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Christian
Conduc
(Second and
Final part)
Let’s
persevere in
Christian
conduct so that
our gestures can
represent the
presence of
Christ on Earth
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Orson
Peter
Carrara |
Marital
interaction:
Statistics
reveal that more
than 50% of
marriages end up
in separation,
which
demonstrates
that there is
much
maladjustment in
marital
interaction. We
see in marital
relationships
the presence of
boredom, lack of
dialogue,
infidelity, lack
of respect. This
leads us to
think that the
spouses, who are
totally
unprepared for
life as a
couple, enter
into marriage,
which is an
institution that
will demand acts
of sharing and
renouncement
from both
parties.
Camilo
emphasizes that
marriage must
generate union
and not fusion,
because each one
of the spouses
must nourishes
their ideals,
which ought to
be communicated
to their
partner, so that
together they
can adjust to
the best way of
carrying out
these ideals.
Unfortunately in
the majority of
relationships,
marriage is a
way of
legalising the
sexual act,
above all for
the male party,
who in many
situations, due
to uncontrolled
libido, will
demand sexual
relationship
during periods
of illness, of
ovulation and
menstrual cycle
of the woman.
Let us learn
with Camilo and
with other
spiritual
benefactors that
sex is the less
significant part
of marriage,
which must be
kept through
love-tenderness
and
love-friendship,
where affection
and respect will
not allow tedium
to dominate the
spouses’
emotions.
Marriage is like
a delicate plant
that must be
watered daily
with love and
friendship,
because before
being marital
spouses, we
cannot forget
that we are
God’s children
and therefore
brothers who
seek to help one
another on our
evolutionary
paths.
Therefore, a
Christian
conduct in
marriage will
always be
fidelity,
tenderness,
respect and
tolerance, with
awareness that
the more evolved
or more
enlightened one,
from the
spiritual point
of view, must be
the one who will
offer more
attitudes of
love,
renouncement and
silencing
whenever
necessary for
marital harmony
whilst seeking
out strength in
prayer.
Let’s see André
Luiz’s phrase:
“exemplification
starts in the
intimacy of the
domestic temple”
(Spiritist
Conduct).
One roads:
André Luiz warns
us that we must
demonstrate with
the example that
a spiritist is a
Christian in any
place. Thus, on
the streets, we
must use
friendliness and
gentleness with
the passers-by,
smiling and
expressing
affectionate
words, as
fraternal
greeting is a
card of peace.
We must also
collaborate with
hygiene in the
streets; as seen
in the item
“Environmental
Question”; still
protecting
gardens,
monuments, trees
and animals, as
well as helping
children, sick
people and the
elderly, be it
in the public
traffic, or be
it in another
situation in
which we could
be of use.
Moreover,
today’s
tumultuous
traffic will be
an excellent
opportunity to
train one’s
patience and
tolerance,
avoiding losing
emotional
control that
culminates in
swearing and
aggression.
After losing
emotional
control,
consciousness
will tell us
that we could
have acted more
fraternally.
From enlightened
awareness
through the
gospel of Jesus,
we must distance
ourselves from
perverse places
with discretion,
without
criticism and
disdain because
we know that
these places
contribute
nothing towards
our spiritual
improvement and,
on the contrary,
they can
generate
unnecessary
risks towards
our evolutionary
march,
especially in
the field of
spiritual
influences
(obsessions).
In the religious
temple:
André Luiz
brings excellent
pointers
regarding our
conduct in the
religious
temple, inviting
us for example,
to the
exercising of
mediumship.
If possible, in
the spiritist
centre, arrive
15 minutes
earlier so we
can disconnect
ourselves from
mental fixations
connected to the
daily hurry,
opening mental
space to absorb
the spiritist
lessons, notably
if the meeting
is of the
mediumistic kind
which requires
more
concentration
from the
mediums.
André Luiz also
talks about
dedication in
regarding to
discipline,
paying attention
in the lectures,
without
conversation,
yawning or loud
coughs, so that
the learning
process can be
more efficient.
The above
mentioned
benefactor gives
guidance to
deprive
ourselves of the
front seats of
the auditorium,
reserving them
for visitors or
to less capable
people. What
interesting
warning, seeing
that above all,
we do quite the
opposite in
spiritist
lectures when we
arrive early and
hold seats for
other people,
with total
disregard for
those who are
arriving at the
building.
The work
“Spiritist
Conduct” still
affirms that the
spiritist must
preserve at all
cost the
philosophic
purity,
consequently
seeking to
seriously study
the spiritist
religion, mainly
from reading
Allan Kardec’s
basic books,
avoiding at all
costs books of
dubious content
and acceptance
of ideas that
are strange to
Spiritism.
On conviviality
with difficult
people:
In the chapter
entitled
“Suffering and
Crystallisation”
(book
“Educations and
Life
Experiences),
the spirit
Camilo tells
that the task to
do with
transforming
someone’s
psychism (mind
frame) is not
easy, as we
would be dealing
with spirits who
for several
centuries, are
reinforcing an
irregular
conduct that is
separated from
the good and
from the truth,
in a way that
not even
suffering will
be able to
immediately
break from this
crystallization
in the evil.
Thus, we would
have to exercise
compassion when
dealing with
difficult,
aggressive,
malicious,
irresponsible,
materialists
because we
understand that
they are at a
lower level of
evolution, and,
for this reason,
we must offer
them the best of
us to help them,
without anyone
losing emotional
balance.
These people may
be in our
family, in our
work environment
and social
relationships,
therefore our
task will be of
sowing, being
aware that the
therapy of time,
through
reincarnation
will produce its
beneficial and
progressive
effects.
We must not
violate other’s
freedom of
conscience, in
such way that
our examples and
verbal guidance
will only be
opposed by them,
as moral
transformation
cannot be
imposed, but can
be only an
invitation so
that the person
can reflect on
and, by free
will and
spontaneous
wish, choose to
change himself
for the good.
It must be
stressed that
gestures of
affection are of
most importance
for the
welcoming of
these
individuals,
seeing that the
spirit known as
Joanna de
Angelis teaches
us that “no
loving welcoming
is lost” due to
its deep marking
in the still
rebellious
spirit who,
sooner or later,
will end up
surrendering
himself to the
love which
fulfils us and
bring us
existential
meaning.
We must be aware
that we do not
become difficult
people, of
unstable and
intransigent
character,
disrupting
relationships
around us.
To live with
Christ:
The situations
brought to the
fore in this
article invite
us to live in
tune with Jesus,
striving always
for the common
good, so that we
can be an
instrument of
peace, according
to St Francis of
Assisi in his
famous prayers.
In a very
beautiful
symbolism, the
spirit Camilo
invite us to
remain in the
heavens, with
elevated vibes,
never in tune
with evil, which
is everything
that is
distanced from
the good.
Camilo reminds
us of a passage
of the prophetic
sermon in which
Jesus, in a
given moment,
says let no one
on the housetop
go down, and let
those in the
city not get
out, and let
those in the
country not
enter the city.
It is to do
with a proposal
of fidelity to
the good, above
all in this
period of
planetary
transition,
where evil and
aggressiveness
try to disrupt
human hearts.
Let us be loyal
to the love
preached and
lived by Jesus,
because
unfortunately
many individuals
end up
slackening in
the moral field
allowing
themselves small
moral
concessions, and
thus start to
attune with
similar spirits,
complicating the
path of their
lives on Earth.
Joanna de
Ângelis also
warns us that
“our attitude is
our moral
x-ray”.
Therefore we
shall try to
strengthen
ourselves in
prayer and in
study, so that
we can be in
tune with the
higher life
energies which
will stimulate
us to live in
the good in a
regimen of
plenitude and in
any situation,
reminding
ourselves that
the honourable
codifier of
Spiritism, Allan
Kardec, affirms
that the true
spiritist is
recognised by
his efforts to
dominate his bad
tendencies,
seeking to be
better today
than yesterday.
Let’s persevere
in Christian
attitudes so
that our
gestures can
represent
Christ’s
presence on
Earth.
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