O Evangelho segundo o Espiritismo
Capítulo XX — Os trabalhadores da última hora
Os obreiros do Senhor.
Aproxima-se o tempo em que se cumprirão as coisas anunciadas para a transformação da humanidade.
Ditosos serão os que houverem trabalhado no campo do Senhor, com desinteresse e sem outro móvel, senão a caridade!
Seus dias de trabalho serão pagos pelo cêntuplo do que tiverem esperado. Ditosos os que hajam dito a seus irmãos:
“Trabalhemos juntos e unamos os nossos esforços, a fim de que o Senhor, ao chegar, encontre acabada a obra”, porquanto o Senhor lhes dirá: “Vinde a mim, vós que sois bons servidores, vós que soubestes impor silêncio aos vossos ciúmes e às vossas discórdias, a fim de que daí não viesse dano para a obra!”
Mas, ai daqueles que, por efeito das suas dissensões, houverem retardado a hora da colheita, pois a tempestade virá e eles serão levados no turbilhão! Clamarão: “Graça! graça!” O Senhor, porém, lhes dirá:
“Como implorais graças, vós que não tivestes piedade dos vossos irmãos e que vos negastes a estender-lhes as mãos, que esmagastes o fraco, em vez de o amparardes?
Como suplicais graças, vós que buscastes a vossa recompensa nos gozos da Terra e na satisfação do vosso orgulho?
Já recebestes a vossa recompensa, tal qual a quisestes. Nada mais vos cabe pedir;
as recompensas celestes são para os que não tenham buscado as recompensas da Terra.”
Deus procede, neste momento, ao censo dos seus servidores fiéis e já marcou com o dedo aqueles cujo devotamento é apenas aparente, a fim de que não usurpem o salário dos servidores animosos, pois aos que não recuarem diante de suas tarefas é que ele vai confiar os postos mais difíceis na grande obra da regeneração pelo Espiritismo. Cumprir-se-ão estas palavras:
“Os primeiros serão os últimos e os últimos serão os primeiros no reino dos céus.”
O Espírito de Verdade.
Paris, 1862.
The workers of the LordO Espírito de Verdade.
Paris, 1862.
The time approaches when those things which have been announced for the transformation of humanity will be accomplished.
All those who have worked in the field of the Lord with disinterestedness and no other motive than charity, will be blessed!
Their working days will be paid a hundred times more than was expected.
Blessed are those who have said to their fellow men: "Let us work together and unite our efforts so that when the Lord arrives He will find His work finished," seeing that the Lord will say to them:
"Come unto me, you who have been good servants, you who knew how to silence your rivalries and discords so that no harm should come to the work!"
But woe to those who as a result of their dissensions have held back the time of the harvest, because the tempest will come and they will be taken away in the turbulence!
They will cry out:
"Mercy! Mercy!" However, the Lord will say to them:
"How can you implore mercy when you had none for your fellow men and refused to offer them a helping hand, trampling on the weak instead of upholding them?
How can you beseech mercy when you sought your recompense in earthly pleasures and the satisfaction of your pride? You have already received your recompense, just as you wished.
There is nothing more to ask for; the celestial rewards are for those who have not looked for earthly compensations."
At this very moment God is preparing a census of His faithful servants, and has already taken note of those whose devotion is only apparent, so that they may not usurp the wages of the courageous servants, because those who do not draw back from the task are the ones to whom He entrusted the most difficult positions in the great work of regeneration by means of Spiritism.
At this very moment God is preparing a census of His faithful servants, and has already taken note of those whose devotion is only apparent, so that they may not usurp the wages of the courageous servants, because those who do not draw back from the task are the ones to whom He entrusted the most difficult positions in the great work of regeneration by means of Spiritism.
These words will be fulfilled:
"The first shall be the last and the last shall be the first in the Kingdom of Heaven." - THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH (Paris, 1862).
Instruções dos Espíritos
Não mais vos assusteis!
Não escutais já o ruído da tempestade que há de arrebatar o velho mundo e abismar no nada o conjunto das iniquidades terrenas?
Ah! bendizei o Senhor, vós que haveis posto a vossa fé na sua soberana justiça e que, novos apóstolos da crença revelada pelas proféticas vozes superiores, ides pregar o novo dogma da reencarnação e da elevação dos Espíritos, conforme tenham cumprido, bem ou mal, suas missões e suportado suas provas terrestres.
Não mais vos assusteis!
As línguas de fogo estão sobre as vossas cabeças.
Ó verdadeiros adeptos do Espiritismo!. . . sois os escolhidos de Deus!
Ide e pregai a palavra divina. É chegada a hora em que deveis sacrificar à sua propagação os vossos hábitos, os vossos trabalhos, as vossas ocupações fúteis.
Ide e pregai. Convosco estão os Espíritos elevados. Certamente falareis a criaturas que não quererão escutar a voz de Deus, porque essa voz as exorta incessantemente à abnegação.
Pregareis o desinteresse aos avaros, a abstinência aos dissolutos, a mansidão aos tiranos domésticos, como aos déspotas!
Palavras perdidas, eu o sei; mas não importa.
Faz-se mister regueis com os vossos suores o terreno onde tendes de semear, porquanto ele não frutificará e não produzirá senão sob os reiterados golpes da enxada e da charrua evangélicas. Ide e pregai!
Ó todos vós, homens de boa-fé, conscientes da vossa inferioridade em face dos mundos disseminados pelo Infinito!. . . lançai-vos em cruzada contra a injustiça e a iniquidade.
Ó todos vós, homens de boa-fé, conscientes da vossa inferioridade em face dos mundos disseminados pelo Infinito!. . . lançai-vos em cruzada contra a injustiça e a iniquidade.
Ide e proscrevei esse culto do bezerro de ouro, que cada dia mais se alastra.
Ide, Deus vos guia! Homens simples e ignorantes, vossas línguas se soltarão e falareis como nenhum orador fala.
Ide e pregai, que as populações atentas recolherão ditosas as vossas palavras de consolação, de fraternidade, de esperança e de paz.
Que importam as emboscadas que vos armem pelo caminho! Somente lobos caem em armadilhas para lobos, porquanto o pastor saberá defender suas ovelhas das fogueiras imoladoras.
Ide, homens, que, grandes diante de Deus, mais ditosos do que Tomé, credes sem fazerdes questão de ver e aceitais os fatos da mediunidade, mesmo quando não tenhais conseguido obtê-los por vós mesmos; ide, o Espírito de Deus vos conduz.
Marcha, pois, avante, falange imponente pela tua fé!
Que importam as emboscadas que vos armem pelo caminho! Somente lobos caem em armadilhas para lobos, porquanto o pastor saberá defender suas ovelhas das fogueiras imoladoras.
Ide, homens, que, grandes diante de Deus, mais ditosos do que Tomé, credes sem fazerdes questão de ver e aceitais os fatos da mediunidade, mesmo quando não tenhais conseguido obtê-los por vós mesmos; ide, o Espírito de Deus vos conduz.
Marcha, pois, avante, falange imponente pela tua fé!
Diante de ti os grandes batalhões dos incrédulos se dissiparão, como a bruma da manhã aos primeiros raios do Sol nascente.
A fé é a virtude que desloca montanhas, disse Jesus.
A fé é a virtude que desloca montanhas, disse Jesus.
Todavia, mais pesados do que as maiores montanhas, jazem depositados nos corações dos homens a impureza e todos os vícios que derivam da impureza. Parti, então, cheios de coragem, para removerdes essa montanha de iniquidades que as futuras gerações só deverão conhecer como lenda, do mesmo modo que vós, que só muito imperfeitamente conheceis os tempos que antecederam a civilização pagã.
Sim, em todos os pontos do Globo vão produzir-se as subversões morais e filosóficas; aproxima-se a hora em que a luz divina se espargirá sobre os dois mundos.
Ide, pois, e levai a palavra divina: aos grandes que a desprezarão, aos eruditos que exigirão provas, aos pequenos e simples que a aceitarão; porque, principalmente entre os mártires do trabalho, desta provação terrena, encontrareis fervor e fé.
Sim, em todos os pontos do Globo vão produzir-se as subversões morais e filosóficas; aproxima-se a hora em que a luz divina se espargirá sobre os dois mundos.
Ide, pois, e levai a palavra divina: aos grandes que a desprezarão, aos eruditos que exigirão provas, aos pequenos e simples que a aceitarão; porque, principalmente entre os mártires do trabalho, desta provação terrena, encontrareis fervor e fé.
Ide; estes receberão, com hinos de gratidão e louvores a Deus, a santa consolação que lhes levareis, e baixarão a fronte, rendendo-lhe graças pelas aflições que a Terra lhes destina.
Arme-se a vossa falange de decisão e coragem!
Arme-se a vossa falange de decisão e coragem!
Mãos à obra!
o arado está pronto;
a terra espera; arai!
Ide e agradecei a Deus a gloriosa tarefa que ele vos confiou; mas, atenção! entre os chamados para o Espiritismo muitos se transviaram; reparai, pois, vosso caminho e segui a verdade.
Pergunta. — Se, entre os chamados para o Espiritismo, muitos se transviaram, quais os sinais pelos quais reconheceremos os que se acham no bom caminho?
Resposta. — Reconhecê-los-eis pelos princípios da verdadeira caridade que eles ensinarão e praticarão.
Ide e agradecei a Deus a gloriosa tarefa que ele vos confiou; mas, atenção! entre os chamados para o Espiritismo muitos se transviaram; reparai, pois, vosso caminho e segui a verdade.
Pergunta. — Se, entre os chamados para o Espiritismo, muitos se transviaram, quais os sinais pelos quais reconheceremos os que se acham no bom caminho?
Resposta. — Reconhecê-los-eis pelos princípios da verdadeira caridade que eles ensinarão e praticarão.
Reconhecê-los-eis pelo número de aflitos a que levem consolo; reconhecê-los-eis pelo seu amor ao próximo, pela sua abnegação, pelo seu desinteresse pessoal; reconhecê-los-eis, finalmente, pelo triunfo de seus princípios, porque Deus quer o triunfo de sua lei; os que seguem sua lei, esses são os escolhidos e ele lhes dará a vitória; mas ele destruirá aqueles que falseiam o espírito dessa lei e fazem dela degrau para contentar sua vaidade e sua ambição.
Erasto, anjo-da-guarda do médium.
Paris, 1863
Paris, 1863
Do you not already hear the noise of the tempest which will sweep away the old world and destroy all the iniquities of this planet? Ah, praise the Lord, all those who have put their faith in His sovereign justice and who, as new apostles of the belief revealed by the superior prophetical voices, go forth to preach the new doctrine of reincarnation and the elevation of Spirits according to whether they have fulfilled their missions and supported their terrestrial trials well or badly.
Do not be afraid! The tongues of fire are above your heads. Oh, true adepts of Spiritism . . . you are God's chosen ones! Go forth and preach the Divine Word. The time has come when you should sacrifice your habits, your work, and your futile occupations to its dissemination. Go forth and preach! The elevated Spirits are with you. You will most certainly speak to those who do not wish to hear the Voice of God, because this Voice calls them unceasingly to abnegation. You will preach disinterestedness to those who are avaricious, abstinence to the dissolute, gentleness to domestic tyrants and despots! Lost words, I know, but it does not matter. It is necessary that you irrigate the land to be sown with the sweat of your labour, seeing that it will not come to fruit nor produce except under the repeated blows of the evangelical hoe and plough. Go forth and preach!
To all of you, men and women of good faith who are conscious of your inferiority before the many worlds scattered in infinite space! . . . Launch yourselves into the crusade against injustice and iniquity. Go forth and ostracize the worship of the golden calf, which spreads more and more each day. Go forth; God guides you! Simple and ignorant humanity, your tongues will be freed and you will speak as no orator speaks. Go forth then and preach, for those of the population who are heedful will happily take in your words of consolation, fraternity, hope and peace.
What matter the ambushes rigged against you along the pathway! Only wolves fall into wolf traps, since the Shepherd will know how to defend His sheep from the sacrificial butchers.
Go forth those who, great before God and more blessed than Saint Thomas, believe without demanding to see and accept the fact of mediumship even when they have not managed to obtain it for themselves. Go then, for the Spirit of God is guiding you.
March forward, magnificent phalanx of faith! Before you the great battalions of unbelievers will dissipate, as does the morning dew at the first rays of the sun.
Jesus said that faith is the virtue which moves mountains. However, heavier that the greatest mountain are the impurities and all the vices which are derived from them, which lie deposited in the hearts of men. So then, depart full of courage to remove this mountain of iniquities which future generations should only know as legend, in the same way that you know only very imperfectly of the times which preceded pagan civilization.
Moral and philosophical upheavals will be produced at all points of the globe; the hour approaches when the divine light will spread itself over both worlds.
Go, and bring forth the divine word: to the big ones who will deride it, to the sages who will ask for its proves, and to the little and simple ones who will finally accept it, because it is between the martyrs of the duty, this earthly atonement, that you shall find the fervour and the faith. Go; these ones will receive your consolations with grace loans, singing to the praise of God, and will bend down, thankful for their earthly miseries.
Be your phalanx armed with resolution and courage. To work! Plough is ready; the earth is waiting; it is time to work.
Go, and thank God for the glourious tasks he trusts you. Imagine but that, between the called ones to the Spiritism, many shall lose themselves. Observe then your route, and follow the path of truth.
Q. If many called to Spiritism shall lose themselves, how can we recognize the ones who are in the good path?
A. You will recognize them by the principles of true charity they profess and put into practice; you will recognize them in the number of afflicteds whom they will bring consolations; you will recognize them by their love to the neighbour; by their abnegation, their personal disinterest; you will, finally, recognize them by the triumph of their principles, for God wants the triumph of his law. Those who follow his law are his chosen, and he will give them the victory, but will shatter those who distort the spirit of the law and make a mere means of it, so as to satisfy their vanity and ambition.
Do not be afraid! The tongues of fire are above your heads. Oh, true adepts of Spiritism . . . you are God's chosen ones! Go forth and preach the Divine Word. The time has come when you should sacrifice your habits, your work, and your futile occupations to its dissemination. Go forth and preach! The elevated Spirits are with you. You will most certainly speak to those who do not wish to hear the Voice of God, because this Voice calls them unceasingly to abnegation. You will preach disinterestedness to those who are avaricious, abstinence to the dissolute, gentleness to domestic tyrants and despots! Lost words, I know, but it does not matter. It is necessary that you irrigate the land to be sown with the sweat of your labour, seeing that it will not come to fruit nor produce except under the repeated blows of the evangelical hoe and plough. Go forth and preach!
To all of you, men and women of good faith who are conscious of your inferiority before the many worlds scattered in infinite space! . . . Launch yourselves into the crusade against injustice and iniquity. Go forth and ostracize the worship of the golden calf, which spreads more and more each day. Go forth; God guides you! Simple and ignorant humanity, your tongues will be freed and you will speak as no orator speaks. Go forth then and preach, for those of the population who are heedful will happily take in your words of consolation, fraternity, hope and peace.
What matter the ambushes rigged against you along the pathway! Only wolves fall into wolf traps, since the Shepherd will know how to defend His sheep from the sacrificial butchers.
Go forth those who, great before God and more blessed than Saint Thomas, believe without demanding to see and accept the fact of mediumship even when they have not managed to obtain it for themselves. Go then, for the Spirit of God is guiding you.
March forward, magnificent phalanx of faith! Before you the great battalions of unbelievers will dissipate, as does the morning dew at the first rays of the sun.
Jesus said that faith is the virtue which moves mountains. However, heavier that the greatest mountain are the impurities and all the vices which are derived from them, which lie deposited in the hearts of men. So then, depart full of courage to remove this mountain of iniquities which future generations should only know as legend, in the same way that you know only very imperfectly of the times which preceded pagan civilization.
Moral and philosophical upheavals will be produced at all points of the globe; the hour approaches when the divine light will spread itself over both worlds.
Go, and bring forth the divine word: to the big ones who will deride it, to the sages who will ask for its proves, and to the little and simple ones who will finally accept it, because it is between the martyrs of the duty, this earthly atonement, that you shall find the fervour and the faith. Go; these ones will receive your consolations with grace loans, singing to the praise of God, and will bend down, thankful for their earthly miseries.
Be your phalanx armed with resolution and courage. To work! Plough is ready; the earth is waiting; it is time to work.
Go, and thank God for the glourious tasks he trusts you. Imagine but that, between the called ones to the Spiritism, many shall lose themselves. Observe then your route, and follow the path of truth.
Q. If many called to Spiritism shall lose themselves, how can we recognize the ones who are in the good path?
A. You will recognize them by the principles of true charity they profess and put into practice; you will recognize them in the number of afflicteds whom they will bring consolations; you will recognize them by their love to the neighbour; by their abnegation, their personal disinterest; you will, finally, recognize them by the triumph of their principles, for God wants the triumph of his law. Those who follow his law are his chosen, and he will give them the victory, but will shatter those who distort the spirit of the law and make a mere means of it, so as to satisfy their vanity and ambition.
Erastus, guardian angel of the medium.
Paris, 1863
Paris, 1863
