Article of Faith
Benjamin Teixeira de Aguiar
by the spirit Eugênia-Aspásia.
Rebuild your destiny, your life, your courage, as many times as they fall apart. External enemies and inner antagonists plot, at all times, your defeat. To beat them, it is vital an immovable determination to achieve your goals, to live for your ideals.
Today, you may be weakened, after several unexpected assaults from your opponents. Spirits of darkness, people of bad character and established interests contrary to your objectives. Everywhere, energies and powers seem to rise up against your higher purpose. However, focus on the positive side of the quarrel. Imagine, even if vaguely, the Power of God and of all Powers of Heaven that stand on your side, whenever you are directed to the construction of good on Earth. Visualize, albeit imperfectly, all archetypical, energetic, spiritual and psychological vectors, in the depths of your psyche that fight for the success of the Will of God, even in winding ways. And, before these internal pictures, you will be immediately reanimated.
Change your perspective. You are not as bad as it seems, as you think you are. It is all a matter of perspective. Focus and visualize, continuously, the goodness of God, His providence, His constant zeal for all creatures. Instead of polarizing your attention on the destructive aspect of life, why not focus the mind on the constructive angle of each experience, even the most nefarious ones? The human mind has a creative power, capable of amplifying what it focuses on. Wouldn’t it be a dangerous irresponsibility, if not criminal, to set the mind at the worst, when you can (and therefore you must) aim it at the better, thereby intensifying its effects? Whoever chooses the obscure side of life attracts it.
Visualize the Divine Light, Its Infinite Love and move on, doing your part, with combativeness, but always with faith and a lot of optimism. A thinker in the physical realm rightly said (*): Everything always ends well. If it is not well, it hasn’t ended yet.
Rethink your presuppositions of truth, the criteria through which you evaluate and interpret situations, people and events. They can really be distorted, regardless of your good intentions and your honesty. It is a matter of perception rather than character. Revaluate what you consider constant, unalterable and eternal. Nothing that human beings can perceive directly is unchangeable. The assumption of perpetuity, as unequivocally attested by history, has been one of the greatest sources of barbarism and suffering for mankind. Definitely abolishing this mediocre system of thinking and living is the duty of every lucid and worthy human being.
(Text received on January 30, 2001.)
(*) Fernando Sabino. (Note of the Medium.)