Education is undergoing profound transformations. In the desire to improve the learning, pedagogy has developed methods and built resources to improve understanding of what is the core of learning and which, consequently, it will place the learner at the center of the solution, providing him with the use of these tools for the development of intelligence. 

Developing intelligence is important for the progress of the spirit, because firstly, it allows the one who develops intelligence to help his brother or sister. Then, so that the spirit itself develops faster, as can be interpreted in question 898 formulated by Allan Kardec in The Book of Spirits.

On the other hand, the development of intelligence is still not a guarantee of ethical-moral development. The individual may have a master's degree and doctorate and yet act like a troglodyte. 

It is always necessary to evoke the figure of common sense and that is why we resort to Camille Flammarion's speech, when he delivered, having the spoils of Kardec at his feet, in the Montmartre Cemetery (only later was he taken to the Père-Lachaise), the following thought: “Nobody is happy on Earth, where many affections are torn to pieces, where many souls have been poisoned by the skepticism."

Many educators, each in their profession, have developed intelligence, acquired with great effort the academic qualifications important for carrying out its activities (master's and doctorate), however, with the advancement in understanding of positivist methods, they let themselves be carried away and because they were still wavering spirits, got lost in the bureaucracies of materialist thinking, preponderant in universities. As a result, sensitivity to the moral teachings and even respect for differences were lost, reinforcing Flammarion's thought that no one is happy on Earth. Those who believe that Science dumbs people down become sad people. What indeed dumbs down is the predisposition of the spirit and combating it is fundamental. Phrase attributed to Louis Pasteur usefully translates this thought: “the more I study nature, the more I am amazed at the works of the Creator. Science draws me closer to God.”

It was like this, with understanding in the face of diversity, intellectual delicacy of many valuable professors, as we recognize the efforts made to achieve their worthy titles, which we interpret a post on the network social issue regarding “Chico Xavier and Africa”. They are sad people, who live on planet Earth lost between the protagonism of ignorance and anonymity in the midst of Christ.

The author of the publication appears to write, in his post, as we interpret it, with an ironic tone, bordering on lack of respect for the work produced by Francisco Cândido Xavier, when he describes him as “the saint of spiritists”. I am a spiritist and I never saw Chico Xavier as a saint, so the “saint of spiritists” is not a true qualification. We know many others who study the work of Chico Xavier, they know him deeply and that doesn't mean they see Chico Xavier like a saint. Are there spiritists who believe that Chico Xavier is a “saint”? No, I believe. Not a Spiritist. Saint is a definition of another religion. In Spiritism one learns that there are superior spirits and what characterizes and differentiates them from others is their moral evolution.

Moral evolution is the result of reincarnations. Therefore, it is possible to understand in the criticized text, “the great school”, that the spirit Emmanuel, through the psychography of Francisco Cândido Xavier, made an excerpt on primitive people, to expose that, in each epoch of evolution in which humanity finds itself, reincarnation is a “prize for the opportunity of learning".

Even though the author of the post may be classified among those who are not happy on Earth, it is possible to understand that his thoughts are the portrait of a moment in the face of evolution. Who among us has not differed or doubted or even dared to act with skepticism in the face of work that was based on truth, that which we understand differently?

If Emmanuel brought primitive people in Europe as an example, perhaps it would be completely ignored by the author of the post. In fact, it can be seen in the current affairs of the spiritist movement, people reading works in search of “doctrinal errors” with the purpose of invalidating the work of anyone. Be careful: serious researchers who investigated Spiritism in the desire to unmask the Spiritist Doctrine, became its greatest promoters! Returning to primitive people, in the Revista Espírita of 1867, there is a text by Camille Flammarion (look what a “coincidence” Flammarion is mentioned again!) which talks about the naked primitive savages, inhabitants of boreal latitudes, Denmark, Gaul, and Helvetia (the region of Central Europe between the Alps Swiss and the Jura Mountain range, according to Wikipedia).

Primitive people in Europe, over time, evolved into societies that exist today. The current society that exists in Europe today is the result of the reincarnation of spirits that possibly have already reincarnated in Africa, Asia, Oceania, and the Americas.

Current society in Africa is the result of the reincarnation of spirits that possibly already reincarnated in Europe, Asia, Oceania, and the Americas. And the primitives in Africa? 

The primitive people mentioned by Emmanuel were most important. And they did in fact exist. Ernesto Bozzano in the work “Primitive peoples and supranormal manifestations”, cites the thoughts of sociologists and anthropologists (E. B. Taylor, Grant Allen, Brinton, Goblet d'Alviella, Huxley and Herbert Spencer, to name just those cited in the introduction of the work), who reinforce the existence of primitive people not only in Africa, but in several places.

Is it wrong of Emmanuel to only mention primitive people from Africa? The author writes about what he understands to be the most appropriate to illustrate in context, however, the Philippines is not in Africa, yet it is also mentioned. The objective of the text is clear in terms of understanding that the Earth is a great educational institution and that each of these people has a role in the progress of humanity, including the sub-human races, primitive people that populated the planet.

The spiritual author explains each example cited:

- Sweet dwarfs from Abyssinia (Ethiopia) – they resembled monkeys due to the strange screams used as language.

- Kutcher – called “black brothers” by the spiritual author, they fed on rats to alleviate their own hunger and spent their days laying down on the ground.

- East Africans – among these people there was no moral connection between parents and children.

- Lacticians, interior of Africa – did not know feelings of compassion or duty.

- Remnants of the Philippines – “they roamed in the mountains, like undomesticated animals”.

- The botocudos – “terrible examples of brutality and ferocity”

These people were cited for demonstrating their primitiveness and not with prejudice or discrimination. “In the immense educational system, there are multiple and urgent tasks for all who learn that life is movement, progress, ascension”, comments Emmanuel in another part of the text.

And last but not least, the author of the social media post, quotes the expression used by Emmanuel “refined civilization” which already has the means to fly around the globe, “there are people who are found ‘infinitely distant from the moral world’. And that, ‘almost not differing from the irrational people’, were unable to develop the ‘minimum notion of responsibility'".

“Who are these people that Chico Xavier alludes to? They are Africans and the original Brazilian natives belonging to the macro-jê trunk.”

Emmanuel, when contextualizing primitive peoples, begins the sentence as follows: “If it is true that today’s refined civilization flies around the world in a few hours, characterized by the highest degrees of intelligence, we have millions of brothers and sisters infinitely distant from the moral world (...)”. The spiritual author uses a linguistic resource to highlight that the distance from the “moral world” occurs through primitive behavior, demonstrated above. This contextualization is not generic nor disrespectful. The refinement of a civilization is the civility that is observed in present-day Europe, for example: many people confuse, especially those who do not know or have not been there, the civil education of individuals with their moral evolution. There are differences.

Emmanuel still informs in the text that “each people, in the past or present, constitutes a preparatory section of Humanity, ahead of the future.” 

In view of everything that was presented, respecting intellectual development, merits, and titles of the author of the post, without making a judgment that his post could suggest ideological persecution, attribution of racism and prejudice in excerpts taken out of context, etc., was an excellent opportunity we had to learn about another text from the spirit Emmanuel by the psychography of Chico Xavier. I'm not an Emmanuelist, on the contrary, that's the reason we are very comfortable to comment on the texts.

Although we understand that posting is everyone's right, perhaps it would be prudent to evaluate how much hate, dissension and obsessive thoughts have taken over the spiritist movement in recent years, especially on the internet. The last elections highlighted the abyss that exists today, between those who put the Spiritist Doctrine first, those who use social issues to increase dissent, regardless of their political interest, to the detriment of the Doctrine. Maybe it's a good reflection, to practice charity towards the work of those who preceded us, regardless of whether or not you agree with its content. It would be so nice if we could rescue genuine fraternity among Spiritists, to create bridges between the divergent ideas, bellicose and pharisaic thoughts that today infest relationships between spiritists... I believe this is possible! 

“Truly I tell you, the time has come when all things must be reestablished in their true sense, to dispel the darkness, confound the proud and glorify the righteous.” (Spirit of Truth)