A long, long
time ago, God,
the Creator of
the universe and
Father to all of
us, sent Jesus
to our planet to
instruct us in
His laws.
Because of the
need to progress,
it was time men
received new
guidelines.
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Jesus told us,
among many other
things in His
Gospel, that He
would ask the
Father and that
He would later
send another
Consoler to
instruct and
help us,
remembering
everything He
had said and
teaching many
other things.
So, everything
was very well
prepared.
A Spirit of
great elevation
and expertise
was chosen for
the task of
preparing the
coming of the
Consoler.
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For him to
reincarnate in
the world, those
who would-be his
parents should
be his friends
and enlightened
spirits, chosen
to aid him,
because the
great missionary
could not be
born into just
any home.
When everything
was ready, the
missionary was
born in the
early 19th
century in
France.
The arrival of
the baby was
surrounded by
much
anticipation
from its mother
Jeanne Louise
and its father
Jean-Baptiste,
who received it
with plenty of
love and care.
It was a boy!
They gave him
the name of
Hippolyte Léon
Denizard Rivail.
Embracing each
other, his
parents leaned
over the crib
and watched in
awe their
beautiful little
boy, and the Dad
wondered: - What
will our son be
when he grows
up?
And the mother,
kind and loving,
replied: - I do
not know, honey.
However, I feel
that he will be
a very good man
and will help
many people.
In those days,
education was
rare and there
were few
schools. It was
natural that the
father would
worry about the
future of his
son. He was a
judge of law and
came from a
family of
intelligent,
educated people
who valued
education.
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Therefore, from
the beginning,
Jean-Baptiste
worried about
his son's future
and researched
which school he
should be sent
to when he grew
up. Finally, he
decided for one
in Switzerland,
ran by the noted
educator
Pestalozzi, who
was famous all
over the world.
Thus, when the
time came,
although
traditionally
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from a Catholic
family, the boy
was sent to a
Protestant
country, and
became one of
the best-known
disciples of
master
Pestalozzi. |
Hippolyte Léon
was a lively,
intelligent
child, with a
quick mind who
could soon grasp
the most
difficult
lessons. Besides
that, he was
endowed with a
good heart,
upright
character and
good principles.
At fourteen,
because of his
qualities, he
would already be
his master's
deputy, in times
of need.
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Completing his
studies,
Hippolyte Léon
returned to
France, and
dedicated his
time to teach
and do
translations. He
wrote several
books and
founded a school
where children
and youth were
educated to
become worthy
and respectable
men like him. He
married Amélie
Boudet.
It was time to
start his task.
By that time,
the world was
shaken with the
manifestations
of spirits, who
wanted to
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show their presence
because of the
arrival of the
Consoler on the
planet. |
Professor Rivail
began to
research the
subject and
realized the
importance of
these phenomena.
Always willing
to learn and
open to new
ideas, he soon
became a point
of light for the
society in which
he lived. He
researched the
manifestations
of spirits,
compared them
with the
communications
he received from
various
countries,
selected them by
subject, putting
everything in
order and
forming the body
of a doctrine,
which he gave
the name of
Spiritist
Doctrine or
Spiritism.
He realized the
greatness of
this knowledge
coming from the
spirit world to
enlighten men on
earth about the
reality of True
Life, because it
showed them: the
existence of God,
the immortality
of the soul, the
communication
between the two
worlds, the
successive lives
and the
plurality of
inhabited worlds.
So on 18 April
1857, he
published "The
Spirits' Book",
which contains
all of the
Spiritist
Doctrine, under
the pseudonym
Allan Kardec.
As a Messenger
of Jesus, he
came to change
the world,
assisted by the
Spirits,
bringing
enlightenment,
comfort, faith
and hope to all
creatures.
It was the
Consoler
promised by
Jesus, which at
the expected
time came to
Earth to bring a
new evolutionary
leap.
So, on 18 April
2015, when the
Doctrine becomes
158 years-old,
we show our
eternal
gratitude to
Allan Kardec for
the mission he
fulfilled so
well.
Surely those who
were his parents
in that last
existence should
feel happy,
fulfilled and
grateful to God
for their son,
one of the
greatest men of
humankind of all
time, a light
that shines in
the infinite as
an intense
bright star that
will never fade
away.
