LOVE HAS NO END
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A Beautiful Song by Raselhits
While many people battle against one another in family courts, and many weep over the absence of their loved ones, Rasel continues to reward us with his beautiful songs, reminding us that:
TRUE LOVE NEVER ENDS
This song leads us to reflect upon the divine essence of every being created by GOD, out of Love!
And it brings us back to the teachings of Our Lord Jesus Christ and to the beautiful messages brought to us by the Holy Spirit of God, the Spirit of Truth, who came to help us by explaining more clearly what Jesus could not yet tell us because most of us were not yet prepared to understand.
I am publishing this song and these messages with the certainty that TRUE LOVE NEVER DIES, no matter how many lives we have already lived.
Jesus said: “Love your neighbor as yourself.”
Happy Labor Day to our North American brothers and sisters!
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May everyone of us have a happy and blessed life .
Marcia Almeida
THE LAW OF LOVE
The Gospel According to Spiritism
Allan KardecChapter XI — Love Your Neighbor as Yourself
Instructions from the Spirits
8. Love sums up the entire doctrine of Jesus, since it is the feeling par excellence, and feelings are instincts raised to the level of the progress attained.
At his origin, man has only instincts; when more advanced and corrupted, he has only sensations; when instructed and purified, he has feelings. And the delicate point of feeling is love—not love in the vulgar sense of the term, but that inner sun which condenses and gathers within its burning focus all aspirations and all superhuman revelations.
The law of love replaces personality with the fusion of beings; it extinguishes social miseries.
Blessed is he who, surpassing his humanity, loves his suffering brothers with a vast love!
Blessed is he who loves, for he knows neither the misery of the soul nor that of the body. His feet are light, and he lives as though transported, outside himself.
When Jesus pronounced the divine word—love—the peoples were startled, and the martyrs, intoxicated with hope, descended into the arena.
Spiritism, in its turn, comes to pronounce a second word of the divine alphabet.
Be attentive, for this word raises the gravestone from the empty tombs, and reincarnation, triumphing over death, reveals to dazzled creatures their intellectual inheritance.
It no longer leads man to torment: it leads him to the conquest of his being, elevated and transfigured.
Blood redeemed the Spirit, and the Spirit must today redeem man from matter.
I said that, in his beginnings, man possessed only instincts. Therefore, whoever is dominated by instincts is still closer to the point of departure than to the goal. In order to advance toward the goal, the creature must overcome instincts for the benefit of feelings; that is, he must perfect the latter by suffocating the latent germs of matter.
Instincts are the germination and embryos of feeling; they carry progress within themselves, as the acorn contains the oak within itself, and the less advanced beings are those who, emerging little by little from their chrysalises, remain enslaved to instincts. The Spirit needs to be cultivated, like a field.
All future wealth depends upon the present labor, which will obtain for you much more than earthly goods: glorious elevation.
It is then that, understanding the law of love that binds all beings together, you will seek within it the most gentle delights of the soul, preludes to heavenly joys.
— Lazarus. (Paris, 1862.)
9.Love is of divine essence, and all of you, from the first to the last, have, in the depths of your hearts, the spark of this sacred fire.
This is a fact that you have already been able to verify many times: man, however abject, vile, and criminal he may be, devotes to a being or to any object a vivid and ardent affection capable of withstanding everything that might tend to diminish it, and which not rarely reaches sublime proportions.
To a being or to any object, I said, because there are among you individuals who, with their hearts overflowing with love, expend treasures of this feeling upon animals, plants, and even material things: kinds of misanthropes who, while complaining about Humanity in general and resisting the natural inclination of their souls, which seek affection and sympathy around them, lower the law of love to the condition of instinct.
Nevertheless, no matter what they do, they cannot suffocate the living germ that God deposited in their hearts when He created them.
This germ develops and grows with morality and intelligence and, although often compressed by selfishness, becomes the source of the holy and gentle virtues that generate sincere and lasting affections and help the creature cross the steep and arid path of human existence.
There are people who are repelled by reincarnation, with the idea that others may come to share the affectionate sympathies of which they are jealous. Poor brothers! Your affection makes you selfish; your love is restricted to an intimate circle of relatives and friends, while all others are indifferent to you.
Well then! In order to practice the law of love as God understands it, you must, step by step, come to love all your brothers without distinction.
The task is long and difficult, but it will be accomplished: God wills it, and the law of love constitutes the first and most important precept of your new doctrine, because it is this law that will one day kill selfishness, whatever form it may assume, given that, besides personal selfishness, there is also the selfishness of family, caste, and nationality.
Jesus said: “Love your neighbor as yourself.”
Now, what is the limit with regard to one’s neighbor?
Is it the family, the sect, the nation?
No; it is all Humanity.
In the higher worlds, reciprocal love is what harmonizes and guides the advanced Spirits who inhabit them, and your planet, destined soon to achieve noticeable progress, will see its inhabitants, by virtue of the social transformation through which it will pass, practice this sublime law, a reflection of Divinity.
The effects of the law of love are the moral improvement of the human race and happiness during earthly life. The most rebellious and the most vicious will reform themselves when they observe the benefits resulting from the practice of this precept:
Do not do to others what you would not want them to do to you; on the contrary, do for them all the good that is within your power to do for them.
Do not believe in the sterility and hardening of the human heart; to true love, it yields in spite of itself. It is a magnet that it is impossible for the heart to resist. Contact with this love vivifies and fertilizes the germs of love that exist in a latent state within your hearts.
The Earth, sphere of trial and exile, will then be purified by this sacred fire and will see charity, humility, patience, devotion, self-denial, resignation, and sacrifice practiced upon its surface—all virtues that are daughters of love.
Therefore, do not grow weary of listening to the words of John the Evangelist.
As you know, when illness and old age forced him to suspend the course of his preaching, he limited himself to repeating these most gentle words:
“My little children, love one another.”
Beloved brothers, take advantage of these lessons; it is difficult to practice them, but the soul reaps immense good from them.
Believe me, make the sublime effort that I ask of you:
“Love one another,”
and you will soon see the Earth transformed into a Paradise where the souls of the righteous will come to rest.
— Sanson. (Bordeaux, 1861.)
10. My dear fellow disciples, the Spirits present here tell you, through me:
“Love greatly, so that you may be loved.”
This thought is so just that in it you will find everything that consoles and softens the pains of each day; or, better still: by putting this wise counsel into practice, you will raise yourselves so far above matter that you will spiritualize yourselves before leaving the earthly envelope.
Since Spiritist studies have developed within you an understanding of the future, you possess one certainty: that you are walking toward God, seeing fulfilled all the promises that correspond to the aspirations of your soul. For this reason, you must raise yourselves very high in order to judge without the constraints of matter and not condemn your neighbor without having directed your thoughts toward God.
To love, in the profound sense of the term, is for man to be loyal, upright, and conscientious, in order to do to others what he would want them to do to him; it is to seek around himself the intimate meaning of all the sufferings that overwhelm his brothers, in order to alleviate them; it is to regard the great human family as his own, because you will all encounter that family, within a certain period, in more advanced worlds; and the Spirits who compose it are, like you, children of God, destined to rise toward infinity.
Thus, you cannot refuse your brothers what God has liberally granted you, since, for your part, you would be greatly pleased if your brothers gave you what you need. For all sufferings, therefore, always have a word of hope and comfort, so that you may be entirely love and justice.
Believe that this wise exhortation—
“Love enough, so that you may be loved”
—will open the way; revolutionary, it follows its course, which is determined and unchanging.
But you who hear me have already gained much, for you are already infinitely better than you were a hundred years ago.
You have changed so much, for your own benefit, that you willingly accept an immensity of new ideas regarding freedom and fraternity that you would formerly have rejected.
Now, a hundred years from now, you will undoubtedly accept with the same ease those ideas that have not yet been able to enter your minds.
Today, when the Spiritist movement has taken such a great step, observe how quickly the ideas of justice and renewal contained in Spiritist communications are accepted by the middle portion of the intelligent world.
It is because these ideas correspond to everything divine within you. It is because you have been prepared by fruitful sowing: that of the past century, which implanted the great ideas of progress within earthly society.
And, because everything is linked together under the direction of the Most High, all the lessons received and accepted will come to culminate in the universal exchange of love for one’s neighbor.
Through this, incarnate Spirits, appreciating and feeling one another better, will extend their hands to one another from all the confines of your planet.
They will come together in order to understand and love one another, in order to destroy all injustices and all causes of discord among peoples.
Great concept of renewal through Spiritism, so well presented in The Spirits’ Book; you will produce the prodigious miracle of the coming century: the harmonization of all the material and spiritual interests of men through the application of this well-understood precept:
“Love enough, so that you may be loved.”
— Sanson, former member of the Spiritist Society of Paris. (1863.)
KARDEC, Allan. The Gospel According to Spiritism. Chapter 11 — Love Your Neighbour as Yourself. Instructions from the Spirits: “The Law of Love”, items 8–10. KardecPedia. Available at:
https://kardecpedia.com/en/study-guide/887/the-gospel-according-to-spiritism/2378/chapter-11-love-your-neighbour-as-yourself/instructions-from-the-spirits/the-law-of-love�
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