Spiritism has come at the right time to fulfill the promises of Christ. Nonetheless, it cannot do so without destroying abuses. Like Jesus, on its path Spiritism encounters pride, selfishness, ambition, cupidity and blind fanaticism, which, struck in their final defenses, attempt to bar its way and raise obstacles and persecutions against it. Therefore, it too must fight; but the time of struggle and bloody persecutions has passed. Those that it will have to endure are all of a moral nature, and their end is near. The former lasted for centuries; the latter will last only a few years, because the light, instead of starting from one single point, has sprung forth from all points of the globe and will more quickly open the eyes of the blind.

These words of Jesus must therefore be understood as referring to  the rage that  his doctrine would provoke, the momentous conflicts that would be its consequence, the battles that would have to be borne before is was established – just as happened to the Hebrews before they entered the Promised Land – and not the result of a premeditated plan on his part to sow disorder and confusion. The evil would come from humans and not from him. He was like the doctor who comes to heal, but whose medicine provokes a healthful crisis in removing the ills of the patient.