Chico Xavier was Ruth-Céline Japhet Second and final Part

Amélie Boudet (aka Gabi, Allan Kardec’s wife) always accompanied him.  his missionary work had a start, when he went from a sagacious observer to a leader of the objectives of the séances. Soon Professor Rivail realised that the answers from the Spirits had trascendental content and should be conducted for a better utilisation. Javary was one of the mentors (at the time, called guide) of the public meetings. This name concealed a Spirit that, in its previous incarnation, had been a North American Indian. From the one history is well known.  By fully taking control of the séances, Rivail reaps from the séances remarkable revelations which will appear in the pages of The Spirits’ Book. He proposes to start the work at 8:00am with a prayer and introduces a new method of questioning the spirits. At the meeting of 1^st of January 1856 the following spirits were present:  Zephyr, St Agostine, John the evangelist, Vicent of Paul, Socrates, Phenelon, Swendenborg and Hahnemann. They used to meet up on Wednesdays and Saturdays. From April 1856, the mediums started using a duck’s feather instead of the router basket.

In the first moments, the large part of the answers came through the mediumship of the sisters Caroline and Julie Baudin, who were in fact close friends with Ruth-Céline.In 1856, the family Baudin was living at No 32, rue Lamartine. The most important points however were psycographed by Ruth-Céline.It also was through her mediumship that on 30th April 1856 Professor Rivail received the first news about his mission. And he also found out about his previous incarnation, at the time of Julius Cesar, in Gaul, when he was a druid priest called Allan. Later on, through a medium named Rose, who will go on collaborating with the Parisien Society of Spiritist Studies, the spirits revealed that his surname at that time was Kardec. This version regarding his name was revelead in partial manner, in two stages, from Mrs. Japhet, in conversation with Aksakof. Subsequently Rivail would have put the information together, in an onomatopose that would cover his real name and that would have costed him some criticisms which were, by the way, quite unfair during the famous Litigation of the Spiritists. Allan Kardec narrated that it was Z. (Zefhyr), his protecting spirit, who revealed the name and that the two of them lived together in Gaul. In another opportunity Zephyr added that the Baudin sisters were Gallic, incarnated at the same time as Kardec. On the other hand, all those from Mrs Japhet’s group were former Semites, converted to Christianity. However Ermance Dufaux received from another spiritual guide, in another place, that he had also lived in that Gallic group of Kardec. Ruth-CélineOnly, to conclude, Ruth-Céline was from different region.

The Baudin sisters were, therefore, those who tendered most to the first phase of the works of compillation of The Spirits Book. However the spirits recommended that a broad revision was to be carried out, from begining to end. This work was taken up by Mrs Japhet in private séance sessions, at Roustan’s house, at 14, rue Tiquetone. This was the main task, which took place from June to December 1856, having Allan Kardec declaring that the medium “had lent herself with good will and with the most complete unselfishness to all the requirements of the Spirits” (Revue Spirite, 1858, page 36) As for the  –  well it seems it was not like this.... 

Towards the end of 1857, Julie and Caroline Baudin got married and the family was dispersed 

At the begining of 1857, Allan Kardec sent the original of The Sprits Book to the publishing house. At 18^th April 1857, The Spirits’ book was launched at the Palais Royal, with immediate repercussion. Kardec banked all the costs, as Baron Tiedeman-Marthèse “did not want to lend his financial assistance”, according to the Codifier’s appeal. And here the setbacks start, which were well hidden from the general public. Around this time Ruth-Céline Japhetwas 20 years old.After this date, Allan Kardec left Mr Japhet’s group and started to carry out séance sessions in his own house, at 8, rue des Martyrs where he lived from 1856 to 1860, the year in which he moved to 59, Sainte-Anne, which also became headquarters of Revue Spirite. Ruth-Céline, Caroline e Julie were engaged and were soon to get married. Allan Kardec explains briefly and without getting into details that towards the end of 1857, the two Baudin sisters got married, the séance meetings ceased and the family dispersed. Ruth-Céline, who was not mentioned, also got married and, strangely, not a word was talked about them anymore. There are records that, for this occasion, a wall of silence was intended to descend around the medium Mrs Japhet, while at that time in the circles of the studious, two different thoughts were distinguished in relation to the question of reincarnation (spiritualists versus magnetists). Simultaneously Madam Japhet, was removed, and felt distressed as some people rumoured that she had passed away, on account of divergences within the Parisin Society of Spiritist Studies group. For surethere were complicated people in this group, as Allan Kardec himself will write that he, within the society, was later betrayed. Neverthless, despite being presumed dead, the truth is that Madam Japhet carried on providing consultations until mid-1873, in which time she lived with her husband in Paris, at rue des Enfants Rouges, G.

As it usually happens (as even happened in Jesus’ apostolate bosom), the lauching of The Spirits Book provoked a large impact in all religious and cultural circles, but it also brought to its bosom some internal dissentions amongst the members of Roustan’s group, where Mrs Japhet had remainded, and the group that accompanied Kardec for séance sessions at his house, where the second definitive edition of The Spirits Book would come to be prepared.

Allan Kardec had never hidden the fact that Ruth-Céline Japhetand her sisters Caroline and Julie Baudin were his main mediums. Mrs Japhet’s work, after moving to the direct modality of psychography, was completely mechanical, so much so that she had difficulty following the story she wrote. Without the obstacle of never having been stopped by her spiritual guide, Mrs Japhet did not dare to write by herself. Final work of revision of The Spirits Book, including the introduction and conclusion, was carried out almost integrally through Mrs Japhet’s mediumship, at her home and sometimes with the collaboration of her father in some points considered most difficult. However the revision of the second edition, of 1860, in the great majority, was accomplished by medium Ermance Dufaux, performed at the Codifier’s own house. 

Ruth-Céline regretted having neither her name nor those of the other mediums in the published books  

Still in a conversation she had in 1873 with the known Russian researcher Alexandre Aksakof, Mrs Japhet, already married, regretted not having recevied any copy of The Spirits Book and that Allan Kardec, on leaving her group to set up his own with a medium named Roze, had taken a sheaf of manuscripts with which, The Mediums Book was partially made up. She tried to recover them, but to only discover that Allan Kardec had suggested she took her complaint to the Courts.  This was her declaration when confessing herself to being hurt by the events of the time which, it their depth, concealed something which was, at the very least, strange.

However, we cannot rush inferences that can be set apart from the intentions. Firstly it would be needed to know whom the manuscrits were from. Kardec, or the medium? Messages and answers came through her mediumship, but the questions were proposed by Kardec. Probably, for not wishing to create an uncomfortable situation for both, Kardec preferred to rely on the laws of the time, with the intention that perhaps everything would be resolved in the impartial scope of the Courts, a very natural way for those who aim to settle personal disputes.  In reality, it is even fair to suppose for sure uneasiness existed for both as an important circumstance. Ruth-Célinealso regreted having neither her name nor that of the other mediums in the published books. It would be a reward for those who worked for free. Well, having produced large part of the text and the full revision of the work, the medium lived, further, in times of ignorance in which mediumship was worth money. Therefore she was considering herself underminded.

Allan Kardec, in his turn, who earned money from his pedagogic works (fair remuneration for his personal effort), readily become awakened to a deeper ethical view of a new religion that he had just finished codifying. He could not agree, even if he wanted to and could – as he would have to, that is, if he had failed his mission – with the commodification which would demoralise in origin the teaching of the Spirits themselves in the sense that no other spiritist product, notably mediumistic, should be remunerated. Moreover the public, though used to this, would scarcely believe in a new Christian-Spiritist message knowing that it had been obtained at the cost of money. However, this was a vey new concept to be understood quickly by the professional mediums of the time...

Allan Kardec, in his missionary view, assimilated very well and  quicker still the importance of this criteria and could not cede; but Mrs. Japhet and all those contemporary sleepwalkers did not have the least capacity to reach all these values of this strange moral. One therefore has to understand the Codifier; and forgive the most qualified medium of the period.

Kardec and Japhet were missionaries, but she lacked the enlightened vision that had flowered in him in relation to their respective papers and to the substance of the precepts of the Third Revelation. Reincarnacionists, mediums and Codifier had no more doubt in respect to this fundamental question and, therefore, were on the same side; but for the question of the omission of her name in the work and of the forced renunciation of any professional remuneration, one must agree that it was too much to ask from her understanding. 

Generosity was always a point of honour in the mediumship of the missionary from Pedro Leopoldo 

In this point Allan Kardec made light-years of spiritual progress and quickly assimilated the ethical judgement. Anyway, as nobody has the right to allege ignorance of the law, the Spirit Ruth-Céline Bequet could not forgive herself when in the spirit world. From this behaviour and this non-conformation the spirit imposed on itself a new mission in which, in the same conditions as the great medium Ruth-Céline, it could overcome all the temptations in favour of Jesus’ philosophy.

So, that crisis of the 19^th century transformed itself into a spike for the Spirit who, in the following century, would reincarnate in Brazil with the commitement to broaden its mediumistic effort in the unselfish work of dissemination of the revelation. Ruth-Céline Japhet in the spiritual world was able to evolve enough to realise and correct her previous positioning.This next part of this spirit’s history is recent and we all know it.

Generosity was always a point of honour in the mediumship of the missionary from Pedro Leopoldo and Uberaba. He lived his whole life as a prisoner of invincible respect for humility. Francisco Cândido Xavier systematicallyrefused any attempt for material remuneration, direct or indirect, which kept appearing throughout his life. He never accepted any kind of compensation, and lived from his work as clerk. When in old age and with his mean pension he had help from private friends who offered him assistance but always did so for nothing. I have met some of them.That stumble from the past had to be corrected.He succeeded. Chico Xavier was a winner and knew he would have to sacrifice himself now until the limits of the impossible to exemplify that which he could have learned from his personal experience with Allan Kardec in a previous life. He always had repulsion – this is the exact term – to any kind of compensation for his work. He underwent periods of great difficulties and of great temptations. But he always kept high his dignity and mediumistic ability. He never had the adrenaline to follow the events that were to do with him and which gave him the right to be rewarded on Earth.

However it is always necessary to remind ourselves that Ruth-Céline was a lady of many virtues and much affection.Charmingly romantic, she had looks that made her stand out from the French biotype. She had personality, her own talent and a generous soul, recognised by all who shared her friendship and her intimacy. It was not for no reason that Amélie Gabrielle Boudet treated her like a daughter. She was very slim, with large black eyes and with a thick head of black hair, with marked Jewish traces from the Eastern people. Many thought of her to be of Arabic origin. Her life was made up of much pain and love, in a kaledoscope of beautiful emotions.

Ruth-Céline Japhet had an incarnation as a Hebrew in Egypt. Afterwads she returned as a Jew in Canaan. Then she lived a new incarnation in Palestine and another life as a Moor in Portugal. The branch of her family was remotely descended from the Portuguese Moors, who had converted to Christianity many centuries ago. These incarnations, raised by the scholar and researcher Canuto Abreu, had Emmanuel’s written endorsement, through Chico Xavier himself. 

Chico Xavier is a Spirit who has sucessively returned to the world in a female form 

Well, this is Ruth-Céline Bequet’s history, known as Mrs Japhet and who came to reincarnate in Brazil as Francisco Cândido Xavier, known as Chico Xavier.

Before finishing this article and in order to settle down the uproar of the fanatics, I call the attention upon three facts:

There is a comunication from Allan Kardec, dictated on 30.3.1924 and published in the Revue Spirite of July 1924.

Francisco Cândido Xavierhad Zilda Gama as an exceptional medium, according to the writings of 1946 from the president of the Brazilian Spiritist Federation, expressing how much joy and comfort he had at the news of one more book being psychographed by her. As it was through her mediumship a message from Allan Kardec, received on 27^th December 1912, published as many others in her precious book entitled Diary of the Invisibles a copy of which I own in its second edition of 1943.

In the 60’s, Francisco Cândido Xavier admitted to a reserved group of friends, that Allan Kardec was already reincarnated. He had been in Brazil, went on to study in Switzerland and lived there up to that day, with double nationality. The hypothesis – already completed discarded – had at least a minimum of coherence. It is to do with a humanist professor of remarkable erudition, mainly philosophic, and admired by the more educated circles of the Swiss teaching profession. But he himself did not even want to know about the subject.

At the begining of this text I listed these and other reincarnations of this wonderful Spirit that I was able to recognize.  As it can be oberved it is to do with a Spirit who has returned successively in the female form, with this one and only exception being Chico Xavier, in Brazil in 1910, having in view the mission to which it had commited itself. If it had come back one more time as a woman, mainly in the begining of that century, it would never have had any chance to be heard or respected. Prejudice was outstanding and an obstacle to any equality of sexes.

And the question is left: if it came in a male body, who would commit the nonsense to think that personality was not a declared woman, in all its meanings? His psychism has never betrayed the appearance and femininity.  His behaviour psychology had the consecrated stamp of the automatisms, of the reflexs, of the gestures, of moving about, the mannerism of a delicate, colourful and beautiful woman.

Is it possible, in a right mind, to identify in the dulcis, supple and delicate profile any signal of a robust, manly and vigorous personality of Allan Kardec. It is only on account of the neuronal degeneration of ignorant idolaters and babblers. To insist on this disparity is no more that a dishonest idea with Spiritism.

Author’s note: 

Click on http://vimeo.com/9098617 to watch the lecture “Chico, Dialogues and Memories” delivered on 09/10/2009, in which Arnaldo Rocha talks about the much missed Chico Xavier and confirmes the information contained in this article.