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Orson Peter
Carrara |
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Humberto de
Campos: 80 years
of disembodiment |
The remarkable
writer,
journalist and
politician
Humberto de
Campos was born
in October 25,
1886, in
Miritiba (State
of Minas Gerais
in Brazil).
His origin was
humble, and when
his father died
he was only six
years old. He
then went to
live in the city
of Sao Luiz,
where he began
working in the
local market and
at seventeen he
moved to Para,
where he began
his journalistic
activity in the
newspaper "Folha
do Norte".
In 1910, he was
then 24 years
old, he
published his
first book and
two years later
moved to Rio de
Janeiro, where
he became known
in the literary
world, making
friends with
several writers,
among them
Coelho Neto and
Olavo Bilac.
He starts
working at the
newspaper O
IMPARCIAL, side
by side with
famous people
such as Rui
Barbosa, Jose
Verissimo, among
others, becoming
gradually more
and more known
nationwide for
his chronicles
published in
newspapers of
several
Brazilian
cities.
He is elected a
Member of the
Brazilian
Academy of
Letters and
becomes a
congressman and
enters politics,
being revoked by
the Brazilian
Revolution of
1930.
The noisy case
Humberto de
Campos and its
outcome
He died in Rio
de Janeiro on
December 5,
1934. He was
only 48 years
old. But the
great writer did
not interrupt
his work. The
known medium
Chico Xavier
published
several books,
the contents of
which were
received through
automatic
writing,
dictated by that
Spirit, a fact
that generated a
noisy court
case, when the
widow claimed,
among other
things,
royalties for
the copyright on
the
psychographic
books.
The lawsuit, of
high impact and
controversial at
the time, was
considered
unfounded. All
data about this
matter is
available in the
book
Psychography
before the
Courts, by
Dr. Miguel
Timponi,
published by the
FEB (Brazilian
Spiritist
Federation). The
book has the
significant
subtitle: The
case of Humberto
de Campos in its
triple aspect:
Legal,
Scientific and
Literary. It
is worth reading
this book.
From then
onwards, the
famous writer
began using the
pseudonym of
Brother X, and
had several
books published
under this name.
I interviewed
Isabela Pereira
Esperança, who
lives in the
city of Barra
Mansa (State of
Rio de Janeiro),
an admirer,
scholar and
researcher of
Humberto's work.
The interview is
also
unprecedented in
its entirety.
However, I copy
below one of the
questions and
its answer for
your
appreciation:
- What do you
think of
Humberto
incarnate and
the Spirit
Humberto?
In Humberto
Campo's first
psychographic
book,
Chronicles from
Beyond the Grave,
published in
1937, three
years after his
disembodiment,
which occurred
in 1934, already
in the preface
the author
mentions his
materialistic
past, in which
transcendental
ideas of
perpetuity of
the Spirit would
be idealistic
and far from the
practical
reality of daily
life. As an
incarnate his
nature,
rebellious and
his bitterness
due to the
sufferings and
pains in life
experiences, as
he himself says,
prevented his
faith to
flourish in his
troubled heart
(...) full of
religious and
philosophical
formulas of his
time as he says
"the worst sick
is always the
one who has
experienced all
known specific
(medicines)".
Disembodied, he
is surprised by
the new
situation beyond
the grave. In
his later years
he thought that
the tomb would
be the very end,
and when he
becomes aware
that life
continues after
death, he is
surprised when
facing the
spiritual
reality. It in
no way
corresponds to a
religion full of
symbols, angels,
heaven and hell.
This new
experience
finally opens
his heart to the
Gospel medicine,
and he finds
himself as a new
student in the
face of
eternity, as
reported in the
story "De um
Casarao de outro
mundo" (free
translation:
From a mansion
of another world":
"Oh, my
God, I am now
learning the
luminous
alphabets that
your great ones
wrote with gold
resplendent
chalk on the
book of nature.
Let me be a boy
again to
understand the
lesson you are
teaching me
now". The work
of Humberto de
Campos
disembodied is
the work of an
intellectual
advanced Spirit,
now awake, who
eagerly seeks to
regenerate his
heart, as he
writes in the
preface of the
book Boa Nova
(Good News):
"There are
Enlightened and
Evangelized
Spirits and now
I ask God to
bless me and let
me hope that I
will become one
of the latter".
Humberto de
Campos awakens
virtues and
teaches with
accuracy
It will be of
great interest
to all of us if
we read all
published works
authored by this
Spirit, under
the names of
Humberto de
Campos, and
Brother X. The
books are
psychographics
of Chico Xavier.
His work is full
of a pure
feeling, brought
to him by the
reading of the
Gospel. His
work, such as
chronicles,
interviews and
reports, reflect
a deep love and
trust in the
Holly Father,
encouraging us
to moral
improvement.
With simple
examples, but
consistent with
every day's
life, the
spiritual author
awakens virtues
in us and
encourages and
teaches us with
accuracy.
By showing his
feelings in the
extraordinary
book Boa Nova
(Good News),
or the proposal
in Brasil -
Coração do Mundo,
Pátria do
Evangelho
(Brazil - The
Heart of the
World, Homeland
of the Gospel),
and even through
wonderful
chronics and
reports he shows
an awakened
Spirit, focused
on solidarity
with goodness in
his heart and
inspiring the
readers to
follow the good
path. They are
real literary
gifts.
Thus, we pay
tribute to the
writer by
remembering the
80th anniversary
of his return to
the World of
Spirits. Our
gratitude and
affection go to
this benefactor
of mankind.
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