In Spiritism, angels are real, but they are not a separate kind of being. They are Spirits who have reached the highest degree of moral progress.

Demons, understood as beings created eternally evil, do not exist. What people call demons are imperfect Spirits who can still change and progress. Satan is understood as an allegorical personification of evil.

Are Angels and Demons Real?

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  • Angels Are Spirits, Not Another Species

    Spiritism does not describe angels, archangels, or seraphim as beings created separately from everyone else.

    They are pure Spirits—Spirits who have reached the highest degree of moral and spiritual development.

    An angel is not a different kind of soul. It is a Spirit that has reached perfection.

    This places angels within the same universal process of spiritual progress rather than outside it.

  • Angels Were Not Created Perfect

    If angels are perfected Spirits, then they did not begin at the summit.

    Kardec says they passed through the degrees of progress, although some advanced more quickly than others.

    Perfection is an achievement of spiritual development, not a privilege given at creation.

    That means the difference between an imperfect Spirit and an angel is not one of origin, but of how far the Spirit has progressed.

  • Demons Are Not Eternally Evil Beings

    Spiritism rejects the idea that God created a class of beings whose nature is permanently evil.

    It does recognize imperfect or impure Spirits who may act selfishly, cruelly, or destructively. But their condition is temporary in the larger scale of spiritual existence.

    Evil can describe a Spirit’s condition without defining its eternal nature.

    Even deeply imperfect Spirits remain capable of eventual progress.

  • Satan Is an Allegory, Not God’s Rival

    Kardec does not present Satan as an independent supernatural being fighting God.

    He treats Satan as a personification of evil—a symbolic figure created to give human form to destructive impulses and moral corruption.

    The symbol may be powerful without the personality behind it being literal.

    In this sense, horns, claws, wings, and other traditional images express moral qualities rather than the physical appearance of spiritual beings.

  • No Spirit Is Condemned to Evil Forever

    This distinction changes the moral meaning of angels and demons.

    If angels reached perfection through progress, then spiritual elevation remains a possibility. And if so-called demons are imperfect Spirits rather than beings created for evil, then degradation is not necessarily permanent.

    Spiritism does not divide creation into beings destined forever for good and beings destined forever for evil.

    All Spirits belong to a process in which progress remains possible.

Doctrinal Source | Grounded in The Spirits’ Book by Allan Kardec, especially Questions 128–131, concerning angels as pure Spirits, spiritual progress, imperfect Spirits, demons, and Satan as an allegory of evil.

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  • They are perfected Spirits.

    Spiritism rejects the idea that angels were created as a separate superior species. Kardec says that beings traditionally called angels, archangels, or seraphim are Spirits who have reached the highest degree of the spiritual scale.

    They passed through stages of progress like other Spirits, although not necessarily at the same speed.

    An angel is what a Spirit can become—not something fundamentally different from a Spirit.

  • Spiritism accepts that there are Spirits capable of harmful, selfish, or deeply cruel behavior. But it does not regard them as a separate species created for evil.

    Kardec describes what people traditionally call demons as imperfect or impure Spirits whose condition can change. Their moral inferiority may last a long time, but it is not an eternal destiny.

    A Spirit may do evil without being an eternally evil being.

  • In Spiritism, Satan is an allegory.

    Kardec rejects the idea of an independent malicious being existing as a rival power to God. Instead, Satan personifies evil in the same way other cultures have given human forms to abstract ideas.

    This does not mean Spiritism denies evil actions or harmful Spirits. It means evil is not traced back to one supernatural being created to oppose God.

    Satan represents evil; Spiritism does not treat Satan as its eternal ruler.

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