Chapter 15 – Without charity there is no salvation – Item 9

Without the Truth there is no Salvation

9.  Without the truth there  is  no salvation  would be the equivalent of Without the Church  there is no salvation, and would be equally exclusive because there is not one single denomination that does not claim to be privileged with the truth. What person could boast of possessing the whole truth,  when the circle of knowledge is increasing constantly, and ideas are being rectified each and every day? The absolute truth  is shared only among spirits of the highest order, and earthly humankind could not pretend to belong to that order, because it has not been given to it to know everything. Humans can aspire only to a relative truth proportional to their advancement. If God had made possessing the whole truth as an express condition for future happiness, this would be a sentence of general proscription, whereas charity, even in its broadest definition, may be practiced by all. Spiritism, in accordance with the Gospel, and believing that one can be saved whatever one’s belief may be, provided one observes God’s laws, does not state: Without Spiritism  there is no salvation; and since it does not claim as yet to teach the whole truth, neither does it state: Without the truth there is no salvation,” a maxim that would divide instead of unite, and would perpetuate antagonism.