This issue we publish an interesting interview delivered to the journalist Fernanda Borges by our collaborator Waldenir Aparecido Cuin, from Votuporanga (SP). Active preacher of Spiritism, including in regular media, and author of seven books, the confrere was also one of the main responsible for the creation of the Beneficent Association “Brother Mariano Dias”, department of the Spiritist Center Humberto de Campos, where he presides currently. 

In the confrere’s opinion, the top priority of those who presides the Spiritist movement is directly connected to the preaching of the Gospel. It is needed, he says, that the lessons of Jesus Christ reach all the creatures in Brazil and the world, once that “it will only be possible the peace on Earth if Jesus, definitely, live in the heart of each man”. 

Another highlight of this issue – which date coincides with the All Saints’ Day – is the special “The dead live on”, in which Américo Domingo Nunez Filho, from Rio de Janeiro (RJ), focuses on the topics of death and immortality. In the article, the confrere remembers that Jesus “turned out to be the example of life after death”, once he attested the immortality itself “revealing the death of death, keep on living”, which implies to say that the dead not only live on, but will keep living. 

The third highlight of this issue is, in fact, the memory of a historical fact of great importance for the Spiritist movement in Brazil: José Arigó’s conviction in the end of 1964 for being a healer. We show here the story “Zé Arigó in prison”, published on 12/12/1964 n the magazine O Cruzeiro, to remember, mainly to the young ones, that the repression to Spiritism has already been much more incisive than it is today.  

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After the highlights, we have now three pieces of news:

1. Our virtual Library now presents a new flag – the Italian one, which means to say that we made available too, as a free download, some Spiritist books in Ernesto Bozzano’s language.

2. The previous texts of the Systematized Study of the Spiritist Doctrine (ESDE) will be equally translated to Spanish, starting from lesson one, which can be checked from this number on. Clicking on the link “Previous issues”, the reader can access the issue # 1 and see that, beside the Portuguese version, there is one is Spanish, and it will happen every week, until all lessons of ESDE are properly translated.

3. We start in this issue the methodical study of the Revue Spirite of 1862, which will be published in 16 parts.