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Periodical: Humildade

Summary: From Pat Deveney's database:

Humildade.
Orgao Mensal de Propaganda do "Espiritismo" sob a Direccion do Grupo Humildade e Fe. Monthly
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Language: Portuguese.
1/1, December, 1906.
4 pp., 2$000 a year.

This was a Kardecist spiritualist journal with the regular excerpts from the writings of the Master, notices of other spiritualist periodicals received and articles on "The Mission of Women" and obsession and possession by evil spirits. It notably quotes Rousseau that "Man is not made for celibacy, and it is very difficult that a state so contrary to nature not lead to public or hidden disorder."

Other Sources:
Issues:Humildade V1 N2 Jan 1907
Humildade V1 N3 Feb 1907
Humildade V1 N4 Mar 1907
Humildade V1 N5 Apr 1907
Humildade V1 N6 Jun 1907
Humildade V1 N7 Jul 1907
Claude-Generated Themes:   Humildade is a small Portuguese-language Kardecist Spiritist paper whose title alone signals the moral-Christian temper of Latin Spiritism. Its content is doctrinal and devotional rather than phenomenal: an obituary of a spiritist leader who bore his illness 'with evangelical patience,' meditations on the mediums' calling to serve the cause, and a Kardecist theology of earned suffering that warns against spirits promising to lift a burden one has justly incurred. Reincarnation and moral progress underlie the whole, and a citation of the poet Guerra Junqueiro marks its Lusophone provenance. It belongs with the Kardecist Spiritist current, sharing mediumship with Anglo-American Spiritualism but keeping its distinct doctrine of humility, charity, and just deserts.

Generated by Claude from the periodical's digitized text; a thematic reading, not a bibliographic description.
Topics:Spiritism (Kardecist) | Spiritualism