Religious Truth
Yvonne
Limoges (received inspirationally March 5, 2002)
All major religions contain some spiritual truth. Many of these truths
have become distorted or misunderstood by imperfect mankind, and man
has at times created and added, his own erroneous ideas and posed them
as God’s Universal Laws. The Creator, from time to time and down
throughout the ages, has always sent His prophets to bring to the
people of the planet true knowledge of His Laws in a manner appropriate
to their customs, their times, and in accordance with their moral,
spiritual, and intellectual levels. He still does. In these present
times, His message is embodied not in one person, but in the myriad
voices now being heard all over the earth from the spirit world.
Most of the current major religions have set into stone, so to speak,
the basic tenets of their faiths. The ideas and beliefs of these
religions were established before the Scientific Age and without, the
benefit of scientific methods of evaluation and investigation, and when
mankind in his ignorance was guided by false notions and trepidation.
Therefore, they have prematurely established mankind’s relationship to
their Creator and their understanding of the purpose of life in their
doctrines, which is why there are so many errors.
But, we see all major religions value: right conduct, accept the
existence of an immortal soul, the existence of a Supreme Creator,
belief in some kind of afterlife beyond the material world, and some
kind of judgement regarding our behavior. Beyond these basic
principles, humanity has added their own particular details depending
on their level of understanding of the spiritual truths revealed to
them, at that particular time and place in history.
Another concept, the so-called "Golden Rule" of Christianity, can be
found in all major religions because it is the cornerstone of the
universal Law of Love. God wanted this most important message to reach
all His children.
Nevertheless, the main error of many traditional religions, due to the
intellectual and moral limitations of man, is to create man-made
concepts which exclude their other brothers and sisters of the planet,
in knowing and reaching God, because their sense of justice is
too small and morally immature to include all humanity, as compared to
the Creator with His Infinite Justice and Mercy. Many peoples cannot
comprehend God’s magnanimity on this issue; His unlimited Love
and unlimited Compassion. But this is what we would expect, since we
are all at different spiritual and moral levels of understanding;
not everyone is ready to accept and comprehend the Spiritist Doctrine’s
principle of inclusiveness.
Mankind, with its lack of spiritual vision, have restricted God’s
Infinite Capacity for Forgiveness and Compassion, by providing for only
one material life, in the current Christian, Moslem, and Jewish
beliefs. In these faiths, simplistically stated, good people who follow
these faiths go to heaven, and bad people, and also with those who
don’t profess belief in these particular faiths, go to hell. This
concept excludes a huge population of the planet from "salvation" not
in keeping with the Supreme Justice of God. But, these religions will
eventually understand that their religions’ early concept of
"resurrection" essentially represented the idea of reincarnation, and,
they will learn that "Judgement Day" occurs continuously and
automatically via the law of cause and effect.
Those religions primarily from the East, such as Hinduism, Buddhism,
etc. accept the important concepts of reincarnation and the law of
karma. But among their followers are many who erroneously believe
that release from suffering can only be accomplished solely through
meditation, ascetic seclusion and exclusion from earthly duties, or
through self torture, in their pursuit of Nirvana.
God’s Laws must be separated from humanity’s prejudices. The tool to
accomplish this is use of reason in scientific investigation and
research. The laws of the Universe are not supernatural, they are
natural; superstition has no place. Man must also learn to reduce his
pride which keeps him from accepting spiritual truths when he does find
them.
Mankind has reached a certain level of spiritual and moral maturity and
he has also advanced in intellectual capacity in
using the scientific method, with these together,science will support
appropriate religious belief. Then humanity will have reached a
milestone in its evolutionary progression wherein, religious faith will
be based on reasoned and proven scientific facts, and faith will be
stronger for it.
Allan Kardec, through his codification of Spiritism (the science
of the laws regarding the interaction between the material and
spiritual worlds), has provided a supreme base from which to continue
our study of the universal spiritual laws that govern our lives, here
and in the spirit world. We have only just begun our work in
pursuing understanding of the mysteries of the universe, of God, and
the cosmic religion of Universal Truth!