Nívea Guimarães de Freitas Nasser talks to the magazine

“The candle and the bushel” is the title of our editorial, which emphasizes the importance of spirit propagation and it copies the text where Emmanuel says “Spiritism requests us a kind of permanent charity – the charity of their own disclosure.”

Founder and current president of SODEC (Christian Spiritism Disclosing Society), Nívea Guimarães de Freitas Nasser talks about the origin of the institution and she says how she sees the spirit literature in a whole and reveals what pushed her to organized and published the book Fraternal Tickets. The interview given   is one of this present edition highlights. 

Another spot is the especial written by our collaborator Eugênia Pickina, titled “The human being needs to be…”, in which it weaves considerations about different ways and conceptions of life that people face daily problems and lives’ challenges, in a planet like ours, it brings out all the time. 

It happened last month in Dublin, Ireland’s capital city, three important spirit events: 15ª International Spirit Border Meeting – European Coordinating Body, 3º Educators European Meeting and the 1º Ireland Spirit Child Meeting, as Claudia Werdine shows in the report which is also one of our especial in this edition. 

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At the beginning of July 1869 appeared in Bahia the first Brazilian spirit journal: The Eco from Beyond. It was published in Salvador by Luís Olímpio Teles de Menezes, its first edition came to public only twelve years after the launching of “The Spirits’ Book”, by Allan Kardec. Being bimonthly and with 56 pages, the newspaper had got to be distributed in New York, London, Paris, Lyon, Madrid, Barcelona, Seville, Bologna and Catania.