Letter to the reader

Year 14 - 670 – May 17, 2020

Ignorance of spiritual things is the cause of our evils


The thought contained in the sentence above, expressed by Cairbar Schutel in a text published in the International Spirit Magazine, a magazine he founded, is the theme of the Special that illustrates this edition, authored by the speaker and writer Orson Peter Carrara, member of the Editorial Board of our magazine. Cairbar's phrase is: "Ignorance of spiritual things is the cause of all the evils that afflict men", which the writer analyses in his article, one of the highlights of this edition.

Another highlight is the interview that our collaborator André Ribeiro Ferreira made with Carla Vieira Gonçalves Abreu, who has been participating in the activities of Grêmio Espírita Atualpa Barbosa Lima since the age of 13, in Brasília (DF), the capital of Brazil. Integrated over the years in different areas of work of the Spirit House aforementioned, she is the current director of the Department of Doctrinal Studies, whose history and work is one of the subjects discussed in the interview.

On February 3, 1974, the young Jair Presente, 24 years old at the time, died of drowning in the waters of Praia Azul. Forty days later, on March 15, he sent by Chico Xavier the first of five messages that make up the book Young People in the hereafter (Jovens no Além), published in the same year by the FEESP publisher, thus beginning a series of psychographed books by the late medium, as shown in a special article by Ana Moraes, one of the highlights of this issue.
 

  Astolfo O. de Oliveira Filho
Director of Writing
 

 
José Carlos Munhoz Pinto
Administrative Director

 

Translation:
Francine Prado
francine.cassia@hotmail.com

 

 
 

     
     

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