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“Spiritualism is
a religion and
we are proud of
it”
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Jorge
Hessen |
That sentenced
was pronounced
in November of
1868, at the
Society of
Spiritualistic
Studies of
Paris, by Allan
Kardec, the
Decoder of
Spiritualism
It circulates
around the
Internet, and
also in some
spiritualistic
journals, absurd
criticism of the
literature of
Emmanuel.
Undoubtedly, it
is a question of
a fruitless
attempt to
disregard the
extraordinary
work of the
great medium
Chico Xavier and
enthrone the
ideological
hegemony of
these agents of
turmoil.
One does not
need to make a
great effort to
identify in
these brothers
the lack of
sense, for they
find themselves
completely
distant from the
Doctrine of
Spirits,
entangled in the
webs of
obsessive
fascination.
Melancholic
critics of Chico
Xavier, Emmanuel
and Andre Luiz,
such brethrens
stay in a state
of hypnotic
numbness,
delusional in
the inside of a
derailed train
that ended up in
the foolishness
named “emmanuelism”,
sponsored by
“spiritualists”,
who have nothing
better to do.
This aversion of
Emmanuel has
lingered on for
a long time
within the
Spiritualistic
movement, the
same way as the
grudge against
Andre Luiz,
since the
publication of
the book ‘Nosso
Lar’ (Our Home).
Recently, we
thought about
watching a video
presentation
about what they
nicknamed “Emmanuelism”.
We saw it;
however we could
not stand the
mutilated
pseudo-research
and we stopped
watching in
order not to
obliterate our
mind’s
landscape.
Among the
‘pearls’ of its
content, they
state that even
for
“spiritualists”
themselves
Emmanuel is a
“pseudo-scholar”.
We are not sure
which source
they used for
such incoherent
statement.
Emmanuel: a
pseudo-scholar?
The fundamental
description of
Emmanuel that we
do is this: he
does not praise,
he does not
recriminate. He
demonstrates,
raises
awareness. He is
vehement; He
shows that the
ones who come
around are
immune to the
horrors of
tomorrow. That’s
why he invites
us to an
intimate reform.
We, who
interpret him,
and allow us to
be in awe of
him, let out a
little cry of
comfort: “Yes,
we can!” This is
a little poetic,
but that’s how
we feel about
Emmanuel the
benefactor.
It is clear for
a conscious
spiritualist
that this
subject smells
like a pointless
and illogical
discussion. To
rebut it may be
a waste of time,
but even then,
let’s spare a
couple of
minutes in order
to write about
this nonsense,
reminding
ourselves that
we must beware
not to come up
against the same
wavelength.
It is laughable
the effort of
our brethrens
(dodgy
reincarnations
of 19th
Century’s
ex-scientists)
who consider
Emmanuel a
pseudo-scholar.
Who do they
consider a
scholar? Afonso
Angelo Torteroli?
Or themselves?
It is a
mockery!! We
write with the
intention of
warning the
readers, for
“according to
circumstances,
to unveil a
hypocrisy and a
lie can be a
duty, because it
is better to see
a man fall than
many fooled and
become victims
of him”.
(1)
These brothers,
dressed in
fertile
imagination and
blurred in their
thought,
reverberate that
the Young
“catholic” Chico
Xavier, when he
had the medium
vision of what
seemed to be the
priest Manoel da
Nobrega in a
former
reincarnation,
and later
identified as
Emmanuel, made
sure that he
would become his
spiritual
mentor. With
that, would all
the medium
process of this
extraordinary
medium come to
be by a
“catholic
mysticism”.
(!?...)
Spiritualism: an
academy of
“exponents of
knowledge”?
Thus, the
current admirers
of Torteroli
(that
“scientist” Who
abused the
resignation of
the “mystic”
Bezerra de
Menezes, in the
19th Century) go
around saying
that, for being
a Jesuit,
Emmanuel imposed
a catholic bias
to the
Spiritualistic
Movement. Well,
if these fellows
studied more
thoroughly the
spiritualistic
principles, they
would identify
that the
Spiritualism did
not require to
be
“catholicized”
with the
outstanding
messages of the
great architect
of Catholicism,
Doctor Gratia
Aurelio
Agostinho,
former bishop of
Hipona, who
dictated several
messages that
are now in the
Kardecian
Pentateuch. What
matters is the
essence of its
orientations,
which do no harm
to the Third
Revelation; on
the contrary,
contribute to
shed some light
upon it through
the Gospel.
Spiritualism is
a moral doctrine
that strengthens
religious
feelings in
general, and is
applicable to
all religions;
it belongs to
all of them but
at the same time
to none in
particular.
That’s why it
does not advise
people to change
religions”.
(2)
Formally, what’s
concealed in the
rhetoric of
these
adventurers of
illusion, under
the subject “Emmanuelism”,
is nothing but a
hidden
restriction to
the religious
aspect of the
Spiritualistic
Doctrine which
is brilliantly
supported in
Brasil by FEB
and brightened
by Chico Xavier
in the medium
practice.
These
Kardeciologists,
“PhD’s of
nothing in
particular”, far
from using
common sense,
insist in
spreading the
“progressive”
thesis that one
needs to get
away from the
“Catholic
Christ”, from
the religion,
church aspect of
Spiritualism and
transform it
into an academy
of exponents of
“knowledge”,
under their
conduction,
obviously! That
can only be a
mockery!
Jesus: the most
perfect type,
our guide and
model
Under the spell
of this
compulsive
philosophical
trend, they go
on the Internet,
write books and
articles, and
promote
innocuous
lectures, stung
by telepathic
directives of
the dark
‘intelligences’
of the
threshold. But
whether you like
it or not, the
Christ is the
model of virtues
for all men, and
it was not
Emmanuel who
said it, but the
mortals who took
part in decoding
Spiritualism and
Kardec himself.
It is worth
remembering what
we read in
question 625 of
The Book of
Spirits: “Who is
the most perfect
type that God
has given man to
serve as a guide
and model for
men?” Answer:
“Jesus.”
When commenting
the answer
Kardec made the
following note:
“To men, Jesus
constitutes the
kind of moral
perfection that
Mankind can
aspire to have
on earth. God
offers it as the
most perfect
model and the
doctrine he
taught is the
purest
expression of
the Lord’s law,
because, being
him the purest
of the beings
that walked the
Earth, the
Divine Spirit
gave him life”.
(Book of
Spirits, item
625.)
Such brethrens
have placed
themselves as
victims of the
mob of chasers
of the Master
Jesus from the
doctrinarian
realm. They
stumble without
direction. Maybe
because, in an
interview given
to brethrens in
Uberaba, Chico
Xavier warned:
“If they take
Jesus away from
Spiritualism, it
turns into a
mockery. If you
take away the
religious aspect
from
Spiritualism it
becomes a
business. The
Spiritualistic
Doctrine is
science,
philosophy and
religion. If you
take away
religion, what
is left? Jesus
is in our
everyday living,
as long as our
trials and
tribulations
come about, the
first name we
remember,
capable of
providing relief
and comfort is
Jesus.”(3)
Jesus: Divine
messiah, God
sent
They attack,
with the same
purpose, even
the figure of
the pioneer
Olympio Teles de
Menezes, naming
him Catholic-Spiritist.
The hoards in
the dense
regions are
powerful and get
“organized”,
once they have
as their goal,
the banishment
of Jesus from
Spiritualist
studies. Such
brethrens,
trapped by
astute knights
of the threshold
mists, attest
that Kardec
wrote the Gospel
in order to
pacify
theologians,
attempting an
approach to the
Church (believe
it or not!).
They get red
with anger when
reading Kardec,
who stated:
“Spiritualism is
a religion, and
we are proud of
it.” (4)
Besides
that, the Spirit
St. Louis warns
that “spirits
don’t subvert
religion, as
some intend to.
On the contrary,
they confirm it,
sanction it
through
irrefutable
proof. In time,
the number of
sincere
believers will
be much larger.”(5)
The master of
Lyon assures
that
“Spiritualism
lies upon the
fundamental
basis of
religion and
respects all
beliefs; one of
its effects is
to infuse
religious
feelings in
those who don’t
have them, and
strengthen them
in those who
have them
faltering”.
(6)
For the heralds
of the
anti-religion,
who affirm that
“Jesus is an
archetype shaped
in the
collective
consciousness”,
we remind that
the master of
Galilee was the
manifestation of
the love of God,
the
personification
of His kindness.
And for Kardec,
the notable
pedagogue and
scholar from
Lyon, Christ was
a superior
Spirit, of the
highest kind and
placed, for his
virtues, much
higher above
mankind on
Earth: “By the
immense results
he produced, his
incarnation in
this world by
force must have
been one of
those missions
in which the
Deity only
trusts his
direct
messengers, in
order to fulfill
his tasks. Even
without
supposing that
he was God
himself, but
merely sent by
God to transmit
His word to men,
he’d be more
than a prophet,
but a divine
Messiah”.(7)
Bibliographical
references:
(1)
Kardec, Allan. O
Evangelho
segundo o
Espiritismo, RJ:
Ed.
FEB, 2000, cap.
X, 20:21
(2)
Kardec, Allan.
Revista
Espírita,
fevereiro de
1862 - Resposta
dirigida aos
Espíritas
Lionenses por
ocasião do
Ano-Novo,
Brasília:
Edicel, 2001
(3)
Entrevistas com
Chico Xavier
disponíveis em
http://www.espirito.org.br/portal/artigos/diversos/religiao/espiritismo-sem-jesus.html
e http://www.meumundo.americaonline.com.br/eespirita/espiritismo_sem_jesus.htm
(4)
Kardec, Allan.
Revista
Espírita,
dezembro de
1868, discurso
de Kardec em
reunião pública
realizada na
noite de
01/11/1868, na
Sociedade
Parisiense de
Estudos
Espíritas,
Brasília:
Edicel, 2001
(5)
Kardec, Allan. O
Livro dos
Espíritos, RJ:
Ed.
FEB, 2002, perg.
1.010 (a)
(6)
Kardec, Allan.
O Livro dos
Médiuns RJ: Ed.
FEB, 2000,
Capítulo III, Do
Método, Item 24,
(7)
Kardec, Allan. A
Gênese, RJ: Ed.
FEB, 1998, XV,
item 2.
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