Foundation of the Brazilian Spiritist Union

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At certain points in history, remaining silent ceases to be a sign of prudence and comes to represent consent. There are times when omission weighs as much as action itself. The founding of the Brazilian Spiritist Union (uniaoespiritabrasileira.com.brIt arises precisely in this context: as a reaction to what its founders understand as a long process of distortion of Spiritism in Brazil.

This process dates back to 1895, when the Brazilian Spiritist Federation came to be led by followers of the ideas of Jean Baptiste Roustaing. For the members of the Brazilian Spiritist Union, this episode marked the beginning of a profound rupture between the Spiritism organized by Allan Kardec and a religious structure gradually built around the FEB, sustained by dogmatic elements incompatible with the Kardecian methodology.

The central criticism presented by the UEB is direct: Spiritism has ceased to be treated as a philosophical science of rational investigation and has progressively become a religious system based on mediumistic authority, the uncritical acceptance of spiritual communications, and intellectual submission to figures considered unquestionable.

In this understanding, fundamental principles of Spiritist science were abandoned. The evocation of Spirits, widely used by Kardec as a methodological tool for comparison and analysis, was transformed into a taboo. The critical examination of mediumistic communications gave way to automatic acceptance. Domestic mediumship, understood as an environment for study and observation, was discouraged. In place of rational investigation, a culture of blind faith was consolidated.

According to the Brazilian Spiritist Union, this process generated devastating consequences for the Brazilian Spiritist Movement. Spiritism was allegedly converted into a religious structure marked by mysticism, personalism, and psychological dependence on mediums and institutions. What Kardec structured as a method of rational observation of spiritual phenomena was, according to the UEB, reduced to a belief system sustained by institutional authority and emotionalism.

It is in this context that the Brazilian Spiritist Union declares its emergence.

The UEB presents itself not as an institution intended to centralize the Spiritist Movement, but as an independent initiative aimed at recovering the original foundations of Spiritism. Its proposal claims to be based exclusively on the 23 works of Allan Kardec and on the resumption of the Spiritist methodology abandoned after his death.

The movement is also part of a historical tradition of resistance to doctrinal adulterations that occurred after Kardec's death. The manifesto cites figures such as Léon Denis, Gabriel Delanne, and Amélie-Gabrielle Boudet as participants in the fight against the distortion of Spiritism in late 19th-century France.

Inspired by this historical precedent, the Brazilian Spiritist Union declares itself as a continuation of a regenerative effort that seeks to recover the rational, investigative, and anti-dogmatic character of the Spiritist Doctrine.

Among the principles presented by UEB are:

• The fight against distortions imposed on Spiritism;
• clarification regarding the adulterations of the works Heaven and hell and The Genesis after Kardec's death;
• the resumption of Spiritist science as organized in Kardec's works;
• The defense of freedom of conscience and the rational examination of spiritual communications;
• Opposition to the idea of institutions taking precedence over doctrine;
• The rejection of the authoritarian unification of the Spiritist Movement.

The Brazilian Spiritist Union also states that it does not intend to replace the Spiritist Movement nor become a "mother institution." Its position maintains that no organization should occupy a role superior to doctrinal principles. According to its declaration, groups and societies should serve only as points of study, unity, and dissemination, never as centers of ideological or spiritual authority.

Another central aspect of the founding of the UEB is the explicit defense of the intellectual autonomy of the Spiritist. The movement maintains that Spiritism does not belong to leaders, mediums, or federations. It belongs to the principles discovered through the rational and universal observation of Spiritist phenomena.

Therefore, the founding of the Brazilian Spiritist Union presents itself as a call for a return to investigation, comparative study, and critical independence. Not as an emotional appeal, but as a reaction against what it considers the replacement of reason with submission.

According to UEB, the true Promised Comforter did not come to produce intellectual servants, but free consciences capable of questioning, observing, comparing, and concluding rationally.

Thus, the founding of the Brazilian Spiritist Union represents, for its members, a milestone of doctrinal resistance. A movement that declares it necessary to break with more than a century of distortions and reposition Spiritism on what it considers its legitimate foundation: the Spiritist science organized by Allan Kardec.

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