Spiritualistic Science

PREFACE

Dr. Pinheiro Guedes’ reputation comes from the time of the Brazilian empire, but many people may still not be aware of who he was.

Pinheiro Guedes was a physician of the Royal Chambers, was also an army officer and later became a Senator in the new established Republic, exactly when the Constituent Assembly was installed in 1890. Therefore he helped to develop the first Republican Constitution of Brazil. Pinheiro Guedes was at the time the representative of the state of Mato Grosso together with Joaquim Murtinho.

His independence of character and the sincerity of his beliefs made him and his friend Angelo Torterolli, to accept the responsibility of leading a commission of spiritualists, to the presence of the Emperor of Brazil, Pedro II and offer him a collection of spiritist books.

Spiritualistic Science - proves that Medicine evolved from spiritualism and gives evidence of the perfect association between the body which is usually taken care by the physician, and the spirit which presides the formation of that body, right from the beginning. In this dwells the great advantage of the physician who not only holds the knowledge of human science but also the knowledge of spiritualistic science.

In this order of ideas, Dr. Pinheiro Guedes is admirably clear and becomes irresistibly fascinating when he explains under the light of spiritualistic science, phenomenons usually classified by some as hysteria, insanity or any other similar attributions.

Spiritualistic Science - analyses and explains the origin, the nature and the evolution of the soul, the creation of matter, the role of the atoms and cells, the formation of beings, psychic force etc. It is a collection of interesting topics, thus offering us new and very useful information, in a clear, simple and persuasive language and addressed more to the reader’s reasoning than to his own beliefs and religious feelings.

Therefore, expressed in a simple language, any person interested in the relationship between Medicine - materialistic science by trade - and spiritualism, will understand that Spiritualistic Science is an important contribution for the study of Spiritualism.

Dr. Pinheiro Guedes, besides being clear in his explanations he also impresses the reader with his vision, possibly his intuition in the manner he deals with such a transcendental issue in face of a materialistic science such as Medicine.

As the reader progresses with the gathering of fascinating knowledge on incorporeal life, under the methodical and persuasive reasoning of the author of this book, he will be able to see a new perspective unfold before his eyes, which was until then unknown to him.

His dedicatory to “the Masters, who taught me to comprehend the body” seem to indicate that the author, many years ago, believed that sooner or later, his work would awaken the interest of scholars as well as people curious of facts and phenomenon of incorporeal life.

He was right and this edition of SCIENTIFIC SPIRITUALISM is the evidence of that. The editors deserve congratulations, not only for the diffusion of the knowledge abundantly transmitted in this book, but also for the justice of being able to remove from oblivion such expressive pages.

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