The Spirit of Truth

The Spirit of Truth first revealed Itself to Allan Kardec on March 25, 1856, at the house of Mr. Baudin though the mediumship of Miss Baudin, as described by Kardec in his Obras Póstumas [Posthumous Works] (26th Ed. FEB, Pgs. 273-275).

Messages from the Spirit of Truth

“The Spirits of the Lord, who are the Virtue of Heaven, move as does an immense army upon receiving orders from their commander, spreading our over the face of the Earth and, similar to the stars which fall one after the another from the skies, are come to illuminate pathways and open the eyes of those who cannot see.

In truth I say unto you the times are come when all things will be established in their true light, when the darkness shall be dissipated, the prideful confounded and the just glorified.

The great voices of heaven reverberate the sound of trumpets and the choirs of angels assemble. Mankind, we are inviting you to this divine concert. Take the harp and lift up your voices in unison so that, in a sacred chorus, the sound may extend and re-echo from one extreme of the universe to the other.

Fellow beings, beloved brothers and sisters, we are beside you. Love one another and say from the bottom of your hearts: Lord! Lord! In so doing you fulfill the wishes of the Father who is in Heaven; then you too may enter into the Kingdom of Heaven.” Preface – The Gospel According to Spiritism

“I have come, as I came on another occasion to those misguided sons and daughters of Israel, to bring the truth and to dissipate the darkness. Harken unto me! As my words in the past have done, so, must Spiritism remind the incredulous that above them reigns the immutable truth which is the existence of the good God, the great God, who causes the plants to germinate and the waves to rise up. As a reaper I have gathered in sheaves the scattered goodness in the breasts of humanity and said: ‘Come unto me, all you who suffer.”

But Man with ungratefulness has moved away from the straight and wide path which leads to the Kingdom of my Father and has followed the bleak pathways of impiety. My Father does not wish to annihilate the human race; He wants the living and the dead, that is to say those who are dead according to the flesh because death does not exist, to assist each other mutually and listen no more to the voice of the prophets and apostles, but listen to those who no longer live upon Earth and proclaim: ‘ Pray and believe! Death is the resurrection and life is an ordeal you seek, during which the virtues you have cultivated will grow and develop, even as the cedar tree.”

Those of you who are weak and know the obscurity of your own minds, do no deviate from the beacon which divine clemency has put into your hands so as to enlighten your pathway and reconduct you, who are lost children, once again to the bosom of the Father.

I am too much overcome with compassion for your miseries and by your immense weakness no to extend a helping hand to all those unhappily misguided who, while looking up to Heaven, fall into the pit of error. Do not mix the chaff with the good seed, nor the Utopias with the truth.

Spiritists! Love one another, that is the first precept; educate yourselves is the second.

Within Christianity you will find all the truths. The errors in which Man has become enrooted are all of human origin. Here from beyond the grave, where you thought there was nothing voices clamor: ‘Brothers and sisters! Nothing perishes! Jesus-Christ is the victor over evil, you can be the victors over impiety.’” (Paris, 1860)

“Christ the Consoler” – The Gospel According to Spiritism – Ch. 6 – Item 5

“I have come to instruct and console the poor disinherited. I have come to tell them to raise uo their resignation to the level of their trials, and to weep, since pain was consecrated in the Garden of Olives. But wait, with patience, for the consoling angels will also come to them and dry their tears.

Workers, plan your path! Recommence the following day the wearisome labour of the previous day. The work done by your hands furnishes the body with earthly bread; however, your souls are not forgotten. I, the divine Gardener, cultivate them in the silence of your thoughts. When the time comes for repose and the thread of life slips through your fingers and your eyes are closed to the light, you will feel the surging within and the germination of My precious seed. Nothing is lost in the Kingdom of your Father. Your sweat and miseries form the treasure that will make you rich in the superior spheres, where light substitutes the darkness and where the most naked of you will perhaps become the most resplendent.

In truth I say unto you that those who bear their burdens and help their brothers and sisters are beloved by Me. Instruct yourselves in the precious doctrine which dissipates the error of revolt and shows the sublime object of human trials.

As the wind sweeps the dust, so the breeze of the Spirits dissipates your resentment against the riches of the world, which are frequently very pitiable, since they are subject to more dangerous trials than yours. I am with you and My apostle will instruct you. So, you who are kept captive by life, drink from the living spring of love and be prepared to one day launch yourselves, free and happy, upon the bosom of He Who created you weak so that you might become perfect; Who desires that you model your own pliable clay in order to be the author of your own immortality. (Paris, 1861)

“Christ the Consoler” – The Gospel According to Spiritism – Ch. 6 – Item 6

“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 dissentions 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 appearance 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 can be fulfilled: ‘The first shall be the last and the last shall be the first in the Kingdom of Heaven.’” (Paris, 1862)

“The Workers of the Last Hour” – The Gospel According to Spiritism – Ch. 20, Item 5

“God consoles the humble and gives strength to the afflicted when they ask. His might covers the Earth and in every place, with each tear shed, He places a consoling remedy. Abnegation and resignation are a continuous prayer and contain profound teaching. Human wisdom resides in these two words.

Would that all suffering Spirits could understand this truth, instead of clamouring against their pain and moral sufferings which it behoves them to partake. So, take these two words for your motto: devotion and abnegation – and you will be strong as they resume all the obligations which charity and humility impose.

The sentiment of fulfilled duty will give repose and resignation to you Spirit. Then your heart will beat more steadily, your soul become more tranquil and your body be protected against despondency. This is why the body feels that much weaker according to how profound the Spirit is stricken.” (Havre, 1863)

“Christ the Consoler”– The Gospel According to Spiritism – Ch. 6 – Item 8