6 - SPIRITUALISM

As we  see above, the creation of CAODAISM proceeds from Spiritism. By Spiritism ( or Divine and Automatical writings ) and with the mediums of the highest Dignitaries of the Legislative Body. We communicate with GOD and the Divine Spirits. We receive their teachings, their messages .

At first, we used of a tipping table, then God prescribed us to replace it by a billed basket which is more pratical . 

Instead of coming as formerly in human shape, God mannifested Himsmelf through Spiritualism to teach His Doctrine. He will not grant any mortal the privilege founding the new Religion for a Human being still belongs to a nation or race. This new manifestation of GOD so comes, because all Religions submitted to Human founder's  authority is unsuited to universality, seeing that his prophets, towards which they chow a marked intolerance . 

And by this way, GOD will integrate Religion and science, giving inspiration to the Spiritual and matorial life of Mankind, will adapt His teachings to the progress of the human spirit now more advanced and more refined than formerly .

This new Manifestation of GOD was prophesied by Jasus-Christ in his New Testament: " I will come like a thief " ( Luke XII: 40  Mark XII : 32,33, Mathew XXIV : 42,43,44, Thessa-lonica I Chap V : 2second Epistle of Peter, Chap III: 10, Apocalypse III : 3 )

By Spiritism, that is to say, without in Human being, GOD comes down on earth unknowh to us, like a thief entering our house .

7 - THE DIVINE SYE

How do we represent GOD ? By a Human shape ? No. It would be  unsuited to Universality for each people has its vanity . God prescribed us to symbolize  him by an Eye Which is the image of the Universal conscience and the Individual conscience and the Individual conscience .There is only one GOD,  first cause, principle of all that exists. There is one GOD worshipped, venerated, prayed under-diverses names at avery point of the globe .

8 - FOUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES

The Caodaist doctrine tendsnot only to conciliate all the Religions  convictions but also to adapt itself to all deprees of spiritual evolution .

1 - From a moral point of view: It reminds man of his duties toward Himself, his family society, that is a broadened family, then toward humanity, the universal family .

2 - FROM A PHILOSOPHICAL POINT OF VIEW : It preaches the despising of honors, riches, luxuy, in a word, the emancipation form servitudes of matter, to seek, in spirituality, the full quietude of the soul .

3 - FROM THE POINT OF VIEW OF WORSHIP : It recommends the adoration of GOD, the Father of all, and the veneration of Superior Spirits that constitute the occult August hierarchy. Admitting the national worship of ancestors, it prohibits however meat offerings as well as the use of votove paper .

4 - FROM A SPIRITUAL POINT OF VIEW : It confirma, in harmony   with other Religions and systems of spiritualistic and psychic philosophy, the existence of the soul, its survival of the physical body, its evolution by a successive reincarnations, the pposthumous consequences of human actions ruled by the law of karma .

5 - FROM THE INITIATE POINT OF VIEW : It communicates to those of the adherents who are worthy, revealed teachings that shall enable them, by a proces of spiritual evolution, to accede to ecstasies of felicity .