When the Celestial messenger announced the good News to the shepherds, in the field, thus expressed: Behold, I proclaim to you good news of great joy, which will have all the people.

He was born, in the city of David, A Savior, who is Christ the Lord.

And, facing the amazement of the listeners who, surely, were questioning themselves exactly where the boy was, and how they would recognize Him, continued:

And here is what will bethe sign to you: you shall find a baby boy wrapped in swaddling cloths and lying in a manger.

The magi, by their turn, had seen the star and followed it, until entering the city and, as Matthew the Evangelist pointed out, went into the house, found the child with Mary, His mother and, getting down to their knees, worshipped Him.

In early times, the followers of Jesus identified themselves to each other, drawing on the ground or on a stone, the figure of a fish.

Later, the symbol of the cross began to identify the followers of Christ. They wore it at the neck, waist or  between their belongings.

When the great Gamaliel, chief rabbi of Israel, was visited by Saul of Tarsus, after his radiant vision of Christ, on the road to Damascus, he gave to him the original writings of Matthew.

The preciousness was given to him by the Apostle Peter, when visiting the Path House, in Jerusalem.

For Gamaliel, these originals would be the passport to the entrance of Saul in the Path House, in the future. That is, when seeing them, Peter would recognize that Gamaliel believed in the conversion of Saul to the ranks of Jesus.

At all times, the royal houses and the dynasties established the symbols that would identify them.

The lily represented the French royalty. Stylized, it was used as a symbol of the Priory of Zion, society that dates to the year one thousand and ninety and nine.

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When the Master Jesus utters His exhortations to the Apostles, thus expresses Himself: I give you a new commandment: that you love one another, and that, as I have loved you, you also love one another.

By this shall all know who are my disciples, if you have love for one another.

This is the password by which the followers of Jesus should be recognized, at all times. Not by haughtiness, nor by pride, nor by expressing themselves in an extraordinary way, nor by memorizing all the texts of the Good News.

Only by love. And, as the Spirit of Lazarus says, in The Gospel according to the Spiritism: when Jesus spoke the divine word - love, all people startled and the martyrs, drunk of hope, got down the circus.

Throughout the ages, many of us whichkept calling ourselves Christians, have served ourselves of power to subjugate other brothers, simply for not sharingour same ideals.

It is time for us to revise our conducts and deepen our reflections on the thought of Christ: My disciples will be known by loving one another very much.

Let this be our sign. Let this be our password, in all the circumstances: the love.

Having Jesus as model of love, let us practice our capacity to wish each other well.

Let us show to the world that we are disciples of the Lord of the stars, that our password of light is the love.

Spiritist Moment Team, based on the Gospel of Matthew,
chapter 2, verse 11; on the Gospel of Luke, chapter 2, verses 10
to 12; on the Gospel of John, chapter 13, verses 34 and 35 and
on the chapter XI, item 8 of The Gospel according to the
Spiritism, by Allan Kardec, publisher FEB.
November 8.2013.