ATTRIBUTES OF THE SPIRIT

Immortality & Individuality |
Intelligence, Thought, and Reason |
Conscience | Free Will | Relative Power

Relative Power

This attribute refers to a power relative to that of God.  You will often hear or read that spirits are working toward perfection.  However, by perfection, we do not mean an absolute perfection, for that is an attribute that pertains only to God.  We refer, rather, to the plentitude of living and being in the divine perfection and having reached the highest stage of moral and intellectual evolution, the maximum in expansion of the conscience, whereby the spirit identifies itself with the divine conscience.
 

Palhano Jr., Lamartine. "Espirito e Espiritualidade" [Spirit and Spirituality]. Teología Espírita [Spiritist Theology]. Rio de Janeiro: Centro Espírita Léon Denis [Leon Denis Spiritist Center]. 2001. 89-93. 

Kardec, Allan. "Elementary Principles of Spiritism." Christian Spiritism (a compilation of two Kardec books: Spiritism Reduced to Its Simplest Expression and What is Spiritism).  Trans. Allan Kardec Educational Society (translated from original French editions, published 1860 and 1859, respectively). Philadelphia, PA. Allan Kardec Educational Society. 1985. (About The Spirits), pgs 125-129.

Kardec, Allan. "Spirits." The Spirits' Book.  Trans. Allan Kardec Educational Society (translated from 2nd edition in French). Philadelphia, PA. Allan Kardec Educational Society. 1996. 31-32