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modern Saint Bernards, look ahead and march forward. The law of the worlds is a law of progress. - FENELON
(Poitiers, 1861).
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11. Saint Augustin is one of the greatest popularizers of Spiritism. He bas manifested himself in almost every
part. The reason for this is to be found in the life story of this great Christian philosopher. He belongs to a vigorous
phalanx known as Fathers of the church, to whom Christianity awes its mast solid bases. Like many others he was
uprooted from Paganism, or rather from the most profound godlessness, by the splendor of truth. When suddenly, in
the middle of his dissipations, he felt a strange vibration in his soul which called him to himself and made him
understand that happiness was not to be found in debilitating and escapist pleasures. Finally he too had a similar
experience to Paul, who heard saintly voices calling to him on the road to Damascus saying: 'Saul, Saul, why do you
persecute me?' When Saint Augustin heard his voices he exclaimed: 'My God! My God! Forgive me! I believe; I am a
Christian!' From this moment on he became one of the greatest supporters of the Gospel. You may read the notable
confessions left by this eminent Spirit, the characteristic and prophetic words he uttered after the death of Saint
Monica, I am convinced that my mother will visit me and give me advice, revealing to me what awaits us in the future
life.' What great leaching in these words! What resounding foresight of the doctrine that was to come! This is the
reason why today, seeing that the time has come to spread the truth as he predicted, he has become its ardent
disseminator and as it were, multiplied himself in order to be able to reply to all who call him. - ERASTUS, disciple of
Saint Paul (Paris 1863).
NOTE: Would it be possible for Saint Augustin to demolish what he himself had built? Certainly not. But just as many others before him, he
now sees with the eye of Spirit what he could not see while he was a man. In freedom his soul sees new brightness and understands what
previously had been impossible to understand. New ideas have revealed to him the true meaning of certain words. On Earth he judged things
according to the knowledge he possessed at that time. But ever since he saw the new light he can appreciate those words more judiciously. Thus he
had to revise his beliefs regarding incubus and succubus spirits, as well as the condemnation which he had launched against the theory of the
antipodes. Now that he can see Christianity in us true light and in all us pureness, it is acceptable that on some points he thinks differently from when
he was alive, which in no way prohibits him from continuing to be a Christian apostle. He may even establish himself as a disseminator of Spiritism
without renouncing his faith, because he has seen that which was forecast come to pass. Therefore, by proclaiming this doctrine today, he only leads
us towards a more correct and logical interpretation of the texts. The same also occurs with other Spirits who find themselves in a similar position.
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Syntheses:
9. God is unique, and Moses was a Spirit whom He sent on a mission to make known His presence, not only to the
Hebrews but to all the pagan world.
The Hebrew peoples were God's instrument to enable Him to manifest through Moses and the prophets. The
vicissitudes suffered by these peoples were meant to attract their attention and so help disclose the existence of the
Divinity.
God's commandments as revealed through Moses contain the essence of the most comprehensive Christian
morality.
The morality taught by Moses was appropriate to the stale of advancement of the people he proposed to
regenerate. These people, who were semi-barbaric with respect to the perfecting of the soul, would not have
understood that God could be worshipped by other means than holocaust, nor that it is necessary to forgive one's
enemies.
Christ was the initiator of the most pure and sublime morality. That is to say, the morality of the evangelical
Christian, which will renew the entire world by bringing together all mankind and turning them into brothers and sisters.
It will cause charity to blossom forth in all hearts as well as love for one's neighbor, so establishing a common solidarity
between all peoples.
Finally, from this morality, which will transform the whole Earth, the planet will become the home of far superior
Spirits than inhabit it till now.
This is the law of progress which will be accomplished and to which nature is submitted. Spiritism is the lever
which God is using to enable humanity to advance.
The time has come in which moral ideas must be developed to bring about the progress determined by God.
They will follow the same route as that taken by the ideas of liberty, us predecessor.
Do not think however, that these developments will be effected without a fight. No, in order to reach maturity
these ideas will need discussion and conflicts so that they may attract the attention of the masses.
Once this has been achieved, the beauty and sanctity of this morality will touch all Spirits, who will in turn
embrace a science which will give them the key to a future life and open the doors to eternal happiness.
Moses showed humanity the way; Jesus continued this work; Spiritism will finish it.
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1O. Once, in His undying charity, God permitted Man to see the truth pierce the darkness. That day was the
advent of Christ. After that living Light was gone the darkness returned; having been given the alternatives of truth or
obscurity the world once again lost itself.
Then, similar to the prophets of the Old Testament, the Spirits began speak and finally gave warning that the
world is trembling on its very foundations and thunder will resound. Remain steady!
Spiritism is of a divine order because it is based upon the actual laws of Nature, and you may be certain that
everything of a divine nature has a great and useful objective.
This revolution which prepares itself is more moral than material.
The great Spirits, who are divine messengers, instill faith amongst you so that all who are enlightened and
zealous workers may make their humble voices heard, seeing that all humanity are like grains of sand, without which
there would be no mountains.
Thus the wards: 'We are small' lack significance. To each his mission, to each his work. Does not the ant build
his republic, and other imperceptible animals raise continents?
The new crusade has begun. Apostles, not of war, but of universal peace, modern Saint Bernards, look ahead
and march forward. The law of the worlds is a law of progress.
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11. Saint Augustin is one of the greatest popularizers of Spiritism. He bas manifested himself in almost every
part. The reason for this is to be found in the life story of this great Christian philosopher. He belongs to a vigorous
phalanx known as Fathers of the church, to whom Christianity awes its mast solid bases.
Finally he too had a similar experience to Paul, who heard saintly voices calling to him on the road to Damascus
saying: 'Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?' When Saint Augustin heard his voices he exclaimed: 'My God! My God!
Forgive me! I believe; I am a Christian!' From this moment on he became one of the greatest supporters of the Gospel.
You may read the notable confessions left by this eminent Spirit, the characteristic and prophetic words he
uttered after the death of Saint Monica, I am convinced that my mother will visit me and give me advice, revealing to
me what awaits us in the future life.' What great leaching in these words! What resounding foresight of the doctrine that
was to come!
This is the reason why today, seeing that the time has come to spread the truth as he predicted, he has become
its ardent disseminator and as it were, multiplied himself in order to be able to reply to all who call him.
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CONSIDERATIONS:
The new era can be interpreted in that we are in 'The era of the Spirit' and not as much as 'Oh we are here in a
material world', let us enjoy and take vantage of this world because today we live tomorrow we die; calm down we are
in the era of the spirit, because it was revealed to us that we are immortal spirits and that our living has moral
consequences for our good or our badliness.
The times in which men didn't have notion of the immortal life and their responsibilities the man thought only in
himself, each one did what wanted his/her second will, it was the 'it was' of the more fort of the most astute, of the
smartest for those times was normal to invade lands to do pillage, to kill to steal to catch fire and to leave and to do the
same thing in another place and to live at the expense of the neighbor with all the brutality and terror; with Moises
God's era he/she revealed His/her existence and he/she gave his/her Law to govern us with moral understanding,
however the man takes time for if des-adapt of his/her accommodation to the brutality, then Moises as legislator
imposed 'the tooth law for tooth and of eye for eye', but it was temporary law until the people to understand that the
good was to live in peace with his/her close one.
Well then on this era of the spirit Jesus came to reveal us that God was not a God of anger or of revenge, but
love and Jesus gives us the largest force so that we are like God in perfection and love and that God is Spirit and that
we are immortal spirits and Jesus gives us example how to live, asking us that we live of agreement, because that ours
to live he brings moral consequences to our spiritual future.
Yes, we are not more without notion than we are immortal and that we are not alone matter, but red spirits
according to the Will of God in this world that is an according to the Spiritism 'World of Proofs and Atonements', that we
were created 'Simple and Ignorant', that 'we Developed and we have progress', that 'THE devil today will be the angel
tomorrow' that 'for our effort we won our inferiorities', that the spiritualistic morals is the one of Jesus' that the future is
us the responsible as well as Jesus said 'Their works follow them.'
The new was continues to be even long that it seems the one that now we have, until that the seeds of the love
that Jesus planted germinate, grow and give fruits and this new one was if it will complete with men of well, worthy, of
tolerance, of responsibility, of respect because these things are dipped in the love as universal law.
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LET US SEE IN ALLAN KARDEC GENESIS 18: 27-31 THE NEW GENERATION:
The New Generation
27. In order that man shall be happy upon the Earth, it is necessary that it be peopled with good spirits, incarnate
or discarnate, who desire only good. This time has arrived; a great emigration is being accomplished at this moment
among those who inhabit it. Those who return evil for evil, and in whom the desire to do right is not felt, being unworthy
of the transformed state of the Earth, will be banished from it, because they will bring only trouble and confusion, and
would be an obstacle to progress. They will go to expiate their hardness of heart, some into inferior worlds, and others
with terrestrial races behind them in development, which will be the equivalent of inferior worlds, where they will carry
their acquired knowledge, and where it will be their mission to teach undeveloped beings this knowledge. They will be
replaced by better spirits, who will make justice, peace, and fraternity rule among them.
The Earth, according to the intelligence gained from the spirits, must not be transformed by a cataclysm which
would suddenly annihilate a generation. The present generation will gradually disappear, and the new one succeeds in
the same manner without any thing having been changed in the natural order of things.
All externally will pass along as is usual, with this difference alone, which is an important one, that a part of the
spirits which are incarnated here now will no more be incarnated here. The children who will then be born, instead of
being underdeveloped and inclined to evil, will be more advanced spirits inclined towards righteousness. It acts then
much less upon a new corporeal generation than upon the new generation of spirits. It is undoubtedly within this
context that Jesus understood things when he said: I tell you the truth, this generation will certainly not pass away until
all these things have happened.
Thus, those who will expect to see the transformation brought about by supernatural or miraculous effects will be
disappointed.
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28. The present epoch is a transition one; the elements of the two generations are mingling together. Placed at
the intermediary point, we assist at the departure of one and at the arrival of the other. Each one signalized itself by its
own proper character.
The two generations which follow each other have views and ideas totally opposed to one another. By the nature
of the moral disposition, but more particularly by the intuitive and innate disposition, it is easy to distinguish to which of
the two each individual belongs.
The new generation, being the founder of the era of moral progress, is distinguished generally by a precocious
intelligence and reasoning powers, joined to the innate sentiment of goodness and of spiritualist beliefs, which is the
unmistakable sign of a certain degree of anterior advancement. It will not be composed exclusively of eminently
superior spirits, but of those who, having progressed already, are predisposed to embrace all the progressive ideas,
and apt to second the regenerative movement.
That which distinguishes, on the contrary, undeveloped spirits is, firstly, the revolt against God by refusing to
recognize any power superior to humanity; then the instinctive propensity to the degrading passions, to the antifraternal sentiments of selfishness, of pride, of the attachment for all that which is material; sensuality, cupidity and
avarice.
These are the vices of which the Earth must be purged by the removal of those who refuse to amend, because they
are incompatible with the reign of fraternity, and as good men will suffer always by contact with them. When the Earth
shall have been delivered from them, men will march without hindrance towards that better future which has been
reserved for them here below as the recompense for their efforts and perseverance, looking forward to purification still
more complete, which will open to them the entrance to superior worlds.
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29. By this emigration of spirits it is not necessary to understand that all undeveloped spirits will be expelled from
Earth, and condemned to live in inferior worlds. Many, on the contrary, will return here those who have yielded to
temptation by the force of circumstances and example; those who appeared to be much worse than they really were.
Once delivered from the influence of matter, and the prejudices of the corporeal world, the greater part of them will
see things in an entirely different light than when living, as we have numerous examples of it. In this they are aided by
benevolent spirits who are interested in them, and who try to enlighten them by showing them the wrong in the way
they have pursued. By our prayers and exhortations we can ourselves contribute to their improvement, because there
is a perpetual connection, an unbroken chain, between the dead and living.
The transformation is very simple, entirely a moral one, which is according to the laws of nature.
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30. Allowing that the spirits of the new generation are new ones, but better, more advanced than the preceding
ones, or ancient developed spirits, the result is the same. From the instant that they become inspired by better desires,
the renovation takes place. There are then two categories of incarnated spirits, which are formed according to their
natural dispositions on one side those tardy in progression who depart, and on the other the progressive ones who
arrive. The condition of society in a nation or in the entire world will be according to the preponderance which one of
these two categories has over the other.
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31. A common comparison will make this better comprehended. Let us suppose a regiment composed of a great
majority of undisciplined and unruly men, those who in constant disorder are brought to feel the severity of the penal
laws. These men are the stronger, because they are the more numerous; they are sustained, encouraged, and
stimulated by example. The few good ones among them are without influence; their counsels are despised, they are
scoffed at, badly treated by the others, and suffer from this contact. Is this not an emblem of society at present?
Let us suppose that these men are withdrawn from this regiment one by one, ten by ten, hundred by hundred, and that
they are replaced by an equal number of good soldiers, even by those who have become seriously amended. At the
end of some greater or less period of time, there will be the same regiment, but a transformed one; good order will
have succeeded to disorder. Thus will it be with regenerated humanity.
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CONCLUSIONS:
Let us conclude that the life of the spirit passes through many apprenticeships from his/her infancy with the
attendance of God, in the man's evolution and of his/her progress, we know that Jesus' Gospel is not as yet well
absorbed all over the world in the understanding of his/her need, because there are countries already much less
advanced morally that others, there are countries which badly have a prison and others that are overfilling of prisoners,
there are countries with abundance of food to eat and others with a lot of hunger, and there are rich countries and
others very poor ones, there are educated people and there are ignorant people, kind people and people not so much
alike them, etc.
Jesus' Gospel is the remedy which gives hope for all the people, because it includes to teach, to cure to visit, to
help, to forgive, to love, yes without doubt to love and love is the center of the whole message and total content of the
evangelical message left by Jesus and the Spiritism giving continuation to the Gospel asks: 'love and be instructed.
( The Gospel accord. to Spiritism,. 6:5).
Then we are in a time in which there is a lot to do spiritually in the popularization of the Gospel for the interior
transformation of people to become good, not selfish desiring everything for themselves, to have tolerance to their
close ones, to give up having malicious prejudices, to try to understand their neighbor etc; everything that is imbued in
love. Yes there is hope of those days to arrive even because everyone is tired and they do seek out peace.
May God be with us, as formerly today and forever.