Individual Modifications Originate Within Each Individual
Humberto Rodrigues, Astral President of Christian Rationalism.
Human beings face difficulties, challenges, and setbacks throughout life, which are part of the evolutionary process. However, everyone, without exception, has the capacity to overcome them, as they are individualized emanations of Universal Intelligence, that is, spirits in possession of a physical body that carry, in their fluidic bodies, the evolutionary patrimony acquired throughout successive passages through the school-world Earth. This accumulated experience constitutes a valuable source of learning and favors the continuous development of spiritual attributes. For this reason, everyone can resort to intelligence, reasoning, logic, and willpower to face and overcome the obstacles inherent in existence.
Spiritual enlightenment represents important support in this process, as it allows one to understand the reality of life and guide conduct with greater balance. As a person expands their knowledge of evolutionary laws, they realize that each experience has an educational purpose and offers opportunities for improvement. Difficulties cease to be a source of discouragement and become valuable opportunities for inner strengthening, provided they are faced with serenity, common sense, and perseverance.
Without this knowledge, many end up dominated by inferior thoughts and feelings, such as envy, greed, lust, jealousy, and other imperfections that disturb the fluidic environment and favor the action of spirits located in the lower astral plane. Therefore, it becomes indispensable to discipline one’s thoughts, exercise self-control, and consciously utilize the aforementioned spiritual attributes, preventing these negative influences from compromising psychic equilibrium, harming social interaction, and distancing human beings from the greater goals of their spiritual progress.
Therefore, dear Christian Rationalists, continually study spirituality through the books published by the world headquarters of Christian Rationalism. These teachings enable an understanding of the responsibility each person has in conducting their own life, as spiritual knowledge favors the judicious use of free will, strengthens inner discernment, develops analytical skills, and allows one to face daily circumstances with serenity, security, common sense, and confidence, also stimulating mutual respect, solidarity, cooperation, and the exchange of experiences—values indispensable to harmonious coexistence and evolutionary growth.
Everyone develops, in their respective planes of spiritual development, a plan compatible with the needs of their evolutionary progress. This plan is not dominated by the transient interests of material life, but by opportunities to develop spiritual attributes and faculties.
Therefore, no one changes another by imposing ideas or through criticism. True transformation begins with self-reflection, when each person identifies what they need to improve and dedicate themselves, with discipline, perseverance, and sincerity, to their own self-improvement. By acting this way, they make better use of their time on Earth and become better able to contribute, through example and the practice of goodness, to the progress of those who walk beside them.
Translation by Andreas Saint-Prix