Apresenta

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Selfishness By the spirit EMMANUEL
Selfishness is a plague. It is an obstacle to
moral progress, and must disappear from earth.
The Spiritist Doctrine has the task of helping to
ensure that earth ascends to a higher stage.
Therefore, selfishness is the target on which all
Spiritists should train their sights, summoning
up all their strength and courage. We say
courage because people need more of it to
achieve victory over themselves rather than over
others. Each of you should use all your strength
in the fight against your own selfishness,
recognizing that this monster has devoured many
minds. This offspring of pride is at the root of
all earths miseries. Selfishness, to put it
briefly, is the enemy of love and thus the
greatest barrier to human happiness. Jesus was
the example of love Pontius Pilate an example of
selfishness. As Jesus was about to begin
undertaking the holy stations of His martyrdom on
the cross, Pilate washed his hands of the affair,
saying, What does it matter to me! He even said
to the Jews, This is a just man, so why do you
want to crucify Him? Yet he allowed Jesus to be
led to His martyrdom. Its because of this
endless battle between love and selfishness
(which invades the human heart like a disease)
that Christianity still hasnt completed its
mission. The higher spirits, however, are now
inspiring you, as you are the new apostles of the
faith. On your shoulders rests the responsibility
for helping to eliminate this evil, and by doing
so, to clear away the obstacles to the practice
of the Christianity in its full force. Once
selfishness is banished, earth will become a
better place and a more advanced dwelling in the
celestial system. The time is approaching for
humanity to put on the nuptial robe- but before
this can happen, selfishness must be rooted out
of human hearts. Emmanuel, Paris, 1861- The
Gospel - Explained by the Spiritist Doctrine,
Chapter XI, Allan Kardec