A quick analysis of human History clearly shows that the
Earth has always been the scene of belligerence.
Heterogeneous with regard to the advance, mostly
imperfect, men are engaged, without full awareness of
it, in a long struggle to impose their will and dominion
on each other, usually by force. There are those for
whom life only makes sense if everyone moves forward.
However, there are those who promote attacks on
progress, who struggle to maintain supremacy and control
of their "feuds". Despite this, there have been periods
of natural advancement and humanity is moving, if not at
the desirable speed, at least as possible.
Daring about weakness
In a kind of free interpretation of question 932 of The
Book of Spirits, in which the fact that the bad ones
surpass the good ones is questioned, we can say that the
safe but timid methods of the good ones are based on
patience and the work of time to move forward. The evil
strategy is instinctive, bold, and reaps its results on
the weakness of the good. Because it is quiet and
discreet, the work of the good is hardly noticed. The
“opponent”, however, has his greatest strength in
scandal. The degree of difficulty hinders the expansion
of the good. Evil gains easy ground with moral vices.
Universal history records episodes of one and the other
in the trajectory of man on Earth.
Intelligence at the service of good and evil
Extraordinary events, at times, made us think that
humanity would soon reach civilizing maturity. On the
other hand, man's perverse condition has never ceased to
act, and materializes inhuman tragedies that shame his
past and also his present. The good is capable of
producing unbelievable phenomena for the highest
intelligence. But common sense says that the capacity
for evil should not be underestimated, that it knows how
to use that same intelligence in favor of its interests.
The origin of good and evil is confused with the
beginning of the process of autonomy of the being
through the use of its free will. Good and evil are born
of man's moral action. In other words, his actions will
be good or bad, to the extent that they are or are not
in accordance with the laws of God, according to the
Spiritist concept. It follows that God did not create
evil, it arises from the choices of the Spirit.
At the individual level, the spirit carries out good and
bad actions. But, due to the continued preferences, it
develops a bias in itself that makes it lean more to one
side than to the other. The law of affinity and the
gregarious instinct make it associate with social
groups, in which values of good or evil predominate.
In the immature journey of evolution of the individual,
mistakes and successes mix, but “Good is always good and
evil is always evil, whatever the position of man; the
difference is in the degree of responsibility”, says
question 636 of The Book of Spirits. Well and badly they
need to be known for the Spirit to acquire the
experience and understand the consequences of each other
(question 634, from the same book).
The sophistication of strategies
The good seeks to expand its constructive actions,
improving performance methods to obtain effectiveness,
which is very natural. For their part, the agents of
evil find justifications and means to achieve their
goals. Evil itself does not evolve. Its elements for
entanglement are always the same- selfishness, ambition,
intrigue, hatred, corruption. He knows how to take
advantage of the opportunities that inconsequential men
offer him, whether in the day-to-day life, or in the
promotion of broad and periodic crises. It has been this
way through the centuries. However, the deception
strategies to deceive and dominate have become very
sophisticated. The technological explosion and
globalization of everything, if on the one hand bring
benefits, on the other hand have facilitated the work of
unethical materialists, perhaps even more than the
currents concerned with the well-being of human beings
and the planet. The application of mass psychology for
certain purposes developed a lot in the second half of
the 20th century and, associated with new technologies,
has served causes that are not always noble.
Faceless men
We know that there are ambitious and insatiable men in
the world who, alone, in groups or organizations, act to
enjoy exclusive advantages, and who aim to maintain
hegemony over the goods of the land (in the Spiritist
concept), to the detriment of everything that does not
interest them. They have always existed everywhere.
Today, in the globalized world, as if they had no face,
they are part of a system, which Allan Kardec called in
the book The Genesis, in 1868, “conjuncture”:
“They are those - says Kardec - whose material interests
are linked to the current conjuncture and that they are
not advanced enough to give them up, because the general
good matters less than their personal good - they are
apprehensive about the smallest reform movement. The
truth is for them a secondary issue, or, better said,
the truth for certain people is entirely in what does
not cause them any inconvenience” (¹).
Its unspoken decisions resonate across the planet. Cold
and merciless, countless people and groups around the
world are at their service who, consciously or
unconsciously, think and act for the same purposes, very
pragmatic and totally detached from ethics. They are
voracious individualists and usurpers. According to
them, there is always a good cause behind their actions.
But they end up hurting institutional structures and the
most sacred rights and values of humanity, in the name
of a lot of money and power.
The men here associated with the "men over there"
Those who "command" as well as those "commanded" are not
alone. Skeptics, do not perceive a phalanx of invisible
beings that accompanies them, complicit in the
destruction of lives and dreams. Incarnate and
disincarnated, they approach each other by affinity and
communicate with each other. A symbiosis feeds them.
Acting essentially with the same motivations, they
choose their areas of expertise and immerse themselves
in politics, religion, science, education, art, fashion,
sport, entertainment, making the world believe in
symbols, images, colors, words, slogans, sophisms,
methodically studied and chosen to stun, deceive and
dominate minds, keeping them "working" in the
perpetuation of their privileges, pleasures and
prejudices.
The Superior Spirits told Allan Kardec that the
influence of Spirits on the thoughts and actions of men
is so great that they are very often the ones who direct
them (question 459, The Book of Spirits),
although this does not exempt both of them from
responsibility about their own acts. Whatever results
from this influence will constitute merit and progress
for the Spirits, as well as the consequences of bad
relations will weigh on the conscience of those
involved.
Cyclical advances
The purpose of this text is to reflect a little on the
problem already interviewed by Kardec in 1868, which is
quite aggravated today, derived from the conditions of
moral miserability of humanity, and which will persist
until its causes are overcome by the regeneration
process to which it is subjected. Unfortunately, the
cruel onslaught of darkness seems to be cyclical in
human history. The last one was in the period of the two
great wars (1914-18 and 1939-45). When you know the
backstage of these conflicts and the ideas that have
spread among some peoples, you can see that the plan of
their creators was to truly attack the world. The Nazi
fascist axis of the second war narrowly failed to
materialize its madness. But in the face of so much
boldness from the dark forces of humanity, we saw God's
will prevail. Since then, the world has developed
rapidly and has become concerned with new humanitarian
values that, from a few decades ago more intensely,
have taken serious risks again.
The confrontation of ideas
The changes knock on the door. The times have come.
Allan Kardec says: “the past no longer satisfies the new
aspirations and needs” of humanity; “There is an
inevitable struggle between ideas”; “We have witnessed
this transformation, the conflict that results from the
struggle of opposing ideas that seek to establish
themselves; some march with the flag of the past, others
with the flag of the future”; "There are, however, those
who are essentially refractory to these (new) ideas,
even among the most intelligent" (...). (²)
New ideas lead man towards freedom, equality and
fraternity. The reaction against them aims to keep the
world unjust, divided and cruel. The moment is one of
decision and choice, which will end up influencing
everyone's future.
Of course, we must report to God, because only He can,
with His mercy, lead solutions of such magnitude. But it
is fair to think that knowing the problems, we can, at
least at the individual level, take precautionary
measures, change, and correct course in our lives.
Ongoing spiritual sanitation
We look around us, we see people, children, animals,
nature, we smile in the midst of so many beautiful
things that we live, and we cannot believe that man has
such a bad side. However, history, facts, show reality.
The Spiritist Doctrine explains, however, that it
depends on the man himself to transform his dark side
into light, which is nothing but imperfection in a raw
state.
The critical awareness of individuals and groups about
their responsibility in building the world they want
will put increasing pressure on this materialistic and
unbelieving system that causes so much harm. It is
necessary to oppose it with the knowledge and
information that alert people about the meaning of life
and the spiritual meaning of living in the world.
If the populations are influenced by this perverse
dominion of the powerful, a large part of them will be
willing to fight for the preservation of their natural
values if encouraged to do so. Spiritualists from all
over the world claim that humanity begins a new stage of
its education. Spiritism announces that there is an
ongoing spiritual sanitation on the planet, which
consists in the non-permanence on Earth of the Spirits
deliberately vowed to evil. It is a relatively slow, but
continuous process, to the point of allowing only the
reincarnation of spirits interested in progressing in
solidarity.
The structures of evil begin to tremble
It is important to note that this phase of the project
regarding the destinies of humanity, implemented by
Jesus of Nazareth and the high spheres of spirituality,
coincides with the current perception that the
structures that keep the building of selfishness and
ambition standing Earth begin to shake. The lords of
global “rules and norms” that impose misery and disease,
ignorance and hatred, violence and fear, which victimize
entire populations, are not so calm. Regimes, systems,
methods are beginning to be discredited. One begins to
think about a new global order in which human needs are
affected not only by political and economic norms, but
by all the elements that make up the integral life of
man on Earth: the social, cultural, moral and spiritual.
The recrudescence of all kinds of evils, the
exacerbation of the worst in man, indicate that the
forces of evil are staggering, reacting and possibly
trying to play their last card to maintain disorder in
the world. On the other hand, the resistance movements
of the good signal that the seeds of love planted over
time by those who have always believed in God, have
already developed and will not begin to bear fruit.
Evil gets tired, good strengthens
Ancient writings, secular traditions and prophecies
claim that this "battle" will come to an end. After all,
evil gets tired, runs out, is diluted with centuries and
pains, unlike good, which is only renewed, expanded,
strengthened and envelops everything in light. Men of
thought and good character, committed to the
reorganization of humanity on the basis of love, also
trust in the victory of good. In fact, the longer we
live, the more we advance in wisdom, the more we know
God. More and more we understand that the magnificent
work that He perpetually establishes in the Universe can
only radiate clarity, purity, infinite peace. Therefore,
the darkness will need to give up its inglorious
struggle, which, from the beginning, was doomed to
failure. Their agents will have to leave the Earth and
one day, God knows where, they will become light
themselves, because light and shadow are part of the
same principle.
But these changes will not yet be enough, except to
stabilize and calm the terrestrial environment. The
moral revolution of Spiritist knowledge is that,
changing man through reincarnations, he will change the
world.
Bibliography:
(¹) Allan Kardec, The Genesis, chapter
XVIII, item 24, FEAL, 2018, (original italics).
(²) Allan Kardec, The Genesis,
chapter XVIII, items 11, 8, 30, 24, FEAL, 2018.
Allan Kardec, What is Spiritism,
chapter III, item 129, 130 and 131, FEB.
Allan Kardec, The Book of Spirits,
third book, chapter I, The good and the bad, LAKE.
Allan Kardec, The Genesis, Chapter
III, Good and Evil, FEAL, 2018.
Suggested reading: Regis de Morais, Human
evolution and historical facts, EME Publisher, 2002.
Suggested reading: Herminio C. Miranda, The
medium of the Antichrist, article in the
“Reformador” (FEB), March / April 1976. Article also
published in The two faces of life, Editora
Lachatre, 2005.
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