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José Passini |
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Analysis of the
book ”Workers of
the Last Hour” |
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Focused work: Workers
of the Last Hour
Authors: Carlos
A. Baccelli
and Inacio
Ferreira (Spirit)
Publisher:
Didier
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The Spirit that
passes by Dr.
Ignacio Ferreira
has tried, in
its last books,
to lessen the
humorous,
disrespectful,
and pimp
comments it has
used in other
previous works.
After attacking
the Spiritists
in general and
the mediums in
particular, it
now tries, with
the proper
techniques used
by those who are
fascinators, to
make a confusion
regarding
doctrinal
points. The book
now analyzed is
an attempt to
make, by using
exaggeration,
Andre Luiz’
revelations
implausible and
ridiculous. This
Spirit also acts
like this
against Chico
Xavier: it
praises his
achievements,
but mocks his
work. See the
book "Chico
Xavier Answers".
We copy, without
quotation marks,
in bold,
the texts taken
from the book
under analysis.
Our comments
will be written
in normal type.
(...)
There is a
certain emptying
of the
Spiritists
Centers with
which many are
concerned and
rightly so. If
the herd
leaders, holding
a stick in their
hands, turn
against each
other, which way
will the herd
go?
(27)
This statement
is completely
unfounded, since
what is seen is
just the
opposite: It is
worrying the
volume of people
that are coming
to the Spiritist
houses.
We are failing
the base ...
Authoritarianism,
rancidity, the
struggle for
power and vanity
are doing almost
irreparable
damage!
(22/23)
That comment,
placed in the
mouth of Maria
Modesto Cravo,
echoes with the
singsong carried
out by another
fascinator
Spirit, under
the name of
Ermance Dufaux,
who from the top
of its alleged
psychology
course, makes
similar
criticisms to
the Spiritists.
After using five
pages of the
book describing
the breakfast
that they would
have at a
certain Lyceum,
it starts the
study of "The
Book of
Spirits",
informally, as
in a chat ... We
can see the
great difference
between the
environments
described by
Andre Luiz, in
"Our Home",
which shows the
seriousness with
which the issues
and work were
treated.
At one point of
the studies on
reincarnation,
Domingas says
she heard from
Chico Xavier, on
Earth, the
following
statement:
... those with
the unshakable
belief in
reincarnation
came from other
worlds -
immigrated from
other planets to
Earth! (43)
If it was not
enough that many
incarnated are
publicly stating
this information
based on “Chico
said…”, now
there are also
the disembodied
ones doing the
same! Note that
this statement
contradicts what
has been learned
about
reincarnation so
far. So, the
Spirits came
from other
planets...
Andre Luiz told
us about the
existence of
organized life
in the Spiritual
World, so
similar to life
on Earth. Dr.
Inacio
exaggerates this
“material” issue
by stating that
there is
incarnation on
the other side,
although there
is no flesh. By
exaggerating he
tries to
discredit, and
in another work,
he talks about
the possibility
of getting land
on a “comodato”
basis to build a
place with the
purpose of
protecting
animals, and
now, he mentions
the ownership of
a private car,
in which Dr.
Odilon takes
them to an
Indian village,
on a healthcare
service...
I brought some
food bags in the
car - food for
adults and
children – he
clarified.
(57)
After sharing
goodies with the
children, he
listens to a
girl:
Uncle, do you
bless? Grandpa
is bedridden...
do you bless? Of
course, let’s go
and see him, he
answered.
A shirtless
little boy,
said: Mom says
that with the
medicine you
gave her, she is
much better from
her headaches...
Did you bring
some more?
How is our
Morubixaba?
- He is feeling
better – he
replied with a
wink. - Fever,
however, comes
and goes.
(58)
It is weird that
a wise Indian,
is able to
reveal, only by
smelling the
hands, the past
and the future
incarnations of
some of the
Spirits present,
and, however,
he continues old
and ill.
At that point,
Patuwa had a
coughing fit
that nearly took
his breath away.
(62)
Leaving him, Dr.
Odilon went to
visit other
Indian families,
and Dr. Inacio
went on talking
to the Indian
Patuwa. In this
conversation, he
adds
self-compliments,
as he always
does, and
emphasizes his
roll, as a
revealer.
Patuwa liked you
very much: an
honest and
fearless man.
Your fight is
great, but there
cannot be
discouragement.
The world must
know the
truth... it is
enough of so
many lies! You
do write books,
don’t you?
(64)
Continuing the
conversation,
Patuwa says he
lived at the
time of Father
Anchieta and
Father Manoel da
Nobrega. Then,
he "reveals"
that Chico
Xavier was
Father Anchieta
... If it was
not enough the
useless
controversy
about
Chico/Kardec,
well fed by him,
now Dr. Inacio
comes with
another one,
placed in the
mouth of the
Indian Patuwa:
Then the last I
heard was that
he was back on
Earth - he on
Earth and Father
Nobrega here, on
this Other Side
... Father
Nobrega wrote
for him - the
same as what
Inacio is doing
with his friend!
- So…Anchieta? -
I questioned,
dumbfounded.
- He was in a
new religion...
The white
Witchdoctor
Odilon knows
everything!
- Was he Chico
Xavier?!
- Yes, the two
committed
themselves to
Jesus for a long
time...Father
Anchieta on
Earth and Father
Nobrega outside
the body. Now
they are going
to reverse it!
(65/66)
The patient
Morubixaba says
he is going to
"disembody" (it
would be better
to say "disperispiritize")
soon, leaving
his body for Dr.
Inacio to study:
Patuwa does not
say it, but he
knows that he is
close to dying
again... Don’t
say anything to
anyone. The
white
Witchdoctor
already knows...
I do not want
sorrow in the
small tribe.
When Patuwa
"dies," I will
give my body to
you...
- To me?! - I
asked in
amazement.
- Do understand
that it is for
you to study it.
I want you to
open it, see
what's inside
and write to
Earth telling
what you saw.
- But I'm not a
surgeon! - I
argued - I'm a
psychiatrist! I
do not know how
to dissect a
body...
(67/68)
And the dialogue
continues,
ending with this
statement:
- I'll leave a
document signed
to donate my
body to you...
(68)
Dismissing
everything we
have learned so
far about the
perispirit,
Patuwa gives a
lesson about
perispiritual
anatomy. But the
lesson was
interrupted...
Patuwa had
another coughing
fit and a few
droplets of
blood stained
his sweat-soaked
shirt.
(69)
Everything
indicates that
Patuwa is going
to "disembody"
due to
tuberculosis,
which caused his
fever, and
cough:
- The fever is
coming back
increasingly
stronger - he
said quietly. -
I will leave
this carcass in
the New Moon –
he predicted
gasping.
(71)
In the text
below, he
repeats
something
implausible that
had already been
reported by
another medium:
St. Francis of
Assisi, on
certain
occasions, even
rolled over
brambles,
flagellating
himself
voluntarily, not
to offer the
possibility of
tuning with the
Spirits that
tempted him!
(78)
From time to
time, he goes
back to the old
standard
attacking
Spiritists and
Mediums:
It is weird that
certain
supporters of
Spiritism, who
arrived now to
the Doctrine,
hardly know it
yet, practice
half a dozen of
deeds of
Charity, begin
exercising their
incipient
mediumship, and
already consider
themselves
Superior
Spirits… How
much illusion!
(83)
We learn, in
Spiritism, that
the human Spirit
is the result of
a long and
arduous walk, a
spiritual
principle,
following the
evolution of the
physical forms,
through
countless
millennia. In
this work there
is an adhesion
to the theory of
the fall of the
Spirit.
Moreover, the
author refers to
the "act of
creation", as if
it were the
moment of
creation of the
Spirit,
considering
literally the
expression
"simple and
ignorant":
The Spirit in
the act of
creation had no
body - simple
and ignorant.
The need to
evolve is what
first made it
"incarnate" and
"reincarnate" in
the Spiritual
World, in its
"descent" to
matter. By
acquiring bodies
increasingly
coarse in its
"descent," the
Spirit, in its
movement to
ascent,
gradually, will
get rid of them.
(86/87)
Contrary to what
you read above,
one learns that
the Spirit will
increasingly use
more subtle
bodies...
Following, he
captiously
mentions Andre
Luiz, in a try
to induce the
reader to
believe that
when the Spirit
breathes in the
spiritual world,
he does not do
it with his
perispirit, but
because he is
"reincarnated"
there.
In the book Our
Home (...) "my
lungs breathed
in long gulps".
(87)
What follows,
needs no
comment, because
it is so absurd:
Absolutely, I
did not consider
myself fit for
what he
requested:
participate in
the dissection
of the "dead
body" of his
perispirit!
(90)
As always, Dr.
Inacio makes a
point of
mentioning his
contact with
Spirits, who
have left on
Earth marks of
their knowledge,
their integrity,
and their
dignity. In
other works, he
mentioned he had
contact with
Emmanuel,
Bezerra de
Menezes, Andre
Luiz, Leopoldo
Cirne, Euripides
Barsanulfo, and
Hernani
Guimaraes
Andrade. It is
hard to believe
that these
serious Spirits
would have time
to pay attention
to the one, who
cultivated
irreverence, bad
taste, mockery
and even
objectionable
jokes… This time
he only mentions
Hernani
Guimaraes
Andrade and
Hemendra Nath
Banerjee. Here
again, there is
the concern of
mocking the
revelations of
Andre Luiz about
life in the
Spiritual World:
Gradually, the
dishes, I asked
our excellent
cooks to prepare
as the Indians
do were served.
- Basmati
rice! - Said
Banerjee.
- It is in your
honor - I said -
I do not know if
the seasoning is
to your liking.
Our Chef, who is
from the state
of Minas Gerais,
is more used to
prepare rice and
beans “tutu”
with a special
local chili
and...
- Mayonnaise
with curry! He
cried when he
saw the second
dish that
Anastasia, the
Chef, personally
brought us, all
decorated with
tender lettuce
leaves.
(140/141)
The description
of the dinner
goes on until
the dessert, a
yogurt pudding.
Further, he
reports that he
gave a talk to
young people
about atomic
weights, in a
blatant
demonstration of
those who want
to fill book
pages. Then he
reports the
meeting with
Tomaz Novelino,
a disciple of
Euripides
Barsanulfo, who
had founded a
school in the
Spiritual World.
For this
purpose, he
hired an
architect, made
the project, and
he only lacked
to say where he
got the funding
for the work,
its first module
having 10,000
square meters.
- Did you spend
a lot, Tomaz? -
I asked.
- No, and I'll
explain why.
Here, Doctor, in
the Spiritual
World, the works
to benefit the
community, such
as schools,
hospitals,
factories and
industries,
recreation
parks, and so
on, cost less
than those of
private use.
- Interesting.
- There is a
government
decree that
rules that
community works,
from the
foundation stone
to the roof,
should cost 1/3
less than any
other.
- So the
workers, who
engage in
construction,
earn less?
- Absolutely!
They earn more!
(159/160)
Someone asks Dr.
Inacio if he did
not know this
when he built
his hospital, to
which he replied
he was asking
only because he
was writing a
book... (160)
Notwithstanding,
once again, the
habit of
bragging, he
"transcribes"
the words of
Tomaz Novelino:
- With no
intention of
praising you,
Doctor – far
from me such a
purpose - the
theory of
reincarnation in
the Spiritual
World that you
have shown in
your works,
broadens
considerably the
horizons of
Life!
- Nevertheless -
I argued - the
mentioned thesis
has been object
of mockery on
the part of some
supporters of
the Doctrine...
(166)
Kardec brought
to the world
several
revelations,
which were
complemented
through the work
of Chico Xavier,
always written
in serious,
high, dignified
language. Would
Heaven now send
to Earth new
revelations by a
mocking,
irreverent,
bragging, and
disrespectful
Spirit? Let us
read the texts
below, analyzing
some of his
words:
Would it be
credible to make
further
revelations
about Kardec, by
a Spirit who
claims to have
eaten a
porcupine
barbecue within
the Umbral, the
lower zones, who
had a stomach
ache and since
there was no
toilet
available, he
lowered his
pants and
improvised a
latrine, in
front of
everybody? Is
this Spirit
credible, if at
an alleged
Emmanuel
Foundation in
the Spiritual
World, after
reading the
comments in a
newspaper that
gossiped about
him, he makes a
rude and vulgar
gesture (almost
equivalent to
the middle
finger gesture)
towards the
Spiritists on
Earth, who had
criticized him?
Or a Spirit that
says it is the
director of a
hospital -
founded by
Euripides
Barsanulfo - and
wakes up in a
bad mood or
feeling very
much depressed?
Dr. Inacio does
not say whether
he, Dr. Odilon,
Domingas and
Modesta are
"embodied" in
the Spiritual
World, but
"reveals" that
they are likely
to have been
contaminated by
viruses since
they were not
vaccinated...
Our sister
Domingas is pale
- said
Carmelita,
realizing that
she was
perspiring.
- I believe this
is a viral
infection – I
explained - and,
therefore, I am
asking Modesta
to take her back
to our base at
the Hospital of
Mediums.
(222)
Our sister
Domingas was
really not well;
I noticed she
was very down -
said Carmelita.
- As we had to
come very fast –
I said - there
was no time for
proper
immunization...
(227)
Patuwa
"disembodied"
and, as
promised, he
left his body
for Dr. Inacio
to study it in a
Medical School.
As he was
disembodied for
22 years, he had
to first prepare
for necropsy. He
planned to stay
in the crust
three days to
feel what it was
like to "to be
incarnated"
again. With this
purpose in mind,
he invades the
privacy of an
incarnated, like
an obsessor. He
chooses a man
who was having a
coffee in a bar:
I approached
something obese
and tired,
sweating to the
point of wetting
his shirt at his
armpits – and
this I have
always hated! -
He asked for a
coffee.
When he took the
cup to his mouth
to take the
first sip, I
overlapped his
body, as if,
from that
moment, we were
conjoined.
I noticed he
felt some sense
of relief, but,
at first, I
almost
suffocated. I
had to control
myself not to
vomit, not
because I felt
any repulse for
him, but it was
like as if a
stomach,
involuntarily,
would try to get
rid of the food
that had not
fallen very
well.
(348/349)
Then he enters
the intimate
life of the
incarnate, not
resisting the
temptation to
demonstrate his
disrespect and
bad taste:
The poor man,
when he was
bathing, his
belly folded
over and he
could not rub
his private
parts, the front
or the back.
With a
generalized
rash, he put
talcum powder
and ... his
hygiene was
this! (...)
After all, in
the demanding
condition of a
"tenant", I
practically
lived in the
body of that
poor man
without, so far,
paying nothing
for the "rent."
I waited for him
to sleep (...) I
sat on the edge
of the bed. I
sniffed my own
armpit - it was
a mess - and I
helped Sebastian
to become free
of his body for
a few
centimeters.
(354)
Returning to the
Hospital, during
the "autopsy",
Dr. Inacio
announces the
weight of the
perisprit: one
thousandth of
the human body
weight.
For example:
someone whose
body weighs 70
kilograms, the
weight of the
perispirit will
be 70 grams -
the mental body
would weight one
thousandth of
seventy grams,
about the weight
of the pineal
gland, estimated
between 70 and
100 milligrams.
(365)
To be true this
"revelation,"
the disembodied
Spirits - and
the incarnated
freed by sleep -
could prove
their presence
here on Earth,
by sitting down
on the plate of
a scale...
The autopsy
continues with
unreasonable
explanations of
Dr. Inacio,
among which
stands out:
Regarding the
Superior
Spirits, in
their most
subtle mental
body, brain and
heart melt!
(367)
The whole book
is, as are the
previous ones, a
real attempt to
common sense,
morality,
dignity and
respect due to
the Doctrine.
From all this,
there is a
question to be
made: how can
some people
believe these
"revelations"
made by this
Spirit, who
makes a point of
attacking the
Spiritists, the
Spiritist
Movement, using
such an
irreverent and
vulgar language?
Do the leaders
of the Spiritist
centers,
Spiritist
bookstores,
responsible for
the book clubs
are evaluating
the
responsibility
they have in
promoting the
dissemination of
works like
these?
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