Consolador's
spiritual condition is the
primordial essence of
Spiritism
The thought contained in the
sentence above was expressed
by our interviewee this
week, professor and writer
Francisco Erionilton Ivo de
Sousa, from Fortaleza (CE),
where he was born and works
at the Francisco Spiritist
Studies House Society (Sociedade
de Estudos Espíritas Casa de
Francisco), in which he is
coordinator of the
activities that the
institution promotes. The
interview he kindly gave us
is one of the highlights of
this issue.
Another highlight is the
special O Espírita,
by Juan Carlos Orozco, a
Spiritist scholar based in
Brasília (DF). In his
article, he initially
explains why Allan Kardec
created the terms Spiritism
and spiritist, and then
explains important themes,
such as spiritist morals and
ethics and the position of
Spiritism as a philosophy of
life.
On August 1, 1865, a new
work by Allan Kardec, Heaven
and Hell, appeared in
Paris, whose main objective
is to explain Divine Justice
in the light of spiritist
teachings, as our writing
colleague Ana Moraes shows
us in an article that we
publish in this issue.
*
Last week, specifically on
August 4th, our esteemed
collaborator Humberto
Werdine Júnior, 72 years
old, returned to the
spiritual homeland. A miner
from Itajubá, Humberto was
married to Claudia Werdine
and the father of four
children. We send him and
his family our best vibes
and feelings from here, with
our gratitude for everything
he did to spread Spiritism
everywhere he lived,
especially in Europe, where
he lived for many years.
