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por Rogério Coelho

Christmas

Jesus carried the message of true brotherhood


"What is the most perfect type that God has offered to man, to serve as a guide and model?" 1 Answer: - Jesus!

 

Emmanueltells us that, according to the traditions of the Spiritual World, “there is a Community of Pure Spirits and Elected by the Supreme Lord of the Universe, in whose hands the reigns that guide the life of all Planetary Collectives are kept, and, as it turns out, this Community of angelic and perfect beings, of which Jesus is one of the divine members, has only met, close to Earth, to solve decisive problems in the organization and direction of our Planet, twice in the course known millennia:

The first occurred when the Earth's Orb detached itself from the solar nebula, so that the beacons of our cosmogonic system and the prodromes of life in the igniting matter of the planet would be launched in Time and Space. The second occurred when the Lord's coming to Earth was decided, bringing to the human family the immortal lesson of His Gospel of love and redemption”.

The Lioness Master1 teaches: “For man, Jesus is the type of moral perfection that Humanity can aspire to on Earth. God offers Him as the most perfect model and the Doctrine that He taught is the purest expression of the Law of the Lord, because He, being the purest of those who have appeared on Earth, the Divine Spirit animated Him.”

With the Spirit Andre Luiz, we learned 3: “before Him, great commanders of the idea had stepped on the ground of the world, influencing crowds: warriors and politicians, philosophers and prophets, lined up in the popular memory, remembered as disciplinarians and heroes, but all of them paraded with armies and formulas, statements and warnings, in which rectitude and partiality, surplus and light are mixed.”

Speaking about the advent of Christ, says Emmanuel 4: “the angelic legions, next to the manger, announcing the Great Renovator, did not present any word of violence, but: glory to God in the Universe; peace on Earth; goodwill towards men.

The Supreme Father, bequeathing the New Age of security and tranquility to the world, did not declare the Celestial Ambassador invested with powers to hurt or destroy; nor punishment for the rich miser; nor punishment for the desperate poor; nor contempt for the weak; nor condemnation to sinners; nor hostility towards the proud Pharisee; nor anathema against the unaware gentile. The Divine Treasure was poured out through the hands of Jesus in the service of goodwill. The justice of the “eye for an eye” and of the “tooth for a tooth” finds, finally, Love available to the sublime renunciation until the Cross. And from that unforgettable moment onwards, the Earth would renew itself. The executioner would be pitiable; the enemy would become a stray brother; the criminal would become sick. In Rome, the people would gradually extinguish slaughter in circuses. In Sidon, slaves would no longer be blinded by the masters' cruelty. In Jerusalem, the sick would no longer be left to abandon themselves in the valleys of filth.

Jesus carried with Him the message of true brotherhood and, revealing it, he passed victoriously, from the straw cradle to the bloody tree”.

Andre Luiz also sings the aims of the Sublime Advento3: “He arrives without any prestige of human authority, but, with His moral magnitude, He gives new directions to life, because He, above all addresses the Spirit in all Earth's environments... Transmitting the mental waves of the Higher Spheres from where He comes, He walks among the creatures, awakening their energies to the greater life, as if touching their hidden fibers, in order to harmonize them with the universal symphony of eternal good. In order to receive the mental influence of Jesus, the Gospel gives us news of a small congregation of mediums, in the shape of conjugated electrical transformers, to receive His strength and store it, in principle, before these resources could be channeled. And far from taking note of the presence of any psychic instrument that is less safe from a moral point of view, we find an important group of mediators, brave in their confidence and correct in the guideline.

We are thus informed, in the notes of the Good News, that Zacharias and Isabel, the parents of John the Baptist, forerunner of the Divine Medium, "were both righteous before God, walking without rebuke in all the Lord's commandments and precepts5; that Mary, the simple young woman from Nazareth, who would welcome the Celestial Ambassador into her mother's arms, was "in a position of praise before the Eternal Father" 6; that Joseph of Galilee, the man who would take Him under paternal guardianship, "was just"7; that Simon, the selfless friend who waited for Him in prayer, for a long time, “was just and obedient to God” 8; and that Anne, the widow who waited for Him in prayer, in the Temple of Jerusalem, for several quinquenium, lived "serving God".9 In this group of admirable mediums, not only for the advanced perceptions that placed them in contact with the Heavenly Emissaries, but also for the irreproachable conduct of which they provided testimony, we surprised the circuit of forces to which Christ's mental wave adjusted, to expand from there renewing the world.”

The noble mentor Joanna de Ângelis10 adds: “(...) after the failure of noisy fantasies and turbulent enjoyments, the notes of sweet peace song vibrate on Earth, permeating and delighting anxious creatures. It is the joys of Christmas that arrive, remaking the human spirit, stunned and discouraged by the tireless search for values ​​that, then, contact the dead.

An invitation to reflection, Christmas reminds us of the Noble Friend, participating in the just joys of a wedding and the serious sweet encounter with the woman caught in adultery...

It evokes the Lord of the living forces of Nature, rebuking the winds and the sea, and inviting talkative children to the lap, for belonging to them, in the Nature of which they are a symbol in the Kingdom of God… It updates the dialogue, of transcendent reach, with the prince and doctor of Law on rebirth in the body, and speaks of the uplift of the son of the widow of Nain, of the servant of the Centurion, and of Lazarus, of the torpor of catalepsy and death for the excellence of lucid action...

It provides a new vision of life in the light of the Sermon on the Mount, extolling, in these days of truculence, the greatness of humility, the strength of faith and the work of "nonviolence"...

Christmas is a happy opportunity for every man to turn inward, make peace with himself, appreciate the blessing of physical life that fades quickly, and love ...

The joys of Christmas provide a place for everyone to congratulate themselves through the donations of love that they allow, renewing their intimate landscapes and, taking a step beyond the “me”, to extend solidarity with those who suffer, those who struggle in the struggle , those who despair, those who feel alone, the little ones and old people abandoned in the streets and in the fields, extending to them the tenderness and giving them smiles, through the action of goodness, which transforms man into an angel of love and makes him repeat, almost in silence, again, the unforgettable sonata of Heaven addressed to the ears of the attentive world: - glory to God on high and peace on earth for men of good will!... ”

Christmas, for the Spiritist, it must be like a song, which speaks of love, peace, joy and a new world with Jesus! ... Let us join the Divine Symphony in unison with the plethora of Spirits most directly connected to Jesus, so that we can also receive the mental influx from Him in order to spread it out among our brothers in humanity, especially with the “Sons of Calvary”.

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1 - KARDEC, Allan. The Book of Spirits. 88th.edition. Rio [de Janeiro]: FEB, 2006, q. 625.

2 - XAVIER, Francisco Candido.  On the way to light.  37th edition. Rio [de Janeiro]: 2008, chapter I.

3 - XAVIER, Francisco Candido.  Mechanism of mediumship. 4th edition. Rio [de Janeiro]: 1973, chapter XXVI.

4 - XAVIER, Francisco Candido.  Fonte viva. 10th edition. Rio [de Janeiro]: 1982, chapter 180.

5 -  Luke, 1:5

6 -  Luke, 1:30

7  - Matthew, 1:19

8  - Luke, 2:25

9  - Luke, 2:37

10 - FRANCO, Divaldo. “Responsibility”. Salvador: LEAL, 1987, chapter 20.


 

Translation:
Eleni Frangatos - eleni.moreira@uol.com.br

 
 

     
     

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