Any force, physical or spiritual, that acts to remove beings from the light, especially those united by the loving bonds of Jesus, is called antichrist. From the advent of the Master to the present day, the antichrist has always acted to undermine Christ's joyful message to humanity, acting maliciously to quench the flame of spiritual renewal in the human heart, in which the spirit of early Christianity shines with its ideals of equality, solidarity and fraternity.

Unfortunately, the exemplification of love of neighbor, the bulwark of the Christian Doctrine, was belittled by the religious organizations that called themselves followers of Jesus, and what was unfolding was an apparent victory of the dark forces of antichrist, who always stimulated selfishness and subsequently the desire for dominance, the attainment of personal possessions and positions in men who were to preach and exemplify the sublime "Christianity of Jesus" and, indeed, according to their still lower spiritual nature, unhappily constituted the dark "Christianity of men." .

It is noteworthy that the action of the enemies of light - dark agents from beyond - in the religious field, culminated with the advent of the so-called “Holy” Inquisition, called “The Dark Ages”, lasting approximately six centuries and with the estimated thousands of people tortured and murdered. It is important to highlight, previously, the participation of the Crusades, consisting of military movements of the "Christianity of men" that departed towards the Holy Land and the city of Jerusalem in order to keep them under their control. Also under the guidance of dark spirits, the Protestant reform, to a lesser extent than Catholic, was responsible for bloodshed. Only King Henry VIII, because of the founding of the Anglican Church, was incriminated by the deaths of 72,000 revolting Papists and thousands of monks.

In the "Christianity of Jesus" there is no instruction to kill, highlighting a Gospel passage, describing two disciples who were upset because some entire cities refused to hear their messages and, thinking of retaliation, were rebuked by the Master: - “You do not know of what spirit you are. For the Son of man did not come to destroy men's souls, but to save them”. (Luke 9: 54-56).

Indeed, "the Christianity of men", in its violent and bloody path, certainly presents a subservient relationship to the dark agents of antichrist. And the Comforter Promised by Jesus? Was the Spiritist Doctrine immune to the onslaughts of evil spiritual minds? As for the "Second Divine Revelation to Humanity", was there also an antichrist's cunning action?

Firstly, it is important to stress that science currently has many positive expressions about religious faith in health. However, some studies indicate, like those of the renowned researchers Koenig, Pargament and Sherman, equally, their negative approaches, such as doubts and religious conflicts, which are responsible for higher rates of depression, stress, fatigue, pain and higher mortality (1). All of this is summarized in the thought that God is punishing, in the spiritual discontent and in the questioning God's powers (2).

Exactly in the stimulation of these three aspects - predominating the first - the followers of the antichrist act, trying to penetrate Spiritism, in a tentative to undermine it. The assumption that human incarnation is a God-imposed punishment for creatures that would have been created only to live in the spiritual dimension and who have failed is shown as a supposed spiritual revelation.

This unworthy proposition has always been pointed out as the cause of contention and dissension when they try to insert them into the Spiritist context, in conflict with their robust doctrinal arsenal, which repels them, according to some proofs that follow: “The incarnation is not at all a punishment for the Spirit, as anyone may think, but a condition inherent in the inferiority of the Spirit and a means of progress” (3); “Far from being fallen angelic creatures; far from having inhabited an imaginary paradise, it was with great difficulty that we conquered the exercise of our faculties to overcome nature ”(4); “Man is not a fallen angel mourning the loss of an imaginary paradise, nor does he carry any original sin that stigmatizes him from the cradle” (5); “They are not degraded creatures, but growing children” (6).

It is inconceivable to believe that the Universe, sheltering around trillions of galaxies, was created by His Supreme Architect to be an immeasurable prison where spirit beings would be collected in punishment, the so-called "Spiritual Fall." This absurd hypothesis, like such foolishness, attempts to demean even Divinity itself.

The Spiritist Doctrine considers this system "specious at first sight," and that "such a system falls by the mere consideration that if no Spirit had failed, there would be no men on earth or in other worlds." According to Kardec, man “is one of the essential gears of creation” and, for this reason, “God could not subordinate the realization of this part of his work to the eventual fall of his creatures, unless he counted on an always sufficient number of guilty to supply workers to the created and uncreated worlds”. The Encoder concludes: “Common sense repels such an idea” (7). Fortunately, this aberration, completely anathematized with folly, is scorned by Spiritism and today's science, which warns that religious conflicts based on a punitive god are harmful to health.

This antichristic proposition extremely receives the due repulsion from the Spiritist Doctrine: “In order to gain experience it is necessary for the spiritual being to know good and evil. This is why it joins the body” (8). So the creature, not knowing the disharmony at the spiritual stops, cannot err. Spiritism entirely rejects the proposition of the so-called "fall of angels" and emphasizes just the opposite, arguing that all spirits are created simple and ignorant and instruct themselves in the struggles and tribulations of bodily life" (9).

Another dark hypothesis, unmistakably coming from the inferior minds of the antichrist phalanx, says that the Master appeared in the world with an apparent body, entirely fluid, derogating from the biological laws of the planet, because his birth and death were illusory and described as unreal, showing a deceit, a pretense, a farce, unworthy to be practiced by a pure being like the Master.

This proposition of dark order had already been denied by the Gospel itself: “Every spirit that does not confess that Jesus Christ came in the flesh is not of God; and such is the spirit of the antichrist, of which you have heard that it is coming, and is now in the world. The assertion of the so-called “beloved disciple” draws attention, from which he proceeds: “He is the deceiver and the antichrist” (11).

In "The Book of Hebrews", another addendum against the antichristian assertion: "And since the children partake of the flesh and the blood, so did he partake of the same things". Peter also said, "He was slain in the flesh, but received life in the Spirit" (13). The Spiritist Doctrine, likewise, emphasizes that the Master, “as a man, had the organization of carnal beings (...)” (14), as well as: “Jesus therefore had, like every man, a carnal body and a fluidic body, which is attested by the material phenomena and the psychic phenomena that signaled its existence” (15). The Encoder clarified: “Of all the faculties which were revealed in Jesus, there were none that were out of the conditions of humanity and not found in the common of men, for they are in human nature...” (16). Therefore, both the New Testament and the Spiritist Doctrine put down the anti-Christian intention of discrediting the Master's remarkable presence within the humanity he loves so much.

Another onslaught of the equally unlikely tenebrous phalanx was to peremptorily deny that Jesus is not the Christ, having merely been the intermediary of such a "Planetary Christ", who would be another Spirit, higher than the Nazarene magnanimous. In fact, "Jesus was God's medium" (17). Again, the apostle John comes to assert the truth: “Who is the liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Messiah? This is the Enemy of Christ: he who rejects both the Father and the Son” (18).

These dark beings, interested in undermining the fertile ground of evangelical and Spiritist truth, were called by the Spirit of St. Louis "rodent worms" (19). Therefore, one must always be vigilant about the antichrist's evil attacks, always in an attempt to dishonor the exalted Master Jesus.

May the profitable Spiritists follow the warning of the apostle Peter, reporting that in the past false prophets have arisen, who likewise will be with us as false teachers, introducing destructive heresies, even reaching the height of denying Jesus (20).

As Erasto, the ever-active spiritual entity accompanying Kardec, pointed out, “it is the duty of every honest man to unmask false prophets” (21).

So be it!

Bibliography:

1 Sherman AC, et al., Journal of Behavioral Medicine 2005; 28 (4): 359-367

2- Pargament KI, et al., Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 1998, 37 (4): 710-724

3- Kardec, Allan, Genesis, XI-25

4- Delanne, Gabriel, Evolution Animique, III

5- Kardec, Allan, Genesis, XI-67

6- Kardec, Allan, The Gospel According to Spiritism, III-8

7- Kardec, Allan, Spiritist Magazine, June 1863

8- Kardec, Allan, The Book of Spirits, Question 634

9- Same, Question 133

10- “First Epistle of John”, IV: 3

11- "Second Epistle of John", I: 7

12- “The Book of Hebrews,” II: 14

13- “First Epistle of Peter,” III: 18

14- Kardec, Allan, Genesis, XV: 2

15- Same, XV: 66

16- Same, XV: 44

17- Kardec, Allan, Genesis, XV: 2

18- “First Epistle of John”, II: 22

19- Spiritist Magazine, April 1863, “Christmas Party”

20- “Second Epistle of Peter, II: 1-3

21- Kardec, Allan, The Gospel According to Spiritism, 21: 1.