From Teaching 78

12. I should tell you that you must not think that it is indispensable for the spirit to have a human body and a life on Earth to evolve. However, the lessons that he receives in this world are certainly of great benefit toward his perfectionment.

13. The matter helps the spirit in his evolution, in his experiences, in his expiation and in his struggles. This is the mission that corresponds to it, and you can confirm it with this manifestation of My Divinity through man, through whose brain I have come to avail Myself, utilizing it as an instrument to transmit My message. Understand that not only the spirit is predestined for the spiritual, but even the most insignificant within the material has been created for spiritual purposes.

14. I have come to give a reminder and a calling to your spirit, so that by overcoming the influence of the material which has dominated him, he can make his light reach the heart and the mind, using his gift of intuition.

16. When the spirit allows himself to be dominated by the influence of all that surrounds him on Earth, he becomes attached to his matter to such a degree, that he forgets his true nature. He moves away from the spiritual life to a point of becoming alienated to it; and that is why, when his body dies, he is disturbed or confused.

17. How easily the body dies! But how difficult it is for the spirit who was incapable of preparing himself, to be able to liberate himself from confusion.

18. While some, in their confusion, remain adhered to their dead body, others, retaining in their spirit the impressions of their physical vesture, continue believing to be humans, unable to elevate themselves toward the mansion which corresponds to them, remaining tied to what they loved in the world.

19. There does not exist on Earth a more bitter cup, nor a more intense affliction, than that of the confused spirits. Their downfalls, their not being able to understand what is happening around them; their remorse, their nostalgia of what they left behind; their solitude, the silence and the helplessness to elevate themselves, constitute the fire where they will be purified until they attain the light.

20. Do you believe it to be inaccurate if I tell you that millions of spirits depart from this world in a state of confusion? This is the result of the ignorance of men, due to their lack of meditation and prayer.

21. My Doctrine of the Second Era revealed to men the spiritual life, but instead of analyzing My lessons and complying with My precepts, they created religions around My Doctrine, confining themselves to the compliance of rituals and material ceremonies, which did not enlighten their spirit more, but it did separate them from the path of their fulfillment.

22. Among you are those who ask Me, if, upon leaving this existence, they will fall into darkness. To this I say to them, that if they did not analyse My Word, or put it into practice, it will serve them no purpose having been among these multitudes, listening to My Doctrine of light.

23. What the spirit cultivates, will be what he will reap. That is the Law of justice.

24. I, your Saviour, have indicated to you at all times the true path, and I have revealed the means to avoid the affliction, the confusion, and the darkness.

26. I come to awaken you and to ask you: Who among you is a disciple of his own free will? No one. It is I who has called you. To hear my Word, once again, you have had to be on Earth various times. Between one incarnation and another, I have granted you a truce of meditation and preparation toward a new life.

27. The spirit, when he is within the matter, participates in its fatigue, and repose is necessary for him after a struggle; also meditation, in order to form a plan which he must follow before undertaking a new conflict.

Without those truces or stops along your pathway, you would progress very little along your way. However, it is necessary for a clean and pure Doctrine to teach you these lessons with full clarity, in order that your heart, convinced of this truth, has a knowledge of the why of many of the phenomenon and events which, without My revelation, you would never manage to understand. Within My charity is time, life, and the destiny of everyone. Nothing escapes My power.