Eurípedes came to ease the pain, give his love and live what the Gospel says

Hours later, Eurípedes looked for his mother and told her that he would spend the morning, at the top of the small town, on the hill named “Beautiful View” — his favorite retreat for his beloved readings...

The morning was clear, a mild breeze played among the fruit trees in the backyards.

There in Nature’s peace, Eurípedes gave himself over to reading the book, which had deeply impressed him, the night before.

The blue sky, the natural panel stretching around, everything was an invitation to a deeper understanding of the author's thought. Ah, how he venerated the Creator of the World and of Beings! God—that is Eurípedes' emotional theme at all times. He would pronounce the Holy Name to her with a sacred tremor on his lips and a divine mark of tears in his tender eyes.

Upon contact with Nature, the perfume of understanding penetrates his most intimate fibers... He reads again the magnificent pages. His enthusiasm relights, and transforms the previous night into the most beautiful night of vigil that he had been able to experience until then!... The sleeping light in the lamp of the heart expands. And, little by little, it takes over his senses, his intimate being. It is a divine moment of spiritual integration with the Father... Understand, then, that humanity has always received divine support. In all ages, in the course of civilizations, the Guiding Word has never orphaned the earthly creature. From the Vedas, in India; Pythagoras, before space and worlds and the expansion of universal life; the Druids, in Gaul, promoting the sublime work of the spiritualization of creatures; Socrates and Plato popularizing the principles of Pythagoras; Christianity marked by sublime revelations...

Eurípedes accompanies the unveiling of the mysterious portico, which only a small number of initiates reached. Orientalist hermeticism finally opens the millennial floodgates. Spiritism — a dam of light — crosses the dams, opens the floodgates, so that human understanding becomes aware, watering itself forever in the generous waterfalls. It is the Promised Comforter to spread eternal beauties, without symbolism, nor allegories, nor subtle mysteries. Openly... Finally, the veil of temples and sanctuaries falls!

The hours go by... Down there, the city has already got up, lazy... The young man continues reading page-by-page. Lessons fall naturally into his avid spirit. Without the trampling of doubt. The second part of the book brings you uncontained tears of emotion. He had never felt in any author the high significance of the Love and Wisdom of God.

— “I have never seen anyone sing the glories of Creation with such depth and beauty.” These words of Eurípedes, repeated many times, express the great respect given to the work of Leon Denis.

In Religious Literature, which I frequently leafed through, I had never, until then, found a brain that expressed the magnificence of the Divine Work, with the brilliance and depth of that author. With the soft and beautiful force of Poetry, the philosopher structures a new and rational meaning for the attributes of God.

When he went down the green hill, Eurípedes relived the first raptures, which the spiritist literature provided him and which would be repeated, in the future, by the fraternal hands of “Uncle Sinhô”.

CONVERSION TO SPIRITISM - NEW DIRECTIONS

Uncle Sinhô sent Eurípedes the scarce propaganda material of the Spiritist Doctrine that existed at the time.

Deeply shaken in his Catholic convictions and loyal to the sincerity of his Spirit, he restricted his presence in the Church to a few offices. He was no longer the same assiduous attender of religious services. The fact began to arouse apprehensions within the young man's family and the clergy...

On Good Friday, 1904, Eurípedes finally accepted the kind invitation of D. Emerenciana Mendonca, his dear godmother Sana, and, in the company of his friend Jose Martins Borges, they went to attend a spiritist session at the Santa Maria farm. He had arrived there with his friend with the aim of observing everything live. They entered the enclosure respectfully. Work had already started. Eurípedes accompanied – attentively – the reading of the book “The Gospel According to Spiritism”. Everything was new and surprising to him! He was amazed to see uneducated men assume the great responsibility of spreading the Gospels of the Lord. There was Aristides, for example, a well-known individual, carrying a heart of gold but an empty brain.

A thought then vibrates in his mind... He decides to make his request and does it with anointing: “I understood everything in the Bible. But my understanding is closed to the Beatitudes. If it is true that spirits communicate with the living, I beg John the Evangelist to clarify this for me through the medium Aristides”.

A few minutes later, Eurípedes listened to the most extraordinary philosophical and doctrinal dissertation, which he had ever known, in his entire life, on the luminescent speech of Jesus, through the requested interpreter... Impossible to attribute to Aristides, semi-literate, that sublime language, where the magnetism of powerful eloquence moved the bystanders to tears. The clear and persuasive allocution, elucidating the problems of the Spirit - in the context of causes and effects -; of life beyond the grave, emphasizing the possibility of working on the scripts of greater learning, of the multiplicity of existences in the immense panel of spiritual progress, everything left Eurípedes highly impressed. He now knows that the Sermon on the Mount summarizes the Doctrine of Christ. But only the logic of Spiritism can lead human understanding to this rational conclusion. At the end of the luminous exhibition, the Entity marks its identity with the vibrant stamp of fraternal greeting: “Peace! John the Evangelist”.

Eurípedes Barsanulfo came up against the golden tangent that made all his doubts fall: the Communicability of Spirits is a fact to which he cannot – entirely – oppose objections. He felt involved in an unknown atmosphere, which touched his whole being with sublime emotion. On that memorable night, Eurípedes Barsanulfo walked his “Way to Damascus”. The bellias that clouded his reasoning fell away and, then, the youngest, the most devoted, the most lucid and the most faithful servant of Jesus and disciple of Allan Kardec appears on the earthly proscenium!

In a second meeting at the Santa Maria farm, Eurípedes receives the following message from S. Vicente de Paulo, which, in fact, serves all of us: “Leave your position in the congregation without regret or regret. I invite you to create another institution, whose base will be Jesus and whose spiritual director will be me and you the material commander. Get away from the Church for good. When you hear the popping of fireworks, the ringing of bells or the sound of sacred music, do not feel hurt or homesick, because the Lord offers us a wider field of service and calls us to the dynamizing action of Love.

My son, the doors of Sacramento will close for you... Friends will move away. The family itself will revolt. But, don't mind. Always proclaim the truth, because from this hour onwards, the responsibilities of your Spirit have expanded unlimitedly. You will cross the street of bitterness, with friends ridiculing an attitude they cannot understand”.

Eurípedes returns to the city... His heart is bathed in new clarity and sublime resolutions. Transforming himself into a living letter of Christ on the ground of the Earth, he relieves pain, gives his unconditional love, and finally lives, in practice, what the Gospel says!

Years later, already disembodied, through the luminous mediumship of Chico Xavier he would say: “(...) let us know how to oppose good to evil, mildness to violence, love to hate, silence to turmoil, with unconditional forgiveness to the attacks of any nature, praying for the blessing of God, our Father of Infinite Kindness, for all the cultivators of injury, who do not hesitate to disrespect the faith of others, throwing pebbles of irony at it. Because the Spiritist Doctrine, far from being a reason for mockery, is the Doctrine of Our Lord Jesus Christ, who was also, with the disapproval of the principals of his time, among laughing persecutors, in the cold arms of the cross”.

In vibrant speech, Eurípedes universalizes and eternalizes the defense of all Missionaries who, like him, made the practice of true mediumship sublime on the face of the Earth.

On the first of May of the year 1880, a Great Light appeared in Minas Gerais, in the sacramental lands, and its reverberations will never leave, because they are eternal and unfading.