THE WORLD OF THE SPIRIT
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THE RELIGION OF JESUS
To cultivate the liberating thought which the New Revelation breathes into your life, reflect on the religion of Jesus.
In every circumstance, let us recognize ourselves in the presence of the Master as we exercise dynamic fraternity.
Undoubtedly, He stated that He did not come to destroy the law but to fulfill it. And this He did carry out, actualizing the statements in constructive action with which He expanded all the precepts through the enlightenment of His teaching and affirmations of work.
He erected no shrine of stone, nor did He go into theological discussions. He instituted no payment for religious services, neither did He create amulets or talismans, nor consecrate adornments or outline rituals.
On the contrary, He adjusted Himself to the community for the sake of the upliftment and sustenance of the whole man, helping him in body and soul.
He explained the truth to rabbis as well as to fishermen of simple life.
He preached the divine message on top of the mountains, nourishing hungry stomachs and illumining minds thirsting for light.
He succored unfortunate women and abandoned children; read in the synagogues; healed the sick; raised up the paralytic; freed the obsessed, indoctrinating perturbed and suffering spirits, encouraged the sad and dined with persons of low social level.
Without any tinge of personality cult, He lived in the midst of the multitude.
Finding, then, in spiritualism the resurgent Good News, let us convince ourselves that our doctrinal centers must be homes of free assistance to the people who at all times are the true family of Christ.
By meditating upon these undisputed observations, we can prevent the conversion of spiritualist temples into museums of the Gospel, or gilded mausoleums of the Lord, by recognizing that it is necessary to constitute in them schools of rationalized faith, and to populate them with soul ardent in their disinterested service to their fellowman, so that we can halt the explosions of subversive despair, and the epidemics of disbelief, which even today, furrow the earth with the fury of destructive fire.
Ewerton Quadros