A MAN'S LIFE STORY
DOES NOT FIT INTO A FILM
HOW TO GIVE DUE WORTH
TO EACH YEAR
OR INCLUDE EACH EVEN OR EACH PERSON PART OF A LIFE
WHAT MUST BE DONE
IS TO BE TRUE TO WHAT HAPPENED
AND RELATE THE ESSENCE
OF THE JOURNEY.
Mother,
my dear mother.
You always kept
your promises.
Come.
Come be near me once again.
I'll be with you.
I'm quite sure you will.
-Five minutes, sir.
-Thank you.
B Suite, please get ready!
-We're ready.
-Alright, man.
You gotta white balance.
Camera 2, Camera 3..
Please...
A minute and a half
and we'll be on air.
Saulo...
Saulo, our guest
is heading your way.
Quiet! We're starting,
we're starting!
Quietly, please.
Take your places.
Release the teaser.
-Roll credits!
-Done.
Teaser is on air.
Four, three, two...
Good evening
ladies and gentlemen,
we now present...
another edition
of our Quick Fire show.
With us tonight,
the greatest and most controversial
Brazilian medium of the century...
-Attention telecinema...
-United States, England...
...in France, Italy, Spain and Portugal
is well known.
-Roll.
-Done.
Born in 1910, in Pedro Leopoldo,
Minas Gerais.
Having lost his mother
as a child,
he did his first spirit writing
in his youth...
-Camera 1, on him.
-Chico moved to...
Uberaba in the 50's, where
he started his current center,
the Christian Spiritist
Communion Center.
-With the proceeds from more than
-Tell 2 to stay on Saulo.
over 100 books, dictated
by his spiritual guides...
Cut to 2...
-2 on Saulo.
-He has dedicated himself...
-to works...
-Leave it on him...
here comes the needling.
He has been called both
mad man and saint.
A fraud
or a phenomenon?
Do spirits exist?
Does life end after death?
-The ratings will go through the roof.
-Here with us tonight,
-our special guest,
-Yeah, yeah.
Francisco Cndido Xavier.
-Our Chico Xavier.
-Cut to 1, cut to 1.
Good evening, Chico.
We are touched...
by our dear host's words...
Did you see the wig, Orlando?
We feel unable to live up
to the expectations of this show,
so we are here under the protection
of our spiritual friends...
Put 1 on him...
-cut to 1, cut to him.
-1, close in on Xavier's hairpiece.
Is it? Is it?
So I pray to all our friends
of the spiritist faith...
Vivaldo!
Vivaldo, come quick,
our godfather's on TV!
Here I am afraid
to be even more uncivil...
than I already am
in daily life.
Chico, I'd like to know
how you'd define your life:
sacrifice,
-distrust, misapprehension?
-Cut to 2.
So many people go
through painful moments,
it would be pretentious
to think myself persecuted,
misunderstood.
So yours is a life of giving?
I will take the liberty
to use words...
different to the ones used
by the illustrious reporter.
I'd say that my life is a search...
A search for peace.
Cut to 1 and zoom in.
Of a certain inner peace...
I believe that giving
is a part of this.
I might say,
I've been helping others...
since I was a child.
''Oh clement, oh pious,
oh sweet forever Virgin Mary
pray for us,
holiest mother of God,
may we be deserving
of Christ's vows.
To thee we clamor,
we the exiled children of Eve...
...To thee we sigh,
moaning and crying
in this valley of tears...''
Go on boy!
Lick the wound.
What're you waitin' for?
Lick it already!
Do it good d'you hear,
it's only 3 Fridays.
Do it good!
''Here she is, our advocate,
turn your merciful eyes on us!
After our exile
lets us see Jesus...'
Disgustin'.
Chico, you did good being
obedient to your godmother.
Humility is a virtue of yours.
It was that magic lady
who told me to do it.
She's ain't no magic lady,
she's a healer.
She prescribed,
but it's your godmother
who gives the orders.
He's gonna be alright soon,
the torture's gonna be over.
So my tongue's magic?
No... It ain't neither.
What's botherin' you?
Godmother ain't gonna be long.
That all?
You tol' me you'd stay near me.
Ain't I near you...
Look if you pray just right,
Jesus said he's gonna send
an angel to help you.
I don' want no angel!
Ain't you gonna show me
your spinnin'top?
Huh!
You're really somethin',
Chico!
Chico!
Where're you, you brat!
Won't be too long,
afore I'm back.
How long is not too long?
Chico!
It don't matter what she does...
-Chico!
-You make like it's alright.
Chico!
You brat where're you?!
S'true that the neighbour's
daughter's dead?
That one there.
Is a fire that don't burn out,
a street broom,
swishin' this way an' that.
She made too much effort
-and look what's happened!
-Yeah...
She was kinda old to be a mother,
past the age.
Well I never.
Thirty-five and pregnant.
The problem was an inadequate
formation of the egg.
What's that, son?
The baby was in an ec...
ectopic position!
That's it.
There he goes again.
Where'd you get that, boy?
I saw her over the wall,
and the man done tol'me.
What's this son?
What else
did the doctor say?
It wasn't no doctor.
It was a voice I heard.
Rita!
Sound like something
come from the devil.
Father,
I gotta a lot of sins
on my back.
Chico, confession
is not our daily bread.
You haven't even had
your first communion, why confess?
But, I gotta lot a sins.
Again?
What is it this time?
See anything in the dark?
Heard things
that go bump in the night?
You done tol'me it
these are the devil's works.
I ain't having nothing to do
with him.
All right. Lets get
this conversation back on track...
Chico these are things
in a boy's head.
Do you want to be different
from everyone else
or do you prefer
being a good Christian?
I just' don't want
everybody on me.
I wanna keep to mysel'.
So you have to be
a good Christian.
A member of the Roman and Apostolic,
Catholic Church.
Yeah!
I wanna be a Christian.
I gotta get rid of this thing
that's draggin'me down.
Right!
That's the best choice.
But it's not easy
to be a good Christian.
Father, I understan'.
I swear an'swear again,
I wannna be a good Christian.
I want God to rid me
of this ghost,
so ain't nobody
gonna be angry at me no more.
You're made of gold, Chico.
And if the devil
comes tempting you
remember,
I'm by your side with Jesus.
You go home now and pray,
it'll relieve your head
and keep evil away.
-OK.
-May God go with you.
Father,
ain't it that,
Mr. Pascoal sent his regards.
What's this rubbish?
He's been dead
these last ten years.
But, I seen him yesterday.
No you didn't!
You're lying!
You don't know what he looked like.
You dreamed you saw him!
Well, if it's like that,
I dreamed I saw him,
I dreamed I saw this huge spot,
right here on his forehead.
Uh... a big mole right, here?
Yeah... Yeah.
Chico, make those prayers
a full rosary!
And pray correctly!
Do you hear?
It ain't 'cause I'm far away,
I don't keep an eye on you.
Pa, what do you do
when yer'far away,
-do you take a holiday?
-Holiday...
I sell luck to people
so I can make money.
Ain't there a way to make
money here, in Pedro Leopoldo?
Yeah there is...
But it is how
I know how to make it.
-But which way do yo'go?
-I go...
You ain't foolin' me.
I know you ain't a bad kid.
But what's this story
'bout seein' souls come from beyond?
-You soft in the head, are you crazy?
-NO!
I already talked to the priest.
I don'want no crazy kid.
Ijus'don'!
Go, go help him Joo.
That's right.
Alright, Chico...
There are people
who make a sacrifice,
make a vow to get a cure
for a sickness,
a cure fortheir nerves.
Get rid of evil...
So will you make this sacrifice?
-I'm willin', Father...
-Very well.
All you do is pray
the Hail Mary during the procession...
-A hundred times!
-Blessed be...
the holiest sacrament
-Blessed
-''...Holy Mary, Mother of God,
pray for us sinners,
now and...
-at the hour of our death, amen.''
-Be the holiest sacrament
-Be the holiest sacrament
-Ninety six.
''Hail Mary full of grace,
Our Lord is with thee,
blessed art thou among women,
-and blessed is the fruit... ''
-Move, Chico!
Go to the front, go.
Pray, son, pray!
Ninety seven...
Psst, ma!
You...
thinkin' that I'm gonna be washin'
you're clothes every day?
What else is there?
Damn! Damn!
Damn the day you're Pa
brought you to me...
Damn it!
I take it, because after the badness
you always come.
You gotta hold on.
-Be strong.
-I'm strong.
I'm cryin' now,
I don' cry near her.
That's not what I'm talkin' about.
I ain't gonna'be seein'yo'
for a while.
Jus'a lil' while.
Don'do this to me, don't!
Didn't I keep my promise
last time?
It's 'cause...
people're either scared
o'me orthey're pokin'fun.
Don say that...
You want me to tell you a secret?
You are the bravest boy...
jus'a minute, yer'already nine,
So...
Yo'... the bravest
an'most special man
in the whole wide world!
Special is differen'?
It's 'cause I see an'hear
what nobody else sees an'hears?
No.
It is because yer'special
that all this happens.
I prefer it diffren'.
Prefer?
Playin' tag
with the other kids?
Yeah, ma...
I'd like not to be left out
of every game.
The worse part
is gonna'to be over soon,
I promise.
A step ma ain't like
a godmother,
you'll come runnin'back
in no time.
Come here, son...
Maria Cndida...
How're you ma'am?
-Raimundo...
-Hi.
Luiza,
-Conceio...
-Pleasure...
Geralda,
-Carmosina...
-Hi.
Lucia's the baby,
and...
this...
is Francisco, see?
Did yo'like t he ride
in yerPa's cart?
-An'Jose.
-Good day.
Looks like the family's
all back together again,
All the kids of Joo and Maria!
Ain't no one gonna'
be missin'a ma no mo'.
Cidalia, is ours now, see?
Joo... Leave 'em be.
They've been separate for so long,
now they're together...
Yo'right. Let's go in.
Come with me, C'mon.
Chico, wait.
Sorry, Chico.
Now may I, you'll let me?
''...taken from
the Portuguese crown,
thus causing the Empire
to collapse.''
This is one of the essays
chosen for the state contest for 1922.
It was written by one
of your classmates.
And more,
I am pleased to say
that he received
an honorable mention.
Come here, Chico.
Francisco de Paula Cndido.
-It's always him!
-Him again?
What's going on, here?
Teacher,
it's that spirit stuff.
What's this silly spirit rubbish.
Well I never,
making up such stories!
Get up, Rosa
and go to the principal's office.
Rosa, were tellin'the truth.
Chico... It is nice to help out
your classmate, but...
I ain't lyin'.
I had a man by my side,
helpin'me.
Do you want to go
to the principal's office too?
Why don'he do
an essay right now?
Stop! Stop messing about!
Stop! Stop!
He's here.
By my side.
Right here.
Alright then,
write stuff 'boutthe sea.
'Boutthe sand on the beach...
Enough. This has already
gone far enough.
-Both of you straight to the principal's...
-I'll write it if yo'let me, miss!
''My children,
let no one mock creation.
A grain of
sand is almost nothing,
yet it is like a tiny star
reflecting God's sun.
That grain which is negligible
when stepped upon,
gains an unimaginable
dimension...
when with other grains...
it becomes an instrument...
of the passage of time ...''
Jucelio...?
Don't know nobody
by that name.
I don't know him.
Yes, ma'am.
Right Mrs. Eullia,
I'll tell my pa.
Yo'say it an'I'll repeat
so I don'get it wrong?
It seems like the pain is in his back,
but the pain is really in his lung.
Right...
Right, Mrs. Eulalia.
Chico!
S'matter?.
Somethin' bad happenin'?
I heard you talkin'.
No... nuthin's happenin'.
Who yo'talkin'to?
Where's this person
I can't see?
Oh my goodness!
Chi...
Chico forget this stuff.
Come lay down. Go to sleep.
You got school
real early tomorrow.
You don'believe me neither,
right?
This stuff in yer'head
come from this badly writ rubbish.
But, ain't he sick?
Let's make a deal.
Talk only to me.
Yer'Pa ain't got no understandin'.
An'do yo'
really unnerstan'me?
Look here, when a boy's cries
either its 'cause of school,
or 'cause of work.
With you it's diffren,
ain't it Chico?
Must be 'cause
of these things you see,
an' hear, ain't it?
l miss my ma so, so, much!
She promised
she'd come back...
but up to now she ain't...
-But yer'Ma, she's...
-She promised in the hospital too...
And she came back.
Now she's gone...
an'up to now...
In the hospital...
What did yerma say
in the hospital?
We was like we are now.
Me here sittin'
and she lyin'there...
She was sorta yeller
'cause of being sick.
My pa said
she wanted me
to go to my godmother Rita's...
Can I talk like,
kinda pretend you're my ma?
Yes, Yes.
I like you
almos'as much as I like her.
So tell me,
tell me everythin'...
You givin'yer'children
to others,
its ' cause yo'don't wan'us
no more, ain't it?
I'd never do
somethin'like that.
It's yer'pa
who can't support y'all.
Yeah...
An'then she said this:
''If anybody say's I died,
they're lyin'.
Don'believe them.
I'mjust gonna be still,
sleepin'.
An'I'm comin'back,
back to to yo'.''
She said that, did she?
She did.
An'she came back!
An'yo'believin' me?
I am...
I believe in you son.
I have faith...
Someday, somebody's gonna explain
what happens to you.
Our disembodied
friends tell us,
that the tears we shed
for those dear to us...
do them a lot of good.
when they reflect our
longing tempered with hope.
The tears light the paths...
of those who are remembered
with great affection.
But when the tears
reflect our anger...
at God's designs,
things that we cannot
immediately understand...
these tears hurt the living,
as well as those
who are no longer with us.
Very well, Chico.
Now we pass the word
to Menezes de Assis.
Thanks Saulo.
Chico,
we are in an age
of hippies and of drugs.
Many believe that in worship where
there is a trance like state,
substances such as these
are being used.
What is your opinion?
I can only speak for myself
and for Spiritism.
My Mediumship became manifest
when I was a child.
And I believe that my family
never used these substances...
on me.
-Give me 2 on the audience...
-2 , on the audience.
-Put 3 too.
-3, on the audience....
I was curious to see if the states...
-between the two cameras, showily...
-Intercut...
between the two cameras, slowly...
Wait, slowly, follow the timing.
-Cut, to 3.
-On 3.
Under a doctor's
and Emmanuels supervision,
I had experiences
with hallucinogenic drugs.
This is gonna be good...
The guy went on an acid trip
and never came back.
Orlando, back to Chico!
Yeah... Back to Chico.
They are conditions
of the human soul.
They should not be thought of
as astounding phemomena,
and liable to be attacked
by Humanity's scorn...
We haven't talked
to each other today...
You left early, didn't you?
I called you here,
you weren't in.
-Where were you?
-Hiding, same as you.
I called,
they said you weren't home.
I...
The apartment...
it's become a purgatory.
I've got to get back to work.
You really aren't going
to speak to him.
What for? To get another
all purpose letter?
''My dear Mommy,
I can see you from over here,
I love you, I miss you
bla, bla, bla.''
A standard text,
good for any desperate mother.
It was Tomas' signature!
What if he wants to speak to us,
who knows he has
an important message...
Enough, enough!
-Please, speak with him,
-enough already!
it won't hurt us any, please...
A similar signature, so what?!
Similar signature,
so what?
You know that banal stuff?.
You know that banal stuff?.
''That this is only a nightmare,
and that it'll all be over
tomorrow?''
But it won't... It won't.
It won't.
I wanted...
your pain to lessen a little.
That's all.
You got your letter and you're
still not in peace, are you?
It won't be this guy
nor anyone else who'll bring
back what we've lost!
Get it!
Damn!
I wanted so much for us
to go through this...
together,
Orlando...
But...
We're growing farther
and farther apart.
Farther and farther
and farther...
So why don't philosophers
such as Plato, Aristotle,
St. Augustine or Kant
send us their works
from beyond?
Is it too difficult
to ''translate'' their ideas?
With all due respect, sir.
Might it not be,
because they too are mediums?
That is not for me
to answer, sir.
This is a question
and answer show, not a debate!
Please forgive me,
if you thought
that's where I was going...
but, Emmanuel asks me to add
that the first book ever written
was a book of stone,
the Ten Commandments.
Spirit written by Moses.
So the general public who may
not know you, can understand.
Emmanuel is your
spiritual guide?
Yes ... and more...
Orlando, I need you,
and you just sitting there!
Come on, I left the trainee
in charge of cutting!
He is a disembodied person,
or spirit if you prefer,
-he corrects my vocabulary...
-I'm back, I'm back.
my attitudes, he helps me...
-overcome my limitations.
-What is it? What?
Calm down.
Did he bring you the peace
you were searching for?
Understanding.
-Thanks, Chico.
-See you tomorrow.
See you.
See you tomorrow.
Lock it up, Chico.
Lock up and lets go!
Has something'
happened to Lucia, pa?
No change in Lucia.
Les'go Les'go,
it's gonna be good.
What am I here for?
What for...
'cause of you being a virgin,
jeez!
I know the way.
If I wanted, I coulda'come!
You know it,
but never came.
Get down!
Get down, Chico!
What's up, Joo?
Chico... my son.
He's a bit shy,
its his first time.
Lea, come here.
Here's Joo's son.
Take care of him.
He needs relaxing.
Don't think he
looks nervous.
Come.
I knew you're house
would be good for him.
Some boys are shy like him.
When a boy becomes a man
he deserves something' better
than rum.
I believe in God,
the Almighty Father,
the Maker of Heaven and Earth,
and in Jesus Christ,
His only Son, our Lord:
Who was conceived
by the Holy Ghost,
born of the virgin Mary,
suffered
under Pontius Pilate,
''was crucified,
killed, and buried;''
He descended into Hell.
''On the third day, He rose
again from the dead;''
He ascended into Heaven...
We have a problem
in terms of Humanity and sex,
we have to consider...
with great care and respect.
Let us say,
if man's potentialities...
-We're going to have a problem.
-sight, hearing,
the immense resources
of the brain,
taste, the hands...
-What is he talking about?
-tactile hands...
-This is a live show.
-execute handiwork,
the feet.
If all these potentialities were
given to Man for education,
to do Good,
potentialities consecrated
to goodness and light,
-in God's name...
-Now what? He's said it.
Why would sex and
its diverse manifestations...
be sentenced to darkness?
Lucia, Chico,
has completely
lost her mind.
Pa's called in some healers
from Maquin.
all mighty god
give me the power
to free Lucia from the influence
of the spirit that obsesses her.
You shit...
-We are here to help...
-Get out, out!
to pray for divine support,
we're here to help...
Usin'her body ain't
gonna be much good.
Chico! Save your sister,
save her Chico!
Leave, go! Go away!
Get out! out!
You don't need
to touch her, Chico.
-Its just the vibration.
-Get out! Out!
Forgive my sister.
If she's done bad by you.
Forgive her, forgive her.
Think about the value of family,
yer'parents,
yer'siblings.
Think of yer'ma,
she is looking at you, she is here.
Forgive.
I lost two mothers,
my sister did too.
Forgive her.
Leave her
in the name of Jesus Christ.
Jesus Christ.
She's better now.
Much better.
Thank God!
But Chico,
you shouldnt
have done it the way you did.
Sorry.
You asked me but...
I'm sorry...
-I heard...
-What did you hear?
More than heard...
felt.
Someone talk to you?
Yo'afeared
to talk about this, right?
People always laugh at you...
when you tell them.
Yera medium, Chico.
That's what it is.
God.
give us strength to progress
and to rise unto you.
Give us the purest charity,
give us faith
and give us reason.
Give us purity
to make our souls mirror...
your divine image.
Do you hear, Chico?
A friendly spirit is here.
I can't see him,
but he asks
for pencil and paper.
Did you ever do spirit writing?
Chico...
Have you written things
dictated by spirits?
I've written essays, letters.
Yes.
You wrote all that.
It's from yer'Ma'.
Tired?
Confused?
I recognize yer' voice.
My Ma's letter it were yo'
who dictated it, weren't it?
Yes.
I see things
that nobody sees,
-why can't I see you?
-Just turn.
Why didn't I hear her voice?
I was asked to do it.
Who asked?
Do you really want to know?
Do you really want to know
what happens to you?
It's what I want most.
It's going to be
a lot of hard work.
I've been workin'
since I were a lil' boy.
That's true...
You're probably ready
for the three basic rules.
What rules?
The first is discipline.
-The second?
-Discipline.
The third?
Discipline.
How do I get disciplined?
You should think this over.
I know...
I know you like helping people.
But you're going to suffer...
from a lot of suspicion,
be happy from admiration
and gratitude,
sometimes feel even anger.
Sound good?
Suspicion and anger
have always been in my life.
Well, I warned you.
For starters
we have to write thirty books.
Thirty books?
I don't make much money.
What about the ink an'the paper?
I have 13 siblings!
Do yo'reckon my pa's
goin'to win the lottery?
Who are you, anyway?
It's the Devi!
I told you many times
Over the years.
He of many faces...
may show a different
face at any time.
You been insistin'
for a long time...
Chico, I didn't forget
that you swore before me
and before Christ.
I have a good memory.
Remember that boy
with the rock on his head?
He don't exist no more.
I learned a lot now.
I can almost unnerstan'
what happens to me.
Understanding
and learning with this...
What do you call it?
Spirit?
His name is Emmanuel.
Now I read books day n' night.
And there's Percio and Carmem
they help me a lot too.
Do all Peracio
and Carmem's books...
give you peace?
Yes, I'm at peace with mysel'.
I want to take this peace to all.
I'm goin'to start a place
to help those in need.
I know
you're no longerthat boy.
But to me you're the same
you always were.
Beware: many folks
are going to make fun of you.
You know it, right?
You will be doubted
and persecuted. Think on it.
I know it's for my own good.
But now I have discipline,
I have a mission:
help others
and talk about Spiritism.
The church is against it.
And me...
well I'm sorry,
if you keep on I won't...
be able
to see you anymore.
I don't want you
to be angry with me.
I'm not.
It's just that you
are a very good person.
And such goodness
is hard to find.
Give me yer' blessing?
May happiness,
our greatest good,
always be with you.
I pray to the Holy Virgin
that she pours blessings
on you.
Amen.
May God go with you,
my son.
Thanks, old friend!
Within the Catholic Church,
we have seen...
prodigious manifestations
of spirituality at Masses...
when the communion
of the spiritual vibrations...
of all the faithful is possible.
And so you believe that
the miracles of the Catholic church,
like apparitions of Our Lady
in Lourdes and Fatima,
are examples
of spirit materialization?
We've seen sainted spirits
blessing holy wafers...
the priests offered
at communion...
and transforming
into flowers of light.
...unable to explain
this phenomenon.
Therefore all the manifestations
of the divine,
that have reached us
through the Church,
which we consider to be
the mother of all civilization,
truly merit our veneration.
The spirits teach us...
that we are at different
levels of interpretation...
but that we are one family in
the eyes of our Lord Jesus Christ...
...despite being on the level
of christian spiritism,
according Allan Kardec's
concepts,
one day we left
the catholic church
with the blessing of a priest
whom we loved, like a father,
Because mediumship
beckoned to us.
This is how we started.
They're talking about him
all over the town.
-Crazy...
-He's finally flipped his lid...
Bonkers.
Now all he wants
is to listen to spirits.
Chico!
Chico, look it here!!!
It's yesterday's paper...
It says everything.
Tells about all the sickness
you helped cure,
the advice you've given.
It even has yer'poem!
The poem ain't mine, Z,
It just went through me
like the wind.
But that ain't all,
come take a look see.
You're gonna have
a lot of work tonight.
You sure are.
Now off to the store.
I'll hold everyone there
till tonight.
You must put a herb poultice
on the wound.
And trust in the power of Jesus.
Thankee my lil'saint.
What can I give you for it?
It ain't me. It's Dr. Bezerra.
You go help needy folks,
the heaven will thank us.
We thank our friends
from the spiritual plane
that have been here
helping us do good.
-Amen.
-Amen.
Good night all...
Congratulations, Chico.
Good work and good night.
Now go and rest, go on.
Good night.
Chico,
we got a present for you.
You folks are leaving
and I get the present?
Altair, get in,
stop running around in here!
Attention, Attention...
How lovely!
Look Z. Look at our work here,
-just look how beautiful...
-Now...
its up hill all the way.
-Mr. Chico, sir.
-At your service.
Look it my boy's face,
we're in need of yer'heIp,
Mr. Chico.
This is our home, mister.
-You wait yer'turn!
-Hey Carmosina.
I'm gonna help the boy
and his pa.
The house ain't just yours.
We come back later.
No, I'll see to you now.
-You alright, Z?
-Everything's fine.
Paulo.
-Yup!
-Beautiful calves, huh?
Looking good, sir.
Why are you
just standing there?!
It hurts.
I'm bleeding!
We've still got
a lot to write today.
Don't you see I can't.
My eye's sick.
You know that two eyes
are a luxury.
Open your eye...
Where is the light?
To the right.
And now?
Down.
And now?
Up to the right.
How could let your eyes
get this bad?
It's work...
too much work, sir.
No work can justify this.
What do you do?
Well, now I'm a civil servant.
Durin' the day...
right around now I go to the office...
Then on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays
we have night sessions,
on Thursdays,
study group,
at night and in my free time,
I have to write books.
This isn't civil service.
It is slavery!
I am a Spiritist... a medium.
No wonder you see spirits...
with your eye as blurry as it is!
I'm prescribing these eye drop
three times a day.
Will it be long
till I'm well again?
I'm sorry but the eye drops
Are just to relieve the symptoms.
You have a serious case
of cataract...
in your left eye.
I suggest more frequent
check ups and...
And to take better care
of yourself.
Could you move
over here, please.
-Yes.
-God bless you.
Pa, what's goin'on?
-Did you hit the jackpot?
-Better than the jackpot.
My boy's now on track.
An' I already know...
Chico, I brought you a chicken.
Thanks, son, thanks...
I know how we're
gonna sort things out.
We put a gate
on the hen house
an' if each visitor
leaves us a hen,
-we gonna be rich, no time!
-Oh pa, we can't.
Donations are only
for who really needs them.
Spirits only say that 'cause
they don't have to pay for meat
-and milk.
-Pa!
My salary is enough,
and we have our jobs too.
'Nuff for you.
Be sure I'll guide you
when I die.
Right now, I say one thing
an' you do another.
Father, Chico is arm in arm
with the other one.
So you're the one who pretends
to get messages from beyond.
I was...
I am a friend of the priest.
I could be friends
with you too.
I know.
The dark spirit
is artful
and seductive sowing his evil.
Those who communicate with me,
teach only good.
Evil is kept far away.
If that's so, tell me:
here, in God's church,
do you see
any of these spirits of yours?
Some people think
your imitations
are close to perfect.
Do you think
I should agree with them?
I didn't come
to ask for nothin'.
Jus'to see my friend.
Hey boy.
Go on, go!
I've told you a hundred times,
that a dog's place is outside.
Go on Lorde, scram!
Get outta here!
Carmosina!
There's a man
waitin' for yo'.
And he ain't one
of the usual beggars.
Mr. Francisco
de Paula Cndido?
-Alias, Chico Xavier?
-Yes?!
I am a court official and I have
come to serve you a writ.
The estate of Humberto de Campos
is suing you for illegal richment...
enrich me,
for fraud!
Many have accused you
of fraud,
-2 on Saulo!
-of making things up.
-Emmanuel is your main guide,
-Give me Chico.
-he's always with you...
-Wait a minute.
Is he here, now?
He's going to say yes,
that only he can see him.
Here by my side, but not
everybody can see him.
Aha. That's why he keeps looking
to one side so much...
Let's go to a question...
-from Reverend...
-Get the preacher on.
Set.
Don't you believe this?
-Tape, please.
-Roll it.
-And do you believe?
-No,
but there's something
there...
...each person born is the
reincarnation of one who died.
God created Adam and Eve,
the first human creatures.
They had two children,
Cain and Abel.
Could you find
an acceptable explanation,
according to reincarnation
to explain where...
-Cain and Abel came from?
-His question should be:
where did the people after
Cain and Abel come from.
Adam and Eve
I can even accept.
-What's wrong with you, man?
-Nothing...
...that we first
would like to thank...
his words full of fraternal love
and sweetness.
But with the help
of our spiritual friends,
I might ask the noble minister
to consider the Book of Genesis,
chap.IV, verses 16 & 17.
Cain having murdered Abel,
left Paradise...
Hi, Gloria.
Long time...
A year,
two months
and ten days.
What are you doing here?
We were so close,
I miss our conversations.
You didn't come to say that,
did you?
I...
Eduardo, still cries
every day, a lot.
He swears it was an accident,
that they were horsing around,
and the gun went off...
Do you think
that if we forgive your son...
-he'll get out of jail?
-No.
The prosecutor said he's going to
have to be prosecuted, no matter...
You've known Eduardo
since he was a kid.
Why would he shoot
his best friend? Think about it...
I don't know, you tell me.
-Gloria, please.
-Why?
I beg you...
Think about it.
Look here, Iara.
I also miss
our conversations.
But I miss talking to my son
much more...
I've tried everything.
Witchcraft,
meditation,
Spiritists' Circles,
Everything!
Everything.
And up to now
all I got was a letter,
that my husband thinks
is a forgery.
But you,
all you need to do is get in
the car on visiting day
and talk to your son.
-Don't Gloria.
-Get it?
-Please...
-Get it?
-Let me talk to you...
-Leave me!
We're going to take a brief break.
It's been like this
ever since the lawsuit.
Oh my.
Today it's exorcisms.
Please...
Get in line, please.
My children!
Please don't go in there.
This is not the house of God!
Miracles are performed by saints,
not liars like Chico.
Spiritism is deceitful.
Satan's most successful
and fascinating art,
designed
to entice those who have
lost their beloved ones!
Our sick sisters
must be helped here
with Jesus' love.
Fraternity
is the light of Spiritism.
Gently with the girls.
If the spirit takes hold of me,
apply the gospel vigorously.
Merciful Lord!
Have mercy on the spirirts
that obsess these girls.
Lord allow me to lead them
to the path
of light away, from evil.
Lord let me show
them good and evil.
Take the gospel!
Take it! Take it!
God forgive me, Chico!
God forgive me.
Uncle's sayin'to come back
next session.
Ain't no more today.
Chico...
Ah, I'm not speakin'
To journalists now...
You are right,
we are journalists.
But he's American,
Harry Dean...
Sir, nice to meet you.
Moi,je suis franais,
Jacques Vrenel.
I am French, my pleasure.
It's for publication
in the United States.
Your lawsuit
caused quite a stir over there.
No one's going to see
the article over here.
-You know the New York Times?
-New York Times, sir...
He doesn't even speak Portuguese.
Doesn't understand a thing.
Enchanting...
Come kiss Our Lady...
ask him about
Humberto de Campos.
Humberto de Campos...
even praised your first book,
before he died.
Who knows...
Who knows that's why
His spirit came to me.
Do you feel hurt
by the widow accusing you,
saying you are making money
off her husband's name?
Money?
Many people don't accept things
from the other side.
Oh, but she's willing
to accept.
She says that if the spirit writings
are recognized as such,
she wants the royalties
because it's her husband's creation
you merely write it down.
But is it fair?
Does someone who is dead
need to be paid?
But if there's life after death...?
That's what the lawyers say.
I'm sorry... your colleague
didn't understand a word.
He's speaking of the ''lawyer''...
Okay, no problem.
It's okay.
Polite opposition,
but troublesome at times.
No problem, no problem.
excuse me.
Excuse me, excuse me...
Excuse me.
-Do you play the piano?
-Wha...?
Do you play the piano?
Ah... I wish...
It was a present.
I ain't got no time to learn,
what's more play it.
Here's a little souvenir
for the journalist.
-Thank you.
-JEAN, ASK HIM.
Yes, yes...
We would like you
to spirit write answers
-to some questions.
-Ah yes...
Will the socialization
of the monetary system,
based on a certain percentage
of each country's revenue...
from exportation,
by emission based
on that percentage,
regulate
the exchange phenomenon?
''Each country's
regulating ballast...
has a key role in maintaining
the balance of currency.
According to the emissions
stock amortization and redemption...''
please answer in english:
have your spirits, any power
upon the future
of our living friends?
these lives are only
on a different level
that sometimes intercept.
how and why did we get here?
The idea that rules over
the orientation...
of the gemmules in the formation...
-of an animal's embryo...
''-supports the idea of evolution...
based on observations
from many different areas.''
Est-ce que vous avez
du contact avec les esprits...
des personnalits
de la literature franaise?
Comme, par exampIe,
Molire, Racine?
''Nous avons des auteurs
qui l'ont dej fait.
Les lignes qui rejoignent
dans ces...''
Bye...
Good night.
So Chico? All right?
As peopIe say,
they skinned me aIive.
UnfortunateIy,
I have bad news.
I fear he had a stroke.
Or something...
The doctor didn't say
for sure...
Said it couId be a stroke.
But he's goin'
to wake up again.
He's goin'
to wake up again.
He don'Iook good...
He's gonna wake up,
but he ain't knowin'nobody.
That ain't
what the doctor said!
He ain't gonna know nobody.
For many, many years.
He ain't gonna know nobody!
You say
you cure all these peopIe,
you gotta cure
your own brother.
Why are so many spirits
'round him?
Ourfriends are debating
if it is better
to ask Our Lord
to Iet him go.
Oh God...
He taIks to everyone
whiIe I'm at work...
hammering away,
and Iistening,
calming
and consoling peopIe.
Exactly.
And that's why
he deserves peace.
But, the way
they Iook at me.
My father...
It's very hard for me.
Do you really think
that your suffering is greaterthan his?
Let us reach out our hand...
to our brother
so he can feeI the Iove,
feeI our strength...
For his souI to find
the path of Iight,
of strength.
''Our Father,
which art in Heaven,
hallowed be thy name;
thy kingdom come;
thy will be done,
in Earth as it is in Heaven.
Give us this day
our daily bread.
And forgive us
Our trespasses,
as we forgive them
that trespass against us.
And lead us
not into temptation;
but deliver us from evil.
Amen.''
Son...
Son!
He couldn't even cure
his own brother.
He say he channels
this Bezerra de Menezes.
Lies! Lies!
Lies!
Bezerra,
Menezes Bezerra, a lie.
What does he channel for
if he can't even save his own brother.
Go away, away, you fools.
He has been embraced.
He has been embraced.
Here, David.
The caption ''Chico shows books
by authors
that coincidentally
he made 'Spirit writings'''.
-Great. Take a look at this!
-And this one?!
-Look, Jean...
-Here!
Lovely, look at this one!
The main shot for the article!
Great! Come look.
''Apparently he is a man...
Who seeks a life of sacrifice,
like that of a saint.
His conceit, however,
is evident in the pictures,
and more importantly,
our interview
was the result of a sham.
Yes. And who can say that
Chico Xavier isn't a sham too?''
-Strong stuff.
-If his guide really existed...
he wouldn't have let us fool
the hick the way we did.
Have you looked at the book
that Chico gave us?
What for?
-There, I'm done.
-Look.
Who did this?
Dunno...
We did everything right.
TO JEAN MANZON,
MAY YOU GO IN PEACE, EMMANUEL
TO MY FRIEND DAVID NASSER,
A GIFT, EMMANUEL
You will my dear reader,
come to the end of these lines...
without reaching the answer that
you have been waiting for so long.
''Is Chico Xavier a fraud
or not?''
And you will say:
'I paid good money
for this magazine...
and I still don't have
an answer to this mystery?'
The mystery
will still remain,
perhaps it will remain forever.'
The pictures are bad, huh...?
Well at least he didn't say you believed
he was American.
What a mess.
It even makes me miss
my Godmother's fork.
And you allowed this.
Vanity allowed it.
Chico,
forget the excesses
and think.
Look at the bright side.
Jesus was on the cross.
You were only on
Cruzeiro magazine.
Right, Cassiano.
Give me the earphone.
Elias hand Saulo the earphone.
Boss's orders,
let the program run.
That old law:
It's only over when it's over.
The law suit acknowledged
that the book was a result
of spirit writing.
-Saulo, go for the family drama!
-our mission isn't to be polemical.
we didn't need the chaos.
The lines of waiting people
already took up all our time.
Chico,
a phone question
from Alda in Campinas:
''My favorite cat
died six months ago.
I am very lonely.
My family hasn't
spoken to me in years.
I bought another cat
last month.
The very day I bought her,
she surprised me...
-by exactly like...
-Its too much!
-my deceased Tati
-Cats and family rejection?
...I'd like to know
if animals have souls too,''
Back on Saulo!
-''and if they reincarnate.''
-2 slowly back to Saulo.
-Dear AIda's question
-Chico, Chico, Chico!
awakens in us memories
of our beIoved pets...
-Leave it on him.
-EmmanueI says,
animaIs evoIve toward
the human condition,
as man evoIves toward
that of the angeIs.
-For men,
-3, audience.
each incarnation
brings with it
-Now, Chico. Stay on Chico!
-new experiences...
and that sometimes, even
the most deveIoped spirit...
needs to stop for a breather.
How couId you
demoraIize Spiritism like this?
Charging desperate peopIe
for a pIace in Iine?!
-UncIe, I onIy wanted...
-AItair, no!
Not another word.
This is one of the saddest days
in my Iife...
Jus'one thing...
Yer'gonna be sorry.
Who can stand
all this givin',
all the mess
you Ieave behind...
Without me, it's gonna'be
you and that miserabIe Iot.
How about the rest
of the town's peopIe?
PeopIe in Pedro LeopoIdo
say you ended the peace here.
EmmanueI said
Nobody can return
and make a new beginning...
but anyone can start over
and make a new end.
CHICO DENOUNCED
BY HIS NEPHEWAND AID
My son ain't taIking
to no one!
-No one!
-Can't stand it no more!
Chico can't make a mess
of our Iives like this.
We gonna speak to him!
Out...
Tol'yo'not to lose it
with Altair!
Pa...
He didn't say much different
from anyone else.
That I read a lot? That I've been
copying authors since I was a kid?
-Altair's family!
-How could he lose himself so?
It'll only be worse for him.
Chico we was talkin'...
this mess,
day and night
there are people at the door,
it's a never ending in and out,
like the house
belonged to them.
-For the love of God!
-I'll talk to the journalists.
I'll tell them I did not take
his words as accusingly,
he's young...
They will leave...
Chico!
Don't you understand?
It's become difficult
for all of us.
-Take Pacheco, my husband,
-Pa, calm down.
he even likes you,
but the doorbell or the phone
are always ringing,
a constant in and out,
the house has become a livin'hell.
Chico,
I didn't want to tell you.
But...
Either you go
or we do.
Carmosina...
A new beginning...
brings experiences from
the past, but made lighter.
Like a blank sheet of paper,
a new year,
a new beginning.
Passengers to Uberaba...
May God be with you.
-Cleide, I missed you!
-And how was your trip?
-It all went very well.
-Everything alright?
A good trip, thank goodness.
How's Euripedes?
''And forgive us our trespasses,
as we forgive them
that trespass against us.
And lead us
not into temptation;
but deliver us from evil.
Amen.''
''Dear mommy,
if I've been away too long,
it's 'cause we'll be together
will be much longer.
Tell Ludi that she ain't never
gonna'be aIone no mo'.
I'm always by her side.
Take care of everybody there.''
Did you hear, Ludi?
Ludmilla?
Elizabeta!
Chico...
We... We lost our son.
No, you didn't.
He now,
is one of Christ's apostles.
Mr. Felipe Neto.
Thank you.
God Bless you.
''Father, forgive what I did.
My friends, Carlos
and Flavio Antonio,
invited me to the bar
on the day...
I disembodied...''
Simone Martins.
-No, no, please.
-Please...
-Take it, please.
-No, no.
I really need you to accept it.
It 's all really pretty,
generous and full of love...
But this isn't my son!
-Maria Celeste...
-''Mommy'', ''Daddy''?
He never talked like that,
he never believed in Jesus
and I do not believe in you!
This is a joke.
-Chico...
-Yes, my daughter...
This medicine's got to be
took at the right time.
I never know what time it is.
I can't take it right.
Our spiritual friends knew this!
Here...
Look what is here for you.
Oh Chico!
''Dear mommy,
I see you from here,
I love you.
I miss you.
Our Lord Jesus' love
is sublime.
I am alive,
I've got to rid myself
of the bonds to home
to be better.
I'm well cared for here.
Bless me.
Toms Vana de Oliveira.''
Come, my daughter.
-Chico! How are you?
-Yes, doctor!
Ready?
I don't think any one
is ever ready for this.
We can't be sure
before we see the prostate,
but with your protectors
I believe it'll be benign.
-Then, I am ready.
-It'll be alright.
The nurse will give you
something to relax.
Okay? We'll see each other later.
Thanks.
I can't understand
why you didn't go see Arig...
At least to make sure.
He might have even
been able to fix you.
Cleide, Doctors study,
they know a lot...
For a medium to open up
a Christian's body
I think it is a crime.
Don't say that Chico,
I'm worried about your health...
Don't you worry, Cleide.
Emmanuel said that
I would only disembody
on a day that everybody in Brazil
was very happy.
Then you ain't never
gonna die, right?
Don't you think it makes
you look a bit... exotic?
I prefer to not to
discuss this with you.
At least my appearance
belongs to me.
You are late, Chico.
We're gonna miss the plane.
We're never late.
This TV stuff
is too new for me.
You shouldn't have accepted,
why did you?...
Emmanuel ordered you to.
Not a word about this.
Aren't you that guy
who sees spirits.
I knew it!
From UberIandia. I've seen
your name in the newspaper.
You must have seen it.
After all, you recognized me
from UberIandia.
How are you?
It's nice to know what the
other side is like, isn't it?
Here I am terrified
and you... relaxed.
-God help and save us!
-Now it's serious!
Our Lady of Aparecida!
-Help!
-Why are you screaming?
Why... Our lives are at risk.
Many people's lives are in danger.
Why should you be privileged?
If my life is in danger,
I'm gonna scream.
Oh my, Help me Lord!
Don't you think this is
a good time to prove your faith,
-your belief in immortality?
-I am terrified!
I think I might die if
we crash like everyone!
We're all going to die...!
So shut up and die politely.
Oh, God, God!
Have mercy on us...
Have mercy.
Thank God!
-Amen!
-Amen!
We thank Jesus' kindness...
for the opportunity
we were given today.
They say the ungrateful forget,
but tonight...
I was taken
far away in time,
I was with my mother...
My mother gave me
this incarnation out of kindness...
If you'll allow me
I'd like to pray as
she prayed with me
since I was four.
Our Father,
which art in heaven,
hallowed be thy name;
thy kingdom come;
thy will be done,
in Earth as it is in Heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread.
And forgive us our trespasses,
as we forgive them
that trespass against us.
And lead us not into temptation;
but deliver us from evil.
For thine is the kingdom...
Tell Saulo to ask him
to start Spirit Writing.
the power, and the glory,
for ever and ever.
Amen.''
Chico, please,
I'd like to ask you
to do a spirit writing.
Yes, yes of course.
-The whole deal.
-Thank you.
Could I have some music?
Ah yes, of course...
Music.
Don't you believe?
Not even a little, man?
No!
Not after
all that's happened.
Do you mind
waiting for just a little while?
Please!
There are things in this letter
that concern you,
and others too.
It is a difficult situation.
But tell your wife,
a mother's love
is so powerful that,
my mother helped me
find my way
even after
she was disembodied.
I know your wife
has enough Iove
to understand
your son's message.
I don't know what my wife
toId you when you met.
But she's not
the probIem, I am.
Maybe my memory faiIs me.
But I don't remember
having taIked to your wife.
You wrote her a letter.
I'm like a postman.
I receive tons of letters.
I deliver them.
Testing, testing...
Spaceship Excelsior
calling Earth base.
''Ma Goya'',
do you read me...?
This is, ''Ma Gia,''over.
Stop it, Mom.
This isn't a walkie-talkie.
It is a spaceship.
You don't say over, ''Ma Goya.''
Go ahead,
Commander Orlando.
Commander Orlando
speaking from Earth.
Do you read me
Lieutenant Tomas?
I'm sorry.
I know you don't like
listening to this...
''Ma Goya, over.''
I never told Chico that.
I swear, no one knew.
''Ma Goya. Ma Goya, over.
My dear mother,
my beloved father.
May God enlighten you.
It was very peaceful.
I didn't feel a thing.
What hurts most
is thinking of your suffering.
I've recovered
from the accident...''
What accident?
Go on. Please. Go on.
''The peace here
in the spirit plane...
makes us
want to help others.
So, I want you
to help more people.
And this is why
I want to say that...
Eduardo...
isn't guilty?!...''
What is this?!
''We were messing
with the gun,
and without either of us
doing anything much,
it went off and fired the shot
that took... me.
No one's fault.
But the result
is still the same...
I know
how dad likes his privacy,
but Grandpa wants to tell dad...
that that day
in the hospital,
he wanted to tell dad...
that he never missed...
he never missed...
a show dad did.
Well, grandpa says
the shows were always silly,
but he watched every last
one of them anyway...''
Sounds just like your Father...
''Grandpa wanted to tell you,
but the words
wouldn't come out
of his mouth.
A thousand kisses,
Tomas.''
I'll try to explain.
I was with my dad in the hospital,
he was in a coma
and...
and I was with him,
talking to him,
and I asked him
why he disdained my job,
why didn't he ever
say anything?
I did so many of the things
and they were all for him...
and that he refused
to watch...
And now Tomas...
They...
This...
What is this?
He is well.
-He's well my love...
-What is this?
The victim's parents had
a letter annexed to the suit,
supposedly dictated by son...
to Francisco Xavier,
the famous medium.
In this letter, Tomas
or Tomas' spirit,
states that he and the accused
were ''playing around'',
the gun fired randomly,
killing the victim.
The letter comes with a signature
Similar to the victim's,
as can be seen
on his ID papers
and was also submitted
to a handwriting expert.
Mr. Prosecutor,
you may question the witness.
I'd like to note
that in previous hearings
you were hostile
to the accused,
quite normal
under the circumstances,
but in great
contrast to your new attitude.
Was there no kind of appeal,
or even coercion,
which may have influenced
this change in attitude?
None whatsoever.
We...
We acted completely
out of our own free will.
Are you a Spiritist?
No. I am an atheist.
And so?
It is very difficult
as a parent
to be here in front of...
my son's killer
and ask for his release.
Very difficult.
I don't know how to explain,
but I am now
convinc...
Sorry! But I'm convinced
my son...
my son wrote this letter.
It is my son's letter.
In an unheard of decision
for the Brazilian legal system,
the victim acquitted
his own murderer.
Sir.
I am sure the jury
was influenced by that letter,
in acquitting this young man.
It is a sad day when
the dead interfere...
in the sentencing of the living.
-Early start today?
-Didn't you see.
There are piles of letters, lots of
people for the session tonight.
And we haven't even written
the two hundredth.
Well I'll be...
You never told me
why you gave them that letter.
I told you.
I said you knew everything.
That's not an answer.
Every little bit of peace,
I bring to someone
is worth
the peace that I never had.
-I never said...
-You said something like that...
Make up your mind.
Are you gonna help me
or should I look for another guide?
CHICO XAVIER WROTE 412 BOOKS
SOLD MORE THAN 40 MILLION COPIES
WAS TRANSLATED INTO 33 LANGUAGES
ALWAYS DENIED AUTHORSHIP
OF ANY OF THE BOOKS
WAS NEVER PAID ANY COPYRIGHTS
ALL REVENUE REVERTED
TO CHARITABLE INSTITUTIONS
HE DIED AGED 92
AT 7:30 PM ON JUNE 30TH 2002
TEN HOURS AFTER BRAZIL WON
THE WORLD CUP FOR THE FIFTH TIME
THE BRAZILIAN PEOPLE WERE HAPPY
When they reflect our longing
tempered with hope,
our disembodied friends tell us,
that the tears do them
a lot of good.
These tears then light the paths
of who is remembered
with such great affection.
But when the tears
reflect our anger
at God's designs,
things that we cannot understand.
When the tears reflect
our rebellion
the tears
hurt the living as well
as those who have departed.
Within the Catholic Church,
we have seen prodigious
spirituality manifest
several times, and mostly...
at morning Masses.
Where there is a communion
on the same level
of the spiritual vibrations
of all the believers
and their faith in Jesus.
We've seen
sainted spirits
blessing the holy wafers,
transforming them
into flowers of light,
that the priests offered
at communion.
...So I started shouting
''God help me!''.
And Emmanuel's spirit entered.
-It seemed like this thing...
-He entered the plane?
It sounds like something
from a TV program...
but it is true...
-He entered the plane
-You saw the spirit enter?
Then he passed those people
who could not see him,
just like most of
the people here...
can't see him.
And he asked me
''Why are you screaming?
I heard your cry for help,
what's the matter?''
And that thing had been going
for about twenty minutes.
So I said: ''Don't you think
our lives are at risk?''
And he said: ''Yes and so what?
There are many whose
lives are at risk,
you are not privileged, right?''.
So I said: ''Alright if my life
is at risk I'm going to scream!''
and I went...
and I went on screaming...
''My God help me!''
And everybody
was screaming too.
''I am afraid of dyin
in this crash too''.
And he said:
''Very well, then die politely.
Shut up and die politely...
so you don't make everyone
anxious with your screaming.
Die with faith in God''.
-Very well...
-And I said:
''I just want to know
how does one die politely''.
So I pray to all our friends
of the Spiritist faith,
to help me with their
fraternal vibrations,
since I am here,
fearful of making more...
grammatical errors...
and of being more uncivil...
than I already am in daily life.
The first book known to humanity,
was let's say, a book
from the spiritual realm,
a book of stone,
it was the Ten Commandments.
Spirit written by Moses!
The spirits teach us...
that we are at different
levels of interpretation,
but that we are one family in
the eyes of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Though we are personally on
the level of Christian Spiritism,
according to Allan Kardec's
conception,
as the mediumship...
called us
to this field of work,
which is in itself
profoundly Christian,
and so we left...
our work
in the Catholic Church...
with the blessing of a priest...
who we loved like a father.
We have a problem in terms
of sex and Humanity,
something we should consider...
with great care and mutual respect.
Lets us say...
if man's potentialties
in seeing,
hearing,
in the huge resources
of the brain,
let us say,
in taste buds,
in the hands,
the hands
that do manual works,
in the feet...
If all these potentialities were
given Man for his advancement,
for education, for wellbeing,
I'm saying that these
potentialities in God's name,
are dedicated to good
and to light,
why would sex, in its
diverse manifestations...
be sentenced to darkness?
I wouId like to ask permission
to sum up my thanks,
by saying the prayer
she recited with me...
when I was 4 years old.
''Our Father, which art in heaven,
hallowed be thy name;
thy kingdom come;
thy will be done,
in Earth as it is in Heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread.
And forgive us our trespasses,
as we forgive them
that trespass against us.
And lead us not into temptation;
but deliver us from evil.
For thine is the kingdom,
the power, and the glory,
forever and ever. Amen.''
Thank you very much.
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