José Passini

Analysis of the book “The Abyss”

Work in focus: The Abyss Author: Rafael Americo Ranieri Publisher: Eco

The book Liberation (Libertação) by Andre Luiz brings more details about the purgatorial or infernal regions. This matter had already been mentioned in previous books like Our Home (Nosso Lar) and In the Greater World (No Mundo Maior). The author describes, clearly and concisely, the panorama where evil forces are organized, how they act with the embodied and disembodied. It is a work of information and alert because it reveals the existence of real organizations formed by powerful intellects unfortunately turned to evil. The reader, at the end of the work, will have a balanced view of the lower spiritual world, due to the worthy teachings in the descriptions and reports of negative situations.

In the book "The Abyss" we have a thorough display of paintings and depressing scenes, a repetitive description of monstrous forms acquired by creatures that remain in evil. You do not find, throughout the narrative, a sign of hope, a word of mercy; just a morbid message, more in order to frighten than to inform. In addition to the terrifying descriptions, the book contains true absurd, easily spotted: 

Chapter 1 - "My thoughts were taken over by vibrations coming from within the Earth. I felt like as if a powerful detonator hit my most inner fibers and led me to death. (...) Unknown forces acted in my subconscious and drew me into a dangerous abyss”.

How can a Spirit that is taken to abyssal regions by a Benefactor be drawn that way by forces emanating from evil?

"My body grew, and grew as if I were a porous rubber doll that inflated continuously. (...) I dove in the sky and went up and up forever. Far down was the Earth, lost in the ocean of the Universe. I did not know what height I would reach, but saw the world drifting away from me as a child sees its small glass marble lost in the sea”.

At what distance from Earth was this being taken to? Andre Luiz says that from “Our Home”, he contemplates the moon. The author should have gone far beyond our satellite to see the Earth so small... 

Chapter 2 - Describing the Spirit that would guide him through this journey, he did it in a unique way: "long white hair, slightly curled - as if forming strings - fell down to his shoulders; he had a huge face, round but kind of “square” on a bull neck and huge chest”.

We have learned that the Spirit, as it improves, its forms become more and more harmonious and beautiful...

"I looked at the Earth: It was still down there, lost in the vastness of the Universe". Then the guide explains that they are "between the spheres of the Solar System, but at a distance of 325,000 km from the Earth".

Chapter 3 - "I watched the Earth. It actually resembled an orange, uneven and oddly shaped. It was not the round shape like it is represented in schools, but a body full of lumps (...)"

How could he see the topography of the Earth, if he saw it the size of an orange? Where is the sense of proportion?

Chapter 4 - From this point, they went directly into the Earth "searching for the depths and abysses in which the Genii of the shadow and evil live".

The way they move around in space is unusual, completely different from the examples presented by Andre Luiz.

"Orcus held me strongly and I realized that we were slowing down as if we were two torpedoes reaching their destination. We then landed on the edge of a cliff ".

Let us see in I Returned (Voltei) how Bezerra de Menezes led a group of Spirits to various spiritual colonies; and how Andre Luiz describes, in several works, the way how they move slowly. In The Messengers (Os Mensageiros), led by the Benefactor Aniceto, they use a vehicle to reach the crust of the Earth. In all the work, a  psychographics by Francisco Candido Xavier, there are no examples of Spirits moving in the space as torpedoes or rockets...

Chapter 5 - "Ahead of us, at a non-measurable distance to human thought, I saw a creature of an exceptional greatness and an astonishing perfection. It was so beautiful that I felt dizzy. I thought I was going out of my mind. It rested on the highest and sharp cliff, with long wings spreading down its shining shoulders: an Angel of sublime beauty dominated the abyss.

- That is Gabriel, who watches before God - said Orcus in a loving and deep tone of voice".

I regret saying that this work, as well as Sex Beyond Death (Sexo alem da Morte), of the same author, has been welcomed by readers, and got the support of a writer, who published in a Spiritist journal an article of praise. According to the New Testament (O Novo Testamento), Gabriel was the Spirit entrusted to announce to Mary that the child she carried in her womb was the expected Messiah, and, according to Humberto de Campos, it also had the noble task to protect the couple. It is astonishing that Gabriel now has become a kind of Cerberus, or jailer of the abyss...

In order not to waste time, we should stop our reading now, but instead let us go a little further. To be sure about the condition of the winged Gabriel, we still have the following statement: Gabriel over the abyss looked like a loving bird of an indescribable dimension feeding the abyss in the same way the sun from the high firmament feeds the Earth".

Chapter 9 – We ought to carefully pay attention on what the author says about involution, as well as on the mess he makes when he establishes a parallel between intercellular disaggregation and atomic explosion:

"- Really, my dear, there are those who rushed into the vegetal forms and now live trapped in what we can call an apparent inertia... they are troubled hearts and consciences that continued falling and when they reached unconsciousness, then they began to walk back the scale of development... They will go back to the mineral and will still go down a bit more. On that occasion they can suffer a kind of atomic explosion, which will disintegrate the being itself. We say atomic explosion as already using the intelligible expression on Earth. In reality it is an intercellular breakdown but so far from an atomic blast as the speed of sound in comparison to the speed of light".

Chapter 11 – Is the Author perhaps disturbed or is simply playing in a work that aims to be a revelation?

"Who were we? Was he Alighieri or was it I?

- Are you Virgil and I am Dante or am I Dante and I am Virgil?

- The words and the thoughts of Dante were changed, modified, altered to satisfy those who sell their own souls if required. We return to the Abyss to restore the truth. Are you afraid?"

Note that the 1st and 2nd parts of the Divine Comedy, i.e., Hell and Purgatory, were published when Dante was still embodied. Only the 3rd part, Paradise, was published after his disembodiment. Thus, the statement that these parts were altered - precisely the ones that refer to the lower areas - is not true. The text that is known today is the same that was published in the fourteenth century.

Chapter 14 - In this chapter, we are told that there is a law in the Abyss and that its text is written on parchment and is enclosed in a metal box. "But who makes this law is the being we call Dragon and the Church calls Lucifer. It is currently imprisoned, chained, in the center of that square. Look there and see that there is someone chained in the precise center of that square where there is a kind of lighten fountain. While the face remembers the face of a man or a spirit with a human form, it was so far from our species as a dinosaur is from a man. Enormous, with legs that resembled columns of a building, feet that measured several meters tall, hairy arms (...) huge face over fifteen meters where two evil eyes cast flames".

Indeed, it is even difficult to comment...

The Author asks his guide why the Dragon did not break the chains that bound him, and he got the following answer:

"- The Lord does not allow it. However, God granted him some time of freedom and soon he will be free from the shackles with God’s permission. Yes, God in His Mercy will give him the opportunity to redeem himself. As per information passed to us he will soon be allowed to go up to the surface of the Earth and fight Good for a period of one thousand days. Then, he will be defeated. During this period, men will be exclusively left to their own free-will. Those that are really good will climb to the highest levels of consciousness and those, who only seem good will roll into the abyss of unconsciousness".

Isn’t this a replica of temptation by the Devil, now with limited time? We know that we always are in possession of our free-will, and not only at that mentioned time. We also know that we always have the spiritual assistance that we deserve, but the Author says there will be no interference of the Good spirits during that period. Why would God allow the Dragon to reign free from the bonds, meaning with this an opportunity to redeem himself? How can one redeem himself working in evil? What does roll in the abysses of unconsciousness mean?

Still talking about the Dragon, the Guide says:

"Its guilty conscience will have the opportunity to profit from the human experience as well as it will receive from the Earth transforming vibrations that for millennia man casts on its surface. Dragons are also part of God's creation: the most violent part of the Earth. Remember mammoths, the brontosaurs and the saurian. They are the primitive nature that retains the primary and embryonic elements in our system".

So what are these dragons? Were they humans previously? If not, they are beings who, because they did not reach the stage of humanization, they had no conditions to tempt anyone, even because the Author says they "are the primitive nature that retains the primary and embryonic elements in our system".

Moreover, if man shares vibrations capable of transforming a dragon, making it good, then why doesn’t he take advantage of this for his own benefit?

Chapter 21 - Here we see a Spirit that took the form of a tree, with its roots planted in the ground. After refusing the loving manifestation of a Higher Spirit, it says: "I do not recognize nor accept God! – said the human vegetal. He, who imprisoned me in this cursing form, cannot expect my respect or my love! And in a cry of terrible anguish the desperate tree shook up and twitched itself like a snake".

No comment!

Then we ask: and where does the immortality of the soul stay? 

Chapter 26 – The title of this chapter is In Gelatin. In addition to the forms already described of this immense human fauna and flora, now appear the fish immersed in gelatin, about which the guide gives the following explanation: "They are beings that return in the evolutionary scale. This is the stage that on the surface we could consider aquatic. Mental spark there is almost petrified (...) lately it has remembered much of its ultimate experiences on Earth".

Then the guide says these memories date back twenty thousand years...

Chapter 29 - "And will the mind disintegrate some day?" - The Author asks. The Guide answers: The destruction of the being in his most intimate part, which is the mind, my son, the sacred fortress of divinity, can also occur, but this we will only understand later”.

Chapter 31 – And here is another contradiction: "They reminded us of feminine forms of inconceivable diaphaneity".

These creatures had a task not according to their enlightenment, which is: "These sisters of ours were assigned to watch one of the deep ravines – said Atafon cheerfully”.

Further, he says that these sisters, Temp and Tera, coming from Venus, belong to shifts of eight hundred years and would be replaced by two men, Irus and Urus, as chosen by the Venusian Council, after consultation with the Governor of the Earth. The presence of High Spirits, in these tasks, opposes the argument of the Minister Flacus (Liberation, Chapter 1), when he comments on the power exercised by inferior Spirits, on a temporary basis, in suffering areas, "it would be illogical and absurd to designate an angel to guard criminals".

Chapter 34 - Gabriel again depicted as a winged angel: "We could see, now, Gabriel perfectly. Over the grand mountain, with outspread wings like an eagle, open hands facing us, radiating light, strength and love. He is of an indescribable beauty and the illuminated face dazzled us just to look. I looked at him for just a moment and covered my eyes with my hands not to blind”.

How can the light a Spirit blind someone?

It should be remembered that the Author states, both in this work, and in another written by him too, "Sex beyond Death" - another doctrinal aberration – that both were written under the guidance of Andre Luiz.

To comment all childishness, all the absurdities, all anti-doctrine statements contained in this book requires that we write another book... 

From this work onwards, many works have arrived in a real flood of psychic productions, not only questionable but highly pernicious to the clarification of the Human Spirit. They are the enemies of Spiritism who, tired of fighting it from the outside, now blend together with our noble workers and as "wolves in sheep's clothing" attack tenaciously.

It is time for those who really love the truth to give their testimony, without fuss or scandal, by studying the Doctrine to have the conditions to separate the wheat from the chaff, the goats from the sheep!


Obs. Transcripts were made exactly as they are in the work, respecting spelling and punctuation.