We have come
to a time of
extraordinary
achievements.
It is a pity
that
together
with them,
intolerance,
crime and
abuse of
every kind
stain with
elusive
spots so
many
scientific
and
technological
advances of
this
flint-winning
Humanity. It
is good to
look back
when we
lived only
to maintain
our physical
bodies and
to do so we
fought
against each
other in an
uncontained
search for
food, for
territorial
advance, and
for the
paths that
lead us to
lakes and to
the running
waters or
caves to
protect us
from the
darkness of
the night
with its
dangers or
uncertainties.
Yes, the
journey of
man in these
last seventy
thousand
years was
glorious
when we left
the period
of the
Neanderthal
man for the
Technological
Sapiens
period, as
it is
proposed
today. And
the most
important is
that we all
participated.
We have all
given our
share of
contribution
from the
simplest to
the most
complex. We
are, as
Emmanuel
says,
"Heroes of
Intelligence".
However,
History does
not tell us
how the
hominids
lived about
2.5 million
years ago
when the
human epic
began. PhD
in History,
Yuval Harari
says: "on a
trip to East
Africa, 2
million
years ago,
one could
see certain
familiar
human
features.”
And what
would these
characteristics
be? We
asked. The
academic
himself
answers:
"Anxious
mothers
caressing
their
babies;
flocks of
carefree
children
playing in
the mud;
temperamental
youngsters
rebelling
against the
rules of
that
society, and
tired old
men, who
only wanted
to live in
peace and
there were
still the
proud males
trying to
impress the
local
beauties,
and wise old
matriarchs
who had seen
everything!"
History?
Reality? It
is important
to consider
that
according to
psychology
our current
behaviors
are based on
ancestral
experiences.
What is
described
above very
much
resembles
our present
behavior. It
gives us the
impression
that our
brains
stored for
millennia
those
experiences
causing them
to reflect
in this
present
moment.
There is no
more
scientific
discussion
about our
origins. We
are on an
evolutionary
journey
where every
moment was
fundamental
for us to
build our
present
life.
Spiritism,
from its
inception,
corroborates
science,
adding that
we are
expanding
monads of
God. This is
the fact and
the need to
conform to
it.
We often
discuss this
or that case
and almost
always we
give our
opinion
hastily. Now
at this
moment
countless
studies are
being
conducted
around
everything
and to talk
about
something or
everything
requires
in-depth
knowledge. A
Spiritist
must be
someone
committed to
the truth.
And what is
the truth
but the
knowledge
and practice
of the
Divine Laws
from the
physical
laws to the
moral laws?
Therefore,
to give an
opinion, as
a Spiritist,
it must
first pass
through the
rational and
logical
sketches of
what the
Codification
presents to
us. That is:
the "I
think" is no
longer
valid, still
so frequent
among us.
The "I
think,"
translated,
says "I'm
not sure".
Now, if I'm
not sure,
how can I
give my
opinion? It
will be full
of
half-truths.
"Time is
wise, it
reveals
everything",
said the
Greek
philosopher
Tales of
Miletus, who
lived from
624 to 546
BC and he
was right.
Gradually
the
revelations
were made in
the world
and are made
in each of
us. So, it
is wise to
measure what
I think with
what the
scientific
and
technological
advances
present to
us at the
moment. In
the chapter
on the Law
of
Progress, in
The Book of
Spirits,
we will find
that
progress is
fatal and
that no one
can try to
stop it.
Question
781-a: "What
should one
think of
those who
try to stop
the march of
progress and
make
Humanity
retrograde?
Poor beings
that God
will punish!
They will be
swept away
by the
torrent they
try to
stop".
It is spoken
vehemently
about the
world of
regeneration
and the
exiles that
may occur to
those who do
not wish to
conform to
Jesus'
proposals.
This is a
fact to be
thought and
rethought.
We need the
thirst for
knowledge to
go further.
Luis
Sepulveda,
novelist,
writer,
journalist,
and Chilean
political
activist
tells us:
"The hunter
must always
be a little
hungry,
because
hunger
awakens the
senses". And
it is in
this context
that we must
situate
ourselves.
We must
search
permanently.
Andre Luiz
tells us
about the
"Creator’s
Breath”,
that is, the
flow of
life. We are
in this flow
and he
invites us
to know
more. Once
one step is
completed,
another
comes to us,
that is, the
challenge;
here is the
proposal for
the winner
of himself.
It happens
that many,
when winning
a stage,
prefer to
remain in
it, situated
in a zone of
comfort that
destroy
senses that
make them
advance to
other
stages. We
are from
yesterday,
today and
always.
There will
be a time
when the
only time to
be
considered
will be the
eternal
present.
In these
reflections
we need to
seek who we
are and what
we do with
ourselves in
the time
that is
offered to
us by God.
Are we our
own hunters
or do we
degenerate
the
environment
that is
offered to
us? Let us
look at
Jean-Jacques
Rousseau - a
philosopher,
political
theorist and
writer of
the
eighteenth
century:
"Everything
degenerates
in the hands
of man. He
changes
everything,
wants
nothing as
Nature did,
not even
man". With
the
knowledge of
Psychology
and
Spiritism we
understand
that this
man has been
seeking to
improve,
even if very
slowly. It
happens that
a new
dimension
presents
itself
within the
new
planetary
cycle: the 4thdimension,
which is
time. It
will bring
new options
different
from
everything
we know and
have
experienced.
In it, the
old Sunday
or weekly
and even
daily
meetings
will have to
be more
agile, the
information
less wordy,
and the
statements
as closer as
possible to
wisdom. Men
will have to
grow
ethically
and morally,
families
will have to
re-approach
one another
on behalf of
individuals.
Returning to
Yuval
Harari, he
proposes
that
Humanity has
lived
through
three great
revolutions:
first the
cognitive,
in which
fictional
language
arises and
the Sapiens
spread from
Africa. Fire
happens to
be of daily
use. There
is the
extinction
of
Neanderthals
and Sapiens
becomes the
only
surviving
human
species.
History
begins, and
man begins
to tell who
he is
through his
marks in
caves or in
archaeological
sites. Next,
we have the
agricultural
revolution,
where man
domesticated
plants and
animals
seeking
permanent
settlements.
Then,
systems of
writing and
money arise,
as well as
polytheistic
religions.
And then the
scientific
revolution
follows
where
Humanity
recognizes
its
ignorance
and leaves
in search of
its
conquests.
The whole
planet
becomes one
stage. This
is our time.
It is
curious to
note that in
this flood
of events
mankind was
prepared to
receive
Spiritism.
From the
Renaissance
to the
Enlightenment,
in the arts,
philosophies
and science
we were
gradually
trained to
appropriate
the
information
of the
Superior
Spirits from
the
Codification
and
extending in
the labors
of great
mediums,
notably
Chico
Xavier,
Divaldo
Franco, and
Yvonne
Pereira do
Amaral,
among
others.
Here we are
masters of a
new time. A
new
revolution:
the
spiritual
revolution,
which will
put us
beyond the
simple
citizen of
the world to
the citizen
of the
universe
from the
Earth system
that
welcomed us
and feeds us
information
and
opportunities.
Current
Psychology
invites us
to seek
self-knowledge
so that we
become
self-actualizers
in
ourselves.
Our journey,
from the
hominid of 2
million and
500 thousand
years ago,
enables us
to
appropriate
new searches
so that new
advances can
be made in
us and from
us. The time
of the “I
think” has
come to an
end, the
time of the
undisciplined
laughter, of
the inferior
and unhappy
postures
finished.
Deepak
Chopra,
beginning
his book
"You Are the
Universe,"
tells us:
"There is a
relationship
that has
been kept
secret in
the lives of
all people.
We do not
know when it
started, but
we are
totally
dependent on
it. If it
would one
day end, the
world would
disappear
like a cloud
of smoke.
It's about
our
relationship
with
reality".
And he still
says: "...
It is
precious
that many
things fit
perfectly so
that reality
is formed;
but this
happens
without us
having any
knowledge of
it”. "He is
only saying
that the
evolutionary
process,
divine
project,
always
drives us to
God, even
though we
insist on
staying
where we
are. We have
already
talked about
the flow of
life, breath
of the
Creator, and
we say again
that it is
impossible
to stop it.
The world
will undergo
deep
changes,
since its
government
is not
human.
Torres
Pastorino in
his book
"Timely
Suggestions"
tells us
that "Man
will not
promote the
overthrow of
a work that
is not his".
So we must
take care of
ourselves,
for what we
see is
almost
always a
flood of
follies, a
save
ourselves as
we can, the
end of a
party, where
even
umbrellas
are used to
take the
leftovers
for the
frugal and
quick meal
of the
following
day. No.
Definitely
this cannot
be the
behavior of
a Spiritist,
or anyone
else, but
especially
the of a
Spiritist!
In Genesis,
Chapter II,
item 9,
Allan Kardec
states that
"Progress is
the normal
condition of
spiritual
beings and
relative
perfection
is the goal
that must be
achieved".
In the book Time
and Renewal,
edited by
FEB, we find
in Chapter
43 that
"Progress in
the
spiritual
sense
resumes to
knowing the
Truth and
loving".
Therefore,
we are all
in an open
regime of
searches in
this
Universe
that
welcomes us.
Formerly
only the
Orientals
spoke about
the Universe
and their
notes are
recorded in
beautiful
and immortal
books that
date back
millennia. A
while now,
this subject
has taken
hold of the
Western
mind,
probably due
to
scientific
advances
about what
surrounds us
and where we
are enrolled
as
participants
in life.
However, not
everyone
still seeks
to
understand
life in its
universal
expansion,
limiting
itself to
the place
where it
inhabits.
Quantum
physics
brings us
precious
information,
and among
them that of
"nonlocal",
that is,
life spreads
beyond our
small
territorial
domains. "To
progress, to
evolve
spiritually,
is to expand
consciousness
to higher
levels".
This
information
is contained
in Chapter
33 of the
book Time
of
Transition,
by Juvanir
B. Souza,
edited by
FEB.
Everything
tends to
renewal in a
continuous
process of
transitions.
Hence you
cannot stop
time or let
it pass and
fade. We
quote again
the most
recent book Ecclesiastes,
in the Old
Testament,
which begins
Chapter 3
with the
following
information:
"All things
have their
own time,
and there is
time for all
purpose
under
Heaven". A
glorious
future was
designed by
Jesus for
this planet
we inhabit
now. Will
this future
belong to
us? It will
depend
exclusively
on each one
of us. In
the book Way,
Truth and
Life,
Chapter 171,
Emmanuel
informs us
that "The
Gospel is an
illuminated
script of
which Jesus
is the
divine
center. In
this Letter
of
Redemption,
surrounding
His heavenly
image, there
are words,
memories,
gifts and
indications
very much
loved of
those who
were His
legitimate
collaborators
in the
world".
From all
this we are
assured that
we have
been, are
and will
always be
surrounded
by the
unconditional
love of God
to guide us
to higher
purposes, in
which we
will carry
out other
projects
that will
help us to
tune our
minds with
the Divine
mind. This
is the time
to think
this way.
The religion
of the
Universe is
God in His
essence
without the
factions
that often
imply a good
knowledge of
heavenly
things. It
is important
to consider
that Jesus
did not
create any
religion. He
has brought
us a roadmap
that guides
us forward
and up. He
also told us
that if we
wish to
speak with
the Father,
let us do it
in the
silence of
our rooms,
that is, in
the intimacy
of our
souls.
Soon, maybe
in 500 years
from now,
all Humanity
will be in
search of
this script
and all
earthly
institutions
will govern
by it. Hence
the
question:
where would
we like to
be in 500
years from
now? The
truth is
that we will
not die,
disappear,
vanish or
turn into
nothing.
There is no
such
possibility.
Therefore,
planning our
future is
good for all
of us. "Can
the Kingdom
of Goodness
ever be
reached on
Earth?"
Allan Kardec
asked the
Sages of
Superior
Spirituality
in question
1.019 of The
Book of
Spirits.
“Goodness
will reign
on Earth
when among
the Spirits
who come to
inhabit the
good people
overcome the
bad. Then
they will
make love
and justice
reign, which
are the good
of
happiness.
It is by
moral
progress and
by the
practice of
the Laws of
God that man
will draw
good Spirits
to Earth and
drive away
the wicked.
But the
wicked will
only leave
when man has
banished
pride and
selfishness.
The
transformation
of Humanity
has been
foretold and
you reach
this moment
when all
progressive
men are
hurrying..."
- answered
the Higher
Spirits.
Let us
therefore be
progressive
and help
ourselves
and all in
the moral
transformation
of this
world that
has welcomed
us and
enabled us
to come here
and
henceforth
will be a
most
important
step for our
necessary,
continuous
and glorious
spiritual
advances, if
so we wish.
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