Why is it imperative to disseminate the teachings
of Jesus

In the face of criticism that we occasionally read or hear in our own midst, it is worth recalling the reasons why authors and spirit institutions give special emphasis in their works and programs, the dissemination of the teachings brought by Jesus.

Before quoting them, it is important to remember what Allan Kardec wrote concerning the coming of the Comforter promised by Jesus, according to notes taken by the evangelist John in chapters 14, 15 and 16 of the Gospel that bears his name.

Kardec wrote:

Saying, "I will ask my Father and he will send you another Counselor", Jesus clearly indicates that the Comforter would not be him, because otherwise, he would say: "I will return to complete what I have taught you." Not only had he not said it, as he added: In order to be with you forever and it will be in you. This proposition could not to refer to an individuality incarnated, as he could not stay forever with us or even less, be in us; it is understood, however, very well with reference to a doctrine which, in fact, when we have assimilated it, it may be in is forever. The Comforter is, according to the mind of Jesus, the personification of a supremely comforting doctrine, whose inspiring is to be the Spirit of Truth.

Spiritism, as demonstrated (chapter 1, No. 30), carries out all the conditions of the Comforter that Jesus promised. It is not a single doctrine, not of human design; no one can tell as its creator. It is the result of collective teaching of the Spirits, teaching the presiding Spirit of Truth. Nothing suppresses the Gospel: Before it completes and elucidates. With the help of new laws that reveals; combined to these laws what science has discovered it is to understand what it was unintelligible and admitted the possibility of what unbelief considered inadmissible. (Genesis, chapter XVII, n. 39 and 40.) (Bold added by us)

We know, of course, that the Church and other Christian denominations do not admit that the parallel Kardec established between the spirit doctrine and the promised Comforter. But this does not matter to us. We do not act, nor ever will act as our detractors wish.

Indeed, even though the advent of Spiritism was not the fulfillment of the promise made by Jesus, it is undeniable that it fulfills all the conditions recorded in the Gospel of John - and it is exactly there that have certain characteristics, as well as the reasons why the Gospel could not, as some, remain on the sidelines of spiritualistic thoughts.

Here they are, didactically exposed:

1º) The Comforter will be with you forever.

"If ye love me, keep my commandments. And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that it may abide with you forever; the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees it nor knows it ..." (John 14: 15-17).

2º) It will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said.

"Who does not love me does not keep my words; and the word which ye hear is not mine, but the Father who sent me. I have spoken unto you, being with you. But the Comforter, the Spirit of truth, whom the Father will send in my name, it shall teach you all things and bring to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you." (John 14: 24-26.).

3º) The Comforter shall testify of me.

"If I did not do among them the works which none other man has done, they would not have sin; but now they have seen them and hated me and my Father. But in order to fulfill the word that it is written in its law: They hated me without cause. But when the Comforter comes, whom I on the part of Father hath shall I send, the Spirit of truth which proceeds from the Father, it shall testify of me." (Jn. 15: 24-26).

4º) It will guide you into all truth.

"I still have many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now. But when it comes, that Spirit of truth, it will guide you into all truth; because it will not speak of itself; but it will say everything it has heard, and it will announce to you what it is to come. It will glorify me, for it will take what is mine and you will declare it." (Jn. 16: 5-16). (Bold added by us)

In view of the above, it is not difficult to understand why the evangelical teachings and the study groups of the spirit doctrine are common elements in the activities of spirit centers that cherish and seek to act according to the guidelines set forth in the works of Allan Kardec, the encoder of the spirit doctrine.