Chico Xavier was Ruth Japhet-Céline   Part 1

In 2001, inspired by my friend Herminio Correa de Miranda's idea (in Ch. 13 I Am Camille Desmoulins), I started the production of the book Quem foi Quem (Who was Who), sequencing approximately fifteen hundred reincarnations and nearly seven hundred entries. I have gathered revelations from reliable works, between classical, mediumistic and by serious spiritist scholars, besides some cases of hallowed and well accepted tradition. Today, having finished the hardest work I must say that two thirds of the book was completed by my son Luciano dos Anjos Filho, as well as by collaborations of some other members of the Group of the Eight, such as Pedro Miguel Calicchio (already disembodied), Viviane Albuquerque Calicchio and Jorge Pereira Braga. Certain health setbacks have delayed the end, but we are now in the final review. It is a repository of breath with brief biographies of each character not lacking the source on which we have based.

For since that time, well before the swell of the black tongue pollution which spreads that Chico Xavier is Allan Kardec, there had already been inserted the entry Francisco Cândido Xavier in the following chronological records, some names recorded in the early 1960's):   

Hatshepsut, Pharaoh Queen (the 15th century BC) - Hebrew in Egypt (between .the 18th and the 19th centuries BC) - Jewish in Canaan (8th century BC or later) - Greek citizen (600 BC to 7th century BC) - Chams, princess (6th century BC) - Syrian citizen (period BC to AD) - Carthaginian citizen (between 10th and 2nd X centuries BC.) - Flavia Lentulus (1st century) - Livia (3rd century) - Joan the Mad (1479-1555) - Verdun, abbess (16th century) -   Jeanne d'Alencourt (18thcentury) - Ruth-Céline Japhet (1837) / Dolores del Sarte Hurquesa Hernandez (19th century) - Francisco Cândido Xavier, Chico Xavier (1910-2002)  

Around 1999, I sent Chico, and in 2008, also to Divaldo Pereira Franco, the entry of each one, asking them, if appropriate, to indicate any advisable amendment. Neither of them objected to anything.

I had been informed about the reincarnation of Chico as Ruth-Céline Japhet since 04/08/1967, when Abelardo Idalgo Magalhães had met with the medium in Uberaba and, side by side, took note of the previous lives of Chico personified in the novels by Emmanuel.   

Arnaldo Rocha is admittedly known as a serious, honest spiritist of unimpeachable probity  

I still keep that picture signed by Abelardo with me today. Ruth-Céline does not appear because she was not a character in any of the novels, but Abelardo also spoke about her, at my request and received confirmation. I knew from that decade in a mere speculative drill. Divaldo Pereira Franco also heard this same confirmation directly from Chico, who had just arrived from Paris, where he had visited the Codifier's grave. Furthermore, many years before, Chico himself had made the same revelation to one of his greatest friends and confidants, Arnaldo Rocha, Meimei's husband, the admirable spirit who has dictated messages of high evangelical content.

I emphasize as important that all of those who go around bragging that they have heard statements from Chico, or drawing conclusions on their own that he was Allan Kardec, none of them lived the intimacy experienced by Arnaldo Rocha. And this year, when once again he was here in my home, Arnoldo reiterated that Chico was Ruth-Celine Japhet. Moreover, less than a month ago, in the Globo News program to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Chico's birth, he resumed the issue and in response to the question posed ​​to him, he spoke up with some annoyance saying that the idea of Chico Xavier being Allan Kardec was just a silly thing. Arnaldo Rocha is admittedly known as a serious, honest spiritist of unimpeachable probity. Nobody, absolutely nobody, currently has more authority than Arnaldo to put an end to this fiction that common sense and knowledge of the spiritist doctrine should long since have been buried.

In August last year, in an interview to the website “Espiritismobh," Arnaldo had disclosed that in a dialogue that happened in 1946, Chico had revealed to him that he was the reincarnation of Ruth-Céline. Arnaldo did not include this revelation in the book Chico – Diálogos e Recordações (Chico - Conversations and Recollections), written by Carlos Alberto Braga, just because, after many years, he was uncertain whether it was Celine Japhet or the other Kardec's medium, who he supposed was called Céline Baudin. Actually, that one was called Caroline Baudin. Eventually, Arnaldo cleared out the doubt as he reported in a more recent interview, released on the same website. "I had the opportunity to go to Rio to meet a very dear friend, Luciano dos Anjos. When questioned why he did not include Ruth Celine Japhet's story in the book, I replied that I was very doubtful about the names because he knew of the existence of two Celines. He then told me that Kardec's auxiliary medium was Ruth-Celine Japhet, Jewish and disembodied in 1885."  

Francisco Cândido Xavier's personality has never had anything to do with the Codifier's  

We did talk about the book. He explained me the reasons and I said that only Japhet was named Celine and, therefore, she was the one about whom Chico had referred. There has never been a Céline Baudin. Besides, I had already had that piece of information for a long time and that I had asked him to wait for a few more details that I would give him. It was just a matter of dates, because Arnaldo already knew everything.

Lately, the movement that has been impregnating Chico's biography with the radical canonizing ideas has grown. Francisco Cândido Xavier's personality has never had anything to do with the Codifier's. Even Chico highlighted this difference in a statement published in the Goiás Diário da Manhã, on 28.8.1998, which I decided to broadcast on the Internet through a post on 29.3.2010. Chico Xavier, as stated in the beginning of this report, has always been a woman. And, by the way, in his last life as a medium, he was a great woman, with feelings that showed the world the value of knowing how to be a woman in a male body. That is very difficult, but Chico, particularly, was a winner, overcoming natural tendencies that could have dragged him to fail the mission.

In this plot, even jokes of shameless humour have transpired. A spiritist Medical Doctor from Sao Paulo published an article in the Folha Espírita, claiming that Chico never got married, just like Allan Kardec never lived maritally with Amélie Boudet. There was just a platonic love between the couple, thus their not having any children (?).What delirious paroxysm have we come to! Anything goes so as to place Kardec as a Catholic saint and in the same vestal way of the most feminine females. But, let's face it: to be aware of so great an intimacy between the two, only by assuming - conclude the jokers - that the doctor could only be Amélie Boudet reincarnated. And since I do not doubt that she will make public confession of this fantastic identity. At this point, I can expect for any kind of schizophrenia.

I will still come back to the image of Francisco Cândido Xavier. For now, let's get to know Ruth Céline Japhet better, about whom, by the way, Allan Kardec left us very little information, which, incidentally, he also did ​​in regards to the other mediums who took part in the preparation of The Spirits' Book. He explained that he has done it this way in order to prevent exactly what is being done today with Francisco Cândido Xavier, who has won even processions through the streets of Pedro Leopoldo. Moreover, there are people already going on pilgrimages to his tomb to collect tears that "spring" from the eyes of the bronze bust. Following on the charismatic show, a hymn to Chico Xavier has just been produced whose lyrics, by the way, is hopelessly trash. But not all will be lost. Perhaps it will suit the novenas, which are bound to arise.   

Ruth-Céline Japhet's childhood resembles Chico Xavier's misfortunes, such as the struggle waged  

That is why I believe it to be the time to rescue from the vulgarity this current frenzy of negative publicity about Spiritism.

Ruth-Céline Japhet was formerly called Ruth-Céline Bequet. She adopted the sobriquet Japhet to identify herself as a professional somnambulist. She reincarnated in 1837 in the province of Paris, whose exact location I could not spot. In 1841, she still lived there with her parents when she fell seriously ill, unable to walk. Her childhood resembles Chico Xavier's misfortunes, such as the struggle waged by her precarious health. She was a medium since childhood, but only around 12 years of age she began to distinguish reality between this world and the spiritual one. As a child she would intermingle both. Bedridden for more than two years, it was a spiritual healer named Ricard who noticed that she was a medium (somnambulist, as calledthen), by putting her into a trance first. But they did no more than three sessions. Her brother, impatient with the ineffectiveness of the drugs she was taking to recover the movements of her legs, decided, on his own, to magnetize her, attempting it for six straight weeks. The result was fantastic. She managed to get up and started to walk with the aid of crutches. She remained in those conditions for almost a year (eleven months), after which, after all, she could get rid of the crutches, still limping though.

In 1845, when she was still 8 years old, the family, excited by the results obtained with the magnetic passes, decided to go to Paris in search of the healer Ricard, who had done the first experiments with Ruth-Céline. Then he took her to his colleague Mr Millet, at whose house she got to know another famous healer, Mr Roustan (not to be confused with the great missionary Roustaing), who had studied healing magnetism since 1840. He lived at 14 Rue Tiquetone and traded with jewels at 19 Rue Des Martyrs (other sources indicate number 46).

It was from that contact and in face of all the benefits hoarded that she assumed the condition of professional Somnambulist (professional medium), under Roustan's supervision. She then began to adopt the name Ruth-Céline Japhet (Miss Japhet).

It is worth noting that at that time and even today in countries like the United States, Britain and France, there were only paid mediums and it was common to adopt "noms de guerre" or a pseudonym. Spiritism was still to be born. Transformed into a fever in Europe, Spiritism was constituted only on the basis of phenomena, imported from America not long before. Allan Kardec is who will give a new direction to its practical development, adding the main and serious content and moral sense.  

From the spring of 1851, the sessions took place twice a week under the direction of Mr Japhet   

Hence, as predicted - and we will see this later - Allan Kardec could not rid himself of some disagreements with his mediums, particularly the principal of the group, Miss Ruth-Céline Japhet.

She went on seeing her customers for nearly three years in a row, giving medical consultations that were transmitted by Samuel Hahnemann, Homeopathy's founder, Anton Mesmer, the founder of Mesmerism and her own grandfather. Teresa of Avila and other spiritual mentors also appeared to her and dictated guidance messages.

Let us follow the chronology. In 1849, Roustan took her for a session at the Count d'Ourches's palace in Vincennes. In attendance were: the Count and Countess d'Ourches, Baron Louis de Güldenstubbe (I have his book in my library) and his sister Sonia, the couple De Lagia, the Dutch philosopher Baron Tiedeman-Marthèse, Mr and Mrs Roustan and Mr Japhet, Ruth-Céline's father. Mme Abnour, who had just returned from America and was more familiar with the magnetism phenomena, worked as a medium. Ruth-Celine, aged 12, was the youngest of those present. Upon completion of the work, Mme Abnour availed herself of the meeting to invite Güldenstubbe, Roustan and Ruth-Céline to form a private group, along with Abbé Chatel and the three Bauvais young ladies, who began to gather at the house where Mr Japhet and his daughter lived then, at 46 Rue des Martyrs. All together they were 9 people.

From the spring of 1851, the sessions took place twice a week under the direction of Mr Japhet, who was an intuitive medium and Roustan continuing the spiritual medical aid to Miss Japhet, whose health, in general, always remained precarious. She herself worked there from 1851 until 1857 as a medium, i.e., from 14 to 20 years of age.

In 1855, Tierry, Taillandier, Tillman, Ramon De la Sagia, Victorien Sardou and his son, the couple Roustan and, of course, Mr Japhet, already widowed by this time, and his daughter Ruth-Celine attended the meetings. Another influential presence was Adèle Maginot, Alphonse Cahagnet's main medium, the greatest spiritual healer of that time. Along with him, virtually all healers of the time started the learning, including Roustan. Roustan considered Ruth-Celine a better medium than Adèle Maginot.

Those sessions were copying the American model brought by Mme Abnour: Ruth-Céline was in the centre of the hall surrounded by the other participants, with the chairs in a u-shape. The spirits availed of typtology and sometimes of psychophony. So it happened and continued until mid-1864, well after the Spirits' Book having been released.  

On August 1, 1855, Kardec was led to participate in meetings at Mr Baudin's house  

The communication received was considered by all the attendees as excellent and of high instructive value.

On May 8, 1855, Allan Kardec attended for the first time a séance (spinning table sessions) at Mrs Plainemaison's residence at 18 Rue Grange-Batêlier. The three met Mr Japhet and his daughter Ruth-Céline. He was a bookkeeper (a kind of accountant) for commercial houses.

Victorien Sardou had his own group of spiritual healers and for five years had been attending the sessions at Mr Roustan's at 14 Rue Tiquetone. He was who would have handed to Allan Kardec fifty notebooks with annotations of the Spirits, the starting point for The Spirits' Book. According to other sources, Carlotti, Professor Rivail's old friend and who also belonged to the group, was who would have handed the notebooks. Attending these sessions: Victorien Sardou and his father, the professor and lexicographer Antoine Leandre Sardou; future academic Saint-Renné Taillandier, bookseller and publisher Pierre-Paul Didier; Marthèse-Tiedeman and others.

At that very year on August 1, 1855, Allan Kardec was led to participate in meetings at Mr Baudin's house, whose daughters Caroline and Julie worked as mediums at 7 Rue Rochechouart. The first meeting attended by Kardec was held on a Wednesday. Baudin was a farmer and grew sugar cane on the Reunion Island, a French territory in the Indian Ocean. At first, the Codifier almost abandons everything, given to the frivolity of the sessions. But he gives a new direction to the meetings and there begins the outline of The Spirits' Book, followed by the construction of much of the work. Baudin then moved to 32 Rue Lamartine. Also in 1855, Allan Kardec is led by his friend Victorie Sardou (other sources say that the invitation came from Mr Leclerc) to Mr Japhet's house, whose daughter was 18 years of age.

In 1856, Allan Kardec also began to attend the sessions at Mr Roustan's house at 14 Rue Tiquetone, where Ruth-Céline psychographed with a beak basket (corbeille-toupie). For a time, he attended the meetings in the homes of Mr Roustan and Mr Japhet. Ruth-Céline Japhet was always the main medium, as Allan Kardec had assured that those meetings "were serious and were orderly conducted." Especially because the Spirit of Truth manifested there for the first time. (Continued next issue.)   
 

Author's Note:  

Click http://vimeo.com/9098617 to see the presentation "Chico, Conversations and Recollections" performed on 9/10/2009, where Arnaldo Rocha talks about the beloved medium Chico Xavier and confirms the information in this article.