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From Pat Deveney's database:
Guia, O. This journal contained the standard translations of
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| Guia V2 N10 Apr 15 1900 | |
| Guia V2 N11 May 15 1900 | |
| Guia V2 N12 Jun 15 1900 | |
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O Guia was a provincial Brazilian Spiritist paper published in Recife around the turn of the twentieth century, carrying on its masthead the Kardecian maxim that 'every intelligent effect has an intelligent cause.' Its pages preach the codified, Christian-moral Spiritism that Allan Kardec systematized and that took deep root in Brazil: communication with the invisible world, the consolation of a life to come, and the moral progress of the soul across successive existences. The tone is consolatory and devotional rather than sensational — the future life is offered as the cure for the fear of death, under the care of guardian spirits who 'guide and protect.' A faint inheritance of mesmeric fluid language survives at the edges, but the paper belongs squarely to the Kardecist current whose phenomena it shares with Anglo-American Spiritualism but whose reincarnationist doctrine sets it apart. Generated by Claude from the periodical's digitized text; a thematic reading, not a bibliographic description. |
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