The Best Temple
God, Dear Lord, how your sacred name has been abused!
The name of God is like a gold mine, wherein all the clergymen of the world have exploited it at their pleasure.
Since ancient times, the name of God has served to terrorize the credulous, to attract the innocent beneath a priestly yoke, to dominate the ignorant, and seldom to demonstrate the truth.
What is the history of a religion? A collection of fables.
What are religions? In the beginning all were like crystalline lakes, which afterwards were changed into muddy pools, because enter the exploitation of human misery and, the most grand idea is reduced to a miraculous legend, a history of fantasies, and statutes which require temples or shrines, almost always near a spring. This is the sum total of all religions, and this sum total has no value at all. They are all zeros without unity, which form a quantity. Nothing from nothing!
Dear God, I adore You and Your immense works! If in contemplating the heavens above, I did not feel the very beat of my heart; if my mind did not germinate with the intuition of the existence of the immortal soul; if I, upon admiring the splendors of nature, could not serve you, as You illuminate all of Creation, like the suns radiate in infinite space; if I, did not feel Your Divine breath amidst the gentle perfume of wild flowers; and if I, did not realize that I exist, because You have created me, I would have lost all the faith which comforts me when I received those instructions from my church superiors.
The last letter that I received made my blood freeze. Among other things, it said the following:
“We are very disgusted with you because you have given our faithful church nothing. You are a soldier who is useless in sustaining our great cause. The only thing that you have done is to allow into the fold a few lost sheep, and it is also true that your parish has given the church nothing. When you entered your old church, it was falling apart, and you have added to its continued decay. Therefore, you are a terrible priest because the first thing that a vicar of Christ should do is to beautify the house of God. And, if the church is made of bricks, one should strive to have it made of stone, or if at all possible, the finest marble should be used in its construction, with statues of alabaster and columns of jasper to beautify its chapels. Rent should be charged for these houses of prayer, because there is nothing that cannot be obtained from the faithful, for the worship and in the service of God. And we repeat, we are very displeased with you, because you have not listened to the voices of the people or, the call of the Almighty.”
“You have a miraculous spring near the church and those beneficial waters are a sign from God given to you all of you, that His house should be rebuilt. But, man’s indifference, including yours, has let it fall into ruins. It is the sacred place of prayer, the asylum of sinners, the blessed refuge of those in tribulation, and the only haven for the afflicted. Your church is falling apart, its ancient walls are in ruins, and you have allowed this because you do not love God. But, since you are likely sinning without realizing it, if you wish to enter into our good graces, tell your parishioners (and you won't be lying) that inspired ones of God have ordered you to rebuilt the house of the Almighty. Also, tell them (which is convenient) that you've had a revelation, and that you've received a promise that ‘the Spring of Health’ will give relief to the sick of this village and, to all those that come to this sanctuary in pilgrimage, because God gives, one hundred to one, to those who remember Him.”
“In this way, you will be serving God and the world, because you will be giving life to this small parish; for instead of a place of pilgrimage it will convert into a place of recreation and, under the protecting shadow of religion, a wasteland will have been transformed into a garden, an uncultivated land into an oasis, because with the grace of God, boulders soften and hard rock can be converted into porous earth.”
“Do as we command, otherwise we will be obligated to declare you a terrible servant of God, something which in reality you already are, because you do nothing to profit our Saintly Cause,” they said.
I do nothing to profit your Saintly Cause, Dear God? This is what my superiors say. But perchance, do You need help from men or, is it men who cannot live without Your assistance?
Does the Maker of all creation need mankind to glorify Him or, does His own creation alone glorify Him enough?
Every letter has need of a reply and so, I responded to my superiors as follows:
“Sirs, you accuse me of being a terrible servant of God, but you start with a false premise, because only tyrants have servants. Since God loves all his children without any exception, He cannot have servants, since He has never been a tyrant. God does not want men on their knees in blissful inactivity, He wants them on their feet, looking towards the infinite.”
“You say that I've allowed the old church of my parish to begin feeling the sickness of decrepitude and its black walls tremble with the cold of hundreds of winters. You say that I do not take care of the house of the Lord...! But, what need does the Creator have of these dark hovels, when His house is the Universe?”
“What better temple could one want but all of Creation? For lamps, there are suns. For altars there worlds. Birds sing hymns of praise. The flowers are most beautiful, better than incense, and offering their enchanting perfumes. The green grass is the most beautiful of all carpets. The ocean shores are the best places for prayers. The ocean is the best monastery because their navigators are the monks who get the closest to God. Of what use are houses of brick, for in His house are the innumerable worlds, which circle eternally throughout infinite space? The temples of the earth are as fragile as everything else on this planet. I will take not one step to rebuild the church for you, because under your roof man still feels cold.”
“Christ chose the tops of mountains and fragile boats to preach His sermons, and in doing so, He wanted to prove to us that the cathedral for the saintly spirit, does not have need of any privileged place to announce to man the reign of Truth in the epoch of Justice. It is enough that there be apostles of the Gospel. There is no need for houses of stone nor other similar places for prayer. What is needed is men of faith who have fire in their hearts and love illuminating their souls. But, these type of spirits are useful only to themselves, not to God. God needs nothing from man. When has light needed a shadow? When has the ocean asked for water from the heavens? When have worlds needed one grain of sand? How is it then, that God, Who is Greater than anything created, have any need of men on earth to forcefully give Him adoration?”
“He that has everything, needs nothing from no one. Do not ask for houses for God, otherwise you will look as crazed as one who wants to save the rays of the sun in a basket!”
“Do not wait for me to take one step towards rebuilding my old church because I'm busy building more durable temples. Do you know what they are? They are the spirits of my parishioners, the souls of these simple villagers, who will be returning to earth as many times as is needed for the progress of their souls. I teach them to love God above all else, and others as themselves. I prepare them for the spiritual life, and talk to them about the hereafter. Not the one that the church teaches, but the one that conforms to our sense of reason. I initiate them into the mysteries of immortality, I talk to them of spirit life, that beautiful reality.”
“I teach them to say their prayers in the valleys, in the hills, and in the depths of abysses. I want them to say their prayers when they gather in their homes, when they nourish their bodies, when they get ready for sleep, and when they awaken to go to work. I make them think of God constantly and my flock do not pray with only their lips, they pray with their thoughts and from their heart, fixed on goodness. This is why they have no need of a church to pray, because each one of them has a temple within their heart.”
“Believe me, sirs, the mission of a priest is to educate mankind for the future, not for the present. We know this, as we are the initiated ones, because our life is one of contemplation and study, and we've been able to hear the voices of those who departed to the afterlife and we know that souls live on, and that temples of stone are not the favorite places of the Lord.”
“God has no preferences. He created humanity to progress and leaves us free to do so.”
“The times have arrived! The Spirits of light are incarnating on earth, and we, the vicars of Christ, are the ones charged with preparing mankind for the new age. We have the light of Truth, let's not hide it under a basket, because tomorrow we will be asked to give an accounting of the uses we have made with our knowledge. You want to pass off as something miraculous, the humble spring that goes through my village. You propose an infamous deception and I will not serve to unite such a noble cause with a scheme so ruinous!”
“I will leave my village poor, very poor, but its inhabitants will bless me when they leave this place of darkness, and find themselves serene and tranquil, before all eternity.”
“I will, if I can, before I leave this valley of tears, build a house, but not for God, because He does not need one. I want it for the poor, for the troubled beggars, for the sick and elderly, for the orphan children, for all those who have debilitated bodies and a coldness within their souls.”
“Believe me, sirs, you are not going up a good path. A true priest should instruct his town, he should initiate them into the mysteries of life, he should present to them eternity such as it is. I am determined in fulfilling my mission, and neither your entreaties nor your threats will stop me from my noble pledge.”
“Do what you want. Destroy my body, which is all you can do; for my spirit will remain, and there will be always someone with whom I can communicate to here on earth, so I can continue saying, what I'm saying today, that ‘the best temple of God is all Creation.’”
So, this is what I told them. What will they do with me? I do not know. If they take my life, they will practically be doing me a favor. That way I will see her much faster... the pale girl, with the black curls! Forgive me, God, I am being selfish, I’m forgetting the poor of my parish! How ungrateful man is! He does not want to live to suite himself, when he should want to live for others!
Father Germain
Next chapter: 17
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Spirit
communication received by Yvonne
Limoges
Material life can be enjoyed in many ways but mankind always seems to find the ones that are the most destructive to their mind, body, and soul. Yes, you may enjoy what life in the material world has to offer but not in a way that harms you or others. This is not the proper way to use the physical body lent to you in this existence. The harm inflicted affects your perispirit and your soul and delays its spiritual, moral, and intellectual progression, which is the true purpose of material life. Moderation in all things is the key to living your life on this planet but some things are better not utilized at all.
Illicit drugs of all sorts, abuse of the passions, and gratuitous harm inflicted upon your physical body for perceived pleasure only brings out your animal natures and keeps you from spiritualizing yourself. These actions also attract droves of spirits who revel in encouraging you into further abuse, and eventually, if you continue, towards your own self-destruction, for these spirits can no longer satisfy their wants from the spirit world and use you as their instruments in trying to do so (in reality to no avail). This lack of true fulfillment on their part further pushes them into incessantly prodding those in the material world to obsessively pursue all sorts of vices and passions. Those in the material world become entrapped, not only by the drugs and/or other addictions and passions they feel they need to make themselves happy, but become as puppets under the control of these types of spirits in the spirit world as well.
These harmful so-called pleasures are illusions in the search for true happiness inherent in all spirits, but these kinds of desires become a destructive addiction and obsession that can never truly satisfy your inner souls. One becomes involved in a harmful cycle that can be very, very difficult to break, although your spirit protectors try very hard to help you.
Mankind has freewill and God Helps those who help themselves. Great effort and prayer are needed for those entangled within the webs of these very material and physical addictions that are really deceptions for true fun, enjoyment, and happiness. You must realize that drugs, the abuse of the passions, and gratuitous harm to the physical body causes health problems now, as you grow older, and is like a slow form of suicide. This affects your soul tremendously!
You need to detach yourself from such devastating wants, desires, and behaviors. Find the fun you seek and those momentary joys in life in those things that do not cause you harm or, suffer the terrible consequences. Destructive behaviors affect you in such a way that they keep you from fulfilling your debts, duties, and the missions you had planned to accomplish in the material world. If you do not fulfill them, you will have wasted your material lifetime, and you may return to the spirit world as one of those spirits yourself, who are tortured by their material and physical wants which can never be satisfied!
True happiness can only come through fulfilling ones obligations, performing good deeds, and having a clear conscience that creates an inner spiritual solace, and, in those special times and events that are of rather short duration in a person’s life on your earth, because it is a planet of tests and atonements. When you have raised yourselves enough overall, both spiritually and morally, you will transform this planet into a much better world where your soul will find such happiness inconceivable to you now!
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INTERVIEW
WITH DIVALDO FRANCO IN THE UNITED KINGDOM
Interview
with Divaldo Franco at the end
of his activities with BUSS, in the UK, on the 15th June 2005.
Q 1 – Divaldo, we notice there has been an awakening from humankind to the spiritual side of life, to what do you attribute that?
A 1 – Science and technology have resolved numerous problems of the human mind but has not yet found an answer to the problem of peace. Modern man, who has gone to the galaxies and to the micro-particles, has not yet succeed in going into the core of feelings. Modern cultures have established aims through immediatism, which once reached they lose importance. That is why those beings, who adventure into a journey about reincarnation in our days, feel a great emptiness in their hearts, longing for eternity. In this way, according to their personal levels of consciousness, human beings are searching for spiritual answers as well as going towards immortality. This is the fundamental reason for the large search for spiritualism, in all of its denominations, on earth today.
Q 2 – Mediumship is also within Spiritualism, so what is its purpose in general?
A 2a – It is only through the mediumistic phenomena that we can have the scientific proof of the immortality of the soul. Orthodox religions from the past and some from the present have removed the gifts attributed to human beings by the apostle Paul and also mentioned by Jesus when he affirmed that we could do everything he did if we only had faith. Thus, mediumship’s essential objective is to prove the death of those who left Earth is not the end of life.
A2b – Mediumship’s main purpose is to give the spirits the opportunity for communicating, thus, giving evidence of their survival after their memorial services. It has always been present throughout history, as prophecies, in the revelations of the sibyls, in the hierophants, mediums via which the spirits have always given communication. Thanks to Allan Kardec, mediumship has acquired “cultural citizenship” becoming an instrument by which the life that remains after the grave may be studied in laboratory.
Q 3 – How does it occur?
A 3 – According to Allan Kardec we all have the capabilities for mediumship. Some are called obvious mediums, those in which mediumship appears without previous notice. Others are called natural mediums, those that Charles Richet, called the sixth sense; the vibratory loop in which once leaving material senses one goes into the phenomenon of a supernatural nature. Its education, similarly to that of intelligence or memory, is achieved by exercising the knowledge of its functions, by deep contemplations, by meditation and prayer.
Q 4- Are there special techniques to acquire mediumship?
A 4 – When mediumship does not happen spontaneously, each one of us can exercise inner concentration, which by bringing our thoughts deep into the core of our beings, enable us to capture paraphysical vibrations. As it happens, we slowly have our fields of perception amplified until the phenomenon becomes obvious and more vigorous. Therefore, it is through exercising it that we educate mediumship and amplify its possibilities. We can employ a technique, particularly in the Spiritist mediumship, which demands from us an inner reform by adopting the postulates of Jesus to better synchronise with high spirits.
Q 5 – How can we know whether a spiritual attachment is a disorientated mediumship?
A 5 – In the roots of every spiritual attachment there is a spirit in debt. In order to have a spiritual attachment, one needs to have a mediumistic faculty. It can be a well tuned intuition allowing the adversary’s telepathy, or a clairaudience where the spirit can attach itself to the perspirit of the patient, so transmitting the sensations compatible to its condition; ill-feeling, vengeance or compensation for the wrong suffered in the past, which always is madness. That is why it is said that in the tormented mediumship there usually is a spiritual attachment, and that spiritual attachments happen when the spiritual adversary can interfere due to a mediumistic faculty not yet disciplined.
Q 6 – What is your advice in how to deal with Spiritual Attachment for those people who observe such phenomena within their families?
A 6 – Allan Kardec in the “Mediums’ Book”, chapter 23, reassures us that the best treatment for liberation from the afflictions is, prayer accompanied by patience and charitable actions, which give the person merits to compensate for the wrong done in the past. Patience with the disturbing entity is needed in order to show that the person has changed. Meanwhile, between the crime and the retaliation there has been a huge moral transformation. Of course, the family can get together to study the Gospel and to pray, what is of salutary importance. Spiritism employs yet another tool of great importance; specific and therapeutic mediumistic works called Spiritual Release. Here the spiritual enemy presents itself and receives guidance compatible to its own happiness, being induced to let go the person believed to be its adversary and to leave the matter to be resolved by the Divine Law, since it is not his/her assignment to ask for compensation. Once it is understood that by doing wrong the spirit is harming itself, the spirit gives up and when it happens the patient recovers. However, the patient needs to retract from the wrong doing and from a careless life engaged in mistakes and disturbances, to prevent the worst.
Q 7 – Is it possible to receive guidance from the Spiritual Guide to keep away the harassing spirits?
A 7 – There is no doubt, as the Spiritual Guides are the mentors of our existences. These are elevated entities who have been accompanying us for a long time with the responsibility of working with us towards our progress. They know our past as well as the past of those who come in their personal search for justice. Their advices are efficient and must be followed since due to their words and guidance the person can get a faster rehabilitation and the adversary can give up its intent more rapidly.
Q 8 – What is the reason for them to persecute the incarnated ones?
A 8 – Allan Kardec heard from the Spirits themselves that it can be due to envy, spitefulness, sorrow, resentment or hate for events from this or from past lives. We must keep in mind the spirits that communicate with us are the souls of those who lived on Earth and have transferred themselves to another vibration loop while keeping their habits and intentions. If they were less developed, they remain ignorant; if they were perverse, they remain cruel, if gentle, good and noble they remain elevated. That is why in the classification of Spirits, there are the inferiors and the superiors. The inferiors compound the large majority of the unhappy, disturbed and disturbing, hateful and etc. Thus, they persecute us due to their inability to forget the wrong we caused them; other times because they envy our existences and also because they find in us the psychological resonance that allows their disturbing mental waves to reach us.
Q 9 – Divaldo, can you tell us what are your mediumistic faculties and which ones you use most in favour of Spiritism?
A 9 – We all have variable mediumistic faculties. In time one or another prevail as more useful to the assignments we work on. In my case, the first manifestations were audio and visual during childhood. Later on, due to a spiritual attachment with my own brother, I started to have physical phenomena. After starting to study Spiritism the phenomena of automatic-writing and clairaudience became active, followed by other physical phenomena, including releasing of aroma from the physical body. Currently, the most constant are clairvoyance, clairaudience, trance and automatic-writing. Indeed, one gift complements the other in the work of disseminating the Spiritist Doctrine.
Q 10 – We were told that you have received more than 200 books, how is the process of receiving so many books through automatic-writing?
A 10 – Taking into consideration the little time I can dispose of, when I was working full-time, 8 hours per day, and now after retirement when the number of trips have increased, more than 200 days per year, it was needed to come up with a very strict timetable. Some books are collections of messages which I receive in mediumistic sessions in our group, where we have a specific session of letters from the beyond, in the presence of the public. Others are the result of Joanna De Angelis inviting spiritual friends during my trips, to discuss on themes that have been in discussion that night under a different angle and we start putting together the books under the guidance of this generous entity. For books which are revelations from the beyond such as the works of Manoel Philomeno de Miranda, the romances of Victor Hugo, the books of Amelia Rodrigues, we reserve several days when I am not travelling so I can devote 16 to 18 hours per day only to receiving such books; and thanks to God, in only 20 to 28 days the benefactors manage to write a book that is soon published.
Q 11 – How many Spirits have written through your mediumship?
A 11 – Dr. Washington Luis Nogueira Fernandes, who has been my biographer and putting together statistics for my activities, based on the documentation I keep, counted 263 which have already been published. However, as I have received letters from the beyond to people who for obvious reasons, do not published them, I believe I have received from more than 400 Spirits.
Q 12 – Recently, at the 4th World Spiritist Congress in Paris, in 2004, you received by automatic-writing a message in mirror-fashion way in French in front of an audience of 1,800 people. Does it happen often?
A 12 – No. My first experience was in a TV programme in the city of Uberaba in Brazil, when I received the title of “Citizen of Uberaba”. In the day following the ceremony, a programme called “The Anvil” simply because at the programme it was as if the guests were hit with anvils by the questions of the interviewers. Amongst them were the materialist, the university professor and famous personalities who interviewed me in a hot debate. At the end, the programme’s mediator asked me if I could perform some automatic-writing. I explained to him that it did not depend on me, but as I saw my mentor Joanna De Angelis, I agreed to try. To my surprise a message came in English in a mirror-fashion way. The surprise was total, Chico Xavier, who was still incarnated, told me later on that he had followed the programme on TV. Later in life, in a small gathering at the house of Mr. Haddad, at the Ellon College, in North Carolina, I received another message via automatic-writing. Later on, it happened again in a church in San Antonio, Texas, during a meeting organised by Dr. John Zerio, again the message was received in English. The case you mentioned in Paris, last year, was a surprise. Even though, I had received linear messages in French, Italian and even in Arabic, which originals we keep with care.
Q 13 – You have written many books of a psychological theme that are utilised by many students of psychology. What is the position of Science in regards to mediumistic works?
A 14 - Thanks to Transpersonal Psychology there is nowadays a most dignified view of the works coming from beyond due to the view and observation of researchers. When Joanna De Angelis started writing a psychological series of 12 books in total, it caught me by surprise and I asked her how having she disembodied in 1822 could she write about contemporary issues, refers to authors and writers, psychologists, psychoanalysts, psychiatrists of the 20th Century. She, in the clarity of her reasoning, explained to me that knowledge comes from the spiritual world to the material world, not the other way round. Joanna had not been an academic psychologist, but in the spiritual world many of those who came to Earth bringing psychology were with her and others debating themes and putting together concepts. Those reincarnated on Earth under hers and the group’s assistance. When they returned to the spiritual world, they were evaluated, comments were made and other missionaries of the thought came to Earth. In this way Joanna is very familiar, especially with the theory of Karl Gustave Jung, since he opened in his deep psychology a wider possibility to Transpersonal Psychology. The wish of our dear benefactor is to have a “bridge” between Psychology and Spiritism, showing that Allan Kardec was the first non-academic psychologist, as he penetrated in the heart of human conflicts and offered adequate answers and more edifying therapies. Thus, nowadays, psychologists, not only the ones specialised in transpersonal therapies, examine mediumistic workings and, with the understanding exceptions, accept it. There are some, in Brazil, that are adopting some of the works of Joanna De Angelis in their university’ courses as well as groups of psychologists studying her works. I have received the names of more than 30 Spiritist Institutions who kindly informed me that they are studying Joanna De Angelis under the orientation of psychologists.
Q 14 – Please tell us about the Educational Institution you founded and preside in Brazil and how can someone pay a visit.
A 15 – The “Mansion of the Way” is a sui generis experience which was born out of a psychic vision I had in 1949 and was established, according to the models of that time, as a home for orphaned children. In 1952 we had the inauguration but it was in 1955 that a friend found the plot of land I had seen in my psychic vision and where we are up to today. It was due to hard efforts that we acquired half of that plot of land and later on the rest of it, and built this sui generis work, these were the first substitute homes in Latin America. A community of houses, each house having 8 children of both sexes, to diminish the enchantment of sexual torments so common in those times. As these were abandoned children with no parents, we kept the father image in the persons of Nilson and me, as well as, having an “aunt” in each home. We avoid using the titles of mother and father in order not to break the bloodline ties, so we are all uncles and aunts, as if they were all orphans from our own families being transferred to our homes. We had up to 125 children at one time. To give a better service we created a community, first with a crèche, then a kindergarten, then a fundamental school and later the technical schools. Around 1982 Joanna De Angelis, the mentor, told us that such method was not compatible with the view of modern psycho-pedagogy in the view of the fact that to take children away from their environment was to give them an artificial world because at a certain point the children would have to go back to their own roots and to their society and in such closed environment they were being over-protected. It was not possible to have an open environment since we would need security and it would be anti-psychological. Therefore the work needed to be expanded; the child would arrive in the morning having the day with us and coming back to their families in the evening. Even in the case of the orphans, there is always a member of the extended family, an uncle, a grandmother, and we would be responsible for their maintenance but at their own homes. Thus, we finished the substitute homes as the children in there grew up by not replacing them. Nowadays we have 3,190 children and youngsters who arrive at 7a.m. for the breakfast, mid-morning lunch, lunch, mid-afternoon lunch and the youngest ones get dinner before going back home. As we observed that the neighbourhood is in great need, all children take bread, coffee and milk back home. This is a way to reach the family who is in need as well. In this way, our children get into our crèches when they are 2 months old and leave at 2+ years old, then they go to kindergarten to learn how to read and write, and soon after, they enter the Fundamental School. As our neighbourhood is a needy one, we have a Medical Centre attending from 400 to 500 people a day. The Medical Centre has 14 doctors, 2 dentists, a laboratory for clinical analyses and we try to give all the prescribed medicines for free since the biggest problem is hunger. If people have no money to buy food they have even less to pay for medicines. And because there are too many pains, we also attend 92 HIV sufferers as well as victims of tuberculosis and leprosy. We attend 250 families who live below the poverty line and 150 upgraded. The later refers to the families which their children are under our care and whose parents need to work. We pay their rents, we give them a basic pack of food for the week and take care of their children but the parents have to go to work. After 6 months under such assistance they are socially upgraded and give their place to another family. In this way, we have a net of help for almost 5,000 people per day. From the Spiritist side, we have fraternal help given everyday from 9am to 11am and from 2pm to 5pm. We have 5 public meetings; meetings for spiritist studies, public talks and evangelisation lessons for the children and teenagers on Sundays. We have 8 mediumistic sessions in different days of the week in different rooms at the same time; we try to be ready to help those in need every time there is a problem. We have a team of visitors because sometimes someone gets ill and needs a friendly word, a magnetic or a bio-energetic treatment. They give us a call and we send the request to the department which send someone to pay that person a visit. The community is large and we have more than 400 volunteers, 200 paid workers, 7 kitchens to meet such a large requests for food. Any person arriving in Salvador, Bahia, and wishing to visit can call 3393 2018; and will be very welcome during weekdays between 8 to 11a.m. and 2 to 5p.m. by a Reception Committee who gives information and leads guided tours.
Q 15 – Would you like to say anything else?
A 16 – I am not sure if I mentioned receiving messages in Italian and German. I have two messages in German, one in public and the other while in Salvador, to the Engineer Andre Studer who published the message in the book, “Manur”, he was writing. It was a curious situation because Andre Studer is a very dear soul, a great friend and benefactor. One day Joanna De Angelis came and said she wanted to send him a message, which I thought would be in Portuguese. She wrote in ancient German about a book he was writing which only him and his wife knew about, nobody else did. I sent him the message not knowing the contents of it and later on he confided me that it was the biggest evidence of the excellence of his book and of mediumship. He knows I do not speak German and that I did not know about his book. He included in the book how the message came to him, who is Joanna De Angelis, etc. I have received a message in Italian at the Comunità Vita Nuova in Milan, Italy, from Ernesto Bozzano who wrote in Italian during a meeting surprising all people present. Soon after I received another one intended to Mr Antonio Rosa Spina, then President but disembodied nowadays.
Interview by Elsa Rossi
Translated into English: Elsa de Almeida
Revision: Publio Lentulus
Q 1 – Divaldo, we notice there has been an awakening from humankind to the spiritual side of life, to what do you attribute that?
A 1 – Science and technology have resolved numerous problems of the human mind but has not yet found an answer to the problem of peace. Modern man, who has gone to the galaxies and to the micro-particles, has not yet succeed in going into the core of feelings. Modern cultures have established aims through immediatism, which once reached they lose importance. That is why those beings, who adventure into a journey about reincarnation in our days, feel a great emptiness in their hearts, longing for eternity. In this way, according to their personal levels of consciousness, human beings are searching for spiritual answers as well as going towards immortality. This is the fundamental reason for the large search for spiritualism, in all of its denominations, on earth today.
Q 2 – Mediumship is also within Spiritualism, so what is its purpose in general?
A 2a – It is only through the mediumistic phenomena that we can have the scientific proof of the immortality of the soul. Orthodox religions from the past and some from the present have removed the gifts attributed to human beings by the apostle Paul and also mentioned by Jesus when he affirmed that we could do everything he did if we only had faith. Thus, mediumship’s essential objective is to prove the death of those who left Earth is not the end of life.
A2b – Mediumship’s main purpose is to give the spirits the opportunity for communicating, thus, giving evidence of their survival after their memorial services. It has always been present throughout history, as prophecies, in the revelations of the sibyls, in the hierophants, mediums via which the spirits have always given communication. Thanks to Allan Kardec, mediumship has acquired “cultural citizenship” becoming an instrument by which the life that remains after the grave may be studied in laboratory.
Q 3 – How does it occur?
A 3 – According to Allan Kardec we all have the capabilities for mediumship. Some are called obvious mediums, those in which mediumship appears without previous notice. Others are called natural mediums, those that Charles Richet, called the sixth sense; the vibratory loop in which once leaving material senses one goes into the phenomenon of a supernatural nature. Its education, similarly to that of intelligence or memory, is achieved by exercising the knowledge of its functions, by deep contemplations, by meditation and prayer.
Q 4- Are there special techniques to acquire mediumship?
A 4 – When mediumship does not happen spontaneously, each one of us can exercise inner concentration, which by bringing our thoughts deep into the core of our beings, enable us to capture paraphysical vibrations. As it happens, we slowly have our fields of perception amplified until the phenomenon becomes obvious and more vigorous. Therefore, it is through exercising it that we educate mediumship and amplify its possibilities. We can employ a technique, particularly in the Spiritist mediumship, which demands from us an inner reform by adopting the postulates of Jesus to better synchronise with high spirits.
Q 5 – How can we know whether a spiritual attachment is a disorientated mediumship?
A 5 – In the roots of every spiritual attachment there is a spirit in debt. In order to have a spiritual attachment, one needs to have a mediumistic faculty. It can be a well tuned intuition allowing the adversary’s telepathy, or a clairaudience where the spirit can attach itself to the perspirit of the patient, so transmitting the sensations compatible to its condition; ill-feeling, vengeance or compensation for the wrong suffered in the past, which always is madness. That is why it is said that in the tormented mediumship there usually is a spiritual attachment, and that spiritual attachments happen when the spiritual adversary can interfere due to a mediumistic faculty not yet disciplined.
Q 6 – What is your advice in how to deal with Spiritual Attachment for those people who observe such phenomena within their families?
A 6 – Allan Kardec in the “Mediums’ Book”, chapter 23, reassures us that the best treatment for liberation from the afflictions is, prayer accompanied by patience and charitable actions, which give the person merits to compensate for the wrong done in the past. Patience with the disturbing entity is needed in order to show that the person has changed. Meanwhile, between the crime and the retaliation there has been a huge moral transformation. Of course, the family can get together to study the Gospel and to pray, what is of salutary importance. Spiritism employs yet another tool of great importance; specific and therapeutic mediumistic works called Spiritual Release. Here the spiritual enemy presents itself and receives guidance compatible to its own happiness, being induced to let go the person believed to be its adversary and to leave the matter to be resolved by the Divine Law, since it is not his/her assignment to ask for compensation. Once it is understood that by doing wrong the spirit is harming itself, the spirit gives up and when it happens the patient recovers. However, the patient needs to retract from the wrong doing and from a careless life engaged in mistakes and disturbances, to prevent the worst.
Q 7 – Is it possible to receive guidance from the Spiritual Guide to keep away the harassing spirits?
A 7 – There is no doubt, as the Spiritual Guides are the mentors of our existences. These are elevated entities who have been accompanying us for a long time with the responsibility of working with us towards our progress. They know our past as well as the past of those who come in their personal search for justice. Their advices are efficient and must be followed since due to their words and guidance the person can get a faster rehabilitation and the adversary can give up its intent more rapidly.
Q 8 – What is the reason for them to persecute the incarnated ones?
A 8 – Allan Kardec heard from the Spirits themselves that it can be due to envy, spitefulness, sorrow, resentment or hate for events from this or from past lives. We must keep in mind the spirits that communicate with us are the souls of those who lived on Earth and have transferred themselves to another vibration loop while keeping their habits and intentions. If they were less developed, they remain ignorant; if they were perverse, they remain cruel, if gentle, good and noble they remain elevated. That is why in the classification of Spirits, there are the inferiors and the superiors. The inferiors compound the large majority of the unhappy, disturbed and disturbing, hateful and etc. Thus, they persecute us due to their inability to forget the wrong we caused them; other times because they envy our existences and also because they find in us the psychological resonance that allows their disturbing mental waves to reach us.
Q 9 – Divaldo, can you tell us what are your mediumistic faculties and which ones you use most in favour of Spiritism?
A 9 – We all have variable mediumistic faculties. In time one or another prevail as more useful to the assignments we work on. In my case, the first manifestations were audio and visual during childhood. Later on, due to a spiritual attachment with my own brother, I started to have physical phenomena. After starting to study Spiritism the phenomena of automatic-writing and clairaudience became active, followed by other physical phenomena, including releasing of aroma from the physical body. Currently, the most constant are clairvoyance, clairaudience, trance and automatic-writing. Indeed, one gift complements the other in the work of disseminating the Spiritist Doctrine.
Q 10 – We were told that you have received more than 200 books, how is the process of receiving so many books through automatic-writing?
A 10 – Taking into consideration the little time I can dispose of, when I was working full-time, 8 hours per day, and now after retirement when the number of trips have increased, more than 200 days per year, it was needed to come up with a very strict timetable. Some books are collections of messages which I receive in mediumistic sessions in our group, where we have a specific session of letters from the beyond, in the presence of the public. Others are the result of Joanna De Angelis inviting spiritual friends during my trips, to discuss on themes that have been in discussion that night under a different angle and we start putting together the books under the guidance of this generous entity. For books which are revelations from the beyond such as the works of Manoel Philomeno de Miranda, the romances of Victor Hugo, the books of Amelia Rodrigues, we reserve several days when I am not travelling so I can devote 16 to 18 hours per day only to receiving such books; and thanks to God, in only 20 to 28 days the benefactors manage to write a book that is soon published.
Q 11 – How many Spirits have written through your mediumship?
A 11 – Dr. Washington Luis Nogueira Fernandes, who has been my biographer and putting together statistics for my activities, based on the documentation I keep, counted 263 which have already been published. However, as I have received letters from the beyond to people who for obvious reasons, do not published them, I believe I have received from more than 400 Spirits.
Q 12 – Recently, at the 4th World Spiritist Congress in Paris, in 2004, you received by automatic-writing a message in mirror-fashion way in French in front of an audience of 1,800 people. Does it happen often?
A 12 – No. My first experience was in a TV programme in the city of Uberaba in Brazil, when I received the title of “Citizen of Uberaba”. In the day following the ceremony, a programme called “The Anvil” simply because at the programme it was as if the guests were hit with anvils by the questions of the interviewers. Amongst them were the materialist, the university professor and famous personalities who interviewed me in a hot debate. At the end, the programme’s mediator asked me if I could perform some automatic-writing. I explained to him that it did not depend on me, but as I saw my mentor Joanna De Angelis, I agreed to try. To my surprise a message came in English in a mirror-fashion way. The surprise was total, Chico Xavier, who was still incarnated, told me later on that he had followed the programme on TV. Later in life, in a small gathering at the house of Mr. Haddad, at the Ellon College, in North Carolina, I received another message via automatic-writing. Later on, it happened again in a church in San Antonio, Texas, during a meeting organised by Dr. John Zerio, again the message was received in English. The case you mentioned in Paris, last year, was a surprise. Even though, I had received linear messages in French, Italian and even in Arabic, which originals we keep with care.
Q 13 – You have written many books of a psychological theme that are utilised by many students of psychology. What is the position of Science in regards to mediumistic works?
A 14 - Thanks to Transpersonal Psychology there is nowadays a most dignified view of the works coming from beyond due to the view and observation of researchers. When Joanna De Angelis started writing a psychological series of 12 books in total, it caught me by surprise and I asked her how having she disembodied in 1822 could she write about contemporary issues, refers to authors and writers, psychologists, psychoanalysts, psychiatrists of the 20th Century. She, in the clarity of her reasoning, explained to me that knowledge comes from the spiritual world to the material world, not the other way round. Joanna had not been an academic psychologist, but in the spiritual world many of those who came to Earth bringing psychology were with her and others debating themes and putting together concepts. Those reincarnated on Earth under hers and the group’s assistance. When they returned to the spiritual world, they were evaluated, comments were made and other missionaries of the thought came to Earth. In this way Joanna is very familiar, especially with the theory of Karl Gustave Jung, since he opened in his deep psychology a wider possibility to Transpersonal Psychology. The wish of our dear benefactor is to have a “bridge” between Psychology and Spiritism, showing that Allan Kardec was the first non-academic psychologist, as he penetrated in the heart of human conflicts and offered adequate answers and more edifying therapies. Thus, nowadays, psychologists, not only the ones specialised in transpersonal therapies, examine mediumistic workings and, with the understanding exceptions, accept it. There are some, in Brazil, that are adopting some of the works of Joanna De Angelis in their university’ courses as well as groups of psychologists studying her works. I have received the names of more than 30 Spiritist Institutions who kindly informed me that they are studying Joanna De Angelis under the orientation of psychologists.
Q 14 – Please tell us about the Educational Institution you founded and preside in Brazil and how can someone pay a visit.
A 15 – The “Mansion of the Way” is a sui generis experience which was born out of a psychic vision I had in 1949 and was established, according to the models of that time, as a home for orphaned children. In 1952 we had the inauguration but it was in 1955 that a friend found the plot of land I had seen in my psychic vision and where we are up to today. It was due to hard efforts that we acquired half of that plot of land and later on the rest of it, and built this sui generis work, these were the first substitute homes in Latin America. A community of houses, each house having 8 children of both sexes, to diminish the enchantment of sexual torments so common in those times. As these were abandoned children with no parents, we kept the father image in the persons of Nilson and me, as well as, having an “aunt” in each home. We avoid using the titles of mother and father in order not to break the bloodline ties, so we are all uncles and aunts, as if they were all orphans from our own families being transferred to our homes. We had up to 125 children at one time. To give a better service we created a community, first with a crèche, then a kindergarten, then a fundamental school and later the technical schools. Around 1982 Joanna De Angelis, the mentor, told us that such method was not compatible with the view of modern psycho-pedagogy in the view of the fact that to take children away from their environment was to give them an artificial world because at a certain point the children would have to go back to their own roots and to their society and in such closed environment they were being over-protected. It was not possible to have an open environment since we would need security and it would be anti-psychological. Therefore the work needed to be expanded; the child would arrive in the morning having the day with us and coming back to their families in the evening. Even in the case of the orphans, there is always a member of the extended family, an uncle, a grandmother, and we would be responsible for their maintenance but at their own homes. Thus, we finished the substitute homes as the children in there grew up by not replacing them. Nowadays we have 3,190 children and youngsters who arrive at 7a.m. for the breakfast, mid-morning lunch, lunch, mid-afternoon lunch and the youngest ones get dinner before going back home. As we observed that the neighbourhood is in great need, all children take bread, coffee and milk back home. This is a way to reach the family who is in need as well. In this way, our children get into our crèches when they are 2 months old and leave at 2+ years old, then they go to kindergarten to learn how to read and write, and soon after, they enter the Fundamental School. As our neighbourhood is a needy one, we have a Medical Centre attending from 400 to 500 people a day. The Medical Centre has 14 doctors, 2 dentists, a laboratory for clinical analyses and we try to give all the prescribed medicines for free since the biggest problem is hunger. If people have no money to buy food they have even less to pay for medicines. And because there are too many pains, we also attend 92 HIV sufferers as well as victims of tuberculosis and leprosy. We attend 250 families who live below the poverty line and 150 upgraded. The later refers to the families which their children are under our care and whose parents need to work. We pay their rents, we give them a basic pack of food for the week and take care of their children but the parents have to go to work. After 6 months under such assistance they are socially upgraded and give their place to another family. In this way, we have a net of help for almost 5,000 people per day. From the Spiritist side, we have fraternal help given everyday from 9am to 11am and from 2pm to 5pm. We have 5 public meetings; meetings for spiritist studies, public talks and evangelisation lessons for the children and teenagers on Sundays. We have 8 mediumistic sessions in different days of the week in different rooms at the same time; we try to be ready to help those in need every time there is a problem. We have a team of visitors because sometimes someone gets ill and needs a friendly word, a magnetic or a bio-energetic treatment. They give us a call and we send the request to the department which send someone to pay that person a visit. The community is large and we have more than 400 volunteers, 200 paid workers, 7 kitchens to meet such a large requests for food. Any person arriving in Salvador, Bahia, and wishing to visit can call 3393 2018; and will be very welcome during weekdays between 8 to 11a.m. and 2 to 5p.m. by a Reception Committee who gives information and leads guided tours.
Q 15 – Would you like to say anything else?
A 16 – I am not sure if I mentioned receiving messages in Italian and German. I have two messages in German, one in public and the other while in Salvador, to the Engineer Andre Studer who published the message in the book, “Manur”, he was writing. It was a curious situation because Andre Studer is a very dear soul, a great friend and benefactor. One day Joanna De Angelis came and said she wanted to send him a message, which I thought would be in Portuguese. She wrote in ancient German about a book he was writing which only him and his wife knew about, nobody else did. I sent him the message not knowing the contents of it and later on he confided me that it was the biggest evidence of the excellence of his book and of mediumship. He knows I do not speak German and that I did not know about his book. He included in the book how the message came to him, who is Joanna De Angelis, etc. I have received a message in Italian at the Comunità Vita Nuova in Milan, Italy, from Ernesto Bozzano who wrote in Italian during a meeting surprising all people present. Soon after I received another one intended to Mr Antonio Rosa Spina, then President but disembodied nowadays.
Interview by Elsa Rossi
Translated into English: Elsa de Almeida
Revision: Publio Lentulus
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The
Spiritist Association
of Health
Professionals
has the pleasure to present the following events:
has the pleasure to present the following events:
07th of September 2005 (Wednesday)
6.30pm - 7.45 pm – Dr. Marlene Nobre
Theme:
Pain and Spirituality- A new Perspective
7:45 pm - 8:00 Break
8.00 – 9.15pm – Dr. Sérgio Felipe De Oliveira
Theme:
Research into Diagnosis of Trance States
08th of September 2005 (Thursday)
6:30 pm -7:45 pm – Dr. Sérgio Felipe De Oliveira
Theme:
Neuroscience and Spirituality: Is there a connection?
7:45 pm – 8.00 pm Break
8.00 pm – 9.15 pm – Dr. Marlene Nobre
Theme:
Stress, Anxiety and Depression under Spiritual Scrutiny.
VENUE: 27, Harley Street W1 London UK
Entrance Fee: £10.00 per Seminar
Information: 07939591288 , Email: spiritist.associationuk@virgin.net
The Spiritist Society of Baltimore Presents
Workshop: Mediumship in You
with Jussara and João Kormgold
Jussara and João Korngold are the founders of the Spiritist Group of New York and the Spiritist Alliance for Books. They have a long experience with the spread of Spiritism worldwide. They train mediums and coordinate mediumship meetings. They have an easy and inspirational way of conducting workshops. Together, they have been responsible for the translation of important Spiritist
books. Jussara Korngold is author of the book "Spiritual and Magnetic Healing".
Saturday, September 17, 2005
7:30 PM to 9:00 PM
In this workshop, you will learn about:
- Mediumship in the light of Spiritism
- Guidelines for safety in its practice
- Orientation on how to work in disobsession
Location:
SPIRITWORKS Resource Center
1300 York Rd - Building C, Suite 300
LUTHERVILLE, MD 21093
Free Admission!!!
(No registration required)
This event is sponsored by the
Spiritist Society of Baltimore, Inc.
The SSB is an educational non-profit organization
For more information:
Phone: 410-382-5328
e-mail: ssb@ssbaltimore.org
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Workshop: The Spiritist View on the Catastrophes
with Raul Teixeira, PhD
Prof. Raul Teixeira is one of the greatest names behind the Spiritist Thought in the world today. Prof. Teixeira has spoken in more than 35 countries in Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas. Professor of Physics, Raul Teixeira also holds a Ph.D. in Education and has dedicated his life to the dissemination of Spiritism. Raul has 21 Spiritist books published, and continues to produce many mediumistic works through automatic writing.
Sunday, September 18th, 2005
5:00PM – 7:00PM
Location:
BWI Wingate Hotel
1510 Aero Drive
Linthicum, MD 21090
Directions
Take Route 295 toward BWI; take exit for West Nursery Road;make left at end of exit ramp onto
West Nursery Road; at second traffic light make a left onto International Drive; make
first left onto Aero Drive; hotel is two blocks on the left.
Love donation to help defray cost of event.
(No registration required)
Simultaneous translation will be provided.
Sponsored by
Spiritist Society of Baltimore
The SSB is an educational non-profit organization
&
United States Spiritist Council
For more information:
Phone: 410-382-5328
e-mail: ssb@ssbaltimore.org
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| Title | Wars and the Spirit-World |
| Date | October 29 |
| Starrt Time | 7:30 PM |
| Duration | 02 hour(s) 00 minutes(s) |
| Location | Baltimore, MD |
| Category | Workshop |
Workshop about Spiritism or on Spiritism's views of other topics, generally involving a forum for a healthy exchange of ideas by all participants.
Workshop will be held at the following address:
SpiritWorks Resource Center
1300 York Rd Building C Suite 3000
Luterville, MD 21093
For more information and driving directions, please visit www.ssbaltimore.org
* The Spiritist Society of Baltimore offers activities for children 4 and above while parents attend the workshop!
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| Title | The Family I Chose |
| Date | November 19 |
| Starrt Time | 7:30 PM |
| Duration | 02 hour(s) 00 minutes(s) |
| Location | Baltimore, MD |
| Category | Workshop |
Workshop about Spiritism or on Spiritism's views of other topics, generally involving a forum for a healthy exchange of ideas by all participants.
Workshop will be held at the following address:
SpiritWorks Resource Center
1300 York Rd Building C Suite 3000
Luterville, MD 21093
For more information and driving directions, please visit www.ssbaltimore.org
* The Spiritist Society of Baltimore offers activities for children 4 and above while parents attend the workshop!
| Title | The Christ Consciousness |
| Date | December 10 |
| Starrt Time | 7:30 PM |
| Duration | 02 hour(s) 00 minutes(s) |
| Location | Baltimore, MD |
| Category | Workshop |
Workshop about Spiritism or on Spiritism's views of other topics, generally involving a forum for a healthy exchange of ideas by all participants.
Workshop will be held at the following address:
SpiritWorks Resource Center
1300 York Rd Building C Suite 3000
Luterville, MD 21093
For more information and driving directions, please visit www.ssbaltimore.org
* The Spiritist Society of Baltimore offers activities for children 4 and above while parents attend the workshop!
Source: SpiritismOnline.Net
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The Spiritist Group of Brighton has launched another spiritist book in English "We are all Mediums" Received by Carlos A. Baccelli and dictated by the Spirit of Odilon Fernades. This book, which has written in a simple and objective language, is dedicated to those who are beginning their mediumistic development with the blessings of the Spiritist Doctrine.
Price in the UK £4.00
Europe ? 6.00
US $ 8.00
Prices above do not include posting & packaging
Orders can be done by telephone - 00 44 0 1323 895979 or via e-mail: publiolentulus@msn.com
More books in English by The Spiritist Group of Brighton
In the US : The Spiritist Group of New York or jkorngold@aol.com
Reproduced
fom the website of The Spiritist Group
of Brighton
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