The Japanese Spiritist Movement

This week’s editorial, entitled The Last Book of Kardec, tells us about the importance and actuality of the the book Posthumous Work, which was published 21 years after Allan Kardec’s death, in 1890.  

The main highlight of this edition is the interview conducted by our correspondent in Japan, Adalberto Prado de Morais, with the colleagues Mauro Pumar, coordinator of CIMEJ- Integration Committee of the Spiritist Movement in Japan- and spiritist lecturer, and Rogerio Schmitt, head of the Christian Spiritist Communion Francisco Cândido Xavier, in Tokyo. 

In the interview the fellow colleagues speak about several subjects concerning the Japanese spiritist movement, and in particular about their participation in the 6th World Spiritist Congress, held last month in Valencia, Spain, where they officially represented the Spirit Movement in Japan. 

Another highlight of the week is the Special from Jorge Hesse, from Brasilia (DF) about spiritual obsession, which is one of the frequent causes of human suffering. In his article, the author says that in order to protect ourselves against this insidious evil, we must strengthen our faith by renewing our thoughts and by doing good, according to the gospel precepts. 

The writer and lecturer Suely Caldas Schubert held from 8th to 12th November a series of conferences in the south of Brazil, as per the article written by our colleague Paulo Salerno which is also one of the highlights of the week. 

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This week marks another birth anniversary of Amélie-Gabrielle Boudet, who was born in Thiais, Department of the Seine, on 23rd November 1795. French teacher and artist, Amélie Boudet was the wife of Allan Kardec, the Spiritist Doctrine encoder, whom she married on February 9th, 1832.