Amor aos inimigos - Raul Teixeira

Life and Values Love the enemies “You’ve learned what was said: ‘You shall love your friends and you shall hate your enemies’. However, I say to you: ‘Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, who defame you’. " That was the lesson left by Jesus.

The Nazarene master, in His passage on Earth, tried to adjust many virtues to our mindset that, in His time, were completely incompatible with the common character of society. In the time of Jesus Christ, it was common to cultivate irrational hatred for the enemies. Those who deserved attention, care, and affection were just the friends.

This social regime, this way of living naturally caused many problems for people, the souls, the future. Jesus Christ updated the lesson, making society reflect on the harm of hating those who were supposed to be our enemies. Jesus brings up the ancestral learning: “You’ve learned what was said…” He left that to the past.

“However, I say to you, now in the present: Love, pray”. Jesus Christ reshaped these social customs that connected people to one another. It’s so important to realize that, in clarity of the Nazarene master, He wouldn’t be, in any way, suggesting that we should have, for our enemies, for those we don’t trust, for those who don’t like us, the same tenderness, the same consideration, the same affection we have for a brother, a friend, or a person who is close to our heart.

Nevertheless, the fact that we can’t open our souls to enemies doesn’t mean that we should do them harm. It means that we are going to wish them all the good things. Our thoughts towards them will be fraternity thoughts, so that, in this daily struggle for balance, we can be sure that, even when we come across several enemies, opponents, or antagonists, our attitude, especially for those who rely on Jesus Christ’s lessons, will be the attitude of fraternity.

“You’ve learned what was said. However, I say to you”. Spiritism introduces us to Jesus Christ as the Role Model and Guide of Humanity.

By the way, he is the greatest spirit that the world has already received to serve us as a Role Model and Guide. Thanks to that, those who want to have their conduct guided by the lessons of Jesus Christ must be aware of this issue. To love the enemies does not mean bringing them to our table immediately or opening our hearts to them at once, but we will put things in their place, with time.

We will be able to recognize, for example, that our enemies have virtues. They may not be compatible with us. We may not be compatible with them, with their habits, their way of being, but we will not deny the positive peculiarities, the virtues of those who, at this moment, present themselves as our enemies.

So, when Jesus suggests to love our enemies, it should be with this extension of love, antagonist to hate and disaffection. When He suggests that we pray for those who are persecutors, defamers, it’s exactly for us to get out of tune with the persecutors, the defamer, the detractor. If we engage in a mental debate with them, a psychic hostility with them, we connect with them, we get involved with their bad habits, with the negative things they are doing, and we won’t have any moral authority to run away from the consequences of this inner tragedy.

You are watching… Life and Values Cultivating hate is fundamentally disastrous for the hateful person. In social life, it’s very common to observe those evil creatures. For those who wish harm to others, who are devoted to evil, who are always fatter, prettier, more powerful, richer, while the hateful person depletes themselves, destroy themselves, they are stunned and get frustrated because their ideals of harming others are not reflected in the laws of God.

No one needs to hate someone for that person to answer for their actions before the Divine Laws. When we develop these hate and hostile energies within us, we resemble to a creature carrying garbage in its own heart. Let’s imagine someone carrying garbage in their heart.

It would be like a water table, as a source of pure water polluted by garbage, by pollution, by everything that harms the quality of the lymph. Someone who carries hate in their heart will be inevitably sick. They will be carriers of diseases that can lead them to moral death.

The despair that overtakes the hateful creature is immeasurable. As the object of their hatred grows, develops, conquers victories, the more the hater gets afflicted, feels unhappy. When Jesus suggested to love the enemies, it was a health measure.

It was a health measure for the hater to be able to get out of the vibration of hate that binds us to very negative and low energies of existence. “Love your enemies” is a type of medication because nobody can be happy in their intimacy if they carry garbage in their own being if they carry garbage in their hearts. From there, although we know about the importance of thinking good thoughts for our enemies, which does not mean agreeing with their bad actions, with their troubled way of life, this vaccinates us, it’s worth repeating, against more serious diseases that affect us in Humanity.

We always hear about infections, viruses, and microorganisms that devastate the human body, our organism. How do these microbes survive in our bodies performing these moral and physical tragedies? All this happens because whoever carries the infection, the bacteria or the virus carries a type of energy, develops a kind of deeply nourishing fluid for these microorganisms, for these tiny lives.

That is why it’s common to find people whose health is already fragile, when they get upset, when they feel annoyed, when they start to hate, their pathological state worsens. It’s the creature itself, disconnected from love, goodness, harmony, that allows these microbes the possibility of developing inside them. The healthy way to vaccinate yourself against these exterior tragedies is to cultivate love.

This led many thinkers and many doctors to defend the thesis that those who love do not get sick. Those creatures capable of loving develop in themselves such a strong connection to the sources of health that they don’t get sick anymore. In difficulty, let’s call for Jesus, the Doctor of souls.

Let’s remember the Brazilian medium Francisco Cândido Xavier, when, in a question asked of him about his health, he established: I’m a sane sick person. He was recalling resources and problems from other lifetimes. He was recalling mistakes from his past, but he was not making new mistakes in the present time.

He was a sane and sick person who loved his enemies and prayed for all his slanderers.