To popularise Spiritism. This is the great challenge!
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"Know the truth and the truth shall set you free." - Jesus.

“What sort of world is this?”

Nowadays, not infrequently, we hear such a question concerning the atrocities suffered by our society.

Atrocities which have usually been reported by the media, but also not reported in such a way, but of which we learn in our day-to-day. Facts that make us unhappy and are generated by small and large emotional and/or psychological disturbances, devastating the population.  Among them, we highlight the choleric state, because it is a factor responsible for numerous misfortunes affected between families and the social environment.

With wrath in action we have deaths that take place in full traffic jams, in places of leisure, and especially in bars and cafes. We have deaths in school settings, in workplaces, in familiar surroundings, and on a large scale, in public streets and alleys throughout the city.

Anger can be shown in an explicit manner or not. Its manifestation, almost always, is connected with circumstances involving personal interests. It can manifest itself at any time or occasion, staying temporarily embedded in the core of the being, being "fed" by thoughts of anger, contempt, envy, sorrow, anger and the like - resentments that can, at any time, awaken the "beast" trapped by the varnish of personal or social convenience.

So many crimes, so many intrigues, many misfortunes spring from small frictions, small dislikes, small annoyances that once cultivated, lead humans to behave and act like a crazed beasts.

We will have to work hard in the disseminating of Spiritism

All this could be avoided if the divine code contained in The Gospel According to Spiritism was decoded and widely propagated, disseminated among the masses.

if it is popularised, thus becoming an integral and active part in the conduct of the being, and reflecting itself in earthly society, the violence recorded in our day would certainly give way to a more  responsible and more human behaviour. But it still isn’t so! We, spiritists, have to work hard in the pursuit of disseminating Spiritism and on living its teachings.. Today, perhaps more than ever, we need to promote and expand these teachings regular people who somehow are part our relationships - or not.

Never before has Jesus been spoken of as at present times, but also never has one been so distant from Him and His teachings as now. Materialism, generating exaggerated consumerism, is the villain. Materialism invades churches, encouraging "offerings" by way of "give so that you receive" where some get benefit from using spiritual and material misery of others. Materialism invades the homes through consumerism, spurred on largely by the media. It invades the lives of ordinary people who are deceived by the appearances of "those who have the most are the best and most accepted" and so no matter if  "to have" is done by fair means or not.

For these and other reasons, people who are unaware and distracted by materialistic illusions provide extremely favourable mental and physical environments so that spirits who are misleading, avengers, usurpers, and therefore suffering spirits, "lie down and wallow" in the "mess" of distorted feelings of the good, of the beautiful, of moral values that are ​​embodied in the living experience of the being in evolution.

We are influenced and even led by Spirits

"What to do?" If we assume the principle that all evil comes from feelings contrary to good, the answer is simple: "To worship favourable feelings to the good under any circumstances that are presented to us." From then on, once equipped with the knowledge gained from the spiritist codification, we shall work incessantly in the practice of these teachings and its dissemination.  However, this work requires effort from the collective and from oneself, being up to the spiritist movement and to spiritists, to develop methods so that these philosophical teachings are expanded to the popular mass, aiming at the improvement of the spiritual being. This will result in the so much desired PEACE. Therefore, we must seek to APPEASE the existing turmoil in the hearts. Unrest generated by less happy thoughts that swarm human minds and that, in turn, end up inviting other minds that are equally or even more disturbed to socialize and share existences. We must also take into account that this sharing occurs from homes to workplaces and public roads.

Chapter 20 of The Mediums' Book describes in details how much we are influenced by spirits and even conducted by them, in the routine of our days. It clarifies that this influence can be positive or negative, depending on the content of our thoughts and vibrations emitted by them, attracting or repelling those who are like us. Such influences occur in all places where we transit, especially those places that enable us to exercise the good and wholesome family or social conviviality. But it is not enough to have knowledge and maintain "a lamp beneath a bushel." The great light is needed to be expanded to enlighten minds and hearts.

You need to attract the masses to the study of Spiritism

It would be interesting for the Spiritist movement to take action focusing on arousing the interest of the population, aiming to attract the masses to the study of its philosophy. An example would be to promote books and audio book fairs, fairs that could be organized in public squares where visitors would be invited and encouraged to meet with the organizers and participants at the event for the purpose of uniting and making vibrations directed at peace. The earthly atmosphere and the Spirit workers of Christ’s harvest ask for movements like these with greater intensity, and it is up to the Spiritist movement to promote them with "faith, hope and charity."

To confirm this, let's see what Erastus tells us in the message "Mission of the Spiritists", in chapter 20, item No 2, of The Gospel According to Spiritism, transcribed below:

 “... go forth to preach the new doctrine of reincarnation and the elevation of Spirits according to whether they have fulfilled their missions and supported their terrestrial trials well or badly. Oh, true adepts of Spiritism . . . you are God's chosen ones! Go forth and preach the Divine Word. The time has come when you should sacrifice your habits, your work, and your futile occupations to its dissemination. Go forth and preach! The elevated Spirits are with you. You will most certainly speak to those who do not wish to hear the Voice of God, because this Voice calls them unceasingly to abnegation. You will preach disinterestedness to those who are avaricious, abstinence to the dissolute, gentleness to domestic tyrants and despots! Lost words, I know, but it does not matter! It is necessary that you irrigate the land to be sown with the sweat of your labour, seeing that it will not come to fruit nor produce except under the repeated blows of the evangelical hoe and plough. Go forth and preach! To all of you, men and women of good faith who are conscious of your inferiority before the many worlds scattered in infinite space! . . . Launch yourselves into the crusade against injustice and iniquity. Go forth and ostracize the worship of the golden calf, which spreads more and more each day. Go forth; God guides you! Simple and ignorant humanity, your tongues will be freed and you will speak as no orator speaks.

"Go forth and preach," this is the advice given to us by Erastus

Go forth then and preach, for those of the population who are heedful will happily take in your words of consolation, fraternity, hope and peace. (...) the Shepherd will know how to defend His sheep from the sacrificial butchers. Go forth those who, great before God and more blessed than Saint Thomas, believe without demanding to see and accept the fact of mediumship even when they have not managed to obtain it for themselves. Go then, for the Spirit of God is guiding you. March forward, magnificent phalanx of faith! Before you the great battalions of unbelievers will dissipate, as does the morning dew at the first rays of the sun.

Jesus said that faith is the virtue which moves mountains. However, heavier that the greatest mountain are the impurities and all the vices which are derived from them, which lie deposited in the hearts of men. So then, depart full of courage to remove this mountain of iniquities which future generations should only know as legend, in the same way that you know only very imperfectly of the times which preceded pagan civilization. Moral and philosophical upheavals will be produced at all points of the globe; the hour approaches when the Divine Light will spread itself over both worlds.

Go forth, therefore, taking the divine word to the great; who will disdain it; to the wise; who will want to prove it; and to the simple and small; who will accept it; because, especially among the martyrs of the work in this earthly atonement, and you will find enthusiasm and faith. Go forth! So that these ones will joyfully receive divine consolation offered by you, thanking and praising God, and, lowering their forehead, will yield thanks for afflictions that Earth has reserved them. Arm yourself with decision and courage as your phalanx! Get to work! The plough is ready, the land prepared: plough! Go forth and thank God for the glorious task He has given you. But beware, that among those called to Spiritism, many will stray from the path! Take heed, therefore, on your way, and seek the truth! "

This is just one of the messages found in the edifying works of Kardec, who asks, encourages and expects from us spiritists, the largest commitment in favour of enlightenment of human minds. Enlightenment arising from the Greater Spirituality, by which spiritual enhancement of the human creature will be attained.