Spiritualists follow a set of principles given
from the spirit of the great reformer and Spiritualist, Robert Owen,
via one of Spiritualism's great pioneers, Emma Hardinge Britten
in 1871.
The principles were adopted in amended form at a meeting
of the delegates of the Spiritualists' National Union in 1901. They
had been amended on the advice of the solicitors to the SNU for the
purposes of legal definition in order to facilitate registration.
The principles, as amended in 1901, are known as the Seven Principles.
What follows are three different versions of Spiritualism's principles:
the original form, the 1901 amended form (SNU), and the form created
by the Open Door as a modern interpretation of the English contained
in the Seven Principles. ©
Original Form |
1901 Amended Form (SNU) |
The Open Door's Modern Interpretation |
| The Fatherhood of God |
The Fatherhood of God |
Reverent Union with the Divine |
| The Brotherhood of Man |
The Brotherhood of Man |
The Unity of Humankind |
| The Immortality of the
Soul and its Personal
Characteristics |
Communion of Spirits and
the Ministry of Angels |
Communion and
Communication with the Spirit |
| The proven facts of
Communion between
departed Human Spirits
and mortals |
The continuous existence of
the human Soul |
Continuous Existence of the
Spirit |
| Personal Responsibility
with compensation
and retribution hereafter
for all the good and evil
deeds done here |
Personal Responsibility
Compensation and
retribution
hereafter
for all good and
evil
deeds done on earth |
Personal Responsibility
Compensation of All Positive
and Negative Thoughts,
Words and Actions |
| A path of Eternal
Progress
open to every
Human Soul
that wills to
tread it by the
path of
Eternal Good |
Eternal progress open to every Soul
|
Equality and Eternal Progression
Open to All |
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