About three in the afternoon Jesus cried out in a loud voice, “Eli, Eli,[a] lema sabachthani?” (Which means “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”).
(Matthew 27:46) (Mark 15:34)
My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from saving me, so far from my cries of anguish?
(Psalm 22:1)
“If you love me, keep my commands. 16 And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another advocate to help you and be with you forever— 17 the Spirit of truth. The world cannot accept him, because it neither sees him nor knows him. But you know him, for he lives with you and will bein you.
But the Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said to you.”
(John 14:15-17 and 26)
(Benjamin Teixeira) – Do you wish to suggest a theme for our studies, Eugênia?
(Spirit Eugênia) – Yes, I do. I believe that the subject “Passion of Christ” was not closed. The idea of the young man who raises doubt about the speech of Jesus is very wise (*2). I want you to write about this, on my behalf.
(BT) – Very well. What do you wish to speak about this?
(SE) – Jesus did not despair: he crossed the experience of cosmic helplessness, an inevitable stage of conscience before diving into the Eternal, that is: of realignment with the Divine Flow, what Taoists call “The Great Tao” (*3). The Christ, obviously, in this level of consciousness, would never lose his serenity, nor would His Mother, who stood up near the cross, without even making any noise, like Him. Therefore, it was a pedagogic speech, in order to didactically foretell disciples of posterity, who would read such exclamation, the proximity of redemption. The Christ, then, was referring to the fact that when a situation has really gotten to its last level of degradation, it is a sign that it is beginning to regenerate. Or, in other words, when, in a dialectical spiral evolution process (*4), one descends to the bottom of the descending line, it is an indication that the ascending line is about to start. Or as it is commonly said: when one gets to the bottom, it’s time to start to rise again, because there is no way to go any deeper. One might suggest that our interpretation is forceful, trying to protect Jesus in a bad moment. However, it is so appropriate, that such exclamation does not belong originally to the Christ, for he was citing, in the symbolic moment of the crucifixion, a prayer called “The Doe of the Morning”, written and recited by David. The idea of being a “doe”, an agile and nimble animal, gives us the idea that the “morning” (the transformation for the better, the “Light”, the “Resurrection”) is coming. By doing what is necessary, one inexorably rises.
(BT) – This seems to be the issue. Many people go down, but do not want to make the effort to climb up, do not want to do their part.
(SE) – Then, that they do it.
(BT) – But, and when you do not know that you are doing something wrong or that you’re failing to do the right thing?
(SE) – The pain will continue and the individual will be propelled to reflect, by the progressive anguish of pain.
(BT) – But and when the person is not inclined to reflect and despairs?
(SE) – Lazy and/or arrogant, she will continue to suffer until she becomes saturate by pain. Until pain becomes greater than her pride and laziness and she decides to put a stop to her suffering.
(BT) – wow… So, do those who suffer and complain are not suffering enough?
(SE) – They are, but not enough to stop complaining and act. Not enough to grow up and stop present themselves as victims and act assertively, resolutely. Therefore, the extension of the pain is the greatest gift God can give to them.
(BT) – For someone in this level of consciousness, reading this must be revolting.
(SE) – And soon they will feel the impulse to defy God, to question His existence or perhaps mine too, or to say that they will no longer follow a certain faith or a religious and spiritual moral. If you notice well, this shows that they are trying to bargain with the Supreme Being of the Universe. The ridicule of this posture is such that they do not realize how childish and foolish they appear for more lucid minds. And mainly, with this attitude, they will achieve nothing else than the intensification and dilation of their ailments. Because if a bull is coming towards a child, it will not disappear just because the child closed her eyes thinking that the bull is not there. These personalities you refer to, who seem to feel strong by defying and questioning everything, are, in fact, acting as that little child who, when seeing her whim harmed or an expectation frustrated, throws a tantrum and tries to manipulate her parents. But, while some of these people grew up this way because of vicious parents, they will never find a similar posture in God and His messengers. Hence, while they think they’re taking advantage with their psychological “tantrum” and taking shortcuts to happiness and well-being, running away from the hard truths about themselves and from life, they are in fact deepening and extending their suffering, their frustration and their madness (because they are partially mad, disconnected as they show themselves, from reality).
(BT) – Returning to the text of the Gospel: when Jesus seems to despair, he wasn’t in fact despairing, but leaving a message for posterity about the transition phases between change’s pain and the effective conquest of the change’s result.
(SE) – Some authors propose that there was a flaw in translation, others that there was an imperfect reproduction of the events of the hour of the Calvary, since Christ would never say such thing. We understand that if the Divine Providence allowed that such text was transmitted to “infinite” subsequent generations, some deep truth, though encrypted, was being sent to humanity. The proper exegesis, thus, lies in understanding that a substantial portion of the Gospel text has a symbolic character, since it was not possible, at the time, to speak openly about a infinitude of subjects, and therefore, in future times, the need would arise to gradually uncover the hidden content that Jesus reserved for posterity, who could better understand his intentions, as He prophesied, when speaking of the Paraclete, the Spirit of Truth who would come to explain what was left obscure, the Spirit that directs the Movement of revelation of Spiritism. The Paraclete would always be with us and would be in us, as said by Jesus, because the mediumistic and mystical connection that happens between embodied and disembodied beings, and between disembodied beings of different vibrational levels occurs through means of psychic interpenetrations that happen within ourselves. Undoubtedly, only receive the “Spirit of Truth”, those “who love Jesus”, that is: those who aligned themselves with their ideal and follow it, who meet the demands of their soul, of their intuition, of their super-conscience, of the “voice” of their conscience. Collectively, humanity could not receive Spiritism before the 19th century. And, up to today, huge portions of Earth’s population are yet not awaken for this immortal truth.
(Mediumistic dialogue held on March 28, 2004.)
(*1) That means: the Comforter, the Helper, the Mainstay, the Intercessor.
(*2) A young man raises the issue in an email sent to me. It is Eugênia’s initiative, though, as expressed in this dialogue, to address the issue.
(*3) Tao, as said by Lao Tzu, one of the greatest luminaries of human civilization on Earth, basis of Taoism, means, freely saying: “Pathway”. It’s interesting to remember how Jesus called himself: “The Way, the Truth and the Life”.
(*4) Eugênia refers to Hegel’s concept, the great German philosopher from the 18th century.
(Medium’s Notes)