Section 2: The teachings of spiritualism

Question 1

What is your understanding of God?

Answer 1

God is the heart of spiritualism. The source of all life and all things: energy, light, love, power and freedom

Question 2

What is God for you?

Answer 2

Father God is the higher spirit/the higher energy/higher love of everything and gives us that strong feeling and trust when we need it

Question 3

Which principle changed thing for you?

Answer 3

Personal Responsibility

Question 4

Why are the 7 principles important for myself?

Answer 4

I use them everyday to set the right intention en to raise my vibration to the spirit world. They make life easier.

Question 5

What aspect of spiritualism do you enjoy the most?

Answer 5

That you can use everything what happened in life as inspiration for your personal development.

Question 6

What is the mission statement of the SNU?

Answer 6

To promote the SNU internationally but particulairy in the United Kingdom of a knowlegde of the religion and religious philosophy of Spiritualism according the 7 principles.

Question 7

Why are the principles important for the SNU?

Why are the principles important?

Answer 7

• The principles are forming the basis of a a clear philosophy for us to live our lives
• became the legal definition of the religion of spiritualism

object articles, otherwise no church

If our churches do not comply with that requirement it is possible that they may lose their status as places of Public Worship, and as such also lose their charitable status. Without charitable status churches would have to pay taxes on any income over expenditure, such as on rates, water rates, refuse removal, etc.

Question 8

Which 3 principles refer to life on earth?

Answer 8

• Brotherhood of God
• Personal Responsibility
• Compensation & retribution hereafter for all the good and evil deeds done on earth

Question 9

Explain principle 1 : Fatherhood of God

Answer 9

The source that runs through all. Without god we are nothing with god we are everything.

Question 10

Brotherhood of Man

Answer 10

We all come from the same universal life source, we are one large family. We are all connected.

Question 11

Communnion of spirits and the ministry of angels

Answer 11

contact and mission to bring light into this world
we are never separated from the love of those spirits.

Question 12

Continious existence of the human soul

Answer 12

We do not die.
On the death of the physical body the spirit continues as an integral part of a world in different dimensions. This world is referred to as the spirit world.

Question 13

Personal responsibility

Answer 13

It is the acceptance of responsibility for every aspect of our lives and the use to which we put our lives depends enterily upon ourselves.

respect & reflect

Question 14

compensation & retribution hereafter for all the good and evil deeds done on earth

Answer 14

You only get out of live what you put in.

balance, law of cause & effect, focus, do it now, to be of service of both worlds

Question 15

Eternal progress open to every human soul

Answer 15

Ensures us all of continuous path of progression, refining our spirit with each journey we take until we reach our final destination.

achieve a more pure and refined spiritual state - all is posible

Question 16

call all the 7 principles

Name the 7 principles and explain 1 of them

Name the principles and elaborate on 1

Answer 16

1- Fatherhood of God
2- Brotherhood of man
3- communiun of spirits and ministry of angels
4- the continues existence of the human soul
5- personal responsibility
6- compensation & retribution hereafter for all the good and evil deeds done on earth
7- eternal progress open to every human soul