• the gospel according to spiritism by allan kardec

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• "Had Socrates and Plato known the teachings that Christ would give five hundred years later, and those which the Spirits provide nowadays, they would not have spoken in any other manner. There is nothing surprising about this if one remembers that great truths are eternal and that advanced spirits had to have known them before coming to earth, to which they brought them; that Socrates, Plato and the other great philosophers of their time could have later been among those who aided Christ on his divine mission, and who were chosen precisely because, more than anyone else, they were capable of comprehending his sublime teachings; that, in short, today they may be part of the great host of spirits charged with coming to teach these same truths to humankind."

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