6. Spiritists believe that both the body and the soul evolved through Natural
Law, from the lower to the higher form.
Spiritists believe in Natural Selection, that life evolved in the sea and
spread to the land, and that over the eons intelligent life evolved. They
also believe that the soul develops in the same way, being born first as
a tiny microscopic animal that can reproduce life energy and then growing
lifetime after lifetime, until it reaches intelligence.
I have had, for the longest time, a deep fear of what is on the other side
of death. On the day my grandmother died, the telephone rang. I woke up
from a deep sleep as my mother was walking down the hallway, and started
crying. I caught my mother just as she reached the phone, and told her not
to answer it. She asked why, I said "Your mother's dead." My mom said to
stop being so silly and to stop crying. I turned and walked to the hallway
entrance. Just as I got there my mother screamed "God, no!" then she started
to cry.
That night I was in bed, still numb from shock and heard this voice. I sat
up and there was my grandmother! She didn't move, nor did her lips move,
but she promised me that when it was time for me to die, she'd come back
for me. She said I would not be alone. At that moment, and from that point,
I have not feared death.