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Systematized Study of the Spiritist Doctrine Portuguese  Spanish
Program VI: Religious Aspect  

Year 3 - N° 131 – November 1, 2009

THIAGO BERNARDES
thiago_imortal@yahoo.com.br

Curitiba, Paraná (Brasil)  
Translation
Marcelo Damasceno do Vale - marcellus.vale@gmail.com

 

Moses and the
first revelation


We present in this issue the topic #131 from the Systematized Study of the Spiritist Doctrine, that is being presented weekly, according to the programme elaborated by the Brazilian Spiritist Federation (FEB), structured in 6 modules and 147 topics.

If the reader uses this program for a study group, we suggest that questions proposed be discussed freely before the reading of the text that follows. If you would like to study alone, we ask you to try to answer the questions at first and only then read the text that follows. The answer key can be found at the end of the lesson. 

Questions 

1. Besides driving the Hebrew people until the Promised Land, that other task the Lord it delegated the Moses?

2. How many parts have in the Mosaic law, and in that consist?

3. In what terms are written the Ten Commandments?

4. According to Césare Cantu, the Israelis divide their books in three groups. What are they?

5. Why Jesus did opt for the tree of David to take to their effect divine lessons to the Humanity?

Text

The life and mission of Moses, far away from easy, they were full of difficulties

1. Emmanuel says that the Mosaic Law was the precursory direct from Jesus' Gospel. The protected of Termut, after benefitting with the culture that Egypt could lavish him, it was inspired to gather all of useful elements to his grandiose mission, popularizing the monotheism and establishing Decalogue, under the divine inspiration, whose determinations are until today the basic construction of the Religion and of the Right, although the old doctrines had already established the faith of only God. 

2. The legislation of Moses is impregnated of legends and of compatible cruelties with his time; but, pristine of all of fabulous comments about his respect, his illustration is, in fact, the one of an extraordinary man, covered of the highest spiritual powers, because it was him the first man to turn accessible to the popular masses the teachings conquered at the expense of long and painful initiation, in that is glimpsed the luminous synthesis of great truths. 

3. The life and the mission of Moses, far from easy, they were, to the opposite, full of tribulations, betrayals and distrust. For many and a lot of times, the Israeli people demonstrated not to have trust in the saving power of the Mister Supreme, disobeying per times to the commandments and getting to reject the own Moses, that faced problems even in your family, as display the weakness of Aaron, his brother, in the episode of the calf of gold. 

4. An authentic leader and lucid prophet, Moses was constituted in the model of all the true prophets that they happened him, until the arrival of that of who was the precursor. He was called by God not just to drive the people of Israel to the Promised Land, but equally to turn known our Father's will, which Moses did when granting us the Ten Commandments.


There is in the mosaic law two different parts: the law of God and the civil law or to discipline

5. In your quality of messenger of the Divine Master, Moses tried to concentrate his people for the great day in search of the Promised Land. An extraordinary medium, accomplished great facts then before their siblings and amazed companions. It was when, then, it received from Christ's emissaries, in the hill Sinai, Decalogue, that represents the base of the whole justice of the world until today. And before abandoning the terrestrial fights, in the ecstatic vision of the Promised Land, it delegated to the posterity their traditions in Pentateuch, beginning - in the words of Emmanuel - the construction of the highest religious science of all of times. 

6. As it teaches Allan Kardec, there is in the Mosaic Law two different parts: the law of God, promulgated in the hill Sinai, and the civil law or to discipline, ordained by Moses. One - the law of God - it is invariable. The other, appropriate to the habits and the character of the people, change with the time. It is for that if it turns unthinkable, in our days, to stone until the death a woman diffuses in adultery. The circumcision is another practice that not even the more defensive fanatic of the Bible adopts.  

7. The law of God is formulated in the ten following commandments (Ex., 20:1-17.): 

1o. I am the Lord thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. Thou shalt have no other gods before me. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of anything that is in Heaven above, or that is in the Earth beneath, or that is in the water under the Earth: thou shalt not bow down thyself to them nor serve them; for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, punishing children for the iniquity of parents, to the third and fourth generation of those who reject me, but showing steadfast love to the thousandth generation of those who love me and keep my commandments.

2o. You shall not make wrongful use of the name of the Lord your God, for the Lord will not acquit anyone who misuses his name.

3o. Observe the sabbath day and keep it holy, as the Lord your God commanded you. For six days you shall labour and do all your work. But the seventh day is a sabbath to the Lord your God;

4o. Honor your father and your mother, as the Lord your God commanded you, so that your days may be long and that it may go well with you in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.

5o. You shall not murder.

6o. Neither shall you commit adultery.

7o. Neither shall you steal.

8o. Neither shall you bear false witness against your neighbor.

9o. Neither shall you covet your neighbor’s wife.  

10o. Neither shall you desire your neighbor’s house, or field, or male or female slave, or ox, or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor. 

There is in the Jewish religion, according to Césare Cantu, three periods or ages 

8. Still today, according to Césare Cantu, the Israelis divide their books in Log [From Hebraic Torah: The mosaic law; the book that contains her; Pentateuch] constituted of the first five books of the Bible; in Nebum, that are the prophets, and in Quetubim, or written in general, in other words, any other book. The Talmud calls di brê caballah, that is, words of the tradition, everything that is not Log. The rabbis say that only the Log is that constituted a true innovation in Israel, because the other books are just partial developments of the hieroglyphic primitive, hidden under that name. 

9. In synthesis, we can say that, according to Césare Cantu, there are in the religion Jewish three periods or ages that marked the religious formation of the Israelis: the "age of gold", or one of the pure biblical hebraism, that understood the sacred books, before the transladation to Babylon; the silver" "age, or one of the late biblical hebraism, that understood the books written later to the emigration, and the “bronze age”, or the one of the late hebraism no biblical. 

10. Ending, spare us remains to wonder the reason of Jesus' preference for the tree of David, to take to their effect divine lessons to the Humanity, a theme that Emmanuel examines in the chapter VII of his book "The path of Light" It is that, it asserts Emmanuel, of all of the people of then, although Israel was it a more believer, " were also the people most in need, given your vanity exclusionist and pretentious". "A lot will ask for himself of who a lot has received, and the Israelis had conquered a lot, of the High, as regards to faith, being fair that if it demanded them a degree corresponding to understanding, as regards to humility and of love."

Answer Key

1. Besides driving the Hebrew people until the Promised Land, that other task the Lord it delegated the Moses? 

His second task was to turn known our Father's will, which Moses did when granting us the Ten Commandments. 

2. How many parts have in the Mosaic Law, and in that consist? 

There is in the Mosaic Law two different parts: the law of God, promulgated in the hill Sinai, and the civil law or to discipline, ordained by Moses. One - the law of God - it is invariable. The other, appropriate to the habits and the character of the people, which modifies with the time. 

3. In what we do have are written the Ten Commandments? 

Like this the Bible presents us the Ten Commandments:

1º. I am the Lord thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. Thou shalt have no other gods before me. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of anything that is in Heaven above, or that is in the Earth beneath, or that is in the water under the Earth: thou shalt not bow down thyself to them nor serve them; for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, punishing children for the iniquity of parents, to the third and fourth generation of those who reject me, but showing steadfast love to the thousandth generation of those who love me and keep my commandments.

2º. You shall not make wrongful use of the name of the Lord your God, for the Lord will not acquit anyone who misuses his name.

3º. Observe the sabbath day and keep it holy, as the Lord your God commanded you. For six days you shall labour and do all your work. But the seventh day is a sabbath to the Lord your God;

4º. Honor your father and your mother, as the Lord your God commanded you, so that your days may be long and that it may go well with you in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.

5º. You shall not murder.

6º. Neither shall you commit adultery.

7º. Neither shall you steal.

8º. Neither shall you bear false witness against your neighbor.

9º. Neither shall you covet your neighbor’s wife. 

10º. Neither shall you desire your neighbor’s house, or field, or male or female slave, or ox, or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor. 

4. According to Césare Cantu, the Israelis divide their books in three groups. What are they? 

The Israelis divide their books in Log, constituted of the first five books of the Bible; in Nebum, that are the prophets, and in Quetubim, or written in general, in other words, any other book. The Talmud calls di brê caballah, that is, words of the tradition, everything that is not Log.  

5. Why Jesus did opt for the tree of David to take to their effect divine lessons to the Humanity? 

The explanation, according to Emmanuel, is that, of all of the people of then, although Israel was it A more believer, was "were also the people most in need, given your vanity exclusionist and pretentious." "A lot will ask for himself of who a lot has received, and the Israelis had conquered a lot, of the High, as regards to faith, being fair that if it demanded them a degree corresponding to understanding, as regards to humility and of love." 

 

Bibliography:

The Gospel According to Spiritism, by Allan Kardec, chapter I, item 2.

The path of Light, by Emmanuel, psychographic:  Francisco Cândido Xavier, cap. VII, pp. 65 a 72.

Emmanuel, by Emmanuel, psychographic: Francisco Cândido Xavier, cap. II.

Evolução em Dois Mundos, by André Luiz, psychographic: Francisco Cândido Xavier and Waldo Vieira, pp. 160 e 161.

Universal History by Césare Cantu, volume 1, pp. 278, 279, 324 a 326.

The New Dictionary of the Bible, by J. D. Douglas, volume II, pp. 1.067 e 1.068.

Holy Bible - Exodus, 20:1-17.


 


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