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\u201cBrazil, heart of the world, homeland of the gospel\u201d? \u2013 A critical analysis is produced by Leonardo Marmo Moreira and Jorge Hessen. The text below was extracted in full from the preface of the work, with the aim of safeguarding such an important study as this, replicating it on our website. The full text, which was the basis for this article, is available in PDF, on here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PREFACE<\/strong>

Jorge Hessen<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In my historical investigations I found confreres who assured me at the FEB headquarters that Chico Xavier never warned the so-called \u201cIsmael's tent\u201d (FEB headquarters in DF) about the possible and alleged ideological interpolations in \u201cBrazil, heart of the world, homeland of the gospel\u201d. We do not know any further details behind the scenes of this exchange between the medium and former FEB directors.

I found those who attest to Chico's consent to the insertion of Roustaing in chapter 22 of \u201cBrazil heart of the world homeland of the gospel\u201d demonstrating supposed correspondences between Chico and Wantuil de Freitas, contained in the work \u201cTestimonies of Chico Xavier\u201d. However, we discovered that only a few secondary sources were passed on to the author of the work Suely Caldas Schubert (who does not have a Roustanguist trajectory), typed fragments of the letters and intentionally selected and elaborated by docetists Zeus Wantuil and Francisco Thiesen.

An authenticity of Roustaing's insertion in the \u201csacred\u201d book of the (im) \u201cGolden Pact\u201d was forged, when former FEB directors visited Chico Xavier so that a Minas Gerais medium could \u201cauthenticate\u201d the book or the chapter page 22 of \u201cBrazil heart of the world homeland of the gospel\u201d to corroborate the authenticity of the original psychography (which was inexplicably incinerated by the FEB), but Chico \u201cauthenticated\u201d chapter 22 with the \u201crobust\u201d confirmation: \u201cWith a hug from the minor server Chico Xavier.\u201d In other words, it didn\u2019t confirm anything! Chico knew that the work had been corrupted.

The coup of the (im)\u201cGolden Pact\u201d was an agenda with eighteen items, the first of which stated: \u201cIt is up to the spiritists of Brazil to put into practice the exposition contained in the book \u201cBrazil, Heart of the World, Homeland of the Gospel\u201d. Here we open a parenthesis because we understand that in this device there was a proposition that could have undesirable consequences, considering the focus of unity among spiritists. Now, the most reasonable thing would be to include in the first item that the spiritists put into practice the exposition contained in the Gospel According to Spiritism, in order to accelerate and consolidate the evolutionary march of the Gospel.

There are those who say that the adoption of the book \u201cBrazil heart of the world homeland of the gospel\u201d could have two pretexts, the first because a group of those who discussed the issue wanted to adopt \u201cThe Four Gospels\u201d by Roustaing, the second because the \u201csupporters \u201d of CEPA (Pan-American Spiritist Confederation) did not and do not accept the Gospel According to Spiritism, in this case, therefore, Humberto de Campos' book would be on the balance line and placed Brazil in a central position in the expansion of the Gospel.

Really? Was this what led them to sign without discussion the pact that Herculano Pires called the \u201cpapal bull\u201d? Or had the excess of mysticism created a feeling of guilt and the parties to the agreement began to admit infallibility in the president of the FEB? Or would the autocratic presence of Wantuil (who was a kind of \u201csole owner\u201d of the FEB) have dulled the conscience of the signatories? Or did all the parties to the agreement lack greater doctrinal maturity? One thing, however, we are absolutely certain of: if Herculano Pires, Deolindo Amorim, J\u00falio Abreu Filho had participated in the \u201cenchanted\u201d Febian meeting of 1949, another would have been the direction of doctrinal definitions for Brazil.

So it is! Let us return to the signatories of the Pact who concluded without further DEBATE and maturation that the book \u201cBrazil heart of the world homeland of the gospel\u201d contained interesting data and demonstrated what the mission of Spiritism in Brazil would be. However, the parties to the agreement were not concerned with the jingoistic and controversial details of the book, perhaps the \u201cX\u201d of the issue.

We do not raise this point to contest the original contents of the work (those that were not supposedly altered by the Febian Docetists). It is very obvious that it is difficult to physically prove tampering because the original psychography was incinerated by the FEB. It is important to emphasize here that we love the literature of Humberto de Campos (without the Febian insertions, of course!), and what's more, it is necessary to separate things well, as the naive enthronement of Roustaing by the supposed \u201cspiritual author\u201d contradicts Kardec's thought contained in Chapter XV of the work Genesis.

The point is that the supposed \u201cHumberto de Campos\u201d evokes \u201cthe traditions of the spiritual world\u201d, as the spiritual author himself asserts in the Introduction to the book \u201cBrazil heart of the world homeland of the gospel\u201d. Obviously this \u201ctraditions from beyond\u201d argument does not clarify, or even support, the work\u2019s interference. And this becomes clear if we compare the book \u201cBrazil, heart.do world\u2026\u201d with \u201cCr\u00f4nicas de Al\u00e9m-T\u00famulo\u201d and \u201cBoa Nova\u201d written by the same Spirit, in which Humberto de Campos uses some information obtained from the so-called \u201ctraditions of the spiritual world\u201d, but without committing the various lapses present in \u201cBrazil heart of the world homeland of the gospel\u201d. Regarding the work \u201cChronicles from Beyond the Grave\u201d in chapter 21 entitled \u201cThe Great Missionary\u201d, published before \u201cBrazil, heart of the world\u2026\u201d, only the missionaries Camille Flammarion, L\u00e9on Denis and Gabriel are mentioned as collaborators of Allan Kardec Delanne, with no mention of Roustaing. This indicates likely malicious interpolation in the work \u201cBrazil heart of the world homeland of the gospel\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


This is my opinion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Brasilia, April 10, 2018<\/p>\n\n\n\n


Jorge Hessen<\/p>\n

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