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“And when Jesus came
into the parts of
Caesarea Philippi, He
asked His disciples,
saying, whom do men say
that the Son of man is?
And some said: John the
Baptist; others Elijah;
and others, Jeremiah, or
one of the prophets. He
said: And you, who do
you say I am. And Simon
Peter, answering, said:
Thou art the Christ, the
Son of the living God.
And Jesus answering him
said; “Blessed are you,
Simon Barjona, for flesh
and blood has not
revealed it to you, but
my Father who is in
Heaven.” (Matthew,
16:13-17; Luke, 9:18-20;
Mark, 8:27-29.)
This passage of The
Gospel, according to the
Spiritist Doctrine, is
in the context of the
questions formulated by
the Divine Master about
who people thought He
was, whose answers
showed that the general
opinion attributed to
Him a spiritual origin
prior to that earthly
life, that is, they
thought that the Christ
had a new existence from
someone from the past,
such as John the
Baptist, Elijah,
Jeremiah or one of the
prophets, thus believing
in the pre-existence of
the soul and in the
resurrection or
reincarnation.
Then the Master asked
the disciples: “And who
do you say that I am?”;
to which Peter,
illuminated by the
lights from on high,
going beyond the vision
of the “Son of man”,
replied: “You are the
Christ, son of the
living God”.
Thus, the evangelical
text bears witness to
the perception, of that
time, regarding
reincarnation and,
still, registers the
divine intuition by the
mediumship of Peter
confirmed by Christ:
“Blessed are you, Simon
Barjonas, because the
flesh and soul did not
reveal it to you by
blood, but my Father who
is in Heaven.”
In the same direction as
the question formulated
by the Master Jesus to
His disciples, our
reflections will aim to
seek doctrinal
clarifications from the
Spiritist Codification,
by Allan Kardec, and
from its complementary
literature to extract
specific knowledge that
will help us to answer
the central question and
the identify Christ.
Considering that
interpretations and
understandings are
personal perceptions,
the answers to “And who
do you say that I am?”,
therefore, may have
different points of
view, depending on the
conception of life,
religious belief or
knowledge about the
Master. Even among
Christians, there are
doubts to answer who
Jesus is.
Seeking to provide some
subsidies on the
subject, we selected
texts for each one to
reflect on their answer
to the central question.
In “The Book of
Spirits”, by Allan
Kardec, in question 625,
the Superior Spirits
answer that Jesus is
“the most perfect type
that God has offered to
man, to serve as a guide
and model”. Then, Kardec
comments: “For man,
Jesus constitutes the
type of moral perfection
that Humanity can aspire
to on Earth. God offers
Him to us as the most
perfect model and the
doctrine He taught is
the purest expression of
the law of the Lord,
because, being he the
purest of all that have
appeared on Earth, the
Divine Spirit animated
Him”.
In “The Genesis”,
by Allan Kardec, in
Chapter XV, in
“Superiority of the
nature of Jesus”, we
highlight: “The
superiority of Jesus in
relation to men did not
result from the
particular qualities of
His body, but from those
of His Spirit, which
dominated matter
absolutely, and that of
his perispirit, drawn
from the most
quintessential part of
terrestrial fluids”.
The Spirit Emmanuel, in
the book "O Consolador
(The Comforter)", in a
Francisco Candido
Xavier’s psychographics,
in several questions,
reveals various
information about the
Master Jesus.
In question 85, if “Did
the first planetary
forms obey a special
preexisting mold?” The
answer is:
“- Jesus was the divine
sculptor of the
geological work of the
planet. Together with
his deputies, he
illuminated the shadow
of principles with the
sublimated effluvia of
his love, which
saturated all the
substances of the world
in formation.
We cannot say that the
forms of nature, in
their initial
manifestation, obeyed a
preexisting mold, in the
sense of imitation,
because they all
received the sacred
influx of the heart of
Christ.
The truth is that, like
your material
constructions, all works
previously lived in the
brain of an engineer or
an architect, all forms
of life on Earth were
first conceived in His
divine vision.”
In question 135, the
answer sheds light on
the divine cooperation
of Jesus and His agents
for the progress of
Humanity towards God: “The
Creator is always the
generous and wise, fair
and Friend Father,
considering the
misguided children as
incursions in vast
experiences. But, as
Jesus and His agents are
His divine cooperators,
and they themselves
institute tasks against
the deviation of human
creatures, they focus on
the damages of evil with
the force of their
educational
responsibilities, so
that humanity can
righteously follow its
true path to God.”
In question 159, the
answer reveals the
illuminating action of
Jesus and His agents on
planet Earth: “The
so-called actions of the
invisible plane, of any
nature, do not occur in
the absence of Jesus and
His agents, mentors of
man on his journey of
experiences to knowledge
and to light.”
In question 225, the
answer highlights the
Gospel of Jesus as the
path of the spiritual
redemption of the human
being in his ascension
to reach higher planes:
“Considering this real
aspect of the problem of
the salvation of the
soul, we are compelled
to recognize that, if
divine Providence has
mobilized all the
resources indispensable
to the material progress
of physical man on
Earth, the Gospel of
Jesus is the supreme
gift of Heaven for the
redemption of the
spiritual man marching
to love and universal
knowledge.
- Jesus is the supreme
model.
The Gospel is the
roadmap for the
ascension of all
struggling Spirits, the
learning on Earth for
the superior planes of
the unlimited. From its
application flows the
light of the Spirit.”
In question 243, the
answer clarifies the
Master as the spiritual
governor of planet
Earth, since the
beginnings of the orb: “-
All spiritual entities
incarnated in the
terrestrial orb are
Spirits that rescue
themselves or learn in
human experiences, after
the falls of the past,
with the exception of
Jesus Christ, foundation
of all truth in this
world, whose evolution
took place in a straight
line to God, and in
whose angelic hands
rests the spiritual
government of the
planet, from its
beginnings.”
In question 261, in the
same sense as the
previous one, for the
question “In the
beginning was the
Word...” – How should we
understand this
affirmation of the
sacred text?” The answer
is:
“The apostle John still
warns us that ‘the Word
was God and was with
God.
God is love and life and
the perfect expression
of the Word for the
terrestrial orb was and
is Jesus, identified
with His Mercy and
Wisdom, since the
primordial organization
of the planet.
Visible or hidden, the
Word is the trace of
divine light in all
things and in all
beings, in the most
varied conditions of the
bettering process.”
In question 283, "With
reference to Jesus, how
to interpret the meaning
of John's words: “And
the Word became flesh
and dwelt among us, full
of grace and truth?” The
answer is:
“First of all, we need
to understand that Jesus
was not a philosopher
and cannot be classified
among properly human
values, taking into
account the divine
values of His spiritual
hierarchy, in the
direction of earthly
collectivities.
Sent by God, he was the
representation of the
Father among the flock
of children who had lost
His love and wisdom,
whose guardianship was
entrusted to Him in the
sacred ordinances of
life in the Infinite.
Angelic director of the
orb, His heart did not
disdain the direct
permanence among the
miserable and ignorant
wards, giving rise to
the words of the
apostle, mentioned
above.”
Sent by God, He was the
representation of the
Father among the flock
of children who had lost
His love and wisdom,
whose guardianship was
entrusted to Him in the
sacred ordinances of
life in the Infinite.
Angelic director of the
orb, His heart did not
disdain the direct
permanence among the
miserable and ignorant
wards, giving rise to
the words of the
apostle, mentioned
above.”
The Spirit Emmanuel, in
the book “On the way to
light (A Caminho da
Paz)”, in a
psychographics of
Francisco Candido
Xavier, in Chapter I,
“The Planetary Genesis”,
in “The Community of
Pure Spirits”,
clarifies:
“The traditions of the
spiritual world say that
in the direction of all
phenomena, of our
system, there is a
community of pure
Spirits, chosen by the
supreme Lord of the
Universe, in whose hands
the directing reins of
life of all planetary
collectivities are
preserved.
This community of
angelic and perfect
beings, of which Jesus
is one of the divine
members, as far as we
know, has only met,
close to Earth, to solve
decisive problems in the
organization and
direction of our planet,
for twice in the course
of known millennia.
The first took place
when the terrestrial orb
was detaching itself
from the solar nebula,
in order to launch, in
time and space, the
beacons of our cosmogony
system and the prodromes
of life in the ignited
matter of the planet,
and the second, when the
Lord's coming to the
face of the Earth was
decided, bringing to the
human family the
immortal lesson of his
Gospel of love and
redemption.”
Emmanuel, in the same
book, in Chapter II, in
“The Organized Life”,
continues to reveal
other information:
“Under the merciful and
wise guidance of Christ,
numerous assemblies of
spiritual workers worked
on Earth.
Like modern engineering,
which builds a building
with the smallest
requirements of its
purpose, the artists of
spirituality built the
world of cells,
beginning, in primeval
days, the construction
of the organized and
intelligent forms of the
centuries to come.
That is why, at all
times, beauty, together
with order, has
constituted one of the
indelible traits of all
creation.
The shapes of all the
oars of terrestrial
nature were studied and
predicted. The fluids of
life were manipulated in
order to adapt to the
physical conditions of
the planet, staging the
cellular constructions
according to the
possibilities of the
terrestrial environment,
all obeying a
pre-established plan by
the merciful wisdom of
the Christ, considering
the laws of principle
and general development.
(...)
The types suited to
Earth were consummated
in all the kingdoms of
Nature, the
teratological and
strange fruits being
eliminated from the
laboratory of their
persevering
experiments. (...)
The spiritual forces
that direct terrestrial
phenomena, under the
guidance of Christ,
established, at the time
of the great
malleability of the
material elements, a
definitive lineage for
all species, within
which the spiritual
principle would find the
process of its
crisolation, in march
towards the rationality.
Fish, reptiles, mammals,
had their fixed lineages
of development and man
would not escape this
general rule.”
In “The Genesis”,
Chapter II – God, “The
Providence”, in items 24
and 27, Kardec reveals
knowledge about divine
solicitude and
solidarity existing
throughout the Universe,
as follows:
“Whether or not this is
so with regard to the
thought of God, that is,
whether the thought of
God acts directly or
through a fluid, let us
represent it, to
facilitate our
understanding, in the
concrete form of an
intelligent fluid
filling the infinite
Universe, and
penetrating all parts of
Creation: the whole of
Nature is immersed in
the divine fluid. (...)
A similar phenomenon
occurs between God and
Creation. God is
everywhere, in Nature,
as the Spirit is
everywhere, in the body.
All the elements of
Creation are in constant
relationship with Him,
as all the cells of the
human body are in
immediate contact with
the spiritual being.
There is, therefore, no
reason why phenomena of
the same order should
not be produced in the
same way, in either
case.
A member stirs: the
Spirit feels it; a
creature thinks: God
knows it. All the limbs
are in motion, the
different organs are
vibrating; the Spirit
resents all
manifestations,
distinguishes and
locates them. Different
creations, different
creatures move, think,
act differently: God
knows everything that
happens and attributes
to each one what
concerns him.
From this can also be
deduced the solidarity
of matter and
intelligence, the
solidarity with each
other of all beings in a
world, that of all
worlds and, finally, of
all creations with the
Creator.”
From these excerpts of
the Codification, one
can identify the
solidarity that exists,
both of matter and of
intelligence, for the
propagation of the
Supreme Creator's
thought, in the form of
an intelligent fluid,
which radiates and acts
throughout the Universe,
penetrating all parts of
the Universe. Creation.
This is because all
beings of infinity and
the entire nature are
immersed in the
universal cosmic fluid
(divine fluid or divine
plasma). Thus,
everything in the
Universe is connected,
composing a solidary
whole.
Through this universal
smart grid, God is
everywhere. All the
elements of creation are
in constant relationship
with God, making him
omniscient of everything
that happens and
supplies each one with
what concerns him.
The Spirit Andre Luiz,
in the book “Evolution
in two worlds” (Evolução
em dois Mundos), in
Chapter 1 – Fluido
cósmico (Cosmic Fluid),
in a psychographics of
Francisco Candido
Xavier, clarifies:
“Divine Plasma – The
cosmic fluid is the
divine plasma, breath of
the Creator or nervous
force of the All-Wise.
In this primordial
element, constellations
and suns, worlds and
beings, vibrate and
live, like fish in the
ocean.
Co-creation in a greater
plan -
In this original
substance, at the influx
of the Supreme Lord
himself, the Divine
Intelligences aggregated
to Him operate, in a
process of indescribable
communion, the great
devas of Hindu theology
or the archangels of the
interpretation of
various religious
temples, extracting from
this spiritual breath
the energy granaries
with which they build
the systems of
immensity, in service of
co-creation on a larger
plane, in accordance
with the designs of the
All-Merciful, who makes
them guiding agents of
the Excellency Creation.
These glorious
Intelligences take the
divine plasma and
convert it into cosmic
dwellings, of multiple
expressions, radiant or
obscure, gasified or
solid, obeying
predetermined laws, like
dwellings that last for
millennia and millennia,
but that eventually wear
out and transform, since
the created Spirit can
form or co-create, but
God alone is the Creator
of all eternity.
Stellar empires -
Due to the work of these
major architects,
stellar organizations
appear in galaxies as
vast continents of the
evolving Universe and
intragalactic nebulae as
immense domains of the
Universe, ending
evolution in a potential
state, all gravitating
around attractive
points, with admirable
coordinating uniformity.
The Spirit Andre Luiz
brings light to the
knowledge that the
divine intelligences
linked to the Supreme
Creator, at his command
and influx, in perfect
communion, immersed in
the divine plasma,
cooperate with the
Creator in the
construction of the
systems of the Universe,
converting them into
cosmic dwellings, in a
service of co-creation
on the greater plane,
making them also
collaborating agents of
Creation. These
intelligences linked to
the Creator, obeying the
laws of God, can form or
co-create, but only God
is the Creator of all
eternity.
By these revelations,
Jesus, as a member of
the community of pure
Spirits and chosen by
the Supreme Lord of the
Universe, is the most
perfect expression of
the divine verb for the
terrestrial orb,
identified with his
mercy and wisdom, since
the primordial
organization of the
planet. All this proves
the divine values of
Jesus of the highest
spiritual hierarchy, who
became flesh, the
anointed Son of God, the
Father, as his Envoy,
the Father's
representation among the
flock of children who
had been strayed from
his love and wisdom, and
Director angelic of the
terrestrial orb.
Jesus is the most
perfect type that God
offered to man to serve
as a guide and model,
that is, an example of
moral perfection to
which humanity on Earth
can aspire, and the
doctrine he taught is
the purest expression of
divine law.
Jesus as divine
co-creator, “sent
from God, he was the
representation of the
Father among the flock
of children who had lost
his love and wisdom,
whose guardianship was
entrusted to him in the
sacred ordinances of
life in the Infinite”,
being the “Angelical
Director of the
terrestrial orb.
For all this, Jesus
Christ, as governor of
the terrestrial orb,
whether on Earth or in
Heaven, has always been
and will be with us
every day until the end
of the centuries, when
He will preside over the
transformations of the
transition of the
planet, aided by His
direct servants, the
Pure spirits or
“angels”, heavenly
agents, who have the
support of enlightened
spirits, benefactors and
friendly entities.
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