Who is Jesus for us? How do we see this very special
man, whose teachings have become a doctrine capable of
spreading around the world and changing human thinking?
How do we feel it in our lives? A master? A messiah? A
model? An angelic spiritual being? A god made man? A
Prophet? Just a good man, with enormous empathy, capable
of dragging crowds and making his ideas prevail? A
miracle worker? A myth?
If we were to go around asking those who pass by if they
believe in Jesus and how they see Him, we would get many
and varied answers. Even among those who consider
themselves to be true believers in Christianity, the way
in which they view the central character of their
beliefs is, for the most part, quite impractical and
poorly founded.
We have been accustomed over the centuries, in which the
most traditional religions have dominated, to see Jesus
as the second person of a divine trinity (Father, Son
and Holy Spirit); we do not understand its meaning, and
we were always told that it is a mystery that we are not
allowed to question, but simply accept it. However, as
the human mind progresses, it becomes increasingly
difficult to accept dogmas of faith; we are becoming
more demanding. For everything we get used to reasoning,
to try to understand and to accept only what reason
achieves and understands as correct. It is normal and
fair that this be the case. For this reason,
intellectual evolution is always faster than moral
evolution. Advances in intellect are a valuable resource
for learning to discern between good and evil, between
right and wrong, between the true in the light of reason
and the mythological.
It is therefore important to demystify the idea of a
Jesus-God. He always referred to God as the Father. He
never presented himself as a part of Him, whatever that
might mean. Spiritism, appearing as the Comforter
Promised by Jesus, appears to us based on two essential
and deeply interlinked aspects: the revelation of the
Spirits and the discernment achieved by reasoning. These
two fundamentals are so interconnected that the Spirits
did not tire of insisting on the importance of accepting
only what reason can understand as true. It is always
appealing to the reason that Kardec, along the
Codification, makes us, step by step, arrive at
spiritual truths. The Spiritist Doctrine, in short, is
the Doctrine of reasoned faith.
As such, Spiritism brings us to know a Jesus quite
different from the one we were used to. By
demonstrating, in the light of reason and revelation,
that God created all his simple and ignorant children,
subject to the Law of Progress, which works for everyone
within the same parameters and in the same molds, by
making us realize that everyone is destined to the same
relative perfection, which is gradually achieved, as our
efforts to moralize and grow in wisdom, that this can
only be achieved at the cost of numerous reincarnations,
in the different worlds of Creation, which allows us the
necessary readjustments, at the expense of trials and
atonements, in short, by demonstrating that the rules
are the same for all the children of God, it completely
neglects that there are special children, already
created perfect, and others who have to fight, at the
expense of pain, for the desired perfection.
We came to see and understand Jesus as one of us,
someone who was created like us and who reached
perfection over time, at the cost of sacrifices,
renunciations, through reincarnations that were
propelling him to spiritual progress. He is just someone
who was born long before us, and who, when we were
created ourselves, had already reached the state of Pure
Spirit, becoming a co-creator with the Father. As He
himself said: “When this world was created I was at the
right hand of the Father”, that is, as we say, He was
already His right hand, already working in the divine
team, presiding over the destinies of this planet of
ours, at the time, in the beginning of creation.
It is in this sense that we consider it worthwhile to
dwell a little on how the Spirit Joanna de Angelis
presents Jesus to us. Joanna de Angelis is the Spiritual
Mentor of the medium Divaldo Pereira Franco, through
whom she manifests herself, as the spiritual author of a
considerable number of high-value works. Namely, those
integrated into the so-called Psychological Series, in
which it establishes connections between Spiritist
Psychology and Carl Jung's Analytical Psychology.
Using the vision and analysis of this venerable entity,
who in one of his reincarnations came to know Jesus and
to make contact with His teachings, becoming a Christian
and witnessing his Faith through martyrdom, we will find
a Jesus-man, among men, standing out for its high degree
of moralization, but maintaining its human
characteristics, offering itself as a model of behavior
capable of being an engine of change and progress. Let
us stay, for our reflection, with some of his
considerations about the Loved Master that we seek to
follow, and about His message that, more than ever, we
must learn to admire and, mainly, follow:
"Jesus is the most remarkable Being in the History of
Humanity."
“Living in a time when ignorance predominated in the
form of individual and collective shadow, which also
occurs these days, although on a smaller scale, Jesus
split the dark side of the society of creatures,
illuminating consciences with the proposal of liberation
through the knowledge of the Truth and integration in
the sovereign postulates of love.”
“The Gospel is the most beautiful poem of hope and
consolation ever known. Concomitantly, it is a
precious treatise on contemporary psychotherapy for
the countless evils that afflict the creature and
humanity.”
“Superior to the conjunctures he faced along the way and
unscathed by the temptations of the human path, having
overcome them previously, he became attached without
diminishing his own greatness, mixing with the people,
and standing out from him by the great attributes of His
Spiritual Reality.”
"It is all harmony that captivates and sweeps up
crowds."
"Jesus, the excellent Man, arrived on Earth and
faced ignorance in predominance, bringing the message of
love that had never been presented before in the
formulation of which He made himself bearer."
"All the goals of the Good News that He brought are
centered on the future of the Spirit, on his total
emancipation, on his incessant search for God."
“Only love, as Christ taught and lived - to treat divine
and precious lymph - will solve the magnificent and
distressing human torments.”
“Jesus was not the biotype of a conventional legislator.
He did not come to submit to humanity or to submit to
the laws in force. He was the bearer of a revolution
based on love in its most excellent and subtle
essentiality, and adopted it transforms the moral
foundations of the individual and of society”.
“Due to this limit of understanding (ours), the Man-Jesus avoided
deepening the liberating lessons, offering the one that
is essential and is synthesized in love from all points
of view considered, preparing the advent of a future New
Age, which it would present itself through the expansion
of mediumistic phenomena, with the advent of Spiritist
Psychology deflecting the Doctrine codified by Allan
Kardec.”
“The direction He points to us continues to indicate
freedom. The bonds were built by each one, for their own
spiritual slavery. Faced with such considerations, in
the barbarian of stormy days, it is advisable to consult
Jesus without ceasing. And, if you have ears capable of
listening in discerning, you will hear Him repeat: I am
the Path: Come to me!”
The list of references is already extensive. But many
more could be presented, of equal importance and value
for the analysis we intend. We are not going to add our
personal considerations or interpretations, so that
there is no obstacle to the reflections we want each one
to make, based on the vision of the venerable Mentor. We
would just like to add, as a final reminder, that, as
Joanna asserts, "Our safe guide remains Jesus."
It makes perfect sense that our conclusion is also a
quote from Joanna de Angelis, making her wish our own:
“Hoping that the contribution, which we now present to
the dear reader, can awaken the Deep Psychology scholars
to update the teachings of Jesus, and to deepen the
questions that He addresses, we plead with Him, as our
Unmistakable Friend and Excellent Therapist, that
inspires and keeps us in the incessant search for
self-illumination and self-illumination, which we need.”
Bibliography:
Granary of Blessings,
by Joanna de Angelis, a psychographics by Divaldo
Franco; Spiritist Bookshop “Alvorada” Publisher, 1983.
Jesus and the Gospel in the Light of Deep
Psychology,
by Joanna de Angelis, a psychographics by Divaldo
Franco; FEP, 2014.
After the Storm,
by Joanna de Angelis, a psychographics by Divaldo
Franco; FEP, 2016.
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