Jesus and Humility

Studying the humility, let us see as Jesus was behaving himself in the exercise of the sublime virtue.

Certainly, in the time that to the world should appear the message of the Good News, he could stay in the celestial glory and to be represented among mankind by the person of angelic messengers, but he preferred to go down, Himself, to the ground of the Earth, and try its vicissitudes.

Undoubtedly, he counted with power enough to annul the sentence of Herod, who ordered to decapitate the newborn babies of his condition to avoid his presence; however, he stood back prudently to a far away place, until that the unreasonable demand was necessarily proscribed.

He had vast resources to impose himself in Jerusalem , to the doctors who had denied him authority in the teaching of the new revelations; however, he left without sorrow in demand of remote province, to be worth of the rude men that welcomed his comforting word.

He possessed enough virtue to humiliate the daughter of Magdala, dominated by force of darkness; nevertheless, he silenced the own moral greatness to call her sweetly for the readjusts of life.

Attentive to the own dignity, it was fair he ordered the pupils to the encounter of those who suffer to console them in the anguish and heal them the ulceration; though, he did not give up the privilege of proceeding, Himself, in each corner of the road, to offer them alleviation and hope, strength and renewal.

Certain, he had elements to stay away from Judas, the senseless apprentice; even so, in spite of everything, he conserved him until the last day of the fight, among those who he loved most.

With a simple word, he could confuse the judges that lowered him before Barabbas, author of confessed crimes; however, he hugged the cross of the death, begging pardon for his torturers.

Finally, he could condemn Saul of Tarsus, the implacable persecutor, to vulgar punishment, because the perverse intransigence that he was annihilating the plantation of the nascent Gospel; but he looked for him, in person, at the doors of Damascus, visiting his heart, for knowing he was mistaken on the direction that he was moving.

With Jesus, we noticed that the humility does not always appear from poverty or illness that many times only mean regenerating lessons, but the celestial talent is attitude of the soul that forgets the own light to lift those who crawl themselves in the darkness, and the soul that tries to sacrifice herself, in the rocky road of the World, so that the others learn, without constrain or noise, to find the road for the blessings of Heaven.

Emmanuel

(Message received though the mediumship of Francisco Xavier. Public meeting of September 03, 1959 . Comment on Question 937 of The Spirits' Book.)

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The Alliance between Science and Religion

Science and religion are the two levers of human intelligence, one revealing the laws of the material world, the other revealing those of the moral world. But seeing that these laws have the same principle, which is God, they cannot contradict themselves. 

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