“Spiritualism is a religion and we are proud of it”
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                JORGE HESSEN
                
                
                
                
                jorgehessen@gmail.com
                Brasília, 
                Distrito Federal 
                (Brasil)

                  



                                                                    
                                         
                                                        
                                                        
                                                        
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                  Jorge 
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                &nbsp;That sentenced 
                was pronounced 
                in November of 
                1868, at the 
                Society of 
                Spiritualistic 
                Studies of 
                Paris, by Allan 
                Kardec, the 
                Decoder of 
                Spiritualism&nbsp;

                
                
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                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. &nbsp;

                
                
                Emmanuel: a 
                pseudo-scholar?&nbsp;

                
                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”. 
                (!?...)&nbsp;

                
                
                Spiritualism: an 
                academy of 
                “exponents of 
                knowledge”?&nbsp;

                
                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!&nbsp;

                
                
                Jesus: the most 
                perfect type, 
                our guide and 
                model&nbsp;

                
                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&nbsp;

                
                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) 
                &nbsp;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)&nbsp;

                
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                Bibliographical 
                references:&nbsp;

                
                
                (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)&nbsp; 
                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)&nbsp; 
                Kardec, Allan. O 
                Livro dos 
                Espíritos, RJ: 
                Ed. 
                
                FEB, 2002, perg. 
                1.010 (a)

                
                
                (6)&nbsp; 
                Kardec, Allan.
                
                
                O Livro dos 
                Médiuns RJ: Ed. 
                FEB, 2000, 
                Capítulo III, Do 
                Método, Item 24,

                
                
                (7)&nbsp; 
                Kardec, Allan. A 
                Gênese, RJ: Ed.
                
                
                FEB, 1998, XV, 
                item 2.

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