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THE SPIRITIST MESSENGER - Monthly Electronic Report
of the GEAE group
6th year - Number 2 - 1998
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CONTENT |=============================|
ENCOUNTER
- The 5th Spanish Spiritist
Conference, by C. Iglesia, Brazil.
COMMENT
- Electronic Lectures on
Magnetical Pass, by Marcello Abreu.
QUESTION
- On the death of the Universe,
by Rodrigo Farias.
ENCOUNTER
- First 98 GEAE Meeting.
MESSAGE FROM ABOVE
- The word of the cross,
by Emmanuel
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ENCOUNTER
THE 5TH SPANISH SPIRITIST CONFERENCE.
by Carlos Iglesia, Brazil.
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The 5th Spiritist Conference of Spain was
realized on December 5-8
1997. Since the first conference in 1992
at Madrid - which was in fact
a world conference, all the following
ones in Spain were national
encounters - this event has been
yearly organized by a group of
Spanish spiritists under the leading of
the FEE, the Spanish Spiritist
Federation. According to Santiago G. Mateu,
FEE current president, the
regularity of the conference is an important
factor for the national
Spiritist movement in Spain. One can easily
understand that with this
regular opportunity people can exchange
knowledge and ideas and thus
make their union stronger.
The 5th conference was organized
by the ``Centro de Estudios Espirita
Allan Kardec'' from Malaga and took
place at the Cervantes Hotel,
Torremolinos, a touristic resort of Costa
del Sol just 15 minutes from
Malaga. As a foreigner participant - a
spectator intending to better
know the Spanish Spiritist movement -
I was really surprised with the
event organization. Groups from virtually
all parts of the country
participated in the meeting with
exception of a few from the northern
regions due to the recent
snowstorms.
The 200 participants represented
small and recently created groups
and distinguished themselves by their
enthusiasm and dedication to
the doctrine study. This was
easily seen in the level of the
presented seminars and debates (which
I hope will be posted on the
FEE web-page). I also watched a public
FEE assembly realized on the
nigh of December 5. During
this meeting one concluded that the
Spanish federation has been successful
in uniting regional groups
around common interests of the doctrine,
completely tunned to the
work of the International Spiritist Counsel.
Since there is no time
nor space to reproduce each of the seminars
I limit myself to give a
short list of the titles:
``Justicia Divina'' by Juan Jose Torres
C. E. A Camino de
La Luz, Manzanares
``Espiritismo e Sancion'' by Jose
Manuel Garcoa Moscoso
C.E.M.E.L, Madrid
``El Mensaje Cristico de Jesus'' by Juan
Antonio Torrijo
Associacion Espirita de Valencia, Valencia
``La Vida en el Mundo Espiritual''
by Miguel de Jesus Sardano
Brazil
``Fuera de La Caridad no hay Salvacion''
by Jose Aniorte
C. E. Amor Fraterno, Acazar de San
Juan
``Evangelio y Espiritismo'' by Rogerio
Coelho
Brazil
``La Obsession entre encarnados''
Centro Joanna de Angelis, Reus
``Pruebas de la Providencia Divina,
Leonardo da Vinci'' by
Teresa Vazques
``Los Obreros de la Ultima Hora''
by Mercedes Garcia de la
Torre, Fraternidade Espirita Jose
Grosso, Cordoba
``La Divina Justicia de la Reencarnacion''
by Juan Miguel
Fernandez, Associacion de Estudios
Espiritas de Madrid
``Dios y la Creacion'' by Esteban
Zaragoza,
Centro de Estudio Espirita Allan
Kardec, Malaga
``Consolidacion del Espiritismo en
el Mundo'' by
Rafael Gonzalez Molina, CE y DE,
Madrid
``Los trabajos mediumnicos en el
Centro Espirita'' by
Santiago Gene Mateu, Centro Joanna
de Angelis, Reus
There was a vivid interest in
the internet and its use for the
Spiritist divulgence worldwide. Our friend
Johnny M. Moix, the FEE
webmaster, demonstrated the use of the
web using a computer. He also
explained the benefits of this new communication
system. I believe
there will be an increase in the
number of Spiritist pages and
spiritists connected to the Internet in
Spain as a result of the
increasing interest in the subject raised
by the conference.
One of the topics worth mentioning
covered by the conference was the
help to the Spiritist movement
in Cuba. Spiritism has recently
reappeared in Cuba and, in spite of all
material difficulties, it has
grown up surprisingly. There has
been immense efforts toward the
study of the doctrine and groups
have been formed throughout the
isle. One of the major troubles
is the uncontrolled mediumnistic
practice as a consequence
of the religious influence of African
cultures brought by the slaves. As a result
people misunderstand the
communication between the
material and spirit worlds. The FEE
vice-president and president of the
``Centro de Estudios Espirita
Allan Kardec'', Isabel P.
Gonzalez will return to Cuba in the
beginning of 1998 with material
help and books.
For those unaware of the Spiritist
history, it may be difficult to
realize the enormous importance of such
event and the responsibility
of its participants. This importance is
considerable in face of the
old efforts to make Spiritism
known in Spain, of the works
of
outstanding personalities like Amalia
Domingos Soler, Miguel Vives y
Vives and many others and in face
of the brutal civil war and
following repression which
virtually banned Spiritism from the
Spanish lands.
Such is the responsability of the
new groups brought together at
this 5th conference. I really believe
they are already well formed
and hope that in the next meeting at Manzanares
(Ciudad Real) they
will be even more united and numerous
than now.
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COMMENT
ELECTRONIC LECTURES ON MAGNETICAL
PASS(*)
by Marcello Abreu
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In the GEAE report 264, VI year,
Fernanda Nunes asked for pictures
showing magnetical pass application. I
would like to know her e-mail
address for me to send her these
pictures. Moreover, there is a
specific web-page
http://www.svn.com.br/mansao (Divaldo's page - in portuguese)
containing lectures on magnetical
pass and such pictures which she
should know.
Transl. note:
(*) Magnetical pass: the process
of imposing hands over a persons
body in order to heal (in the case of
healing mediuns) or calm him
down (in the majority of the cases).
Magnetical pass is also named `spiritual
healing' by some people.
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QUESTION
ON THE DEATH OF THE UNIVERSE
by Rodrigo Farias
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I was talking to a catholic about
reincarnation in a newsgroup list
when he presented me an original objection:
Nowadays scientist talk
about a possible future death of the Universe
either through termic
cooling or a contraction (*) which would
mean the end of all material
world. If such death
is confirmed, how one can
understand
reincarnation? I accept that
the spirit world would remain but
creation never stops and there would
be many beings in need for
reincarnation. What would then be their
state?
(*)Transl. note: The so called ``big
crunch''. In spite of the claim
for the validity of the argument, that
is, of how one can understand
the requirement of reincarnation
in face of a possible death of the
Universe and so discontinuity of
the material world, there is no
doubt that the argument is extremely
weak. One can not affirm the
possibility of a ``big crunch''
(which seems will always remain as a
subtle speculation). However,
science has some crude indications of
a initial explosion (the ``big bang''),
so that one can be almost
sure by the available experimental
data that the Universe had a
beginning - which is in accordance with
the spirit teaching - but on
idea where it is going.
Interesting enough, the idea of a
big crunch is closely related to
some Indian myths about the creation
and destiny of the Universe
[see, for instance, ``Cosmos'' by C.
Sagan] which describe several
lives for the Universe, a constantly expanding
and contracting world.
Can one then speak about the Universe
reincarnation?
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ENCOUNTER
FIRST GEAE MEETING
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The first GEAE meeting is coming up!
We have just started the planning
of the first (98) GEAE meeting to
take place at Sao Paulo, Brazil. If you
want to take part in the
arrangements for the event, just write
us...
The editors.
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MESSAGE FROM ABOVE
THE WORD OF THE CROSS, by Emmanuel
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"For the preaching of the cross is
to them that perish foolishness;
but unto us which are saved it is the
power of God."
Paul (I Corinthians, 1:18)
The message of the cross has been bitter since all the times.
An initially incomprehensible and
displeasing voice descended from
the calvary to the world.
In the Master's martyrdom all arguments
of a superficially absolute
negation were resumed.
Complete abandonment of the most beloved ones.
Distressing thirst.
Fatal capitulation.
Spontaneous pardoning expressing total humiliation.
Sarcasm and ridiculousness between thieves.
Defeat with no defense.
Injurious death.
However, Christ profits by the seeming
failure to teach the way of
eternal ressurection, showing that the
``self'' will never approach
God without improvement and self-sublimation.
Even today the message
of the cross is madness for those
who
endlessly remain
within the circles of spiritually
low
reincarnations. Such creatures only
want to conspire with the death,
killing the nicest blossomings of
the feeling. They dominate many,
but are ncapable of self control.
They accumulate treasures that
imprudence spreads away and weave
dark threads of stubborn passions
on which they countless fall like
the spider attached to its own web.
Let us repeat the message of the
cross to the brother or sister who
drown in the flesh and they will consider
us crazy. But all of us who
are being rescued from deeper falls through
the notice of a renewing
faith are informed that, during the
most bitter testimonies, the
disciple approaches the Master as the
Master ascended to the Father
through the hidden glory of crucifixion.
In: ``Fonte Viva'', mediumship of
F. C. Xavier, ed. FEB (Brazilian
Spiritist Federation). Transl. by A. L.
Xavier Jr.
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