Vital fluid in the work of Yvonne Pereira -
In the main mediumistic work of Yvonne do Amaral
Pereira, the book Memoirs of a Suicide (Memórias
de um suicida), by the Portuguese writer Camilo Castelo
Branco, we identify some concepts about vital fluid that
complement Kardec's thought.
According to the work, vital fluids are fluids proper to
all living beings and that unite the Spirit to the
material body during incarnation. After death, before
the Spirit orients itself, gravitating towards its true
"spiritual home", it will always be necessary to stage
in an "antechamber", in a region the density of which y
and distressing local configurations will correspond to
the vibratory and mental states of the newly
disembodied. There he will stay until he is naturally "deanimalized",
that is, he gets rid of the fluids and vital forces with
which all material bodies are impregnated. i
It clarifies that the stay will be temporary in this
threshold of the Beyond. There are those who only linger
there for a few hours. Others will take months,
consecutive years, returning to reincarnation without
reaching Spirituality.
When it comes to suicides, the case takes on special
proportions, because it is painful and complex. These
will generally linger there for the time they still have
left to complete the commitment of existence that they
prematurely cut, because they bring large loads of
animalized vital forces. ii
When describing the condition of different entities
disembodied through suicide, preferably coming from
Portugal, Spain, Brazil and Portuguese colonies in
Africa, the spiritual author informs that a large part
of the disturbance that affects and upsets these Spirits
is the fact that they accompany, even in the spiritual
dimension, vital forces, often intact, whose function
would be to vitalize the physical organization. Such a
deplorable state of affairs continues until the reserves
of vital and magnetic forces are exhausted, which varies
according to the degree of vitality of each one.
Camilo comments that these entities carried, hanging
from them, fragments of a luminous, phosphorescent cord,
which, shattered, as if violently broken, broke off in
splinters like a compact cable of broken electrical
wires, releasing fluids that should remain organized for
certain purpose. According to the author, this
apparently insignificant detail was of capital
importance, since it was precisely in it that the
disorganization of the suicidal state was established.
The medium clarifies, in a footnote, that this magnetic
fluidic cord, which connects the soul to the carnal
envelope and communicates life to it, should only be in
appropriate conditions to separate from it at the time
of natural death, which then will be done naturally,
without shocks, without violence. With suicide, however,
once it is broken and not disconnected, rudely torn
away, torn apart when still in all its fluidic and
magnetic strength, it will produce a large part of the
imbalances, since, in the vital constitution for the
existence that should be, many times, long, the reserve
of magnetic forces had not yet been extinguished, which
leads the suicidal person to feel like a "living dead"
in the most expressive meaning of the term.
The spiritual author also clarifies that the transfer of
entities housed in the rescuer institution to
“intermediate” layers of the Invisible is conditioned to
the disintegration of these fluids. It will be necessary
to disaggregate from it the powerful layers of vital
fluids that covered its physical organization, adapted
by special affinities of Great Mother Nature to the
astral organization, that is, to the perispirit, which
accumulate in it in sufficient reserves for the
commitment of existence; finally, that the same
affinities cool down, a work that in the individuality
of a suicidal person will be accompanied by the most
distressing difficulties, of impressive slowness, for,
only then, to obtain vibratory possibility that provides
him with relief and progress. iii
As for the participation of the vital fluid in
mediumistic phenomenology, the work describes the
mediumistic environment of a spiritist group, visited by
workers from the Mary of Nazareth complex, and
saturated with animalized fluids from the mediums and
incarnate assistants. Such resources will be necessary
for the different procedures of spiritual help to the
sick entities and for the mediumistic exchange itself. iv
Vital fluid in the work of Chico Xavier
We identified some considerations on the subject mainly
in two works of spiritual authorship by Andre Luiz:
In the domains of mediumship and Workers of eternal
life.
In In the Domains of mediumship, when describing
the unfolding of the medium Antonio Castro, the author
makes reference to the vital fluid. Here's the story for
better understanding:
A whitish vapor emanated abundantly from the thorax,
which, accumulating in the form of a cloud, quickly
transformed, to the left of the dense body, into a
slightly larger duplicate of the medium.
Our friend, as it were, revealed himself to be more
developed, presenting all the particularities of his
physical form, appreciably dilated.
The spiritual director of the house subjected the
mediator to a delicate magnetic intervention that it
would not be licit to disturb or interrupt.
The medium, thus disconnected from the carnal vehicle,
took two steps away, revealing the vaporous cord that
bound him to the somatic field. While the physiological
equipment was resting, motionless, Castro, groping and
astonished, appeared next to us, in a strange copy of
himself, because, in addition to being larger in its
external configuration, it was bluish on the right and
orange on the left. He tried to move, however, he seemed
to feel heavy and restless...
Clementino renewed the magnetic operations and Castro,
unfolded, retreated, as if juxtaposing himself again to
the physical body.
I verified, then, that this contact resulted in a
singular difference. The carnal body instinctively
swallowed certain bands of force that imprinted a
manifest irregularity on the perispirit, absorbing them
in a way that was incomprehensible to me. From that
moment, the companion, outside the vase of dense matter,
kept the bearing that was characteristic of him. He was
now quite himself, without any deformity, light and
agile, although he continued to be chained to the
physical envelope by the aeriform loop, which seemed
thinner and more luminous, as Castro-Espirito moved
among us. While Clementino encouraged him with friendly
words, our supervisor, certainly signaling our
curiosity, was quick to clarify:
– With the help of the supervisor, the medium was
conveniently exteriorized. At first, his perispirit or
"astral body" was covered with vital effluvia that
ensure the balance between the soul and the flesh body,
known as the "etheric double", formed by neuropsychic
emanations that belong to the physiological field and
that, for this very reason, cannot get farther away from
the terrestrial organization, being destined to
disintegration, as much as happens to the carnal
instrument, on the occasion of the renewing death. To
better adjust to our environment, Castro returned these
energies to the defenseless body, thus guaranteeing the
indispensable heat to the cellular hive and
disentangling himself, as much as possible, to enter the
service that awaits him. v
We highlight from the text some concepts related to the
vital fluid:
- Ensures the balance between the soul and the body,
offering “heat” indispensable to the cellular hive.
- Corresponds to what some spiritualist schools call the
ethereal double.
- It is intended for disintegration with physical death.
- It is formed from neuropsychic emanations, related to
the physiological field, although this does not seem
very clear to us.
- The bands of force, which correspond to the vital
fluid, may eventually move away from the physical body,
“adhered” to the perispirit, during the spiritual
unfolding.
In the book Workers of Eternal Life, the author
praises the value of externalizing the medium's vital
fluids for materialization phenomena, and comments on
the need to extinguish the fluids that connect the
Spirit to the corpse, for the definitive perispiritual
disconnection.vi
When describing Dimas' disincarnating, he reveals, in a
way that is still poorly understood, which part of this
fluid is used in the reconstruction of the new spiritual
body. Here's the story:
I had the clear impression that through the fluidic
cord, from the dead brain to the living brain, the
disincarnate absorbed the remaining vital principles of
the physiological field. Only then did I notice that, if
the perispiritic organism received the last forces from
the inanimate body, this one, in turn, also absorbed
some energy from the other, which maintained it without
notable alterations. The silver appendix was a true
fluidic artery, sustaining the ebb and flow of the vital
principles in readaptation. With the last interchange
removed, the corpse showed signs, almost immediately, of
advanced decomposition.vii
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[1] Memoirs
of a suicide, part I, chap. 6.
[2] Idem.
[3] Memoirs
of a suicide, part I, chap. 1.
[4] Memoirs
of a suicide, part I, chap. 6.
[5] In
the Domains of Mediumship, chap. 11.
[6] Workers
of Life Eternal, chap. 14.
[7] Workers
of Life Eternal, chap. 15.
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