The Gospel is the Code of Moral Principles of the Universe, adaptable to all homelands, all communities, all races and all creatures.

“Submitted to his tender and mysterious authority, the souls found safety and the protection of the divine flock.”- FRANÇOIS C. LIRAN

 
When the "morning light that awakens" arrived, He left His Garden of Stars to confine Himself in the "outer shadows, where there is weeping and gnashing of teeth" in order to show theSpirits, bound in fetters, the path to definitive spiritual emancipation, since the earthly herd was lost in the mazes of irrationality of different levels...

As John Evangelist(1) very well said, "it was His wish that men went to Him with the confidence of a child of halting steps to benefit from His protection similar to the protection given by a hen guarding her chicks under her wings.

After His streak of light in the planetary darkness, manly action was engaged; now it is no longer a matter of believing by instinct, nor obeying mechanically; it is necessary that man follows the Law of Love passed by Him."

Followingthe words of the "Beloved Disciple", a Protecting Spirit (2)completed translating the meaning of what the Master wanted to say when, lovingly looking at the children around Him, which were kept at a distance by the angry Apostles, He said (3), "Let the little children come unto me, and forbid them not, for of such is the kingdom of God. I have the milk that strengthens the weak. Let come to me all that are timid and weak, those who need support and consolation. Let the ignorant come too, so that I will clarify them. Let come to me all who suffer, the crowd of the afflicted and unfortunate: I will teach them the great remedy that softens the ills of life and reveal to them the secret of healing their wounds! What is, my friend, this sovereign balm, which has such great virtue, that when applied to all the wounds of the heart it heals them? It is love, and it is charity! If you possess this divine fire, what shall you fear?"

Andre Luiz tells us (4), "(...) since the arrival of the Exalted Benefactor of the Planet, there is asublime thought penetrating the thought of mankind. One would say that rocks, bushes, animals, and human beings gathered in the stable, representing the various kingdoms of the Earth's evolution to receive His first touch of mental enhancement and beauty. Pastors' singlehymns and love songs in the voices of spiritual messengers, salute the One who came to freenations, not in the social order that will always represent the needs of collective order, but in the access of the Souls, depending on Eternal Life...

HIS APOSTOLATE STARTED EARLY

Before Him, great commanders of the idea had trampled the ground of the world, influencingcrowds. Warriors and politicians, philosophers and prophets lined in the popular memory, wereremembered as disciplinarians and heroes, but all marched with armies and formulas,statements and warnings, where righteousness and bias, shadow and light were mixed.

He arrives without any prestige of human authority; but with His moral magnitude, He prints anew direction to life, by influencing above all, the Spirit, across the Earth. Transmitting the mind waves of Higher Spheres, from where He came, He moves among creatures awakeningtheir energies to Greater Life, as if impelling their innermost fibers to harmonize them with the universal symphony of Eternal Wellness.

Aided by an amazing group of psychics, He forms the Apostolic College consisting of creaturesnot only wonderful by their advanced perceptions, which allowed them to be in contact withthe Celestial Emissaries, but also due to their irreproachable conduct. They gave rise to a circuitof forces to which the mental wave of Christ was adjusted, hence expanding to renew the world.

Early starts the sublime apostolate for the Divine Master, raised to the position of Medium of God, and responsible for establishing the notions of everlasting life regarding the existence on Earth. Therefore, with only twelve years of age, He sits among the doctors of Israel, "listening to them and asking them questions” (5), causing admiration by the concepts He explained and showing His condition of intermediary between different cultures.

Starting the publican task (6), the externalization of sublime energies, we find Him at Cana in Galilee (7); and we find Him multiplying loaves and fishes too (8),on top of the mountain, as well as calming the raving Nature (9), when the frightened disciples ask Him for help, before the storm. We identify Him in full levitation, walking on water (10), in a miraculous occurrence ofmaterialization or ectoplasm, when He starts to talk with two disembodied men (11), whopositively appeared glorified talking to Him about coming events, having as witnesses theastonished Peter, John, and James.

In Solomon's temple in Jerusalem, He disappears abruptly, dematerialized before the generalexpectation and, in the same city, before the crowd, there is the production of direct voice (12),in which divine blessings indicate Him the route. 

APPRECIATION OF HIS OWN ENERGIES 

Various patients surrounded Him: paralytics held out their withered limbs, and were helped by Him; the blind could see again; the sores of the ulcerated became clean; the mentally affected by several types of obsessions regained their balance...

It is important to consider, however, that the Great Benefactor invites all to enhance their own energies. Resetting the ill cells of the bleeding woman, He tells her convincingly, "My daughter,be good!  Your faith has healed you.” (13)Soon after, touching the eyes of two blind men whoturned to Him for help, He says, "Be done according to your faith."(14)

Nevertheless, He does not consider belief as a simple ingredient of mystical nature, but as a resource of adjustment of the mental principles towards healing. Moreover, He emphasizes the need of a right way of thinking for the harmony of the binomial mind-body. And we see Him several times guiding the relieved sufferers to a noble life, as in the case of the paralytic at Bethesda that, upon being healed, when he first met Him again in the temple, he heard from Him the unforgettable warning: "behold thou art made whole." "Sin no more, lest worse happens to you."

At a distance from Jerusalem, He predicts (15) the bitter events that will culminate with His death on the cross. Using clairvoyance, which was peculiar to him, He predicts (16) Simon BarJonah surrounded by lower entities of the extra-physical sphere, and warns him of the danger they represent because they weaken the apostle. In his last instructions, next to his friends, confirming the profound clarity of His insights, which were one of His characteristics, he demonstrates that he is aware of the disruption of Judas' conscious (17),despite the doubtsthat this statement raises among the listeners. In the prayers of Gethsemane (18), clairvoyanceand clairaudience combining, He talks with a Spiritual messenger who comforts Him.

According to the famous Master from the city of Lyons, all deeds of Jesus are dimmed beforethe undeniable fact that His doctrine remained unscathed from generation to generation, until today. This in spite of all the difficulties and obstacles faced in its implementation on Earth, including maintaining itself undamaged after the many mutilations, tampering and grafts that itsuffered at the hands of the infidels, who without shame, declared themselves to be His representatives on Earth. 

THE GREATEST “MIRACLE” PERFORMED BY JESUS 

Says the Encoder of Spiritism (19)"the greatest miracle" that Jesus performed, which trulyattests His superiority, was no more than the revolution that His teachings produced in the world, despite the scarcity of His means of action.

Indeed, Jesus, unknown, poor, born in the humblest condition, from a wee folk, almostunknown, and without political, artistic, or literary preponderance, only preaches His doctrine for a period of three years. During this short time, his fellow citizens reject and persecute Him.He is forced to flee to avoid being stoned. He is betrayed by one of his Apostles, denied byanother, abandoned by everyone when He falls into the hands of His enemies. He only did well, and this did not protect Him from malevolence, which used His good deeds to accuse Him.

He was condemned to the torture that was inflicted only on criminals and He dies ignored by the world, as the history of that time says nothing about Him. He wrote nothing. However, helped by some as obscure men as He, his word was enough to regenerate the world. His doctrine destroyed the omnipotent paganism and became the beacon of civilization. He had against himself everything that concerned the failure of the works of men. This is why we say that the success achieved by His doctrine was the greatest of His miracles, and His mission proves to be divine. If, instead of social and regenerating principles, based on the spiritual future of man, He had just bequeathed to posterity some facts, maybe today we would hardly know His name."

Going in the direction of the Calvary, He fulfilled His mission, bequeathed to Mankind the"Vademecum" of enlightenment, bundled in His Gospel of Light.

Ending, Andre Luiz (4)says, "The Gospel is not the only book of the people. It is the Code ofMoral Principles of the Universe, adaptable to all homelands, all communities, all races, and all creatures. It represents above all, the letter of conduct for the rise of consciousness toImmortality. And to reveal this, Our Lord Jesus Christ used the sublime mediumship as aneternal light agent, praising life, and annihilating death, abolishing evil and glorifying the goodin order that human laws purify, magnify and sanctify themselves and rise to their integrationwith the Laws of God."

References:  

1. Kardec, Allan. The Gospel According to Spiritism. 129. Ed. Rio [de Janeiro]: FEB 2009, Chapter VIII, item 18.

2. Ibid, Chapter VIII, item 19.

3. Mark 10:14.

4. XAVIER, F. Candido. Mechanisms of Mediumship. Fourth Ed. Rio [de Janeiro]: FEB 1973, Chapter XXVI.

5. Luke 2:46.

6. John 2:1 to 12.

7. Kardec, Allan. The Genesis. 43. ed. Rio [de Janeiro]: FEB 2003, ChapterXV, item 47.

8. John 6:1 to 15 (see also, Kardec, Allan Genesis, Chapter XV, item 48).

9. Mark 4:35 to 41.

10. Mark 6:49 50.

11. Luke 9:28 32.

12. John 12:28 30.

13. Matthew 9:22.

14. Matthew, 9:29.

15. Luke 22:31 34.

16. Luke 22:31 34.

17. John 13:21 22.

18. Luke 22:43.

19. Kardec, Allan. The Genesis. 43rd Ed. Rio [de Janeiro]: FEB 2003, Chapter XV, item 3.