We present in this issue the topic #133 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. Did what important facts for the life in the Earth precede Jesus' birth?

2. After Jesus' crucifixion, where and with who it did go Maria to live?

3. Why the cottage where Maria started to live was known by the name of "House of the Holy?"

4. To receive Jesus' mental influx, the Gospel gives us news of a small mediuns congregation. Mention some of them.

5. Who was John the Baptist and which the importance of his mission as precursor of the Messiah?

 

Text

After Jesus' crucifixion, Maria went to live with John 

1. The historians of the Roman Empire always observed with fright the deep contrasts of Augusto's glorious time. Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus had arrived at the wrapped up power in a series of happy events. It had begun with that energetic and magnanimous youth a new one was. The great empire, as that influenced by a group of strange forces, rested in a harmony wave and joy, after secular and dark wars. The glorious landscape of Rome had never gathered such as great number of intelligences, because it was in that time that Virgil, Horace, Ovid, Sallust, Livy and Gaius Maecenas appeared. 

2. The reason of that fright is due to the fact that many historians didn't feel bill that was on that same occasion that the world met the Gospel. They forgot that the nobleman Octavius was also man and, obviously, they didn't get to know that in his reign a special cohort, related to Christ's work, approached the Earth, in a deep vibration of love and of beauty. Came up to Rome and the world no more warlike spirits, like Hannibal or Alexander, but others who would dress in rags fishermen to base the indestructible eternal teachings of the Messiah. They immersed in the planet’s fluids the ones that would prepare Jesus' arrival and the ones that would become humble and immortal followers of their divine steps.  

3. Among those Spirits stands out the person of Maria of Nazareth, that, assisting Jesus' request done by occasion of the crucifixion, it went to live with John, to the south of Ephesus, distant three leagues approximately of the city. The simple house in that the two started to live located in a promontory, from where met casually the sea. In the high of  small hill, distant from the men, they met to cultivate Jesus' permanent memory. Landing and refuge of the abandoned ones, the simple house became a point of adorable assemblies, where the Messiah's memories were worshipped by humble and sincere Spirits.

It was in Ephesus that Maria passed to be called Sacred Mary 

4. Mary expressed their memories and she spoke of Jesus to maternal compassion, while the apostle commented on the evangelical truths. Great rows of persons in need assist to the generous ranch, and she assisted the entire one that sought exhibiting their ulcers and needs. His cottage was, then, known by the name of "House of the Holy." The fact had had an origin in certain occasion when a leprous beggar, after having diminished in their wounds, kissed the hands, murmuring: "Mrs., you are our Master's mother and our Sacred Mother!"

5. Besides Maria it was for some years a nobleman Spirit on which we have few information: he is Joseph. Very a little in the speech Joseph's Bible, but it was in his presence that Jesus was born and with Maria he was when Jesus was introduced in the Temple and led later Egypt. It was also him who taught to the son the simple carpenter occupation. Everything indicates, however, that José had already left for the spiritual world when Jesus was crucified, what would explain the request done by the Master so that Maria went, starting from that instant, to live with John. 

6. To receive Jesus' mental influx, the Gospel gives us news of a small mediuns congregation. We read like this in the notes so the Good News that Zacharias and Isabel, parents of John the Baptist, the precursor of Christ, they were "both fair ones before God"; that Maria, Nazareth's simple youth, that would welcome the Messiah in their maternal arms, if it found in a praise "position before the Eternal Father"; that Joseph from Galilee, the male that it would take him under paternal protection, it was "just"; that Simeon, the self-denying friend that awaited him in prayer, for long time, was "exactly and obedient to God", and that Ana, the widow that waited for him in prayer, in the temple of Jerusalem, was always "serving God."

Among the born of woman, the biggest was John the Baptist 

7. It is necessary that we also detach John the Baptist spiritual illustration, son of Isabel and Zacharias, call "the precursor", because it was him who prepared Jesus' steps, and it introduced him to the world. John's coming felt in circumstances very matters, because, besides, they be their senior plenty parents, Zacharias was attacked of a temporary muteness that only finished with the son's birth.

8. After John's birth. that had been previously in the Earth the great prophet Elias, that speaks King’s 1º Book, chapter 17 - we will find Batista in his glorious task of preparation of way to the truth, preceding the divine work of love that the world would know in Jesus Cristo. Skin dress and feeding of wild honey, explaining with energy and letting to decapitate in testimony to the truth, John preceded the mercy lesson and kindness that Jesus would bring soon afterwards to the world.  

9. Him if it felt, indeed, "the voice that shouts at the desert" and he prepared "the ways of the Lord." And this way they presented the Jews and Levites. Classified by Jesus as "the greatest born of woman", he stood out for his austerity in the way of announcing the Messiah, getting to attract crowds that, convicts of his moral and spiritual superiority, enter in Jordan River to clean of the "old man's" stains and of there they left clean of the body to symbolize the cleaning of the soul the one that they aspirated.  

Answer Key

1. Did what important facts for the life in the Earth precede Jesus' birth? 

A special cohort, related to Christ's work, had approached the Earth, in a deep vibration of love and of beauty. They approached of Rome and of the world no more belligerent Spirits, like Hannibal or Alexander, but others who would dress in rags fishermen to base the indestructible eternal teachings of the Messiah. They immersed in the planet’s fluids the ones that would prepare Jesus' arrival and the ones that would become humble and immortal followers of their divine steps. The glorious landscape of Rome had never gathered such as great number of intelligences, because it was in that time that Virgil, Horace, Ovid, Sallust, Livy and Gaius Maecenas appeared. For that reason, the great empire, as that influenced by a group of strange forces, rested in a harmony wave and joy, after secular and dark wars.  

2. After Jesus' crucifixion, where and with who it did go Maria to live? 

Maria, assisting Jesus' request done by occasion of the crucifixion, it went to live with John, to the south of Ephesus, distant three leagues approximately of the city.  

3. Why the cottage where Maria started to live was known by the name of "House of the Sacred?" 

In that house Maria expressed their memories, and she spoke of Jesus to maternal compassion, while the apostle commented on the evangelical truths. Great rows of persons in need assist to the generous ranch, and she assisted all the ones that sought her. The cottage passed to be known by the name of "House of the Sacred" when a leprous beggar, after having diminished for her in their wounds, kissed him the hands and she murmured: "Mrs., you are our Master's mother and our Sacred Mother!". 

4. To receive Jesus' mental influx, the Gospel gives us news of a small mediuns congregation. Mention some of them. 

Zacharias and Isabel, parents of John the Baptist, the precursor of Christ; Maria, Nazareth's simple youth, that welcomed the Messiah in their maternal arms; José from Galilee, the male that took him under paternal protection; Simeon, the self-denying friend that awaited him in prayer, and Ana, the widow that waited for him in prayer in the temple of Jerusalem. 

5. Who was John the Baptist and which the importance of his mission as precursor of the Messiah?

Son of Isabel and Zacharias, John the Baptist, call "the precursor", was who prepared Jesus' steps and it introduced him to the world. John had gone previously in the Earth the great prophet Elias, that he speaks King's 1º Book, chapter 17. Classified by Jesus as "the greatest born of woman", he stood out for his austerity in the way of announcing the Messiah, getting to attract crowds that, convicts of his moral and ritual superiority, enter in Jordan River to clean of the "old man's" stains and of there they left clean of the body to symbolize the cleaning of the soul the one that they aspirated.

 

Bibliography: 

Mechanisms of Mediumship, by André Luiz, psychographic: Francisco Cândido Xavier, cap. 26.

Good News, by Humberto de Campos, psychographic: Francisco Cândido Xavier, pp. 15 a 24, 201 a 205.

The Spirit of Christianity, by Cairbar Schutel, p. 68.

First Fruits of the Kingdom, by Amélia Rodrigues, psychographic: Divaldo P. Franco, p. 37.

Gospel of John, 19:25-27.

Gospel of Luke, 1:26-38.

Gospel of Mathew, 11:11.

Biblical Manual, by Henri H. José Halley, p. 368.