Before starting an stylistic and literary analysis of the books and Spiritual authors in the works of the medium Divaldo Franco is worth to highlight some of their particularities, what until now never occurred with any other medium in one hundred and fifty years of history of Spiritism.

By the end of 1948 the spirits began to manifest themselves through Divaldo by writing, transmitting several messages. Many thought it would be pretentious to embrace one more task as a medium, because he was already starting to act as a medium speaker and educator. But he was at the service of the good spirits and the multiplicity of gifts and multiplication of talents are foreshadowed in the Gospel.

Divaldo consulted with more experienced friends, among them Chico Xavier (1910-2002), asking for guidance and consultation on this new mission that he had, writing thru channelling of spirits, various instructions which encouraged him to continue this task.

Divaldo then went to discipline himself in one more mediumistic gift, becoming a great messenger of immortality, receiving messages of spiritual consolation from several figures of universal thought. After some years writing psychography messages, the guiding spirits advised Divaldo to burn the first messages because they were only an exercise and only in 1964 he published his first psychographic book.

We can draw five important lessons for beginners in mediumship, based on the admirable example of Divaldo:

1st) There are many mediums that after receiving a mediumistic message are in a rush to publish it instantly, or within one year. Let’s avoid this childish rush, which arises perhaps due to immaturity or to the need of self-reassurance; one must wait for the right moment to do so with the necessary humility.

Divaldo waited fifteen years to publish his first psychographic book because the mediums that are serving the good spirits can wait for the favourable time to give a better publicity to what the spirits are writing. Moreover, as Allan Kardec said, we are not obliged to publish everything that the spirits transmit (Spiritist Magazine November 1859) and, therefore, with humility and trust, we will know the best time. 

2nd) When at the beginning of psychographic mediumship, one should not think that it is already finished, with nothing to improve or perfect. The rule - allowing very exceptional exceptions - is that there is a development and maturing over time, with much practice and discipline, improving the exchange is the mediumistic training. 

The psychography of Divaldo Franco inaugurated a new phase in the mediumistic spiritist literature 

3rd) You should not be intimidated by the possible sufferings which have been set for the workers of Jesus’ harvest. Good shall be first. Divaldo was not intimidated with prophecies about the difficulties that occurred, the misunderstandings and attacks that he faced in psychographic activity and fortunately he remained steadfast. 

4th) Do not retaliate unprovoked or unfounded attacks, because the best response of a disciple of Jesus must be the incessant work in the Harvest and therefore Divaldo never retaliated any attack or offence. He never had time to reply to controversies, because the joy of controversial people is to create confusion and put it in evidence. The correct action is to allow time for the task to establish the truth and that’s exactly what happened because time is showing that the psychography of Divaldo opened a new phase in the mediumistic spiritist literature, as we shall see in coming articles. 

5th) Never deviate from the evangelical behaviour - forgiveness, understanding etc. – towards your neighbour, in any event, even if everything appears to be against us. 

Fortunately that’s the way Divaldo led and we can list twelve facts totally unprecedented in the history of Spiritism that happened through his psychography.

Here are the facts:  

1) Divaldo was the only medium that wrote a psychographic book entirely in a language that was not his, a remarkable phenomenon of xenoglossia (which is to speak or write in languages which is unknown to the medium). The book was “Hacia las estrellas” (Towards the Stars), in Spanish, 1990, LEAL Ed. / BA. Note that we are talking about a “entire psychographic book” and not just one or two messages, which has already happened with several other mediums, including Divaldo himself.   

2) Divaldo was the only medium that wrote about 140 psychographic books by May 2004, that is, within the first 40 years of mediumistic publications. Just to give an idea and reference, remember that the blessed medium Chico Xavier (1910-2002), which is the medium that wrote the most psychographic books over 400 works), published his first psychographic book in 1932 (Parnassus from beyond the grave, Ed . FEB) and in its first 40 years (until 1972), published one hundred and twenty one books Communication, Francisco Cândido Xavier, 66 Years of Mediumship, Year 26, No 158, January 1993, GEEM - Emmanuel Spiritist Group S / C Editora, São Bernardo do Campo, 1993). We must also remember that Chico Xavier devoted  primarily to psychographic while Divaldo is a  medium speaker, medium educator, psychographic medium, give interviews to radio,  TV, magazines, newspapers, internet, and receive continuous tributes by Brazil and the world. Also, remember that Chico Xavier was about 20 years older than Divaldo! 

Divaldo was the only medium considered persona non grata and prohibited from entering a country 

3) Divaldo was the only medium that wrote psychographic books with modern themes and totally unprecedented in spiritist psychography. Since 1857 the mediumistic literature is held (and still is occupied) of evangelical themes, morals, poetry, chronicles, history of Christianity, the spiritual world on the basis of certain incarnations of spirits, but the medium Divaldo Franco began a new mediumistic phase in the literature, since many of his books dealing with areas of psychology, psychiatry and psychopathology, linking them to mediumship and obsession. The psychologist Dr. Maria Cristina Carvalho DELOU, with pos-graduate studies at UERJ, who was director of the Brazilian Association for the gifted in 1987, examined the books of the Spirit Joanna de Angelis psychographed by Divaldo treating the subject of Psychology and, making a parallel with the "Fourth Force in Psychology" (Transpersonal), thus expressed herself: "Joanna is an expert in human problems" and "her language, is scientifically modern, especially with respect to the initial discussion on the change of paradigm ... ". We note here  this important historical record.

4) Divaldo was the only medium that psychographic seven books during travel abroad while make presentations (a medium does not routinely work both mediumistic faculties - the oratory and psychographic). We emphasize again that we are talking of seven books, and not only of one or another message, as may have occurred with other mediums and has already happened with Divaldo.

5) Divaldo was the only medium that psychographed hundreds of messages in several countries where he was making speeches in the historical and cultural idiosyncrasies discussed, because the message content was the place itself and sometimes the content of messages was not known by young people of the country.

6) Divaldo was the only medium considered persona non grata and prohibited from entering a country (in the case, Portugal and its African colonies in 1972), precisely because a message from the spirit of Monsignor Manuel Alves da Cunha (1872-1947) contained descriptions of facts that were not well known (see Book of Hope Sun, Various Spirits, LEAL Ed. / BA) and were almost a state secret.

7) Divaldo was the only medium summoned by an international police (the PIDE in Africa), to explain the historical information of the country, contained in a message psychographic, as stated in item 6 above. 

The production of psychographic Divaldo is encyclopaedic, but he has not finished high school 

8) Of more than the 260 spirits who manifested through Divaldo that are recorded in books, when they were incarnated they had fifteen different professional activities (Nobel Prize winner, philologists from Brazilian Academy of writers, Philosophers, Scientists, Poets, Military, Educators, Mediums, spiritual figures, Politicians, Presidents of the Republic, religious, sports champions and Saints), and different origins, which is nevertheless a very important point to emphasize, because it indicates the cultural diversity of spirits. With regard to the origin of these spirits we find a very interesting situation: Europe (spirits communicating from nine countries), America (spirits communicating from six countries and 16 states of Brazil), Africa (spirits communicating in two countries) and Asia (Spirit communicating from one country).

9) In just one hundred family messages psychographed by Divaldo (among thousands) of sixty spirits to their loved ones, we noted more than 750 features and details in the same family. Divaldo did not know most of the many communicating spirits and their families, which completely removes any possibility of any incorrect animated justification or telepathic. More important is to emphasize that these loved ones were doctors, lawyers, architects, diplomats, writers etc. This means that these people were fully able to assess the psychographies and their origin.

10) A vade-mecum (thematic dictionary) is being reviewed of all books produced by the medium Divaldo (the psychographed, the compilations, the biographical etc.), Work that totalled more than 20 thousand references and some three thousand entries (subjects), which also reinforces the high content of its cultural psychography.

11) After considering four psychographic books by Divaldo from the spirit of Manoel de Carvalho Vianna (1874-1926), which was a great spiritist speaker from Ceara, I found that nearly five hundred names of people known in history were quote, in several areas of action and different places. With respect to other quotes by this Spirit in these books (citations scientific, philosophical, historical, political, biblical, literary and medical) there are about 1100 of them. The psychographic production of the medium Divaldo, I repeat, is encyclopaedic, but remember that he didn’t even attended high school.

12) There has never been a medium so productive, that psychographed so many books, so bulky (novels, treaties etc.), More than 400 pages, 14x21 cm.

We clarified that in any way we mean that Divaldo is a better medium than others or even that he is different from the others. I just wanted to point out some peculiarities in his mediumistic psychography and unprecedented things that happened to him, which nobody can deny.

In the next article will begin rigorous comparative analysis of some Spiritual Authors who dictated messages or books by Divaldo with the books they wrote when they were incrnate.

^* automatic or channelling writing.