknown creature” that had been found in Panama caught my eye and I, presumably like many other people around the world, went online to view amateur video recounts of this possible close encounter with an “alien”. Although in this particular case it might very well be, according to the opinions of some biologists, a strange, slightly decomposed sloth that is common to that region of the world instead of a distant relative of ET, it did make me stop and think about the idea of life on other planets as presented in the Spiritist Doctrine.


In questions 54-58 of The Spirits’ Book, Allan Kardec examines the concept of the multitude of planets:


54. Are other planets inhabited? Yes. And the people of the Earth are far from being, as you suppose, the leaders in intelligence, goodness and enlightenment. Many people, some very erudite among them, believe that only Earth is inhabited by intelligent beings and that God has created the universe only for them. It is a presumptuous idea.

God populated all of the planets with beings in order to carry out the Divine Will. If we, as humans, erroneously believe that these “beings” all fall within the limited constraints of human reality, we would be greatly underestimating Divine Wisdom. All of the stars and planets serve a purpose in the greater realm of eternal life; they are not there just to decorate the night sky for us here on Earth. There is also nothing special about the Earth’s location or make-up that would suggest that we are in any way superior to other planets, or that we are the only life form in the universe.


56. Is the physical composition of all planets the same? No, they may differ greatly.
57. Since planets are physically different, can we assume that their inhabitants are differently constituted? Absolutely. The situation is similar to one on your planet where fish are organized for living in water and birds for living in air.
58. Are the planets farthest removed from the sun deprived of light and heat, given that the sun is like a distant star to them? Do you think that there are no sources of light and heat other than the sun? Would you discount, for instance, the action of electricity, which on certain planets plays a very much more important part than it does on Earth? How do you know that the beings on those planets have an organic structure that resembles yours? The matter that composes their bodies could well be of a nature completely unknown to you.

Obviously, for us to accept the notion that there is life on other planets, we must also accept the fact that these life forms had to adapt to their surroundings in order to survive. If we had never ourselves seen fish with their physical adaptation to their surroundings, we would never have been able to explain how they can survive underwater. In the same way, we have to agree that there are other life forms on other planets that are, as of yet, unknown to us.


How are they to survive in such extreme conditions? It would be physically impossible…physically impossible for whom? Yes, for you or me in our present human form it would undoubtedly be impossible. But, wouldn’t someone a century ago have said the same thing if you had told them that there would be an online mega system that would be able to connect people from all over the world instantaneously? They would probably have believed the concept to be too fantastical to even consider at the time. But here we are today; all interlinked on this Internet “super highway” like it were as natural as breathing.



But how can life forms on other planets communicate? We would be naïve to believe that these life forms look like us, function like us and communicate like we do. On more spiritually advanced worlds the enlightened spirits there have actually eliminated the need for verbal communication, using a form of telepathy or mental/magnetic communication. According to the Spiritist Doctrine, telepathy is the language of spirits.


282. How do spirits communicate with each other? Spirits need only see each other to communicate their ideas. Their language is more meaningful than yours as their thoughts are reflected in themselves. In addition, the Cosmic Principle acts as a medium that conducts their thoughts through the universe, much like air conducts sounds. By means of the Cosmic Principle, spirits can send their thoughts across different worlds.

As humankind continues to improve with scientific and technological advances, certain ideas or concepts that we once deemed impossible or far-fetched will come to be seen in a different light. Although there are many things about the spirit world that will remain a mystery to us in this life due to our own spiritual enlightenment as well as God’s will, with continued learning and spiritual development we can aspire to one day have a better understanding of our own world and life in the various realms of the universe with each of our subsequent reincarnations both here in Earth, as well as on other planets.
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