“The only way to avoid or mitigate the future
consequences of a fault is to repair it, undoing it in
the present. The longer we take to repair a fault, the
more painful and rigorous the consequences will be in
the future.” (1)
Pride, invisible enemy! Where its influence is evident,
rebellion and bitterness appear, preparing disturbance
and discord. In this way, invigilating and unhappy,
transformed into terrible ghosts of incomprehension and
intransigence, we get involved in our own shadow and, in
the pitiful isolation of the Spirit, we do not know how
to understand and forgive in order to also be forgiven
and understood. Life answers us in all things and in all
creatures according to the nature of our call. We will
thus be able to understand that we will collect from the
Father the stimuli for the future and suffer the
reflections of the past to project on our existence.
The mistakes made, the unexpected offenses, the
disagreements and disgust, from the human point of view,
appear before us as invitations to inertia, but in its
core, similar struggles are just and indispensable tests
that are equivalent to consultations on the spiritual
plane about the capacity of overcoming our weaknesses,
examining our degree of humility, understanding and
love.
However, the day comes when we are intimidated by the
test of personal dignity, either by criticism of insult
or by the thorn of disregard. We are targeted by
self-love and, if we do not have enough humility and
compassion, then the wounded pride will resemble in us
the fire of anger that erupts, producing uncontrolled
thoughts, which annihilate precious spiritual buildings
of the present and the future. Let us be alert to such
lethal power by praying and blessing, serving and
excusing, forgetting evil and restoring good.
We must not forget that anger is no solution, and we
make it clear that if we make a mistake, we will have to
correct it, sincerely repairing the consequences of our
faults; however, if the obligation fulfilled guarantees
us a clear conscience – when the provocation of darkness
challenges us – then let us have the courage not to pay
any attention to evil, abstaining from having to take
the blame of any disturbance that injury or slander
presents to us.
Let us be the lighted lamp for those who are in the
blindness of denial; let us be the support for those who
stumble on the road; the good word that readjusts the
Spirits of those who lie traumatized by the assault of
darkness. Let us master ourselves so that we can control
circumstances, leading our emotions, aligning them on
the road of balance and discernment, so that our phrase
does not slip into intemperance. The prudent man is slow
to anger and is honored to ignore an offense. Therefore,
blessed are the peacemakers because they will be called
the children of God.
So, let us try to guard against such a persecutor,
dressing our heart with the tunic of humility, because
this strange executioner who encourages selfishness
everywhere is called pride. In view of this, when we
receive bitter complaints that hurt us unfairly, let us
know how to listen to them patiently, refraining from
pushing the brothers out of the way into the webs of
shadow, working sincerely to undo them.
Therefore, in the face of those who go astray in the
criticism, let us observe the ease with which we
surrender to thoughtless judgments and let us consider
that we would be equally compelled to the brazier of
cruelty were it not for some slight limit of prudence
that we managed to mentalize.
It is important to put ourselves in the place of those
who make mistakes so that our reasoning rests in the
shelter of understanding. If we do so, we will be
classified, in truth, among the peacemakers blessed by
the divine Master, understanding, after all, that the
human creature, alone, cannot guarantee the peace of the
world, however, each one of us can and must keep peace
inside ourselves.
The evangelist Luke explains, in chapter 15, verse 7: "I
tell you that this way there will be joy in Heaven for a
sinner who repents, more than ninety-nine righteous
people who do not need repentance." Every
wrongdoing, every evil we do is a debt incurred and that
needs to be repaired. As there is no injustice, the
awakening of a correct conscience and high morals will
make it possible to resolve evil, dissolving it into
good and in the practice of charity.
The most effective way to control aggression is through
our inner education: the search for knowledge for a
better understanding of one's own personality, as well
as the cultivation of religiosity and spirituality that
aim to better direct impetus and impulses and increase
awareness of our responsibilities towards our earthly
journey.
With the Spiritist postulates, spiritual moral education
stands out, as its main objective is the improvement of
the Spirit through the conquest of higher levels of
consciousness. In Allan Kardec's comment, in The Book
of Spirits on question 964, we understand that:
(...) “all our actions are subject to the Laws of God,
there is none of them, however insignificant it may seem
to us, that may be a violation of these laws. If we
suffer the consequences of this violation, we must blame
but ourselves, that we thus become the artisans of our
happiness or our future unhappiness”.
In this way, we are obliged to recognize that we,
incarnated and disincarnated Spirits - who today devote
ourselves to the Gospel explained by the Codification -
keep elucidations around the essential realities of life
and the Universe. Elucidations and conviction that most
of those, who profess in many religious schools on
Earth, are still far from reaching.
Is it reasonable to conclude that if we, who know so
much of the “truth”, still offend others without
realizing it, how can we exercise too much severity
before those brothers who receive nothing from the much
we know and receive? Let us reflect on this and open our
hearts to understanding and mercy, because only then
will we find in ourselves the strength of love capable
of guaranteeing us the building of the Kingdom of God.
Let us accept ourselves as we are: weak, imperfect,
rebellious or recurrent in evil, looking at ourselves in
the mirror of pure reason, reasoning, observing the
vulnerable points around which our faults reappear. So,
if we get it right, we will get it back; making
mistakes, we will embrace the correction and we will
thus be convinced before the mercy of God that every day
is time to progress, learn, improve and renew.
Bibliography:
1. KARDEC, Allan - O Ceu e O Inferno -
38th edition – Publisher: FEESP - Sao Paulo /
SP - 1st part - chapter 7- paragraph 27 -
1992.
2. XAVIER, Francisco Candido - Divine
Justice - dictated by the Spirit Emmanuel - 14th edition
– Publisher: FEB - Brasilia / DF - lesson 6 - 2018.
3. XAVIER, Francisco Candido – The
Spirits’ religion - dictated by the Spirit Emmanuel - 22nd edition
– Publisher: FEB - Brasilia / DF - lessons 20 and 69 -
2013.
4. XAVIER, Francisco Candido - Scheduled
Meeting - dictated by the Spirit Emmanuel - 14th edition
– Publisher: FEB - Brasilia / DF - lessons 4, 13, 14 and
15 - 2013.
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