Before the new times
While the story relates fairy intervention, referring to the tutelary geniuses, the hidden palaces and the wonders of the unknown forest, the children listen attentively, expressing joy and interest in the happy countenance. However, when the narrator changes the word, fixing it in the educational realities, he withdraws into the childish, counterfeit, tired mind ... He does not understand the promise of the future life, with its works and responsibilities. Hearts, still tender, love the dream, await easy heroism, cherish the slightest effort, do not readily understand the divine work of eternal perfection, and therefore depart from the real teaching, astonished, astonished. But life awaits them with its unchanging laws and reveals the truth to them, gradually, without spectacular noises, with motherly serenity. André Luiz's pages recall this image. While the Wise and Benevolent Spirits bring the heavenly vision, widening the field of human hopes, all incarnate companions hear us, ecstatic, blissful. It is the sublime consolation, the desired comfort. Hearts are gathered together to receive the messages from heaven. But if the emissaries of the higher plane reveal some angles of spiritual life, speaking of work, self-effort, personal responsibility, edifying struggle, necessary study, self-improvement, they do not hide the unpleasant impression. Contrary to the assumptions of the first hour, they do not see the sky of ease, nor the region of favors, do not see miraculous events, nor observe restful bliss. Instead of the nearby paradise, he sits in the vicinity of a tireless workshop, where the worker will not rise by the kissed hand of protectionism but at the expense of himself, so that he owes his own victory or defeat. They perceive the imperishable law that establishes the control of life, in the name of the Eternal, without false judgments. They realize that the beaches of divine beauty and the enchanted palaces of peace await the Spirit on other vibrating continents of the Universe, recognizing, however, that it is for them to sweat and fight, to strive and improve to reach them, to brave in the immense sea. of the experiences. Most are startled and try to retreat. He wants an easy heaven, after the death of the body, to be conquered by mere doctrinal statements. No one, however, will disturb the divine law; Truth will always win, and eternal life will continue to teach slowly with motherly patience.Christian Spiritism currently has a great and sublime task in the world. It is not enough to define the venerable characteristics of the Comforter of Humanity, but we must also reveal to him the feature of liberating movement of consciousness and heart. Physical death is not the end. It is pure chapter change in the book of evolution and improvement. In its influx no one should expect final and definitive solutions when we know that one hundred years of activity in the world represents a relatively short fraction of time for any building in eternal life. Infinite field of service awaits the dedication of the workers of truth and good. Massive problems challenge the brave spirits incarnated in the present age with the glorious mission of preparing the new age, contributing to the restoration of living faith and the extension of human understanding. It is urgent to help Religion, buried in the theological archives of stone temples, and to support Science, transformed into a satanic genius of destruction. Victorious spirituality travels the world, regenerating moral sources, awakening the creature within the realistic framework of its acquisitions. There are new calls to the unbelieving man of the twentieth century, pointing him to broader horizons, demonstrating to him that the Spirit lives above the civilizations that war transforms or consumes in its multi-year dragon voracity. In the face of the new times and considering the great effort of renewal, all the faithful servants of truth and good must be called upon, so that, first and foremost, they may live the new faith, improving and elevating each one of them. way to a better world, that the building up of Christ may prevail over the mere words of brilliant ideologies. In the attainment of the higher task, they incarnate and disembodied with goodwill, building the bridge of light through which humanity will bridge the gulf of ignorance and death. It is for this reason, my dear reader, that André Luiz comes once again to meet you, to tell you something about the divine service of the “Missionaries of Light”, while also clarifying that man is an Eternal Spirit temporarily inhabiting the living temple of the terrestrial flesh, that the perispirit is not a body of vague fog but a living organization to which they conform to material cells; which the soul receives everywhere according to its individual creations; --continue> next ...>>