Incarnation

CRITICAL: unlike Spanish, where ‘encarnação’/‘encarnación’ carries essentially no rival meaning, in Brazilian Portuguese ‘encarnação’/‘encarnar’ is the everyday Kardecist term for a spirit taking on a body for one of its many successive lives. This is a direct terminological collision: the same word Christian tradition uses for the eternal Son’s once-for-all assumption of human nature is the standard Spiritist word for routine reincarnation. Every occurrence must be paired with explicit teaching distinguishing the unique, non-repeating incarnation of the Son from the Spiritist doctrine of repeated encarnações.