Origins

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was God. Thus it is announced in the Gospel of Saint John. That is to say, in the beginning was the principle and the principle was God, the Creator of all things, who hesitated no more in the formation of man than in that of the globe. He created him just as he is today, giving him, on coming forth from His hands, free will and the power to progress. God said to the sea: You shall go no farther; on the contrary, He spoke to men, showing them the Universe: All this is yours; work, develop, discover the treasures in germ, sown everywhere – in the air, in the waves, in the bosom of the earth; work and love; do not doubt your divine origin, it is direct; you are not the fruits of a slow progression; you have not passed through the animal series; positively, you are children of God. Then, whence comes sin? Sin was created by your own faculties, being the reverse and the exaggeration of them. There was not a first man, father of the human race, just as there was not one sun to illuminate the Universe. God opened His great hand and, with the same profusion, scattered the human race over the worlds, like the stars in the heavens. Spirits animated by His breath soon revealed their existence to men, long before the prophets you know. Other unknown messengers had enlightened souls ignorant of themselves. Simultaneously with men, the animals were created, these being endowed with instinct, but not with progressive intelligence. Thus they preserved the primitive types and, save for individual education, are the same as in the time of the patriarchs. The cataclysms of the deluges – for there was not one alone, but several – made entire races of men and animals disappear; they are geological consequences that still threaten you. Men discover, but invent nothing. Thus, the mythological beliefs were not mere fictions, but revelations of inferior Spirits. The satyrs, the fauns were secondary Spirits, who inhabited the woods and the fields, as they still do today. It was permitted them, then, to manifest more often to the eyes of men, because materialism was not purified by Christianity nor by the knowledge of one single God. Christ destroyed the empire of the inferior Spirits, to establish that of the Spirit upon the Earth. This is the truth, which I affirm in the name of God Almighty. Lazarus.

[Analysis of the passages highlighted in the communication of Lazarus: Unless we consider these expressions of the Spirit Lazarus as a manner of emphasizing the great evolutionary distance that separates the human Spirit from the spiritual principle of the animals, the highlighted expressions in the message above reveal the creationist conception of Lazarus and enter into flagrant conflict with what was said by the Codifier in Genesis According to Spiritism, items 28 and 29 of chapter X.]