Thinking
historically
of
the
not
so
distant
year
of
1857,
more
precisely
on
April
18
of
that
year...
That
is
how
my
imagination
took
me
to
Kardec
and
I
saw
him
with
a
copy
of "The
Book
of
Spirits"
(O
Livro
dos
Espíritos-
the
L.E.),
to
be
released
worldwide
that
day.
A
historic
day
yes,
because
that
was
the
Birth
Certificate
of
Spiritism!
The
Codification
of
Spiritism
was
completed,
Kardec
disincarnated
in
1869.
Several
currents
of
religious
thought
have
since
appeared,
almost
all
of
them,
in
general,
using
at
first
similarity
with
some
Spiritist
premises.
Next,
they
founded
a
new
way
of
seeing
the
themes
of
events
originating
from
the
Spiritual
Plane
and
became
independent.
In
this
article
I
will
mention
some
of
these
currents
-
true
paths,
or
shortcuts
of
Spiritism
-
and
the
people
who
created
them,
without
any
criticism.
It
is a
fact
that
scholars
became
acquainted
with
the
Doctrine
of
the
Spirits,
and
then
followed
a
different
course.
About
each
of
them
there
are
hundreds
of
books
and
articles,
hence
there
will
only
be a
brief
mentioning
(with
no
need
for
more).
My
purpose:
to
show
that
they
are
not
part
of
Spiritism.
Theosophy
With
Kardec’s
death,
Pierre-Gaëtan
Leymarie
(1827-1901),
the
publisher
of
the
Codification
Books,
soon
began
-
without
consent
of
Amelie-Boudet
(widow
of
Kardec)
– to
publish
in
the
Spiritist
Magazine,
founded
by
Kardec,
texts
not
necessarily
of
Spiritist
content.
The
majority
of
these
texts
were
based
on
articles
by
Helena
Petrovina
Blavatsky
(1831-1891),
a
Russian
medium,
who
in
1871
founded
the
Société
Spírite(Spiritist
Society)
in
Cairo,
in
the
capital
of
Egypt,
which
did
not
succeed.
Going
to
Paris,
Blavatsky
met
Leymarie,
who
offered
her
the
opportunity
to
publish
her
texts
in
the
Spiritist
Magazine.
Thus
in
the
Revue
(Spiritist
Magazine)publications
of
theosophical
subjects
were
made
during
incredible
38
years,
that
is,
from
1876
to
1914,
totalizing
more
than
52
articles
(direct
and
indirect)
on
Theosophism[1].
The
contents
of
the
Theosophical
publications
-
many
strange
to
the
records
of
Kardec
-
caused
a
great
stir
in
the
Spiritist
environment
of
the
French
Spiritists,
causing
criticism
and
dissent.
After
many
arguments,
setbacks
and
publications
putting
such
publications
on a
philosophical
route
opposed
to
Spiritism
on
many
points,
the
split
was
unavoidable.
Blavatsky's
texts,
attributed
to
Spirits
wholly
alien
to
Codification,
were
filled
with
quotations
of
Egyptian,
Hindu,
Himalayan
Masters,
Mahatmas,
with
a
vast
list
of
names
of
entities,
always
in
the
language
of
those
countries.
In
1875
Blavatsky
founded
the
Theosophical
Society,
based
in
India.
Separating
from
Spiritism,
Theosophy
followed
its
course.
NOTE:
I
copy
below
a
short
text
from
the
interview
of
the
consecrated
Spiritist
scholar
Jose
Herculano
Pires
(1914-1979),
from
the
book
"J.
Herculano
Pires
-
the
Apostle
of
Kardec",
also
of
the
longing,
Spiritist
and
writer
Jorge
Rizzini
(1924-2008):
It
was
reasoning
that
led
me
to
Spiritism.
The
desire
to
understand
what
the
religion
to
which
I
belonged,
the
Catholic
religion,
could
never
explain
to
me.
This
need
naturally
impelled
me
to
seek,
to
inquire.
In
these
inquiries
I
went
through
several
phases.
I
did
not
go
directly
from
Catholicism
to
Spiritism.
Before,
under
the
influence
of a
cousin
of
my
father,
Francisco
Correia
de
Melo,
resident
in
Santos,
I
became
a
Theosophist.
I
have
read
several
Theosophy
works,
I
have
tried
to
delve
deeper
into
the
study,
and
I
have
found
there
many
answers
which
I
had
in
vain
sought
in
the
religion
of
the
family.
Then
I
also
became
disappointed
with
Theosophy.
Because
it
gave
me
some
explanations
that
also
seemed
absurd
to
me.
I
wanted
something
that
was
more
positive,
that
was
more
in
connection
with
the
possibility
of
concrete
evidence.
And,
it
was
then,
in a
phase
of
uncertainty,
when
I
was
already
accepting,
practically,
the
materialism,
that
"The
Book
of
Spirits"
(O
Livro
dos
Espíritos)
fell
into
my
hands.
And
in
this
book
I
really
found
what
I
was
looking
for.
Metapsychic
Known
as
the
founder
of
Metapsychics,
Charles
Robert
Richet
(1850-1935),
a
French
physician
and
physiologist,
played
a
key
role
in
the
process
of
unraveling
the
unknown
world
of
psychic
phenomena.
In
1905,
then
as
president
of
the
Society
of
Psychical
Investigations
(London)
he
proposed
the
name
of
Metapsychica
to
this
set
of
knowledge.
He
was
awarded
the
Nobel
Prize
in
Medicine
or
Physiology
in
1913.
His
most
famous
work,
Treatise
on
Metapsychics
(1922),
is a
true
framework
of
facts
and
detailed
descriptions
of
psychic
experiences,
historical
and
classificatory
descriptions
that
greatly
contributed
to
its
development.
His
greatest
contribution,
undoubtedly,
was
the
study
of
ectoplasm,
the
substance
responsible
for
the
viability
of
the
phenomena
said
objectives.
Richet's
Metapsychic
was
composed
of
the
following
phenomena:
cryptesthesia
(psychometry);
telekinesis
(movement
of
objects
without
contact);
ectoplasm(ectoplasm
science).
Metapsychic
is
not
Spiritism:
it
is
purely
an
investigative
science,
in
search
for
specific
laws
that
explain
the
(paranormal)
facts
that
it
analyzes,
so
that
they
are
reproduced
physically,
since
the
same
atmosphere
is
created
in
which
they
originally
happened.
It
is a
term
used
in
Latin
countries.
Parapsychology
Parapsychology
is a
pseudoscience
dedicated
to
the
investigation
of
supposed
paranormal
and
psychic
phenomena.
Its
purpose
is
the
scientific
research
of
telepathy,
precognition,
retro
cognition,
clairvoyance,
and
telekinesis,
projection
of
the
consciousness,
near-death
experiences,
reincarnation,
mediumship
and
other
paranormal
and
supernatural
claims.
The
term
"Parapsychology"
was
created
in
1889
by
the
German
physician,
philosopher
and
psychologist
Max
Dessoir
(1867-1947)
and
was
adopted
in
the
1930s
by
the
American
botanist
Joseph
Banks
Rhine
(1895-1980)
as a
substitute
for
the
terms
Metapsychics
and
Psychic
Research.
In
the
US,
in
1930,
Rhine
began
the
studies
that
led
to
the
structuring
of a
new
branch
of
science
concerned
with
studying
the
so-called
"unusual"
phenomena
(Parapsychology).
NOTE:
Metapsychics
and
Parapsychology
acted
like
the
other
sciences,
that
is,
they
tried
to
define
by
the
experimental
method
laws
of
events
that
they
observed
in
nature.
They
ceased
to
be
exponential
because
the
scientist
only
accepts
a
phenomenon
as
true
if
he
can
explain
and
reproduce
it,
provided
that
they
offer
the
same
environmental
conditions
in
which
it
occurred.
And
then
they
were
confronted
with
an
impassible
barrier:
the
events
researched
have
their
origin
in
the
Spirit
and
not
in
matter;
and
the
Spirit
is
something
that
Science
cannot
handle
in a
test
tube...
NOTE
- I
quote
another
comment
from
Professor
Jose
Herculano
Pires'
above
mentioned
interview,
in
the
book
"J.
Herculano
Pires
-
the
Apostle
of
Kardec":
Once
(says
Herculano
Pires)
at
the
end
of a
course
at
the
Faculty
of
Medical
Sciences
of
the
Hospitals
of
the
Holy
House
of
Mercy
of
São
Paulo,
one
of
the
assistants
asked
me,
in
the
middle
of
the
debates,
how
I
managed
between
Spiritism
and
Parapsychology
.
I
answered
that
I
did
not
find
any
difficulty,
since
the
object
of
the
Spiritist
Science
and
Parapsychology
is
the
same,
and
regarding
the
conclusion
of
the
researches,
there
was
no
contradiction
so
far...
The
contradictions
with
Spiritism
are
fruit
only
of
theories
or
hypotheses
prefabricated
and
with
a
known
address.
Umbanda
The
word
Umbanda
derives
from
m'banda,
which
in
the
Kimbundo
language
(national
language
of
Angola)
means
"priest"
or "healer"
In
spite
of
the
development
in
the
humbler
classes,
the
Umbanda
has
a
historical
record
of
its
birth
that
is
merged
with
the
one
of
Zelio
Fernandino
de
Moraes
(1891-1975),
native
of
Niteroi,
capital
of
the
then
state
of
Rio
de
Janeiro.
At
seventeen,
stricken
with
a
strange
paralysis
that
defied
doctors,
he
sometimes
had
the
posture
of
an
old
man
who
said
incomprehensible
things.
Examined
by a
physician,
he
advised
the
family
to
take
him
to a
priest,
but
was
taken
to a
Spiritist
Center
(Centro
Espirita
-
C.E.)
in
Niteroi.
There,
Zelio
was
invited
to
sit
at
the
table
of
the
mediumship
session,
being
immediately
taken
by a
supernatural
force,
and
says:
-"There's
a
flower
missing
here!"
Then
he
gets
up,
goes
to
the
garden
of
the
Spiritist
Center,
picks
a
flower
from
the
garden
and
puts
it
on
the
table.
Stunned,
other
mediums
participating
in
the
session
began
to
incorporate
Spirits
who
called
themselves
black
slaves
and
Indians.
In
that
Spiritist
Center,
until
then,
only
"evolved"
Spirits,
of
physicians,
intellectuals,
thinkers,
and
so
on,
had
been
incorporated;
Spirits
such
as
these
were
considered
to
be
backward
and
should
be
avoided.
A
discussion
was
established
between
communicating
"entities"
about
what
is
really
a
backward
Spirit
or
not.
Finally,
the
Spirit
that
incorporated
into
Zelio
revealed
himself
as
the
Caboclo
de
Sete
Flechas
(Caboclo
of
the
Seven
Arrows)*
-
the
Lord
of
the
Paths
-
who,
stunned
by
the
prevailing
racial
and
cultural
prejudice
there,
announced
that
he
would
create
a
new
religion
where
blacks
and
Indians
considered
backward
Spirits,
could
manifest
themselves
and
share
their
knowledge
with
Humanity.
*Translator’s
note:
Caboclo
is a
Brazilian
Indian
of
mixed
white
or
black
ancestry.
No
sooner
said
than
done,
at
8pm
of
November
16,
1908,
the
Caboclo
manifested
in
Zelio,
announcing
the
creation
of
the
new
religion.
In
the
name
of
this
Spirit,
Zelio
was
cured,
and
with
the
help
of a
small
believing
group,
he
began
to
perform
cures
and
soon
founded
the
first
space
dedicated
to
the
cult,
the
Tenda
de
Umbanda
Nossa
Senhora
da
Piedade
(The
Umbanda
Tent
of
Our
Lady
of
Compassion)
officially
registered
in
1908
and
still
functioning.
The
Umbanda
combines
elements
of
the
Kardecist
Spiritist
philosophy,
the
various
Afro-Brazilian
cults,
indigenous
traditions,
Catholic
Christianity
and
lately
knowledge
coming
from
esoteric
cults.
Projectiology
"Freeing
oneself
from
the
human
body
with
lucidity
is
the
most
precious
and
practical
source
of
clarification
and
priority
information
about
the
most
important
problems
of
life,
clarifying
us
about
who
we
are,
where
we
came
from
and
where
we
are
going".
(Waldo
Vieira,
Our
Evolution,
1997).
Projectiology
is a
subfield
or
specialty
of
the
Consciousness
Science,
which
studies
the
actions
of
consciousness
(ego,
self
or
human
personality)
in
non-physical
dimensions,
free
from
the
constraint
of
the
biological
body.
Projectiology
(from
the
Latin
projectiomeans
projection
and
logos
in
the
Greek
means
treatise)
is
the
most
practical
branch
of
Conscientiology,
this,
a
pseudoscience
founded
in
1979
by
the
physician
and
Brazilian
medium
Waldo
Vieira
(1932-2015).
Vieira
proposed
the
study
of "the
consciousness
integrally",
related
to
supposed
energetic
projections
of
consciousness
and
the
projections
of
consciousness
itself
out
of
the
human
body,
i.e.,
the
actions
of
consciousness
operating
out
of
the
state
of
physical
restraint
of
the
brain
and
all
biological
body.
Projectiology
also
investigates
other
projectiological
phenomena,
such
as:
bilocation,
clairvoyance,
near-death
experience
(NDE),
intuition,
precognition,
retro
cognition,
telepathy,
among
others.
Due
to
the
lack
of
scientific
evidence
and
experiments
under
controlled
conditions,
within
the
parameters
of
science,
even
with
all
the
efforts
of
parapsychology,
projectiology
is
considered
a
pseudoscience.
Apometry
Apometry:
from
the
Greek
apó=
out
of =
metron
=
measure,
is a
mediumistic
work
method,
by
which
specialized
mediums
lend
themselves
to
assisting
people
with
serious
obsessive
problems.
This
practice,
developed
a
few
years
ago
by
the
physician
Dr.
Jose
Lacerda
de
Azevedo
(1919-1997),
then
residing
in
Porto
Alegre/RS,
consists
generally
of
the
spiritual
unfoldment
of a
medium,
who
in
this
state
has
the
opportunity
to
see
scenes
in
the
astral
plane
and
the
conditions
of
the
perispirit
of
the
patient
(this
also
unfolded,
or,
projected).
Guided
by
spiritual
protectors
(disembodied
physicians),
the
medium
describes
what
he
sees,
facilitating
the
diagnosis
of
the
most
complex
spiritual
syndromes,
or
eventually
narrating
the
processing
of
surgeries
in
the
perispirit
of
the
patient.
NOTES:
a.
On
earthly
and
spiritual
therapies
I
recall
that
Kardec,
referring
to
the
"Medicine
of
the
future",
brilliantly
anticipates,
he
almost
prophesies:
Being
one
of
the
constitutive
elements
of
man,
the
perispirit
plays
an
important
role
in
all
psychological
phenomena
and,
to a
certain
extent,
in
physiological
and
pathological
phenomena.
When
the
medical
sciences
take
due
account
of
the
spiritual
element
in
the
economy
of
the
being,
they
will
have
taken
a
great
step
and
entirely
new
horizons
will
be
shown
to
them.
The
causes
of
many
diseases
will
at
this
time
be
discovered
and
found
powerful
means
of
fighting
them;
B.
(In
"Posthumous
Works",
Allan
Kardec,
1st
Part,
I,
The
Perispirit
as
Principle
of
Manifestations,
Item
12,
p.45-46,
21st
ed.
1985,
FEB,
RJ /
RJ).
In
the
book
"Between
Heaven
and
Earth",
chapter
XIII
-
"Mental
Analysis",
p.
82
and
83,
13th
ed.,
1990,
FEB,
RJ /
RJ,
of
the
Spirit
Andre
Luiz,
psychographics
of
Francisco
Candido
Xavier,
Instructor
Minister
Clarencio
states:
"The
mind,
as
well
as
the
physical
body,
can
and
should
undergo
interventions
to
rebalance
it.
Later,
human
science
will
develop
gradually
into
psychic
surgery,
as
much
as
the
surgery
technique
is
advancing
today,
in
view
of
the
needs
of
the
vehicle
of
carnal
matter.
In
the
great
future,
the
land
doctor
will
remove
a
mental
labyrinth,
just
as
easily
as
he
now
removes
a
condemned
appendix".
(Emphasis
added).
The
first
edition
of
this
work
is
dated
1954.
Almost
64
years
have
gone
by.
Has
the
"future"
mentioned
by
Instructor
Clarence
already
arrived,
through
Apometry?
And
the
"great
future",
when
would
it
be?
We
are
in
2018...
And
finally,
for
the
sole
purpose
of
pacification,
I
mention
a
group
that
does
not
exist
officially,
but
in
fact:
"Roustaing’s
teachings"
It
is a
set
of
interpretations
of
Jesus,
his
body,
teachings
and
passages
of
the
Gospel,
all
recorded
in
the
book
"The
Four
Gospels:
Revelation
of
Revelation",
written
by
Jean-Baptiste
Roustaing
(1805-1879),
a
French
lawyer.
This
work,
since
its
publication
in
1866,
caused
and
causes
dissensions
among
the
Spiritists.
In
fact,
few
Spiritists
accept
Roustaing,
and
also
few
Spiritists
reject
him.
And
most
Spiritists
never
heard
of
him…
About
twenty
years
ago,
I
wrote
to
the
FEB,
in
writing,
care
of
the
then
president,
the
late
and
respected
Dr.
Juvanir
Borges
(1916-2010),
mentioning
divergences
from
the
work
of
Roustaing
and
the
Encoding
of
Spiritism.
I
requested
publication
of
the
text
in
the
magazine
Reformador,
aiming
analysis
and
discussion,
tending
to
pacify
the
groups
of
Spiritists
in
favor
and
against
Roustaing.
Dr.
Juvanir
replied
that
although
my
text
was
levelheaded,
it
would
be
filed,
because
the
FEB
does
not
incense
contentions.
After
a
few
more
years
I
resubmitted
the
same
text
to
Geraldo
Campetti
Sobrinho
(1966-
)
current
vice
president
of
FEB
–
with
my
same
argument,
and
his
same
answer...
Since
then
I
have
been
praying
to
the
Protective
Friends
of
the
Greater
Plan,
so
that
peace
can
be
reached
and
dilute
this
uncomfortable
Spiritist
climate.
Now,
with
my
thoughts
in
Jesus,
I
summon
the
Spiritists
who
adopt,
agree
and
accept
the
premises
of
Roustaing,
to
unite
and
form
an
independent
group,
dissociating
it
completely
from
the
FEB.
There
will
be
countless
consequences
that
can
come
from
such
an
attitude:
1.
With
no
doubt,
peace
between
the
Spiritists
would
be
settled,
since
nothing
would
change
between
the
opposites
and
those
in
favor
of
Roustaing,
since
both
have,
with
Kardec,
an
inseparable
doctrinal
link:
the
Codification
of
Spiritism;
2.
With
this,
we
would
have
Spiritists
united,
with
no
objection
that
some,
in
parallel,
admit
and
approve
Roustaing;
as
an
example,
I
mention
the
case
of
Spiritists
who
are
simultaneously
Freemasons,
with
nothing
to
contradict
or
disprove
such
participation
-
each
group
with
its
norms;
3.
Simple
suggestion:
the
name
of
this
possible
new
group
could
be "Roustainguism",
"Revelation
of
the
Revelation",
or
other;
4.
With
the
formation
and
official
registration
of
this
group,
there
is
no
objection
that
the
current
directors
of
FEB,
Federations,
Spiritist
Centers
and
other
Spiritist
groups,
roustainguists,
remain
in
these
same
functions,
provided
that
they
accept,
when
in
activities,
only
dealing
with
the
Codification.
It
is
with
deep
sincerity
and
an
open
heart
that
I
make
this
proposal.
________________________________________
[1]
Data
from
the
book
“Em
nome
de
Kardec”
(In
Kardec’s
name),
Adriano
Calsone,
2015,
pg.
62,
Vivaluz
Editora,
Atibaia/SP |
