Much will be asked of him who has received much

10. The servant who knew his master’s will but who nevertheless neither prepared himself nor did what was expected of him will be harshly punished. But he who did not know his master’s will, but who did things worthy of punishment, will be punished  less. Much  will be asked of him who received much and a greater accounting will be required from those to whom many things were entrusted. (Lk. 12:47-48)

11. I have come into this world to exercise judgment,  so that those who do not see may  see and those who  do see may become blind. Upon hearing these words,  certain  Pharisees who were with him said to him, “Then  are we blind also?” Jesus answered  them, “If you were blind, you would not have sinned, but you now say that you  see and that is why sin remains in you.” (Jn. 9:39-41)

12. These maxims find their application especially in the Spirits’ teachings. All those who know the precepts of Christ are surely blameworthy if they do not practice them; but besides the fact that the Gospel that contains them has spread only in the Christian denominations, how many persons there are in them who do not read it, and of those who do read it, how many there are who do not understand it! The result is that Jesus’ own words have been lost to the majority.

The  Spirits’  teachings, which reproduce these maxims under different forms, and which develop and comment on them in order to put them within everyone’s reach, have the particularity of not being at all circumscribed, and everyone, literate or illiterate, believing or disbelieving, Christian or not, can receive them because spirits communicate everywhere. None who receive them either directly or through an intermediary can claim ignorance of them. They cannot offer as an excuse either their lack of instruction or the obscurity of the teachings’ allegorical meaning. Thus, those who do not take advantage of the teachings for their advancement, who admire them as being interesting and curious, without their hearts being touched by them, who are no less vain, no less proud, no less selfish, no less attached to material possessions, or who are not better toward their neighbor, are all the more guilty because they have a greater means of knowing about the truth.

Mediums who receive good communications are even more blameworthy for persisting in evil, for often they write their own condemnation, and if they were not so blinded by pride, they would realize that  the Spirits are addressing them  personally. However, instead of applying to themselves the lessons they write, or those they see written, their sole thought is to apply them to others, thereby confirming these words of Jesus: “You see a speck in your neighbor’s eye but you do not see the log in your own.”

Through these words: “If you were blind, you would not have sinned,” Jesus meant that blameworthiness is proportional  to one’s enlightenment. Thus, the Pharisees, who had the intention of being – and actually were – the most enlightened individuals of their people, were more reprehensible in God’s eyes than the unlearned people. The same applies today.

Therefore, much will be asked of Spiritists because they have received much; but also to those who have taken advantage of the teachings much will be given.

The first thought of all sincere Spiritists should be to find out if in the Spirits’ counsels there is not something that might apply to themselves.

Spiritism has multiplied the number of those who are called.  Because of the faith provides, it will also multiply the number of those who are chosen.