THE 7 PRINCIPLES

We try to live our lives in accordance with our Seven Principles which are:

5. Personal Responsibility.

This Principle reminds us that we should face up to and conquer our negative tendencies.
These may be thoughts or actions by which we transgress God’s laws, the laws of the natural way of things. Nature wants us to be healthy, happy, cooperative beings living in harmony with all of life. By our own efforts we should seek to lead a better life. We should strive to identify our negative thoughts and actions and personally atone for our mistakes and sins.

It is the natural way of the Universe, balance must be restored. Wrongs committed will inevitably bring to us conditions of difficulty where we must strive to put right what we have done, we must re-balance the good and bad in our lives.

Certain branches of Christianity in particular have a different approach.
They believe Jesus was crucified to cleanse them of sins if they but believe in Him. Some believe praying to Jesus can free them from past sin. Some believe a confession to a priest relieves them of responsibility of wrong thought and action. This is not the way of the Spiritualist. To achieve spiritual progress we must live according to spiritual principles and we are indeed responsible.