Slave
minds working to enslave the minds of children in Brazil
By Julio Severo
On Teacher’s Day on October 15, 2020, the
Brazilian government published
a video with several references and quotes from writers recommended by Olavo de
Carvalho, considered
the Rasputin of President Jair Bolsonaro. Carvalho is a self-exiled
Brazilian immigrant to the United States since 2005.
The video was prepared by Carlos Nadalim,
National Literacy Secretary in the Ministry of Education who is a staunch adherent
of Carvalho. The video was shared on the profile of the Special Communication
Secretariat (SECOM) of the Presidency of the Republic.
According to SECOM, the video is part of
the Masters of Brazil series, which will pay homage to “some of the most
exemplary luminaries of knowledge in Brazil, who, in different ways, have made
this country their classroom.”
Among the mentions in the video are Mario
Ferreira dos Santos and Eric Voegelin, names often cited and praised by
Carvalho, who used to quote more frequently René Guénon, the Islamic occultist
who founded the Traditionalist School and a prominent figure in perennialism.
Voegelin is also part of perennialism.
Considering that there are connections between Carvalho and Guénon, it is not
surprising to find such connections between Voegelin and Guénon. A Voegelin
website unites the two who, although of
different styles, did not differ in their occult soul. Apparently, the same
maze of confusions and contradictions that was present in Guénon was also
present in Voegelin. And it is undoubtedly present in Carvalho.
According to the Cambridge University Press
in its work “An Agnostic View of Voegelin’s Gnostic Calvin,” written by William
R. Stevenson, Voegelin believed that “the ‘Gnosticism’ of the Modern age had
its roots in the Christian experience, and that the Protestant Reformation most
explicitly nourished its growth.”
Since Voegelin saw communism and Nazism as
the greatest forms of Gnosticism, he was accusing Protestantism of having
produced communism and Nazism.
But Stevenson makes it clear that “Voegelin’s
characterizing John Calvin’s project in particular as Gnostic anti-intellectualism
manifesting an obvious will to power has no sound basis in Calvin’s writings.”
Voegelin saw the Protestant Reformation as
the “Great Confusion” saying that the Reformation was “probably the biggest
piece of political mischief concocted by a man [Luther], short of the Communist
Manifesto.”
He did not spare attacks on Luther, saying
that with the Reformation “Luther destroyed the balance of human existence.” Although
Luther wrote a lot and had many books published, having been the great unifier
of the German language through his translation of the Bible, Voegelin did not
hide his total contempt for Luther’s intelligence.
Voegelin attacked Luther for his “antiphilosophism.”
That is, for him Luther was against philosophy. He mentioned “[Luther’s] almost
incredible lack of wisdom.”
He also said:
“Luther did not possess the powers of intellect
that enable a man to grasp the essence of a problem… he was singularly lacking
in intellectual insight and imagination.”
In the defense of Voegelin, Carvalho and
his adherents claim that he fought Gnosticism. But Voegelin’s interpretation of
Gnosticism was pure fanaticism: He saw Protestantism as the greatest producer
of Gnosticism and accused that Protestantism’s anti-Gnosticism was
anti-intellectualism. It is like a witch accusing Christians of witches and
claiming that witchcraft is true intellectualism and accusing that any attack
on witchcraft is anti-intellectualism.
Voegelin’s views are of an incredible intellectual
vulgarity, not to mention, intellectual dishonesty. How can he dishonestly
attack Protestantism when the largest Protestant nation in the world, the
United States, is also the most capitalist and anti-Marxist nation in the
world? When Voegelin needed political asylum, the United States granted it to
him. This is the great weakness of the U.S.: To give shelter to the enemies of
the American bases. Communists receive such shelter, and even Carvalho received
it.
The historic capitalism that made the
United States great had Protestant bases. Still, Carvalho considers Voegelin to
be a conservative greater than all American conservatives. He recommends as a
model an esoteric opposite to the main bases of American conservatism and
capitalism.
So, thanks to Nadalim’s idolatry for Olavo
de Carvalho, the Bolsonaro administration is honoring as an intellectual model
for Brazil an esoteric who dishonestly portrayed:
* Luther as a man without any
intelligence.
* The Protestant Reformation as the Great
Confusion.
* The evangelical movement as virtually
the mother of communism and Nazism.
Voegelin’s confused views, whom Carvalho elevates
as a “conservative” greater than all American conservatives, are a total insult
to all evangelicals who elected Bolsonaro.
Nadalim’s video shared by SECOM is a slap
in the face of Bolsonaro’s evangelical supporters, as Voegelin’s occult
connections make him a suspicious character, but his slander and accusations
against the evangelical movement make him a man disqualified to be used as a
model by a government
elected mainly by evangelicals.
Occultists accumulate a lot of knowledge,
but as they have not the fear of the Lord, all their knowledge and practice
turn into chaos and confusion.
Voegelin has the distinction of posing as
a man who fought some forms of the occult. But this distinction was not unique
to him. Although Guénon’s name is known among occultists, he
also posed as a man who fought some forms of the occult. Carvalho inherited
from Guénon that same pose and characteristic.
Carvalho’s taste is essentially occult and
when he recommends a writer, it is almost impossible not to find anything
occult. A genuine conservative Christian recommends genuine conservative
Christians. But what to expect from an occultist? If a fish cannot be expected to
leave its fish nature to stop swimming, it cannot be expected that an occultist
will stop exuding occultism, even when speaking of philosophy.
For years, Carvalho recommended Guénon’s
books in his “philosophy classes.” In fact, Guénon’s first book in Portuguese
was translated by Carvalho, who studied Guénon through Guénon’s direct
disciples, including Martin Lings and Michel Veber, whom Carvalho treated as
“my teacher.”
As for Mario Ferreira dos Santos, Carvalho
said in 2017 that “It is ok that people are interested in the writings of the
so-called ‘traditionalist school,’ but everything that René Guénon, Titus
Burckhardt and ‘tutti quanti’ wrote about the symbolism of numbers — the
essential language of all esotericism — it’s just a kindergarten game when
compared to what Mário Ferreira dos Santos did.”
So Carvalho placed Mario Ferreira dos
Santos as an occultist above Guénon himself. And, unlike what he recommended,
it is not at all okay for people to be interested in the writings of the Traditionalist
School, an occult movement that includes Guénon, Julius Evola, Steve Bannon and
Alexander Dugin.
The minds of Carvalho and his adherents
are enslaved to occultism disguised as philosophy and they do nothing without
enslaving others to their own intellectual and spiritual slavery.
For lack of culture and investigative
spirit, many Brazilians seem to have difficulty understanding Carvalho’s occult
nature. For several years he maintained an Inter-American Institute in the U.S.,
whose American evangelical members, attracted by an apostate Calvinist, could
not understand the real Carvalho for one reason: They could not read Portuguese
and all the controversial writings of Carvalho are in Portuguese.
So I gave them a great help: I
sent them my translation of the controversial writings and they questioned who
Carvalho was. Result: The institute closed.
While Nadalim extols Carvalho as a great
intellect, Americans question everything about Carvalho, an attitude that any intelligent
person has.
Although Carvalho says he is much
persecuted, the vast majority of reports and articles about him in English
accurately present him as a man with an occult history. One of the greatest
books against the occult, “War
For Eternity: Inside Bannon's Far-Right Circle of Global Power Brokers,” by
Benjamin R. Teitelbaum, presents the main names of Guénon’s Traditionalist
School, including Steve Bannon, Julius Evola, Alexander Dugin and Carvalho,
who was only mentioned, albeit rarely, because of the much propaganda Bolsonaro
does for him.
Teitelbaum is an American Jewish writer and
his book deals with occultism on the right in the U.S., Russia and Brazil.
Carvalho has not threatened Teitelbaum and
other Americans who exposed their occult connections, but he
has, in several videos, threatened me, asking the Bolsonaro government and the
Federal Police to investigate me. His claim is that my
exposés against him involving the Inquisition and esotericism are a threat to
Brazil’s national security.
The difference between him and me is big.
He says he is persecuted when the U.S. press exposes his occult connections,
while for
years I have been attacked by the leftist press in the United States solely
because of my conservative evangelical stances against abortion and homosexual
sin.
While Carvalho is “persecuted” for his
occult connections, I am persecuted by the left and by Carvalho himself for my
Christian connections. All criticism of the U.S. press against Carvalho is not
because of Christianity, but because of occultism and extremist rightism. All
criticism of the U.S. press against me is because of Christianity.
If Nadalim were an intelligent man like
the Americans who investigate what Carvalho says, he would see that it makes no
sense for Carvalho to defend the Inquisition in the 21st century. Carvalho
is the greatest Brazilian revisionist of the Inquisition, who tortured and
killed thousands of Jews and Protestants.
Revisionism is an essentially Marxist method
seeking to rewrite history. Leaning on revisionist authors, Carvalho rewrites
the history of the Inquisition, claiming that the tortures and murders of the
Inquisition for centuries are lies invented by American evangelicals. He
portrays the Inquisition as a human rights court that never tried, condemned,
tortured and killed Jews and Protestants.
It was not difficult for me to refute
Carvalho’s lies about the Inquisition. I
used the 1911 edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica, considered the most
conservative and the most used in the homeschooling movement.
Obviously, his revisionism is as much a
lie as it is Marxist. Nadalim is not intellectually prepared to deal with his
master’s aberrations, limiting himself to propagandize him everywhere and at
all times.
It is nonsense to think that only Marxism
is a source of mental slavery. What is happening in the Ministry of Education
of Brazil, where the greatest revisionist of the Inquisition and one of the
greatest occultists in Brazil has been exalted, goes against true intellectual
knowledge. Such revisionism is as harmful as Marxism itself.
A Ministry of Education or government that
exalts an Inquisition revisionist and occultist has problems of an intellectual
nature.
Carvalho used to quote Guénon frequently,
and only stopped after my constant exposés. Even so, on October 17, 2020, he said:
“If there is one thing I learned from René
Guénon once and for all it is: ‘The secret is OF THE SAME ESSENCE of power.’”
For Carvalho, secrecy and power have the
same essence. And he skillfully makes use of secrecy (which is the essence of
the occult) to gain power. It is an occult skill that he learned from Guénon.
In fact, he learned many things from
Guénon, including the art of being an occultist posing as an intellectual who
fights the occult. This is one of the shrewdest arts that an occultist could
practice, and Carvalho practices it extremely well. But not well enough for the
minds of American readers. Despite Carvalho’s many efforts to hide and disguise
his occultism, the U.S. press has not been convinced and continues to expose his
dark side.
It is possible that now that I am
denouncing the occult connections of Mario Ferreira dos Santos and Eric
Voegelin that Carvalho will do with them what he did with Guénon after my exposés
and quote them infrequently.
As for Carlos Nadalim, he is under total
intellectual slavery to Carvalho, serving only as Carvalho’s echo chamber in
the Ministry of Education. He also uses the homeschooling movement as a mere
echo chamber of Carvalho’s ideology. He was, until 2019, partner of the owner
of the Brasil Sem Medo website, launched by Carvalho and self-proclaimed as the
“largest conservative newspaper on the Brazilian internet.”
Nadalim is not really at the service of
homeschooling or Christian conservatism, but only placing homeschooling and
conservatism at the service of Carvalho’s ideology.
There is a saying, “Empty mind is Satan’s
workshop.” Nadalim’s mind is merely Carvalho’s workshop. In
this sense, Nadalim and other adherents of Carvalho seek to transform the
Bolsonaro administration into the Great Workshop of Carvalho.
The most tragic of all is that the
current Brazilian government was elected largely by votes from conservative
evangelicals. And now, riding on the conservative evangelical wave,
Carvalho’s extremist adherents suck at the tits of the State and pose as
saviors — a salvation full of confusion.
It is not the first time that evangelicals
have been exploited. Paulo Freire (1921-1997), a Brazilian Marxist who became
famous after “creating” a Marxist literacy method, plagiarized the literary
method of the U.S. evangelical missionary Frank Charles Laubach (1884–1970), who
visited Brazil in 1946, where he launched the Laubach Method Literacy.
According to Dr. David Gueiros Vieira, the
Paulo Freire Method is nothing more than a perverted pirate copy of the Laubach
Method.
In an article on the Escola Sem Partido
website entitled “Paulo
Freire Method or Laubach Method?” Vieira explained that the Laubach Method
was created by Laubach to help illiterate populations in the Third World to
read the Bible.
In 1915, Frank Laubach had been sent by an
evangelical mission to the island of Mindanao, in the Philippines, which was then
under American rule — since the United States defeated Spain in a war. Spanish
Catholic domination had left the Filipino population with a legacy of total
illiteracy and hatred of Americans. Laubach used his method to teach Filipinos
how to read the Bible.
After 1915, the Laubach Method was used
with great success throughout Asia and in various parts of Latin America, for
almost the entire 20th century.
Vieira said:
In Brazil, this [method] was introduced by
Laubach himself, in 1943, at the request of the Brazilian government. That
year, this educator came to Brazil to explain his methodology, as he had done
in several other Latin American nations.
I remember that visit well, because even
though I was very young, attending the third year of high school, all of us students
knew that illiteracy in Brazil was still close to 76% — which we were ashamed
of — and that this was the biggest impediment to the country’s development.
Laubach’s visit to Pernambuco caused great
repercussion in student circles. He gave numerous lectures at schools and
colleges.
There was also extensive distribution of
Laubach Method booklets, in Spanish, as the Portuguese version was not yet
ready. At that time, the Readers Digest magazine published an article about
Laubach and his method — widely read and commented on by all Brazilians at the
time, who, due to the war, had that magazine as their only literary contact
with the outside world.
At the same time, suddenly, booklets
similar to those of Laubach began to appear in Pernambuco, but with a totally
different philosophical content. Laubach’s, of an evangelical nature,
emphasized citizenship, social peace, personal ethics, Christianity and the
existence of God. The new booklets, using identical methodology, emphasized the
class struggle, propaganda of Marxist theory, atheism and the awareness of the
masses about their “status of oppressed.” The author of these other booklets
was Paulo Freire, who lent his name to this “new methodology” — from the use of
portraits and words in adult literacy — as if it were his own.
The truth then is that the struggle of an
American evangelical missionary to teach the Brazilian population to read the
Gospel was pirated and corrupted by Paulo Freire on behalf of the propaganda of
Marxism. This is called opportunism.
If Paulo Freire’s opportunism at the
expense of an American evangelical was terrible, what could result from Olavo
de Carvalho’s opportunism at the expense of the victory that evangelicals gave
Bolsonaro? What kind of education could his ideological indoctrination bring to
children?
What Freire did was to remove Christian
and biblical bases from the Laubach Method and introduce Marxist bases instead.
It was leftist plagiarism for ideological interest.
What Carlos Nadalim has done is to introduce
as references and official educational models only Mario Ferreira dos Santos,
Eric Voegelin and other names recommended by Carvalho. Brazil freed itself from
Paulo Freire’s opportunism against the evangelical Laubach and embraced
Carvalho’s opportunism against evangelicals. Riding on the conservative
evangelical wave, Nadalim promotes Carvalho, who attacks this wave.
The Freire case shows that Marxists know
how to take advantage of evangelicals. The Carvalho case shows that esoteric
right-wingers also know how to take advantage of evangelicals. Both cases are
an aberration, as both Marxists and esoteric right-wingers know that
conservative evangelicals have important knowledge and influence, but instead
of recognizing this, they prefer to exploit evangelicals for their own
ideological purposes.
Only after Carvalho’s
nominations failed at the Ministry of Education did Bolsonaro remember to
honor representatives of the conservative evangelical wave. He
eventually appointed an evangelical pastor as Minister of Education.
But how could Carvalho’s nominations be
successful? What does he understand about homeschooling? What does he
understand about education?
A good way to assess his educational
capacity is to see the fruits of this education in the lives of his own
children. Two of his children are Muslims. His eldest daughter had been forced
by him, when she was a minor, to marry a Muslim in a mosque. Carvalho himself
received an award from the Islamic dictatorship of Saudi Arabia for a biography
of Muhammad that he wrote.
Carvalho’s history is saturated with
esotericism, astrology and esoteric Islam. Even today, he continues with very
strong esoteric connections. No well-known U.S. philosopher praises and
recommends Carvalho, but Wolfgang Smith, an esoteric American adherent to
Guénon, has praised and recommended Carvalho and vice versa.
One of Carvalho’s sons, in a post on
October 12, 2018 just before Brazil’s presidential election, recommended
Bolsonaro for Islamic reasons. Luiz Gonzaga de Carvalho Filho, a self-styled
teacher who teaches astrology and esoteric classes, said:
“Now if you want to be able to have real
freedom to create independent Islamic cultural institutions or to do Islamic
homeschooling for your children and have true cultural and religious
independence from the government, vote for Bolsonaro.”
I voted for Bolsonaro, like millions of Brazilian
evangelicals. But I did not vote for him so that his administration would be
taken over by adherents of an esotericist whose confused children live and
preach Islam and esotericism.
Why doesn’t Nadalim, who seeks to distort
homeschooling and education in Brazil, use Carvalho’s own Islamic children as educational
models?
If Carvalho’s ideological indoctrination
brought confusion to his own children, who became Muslims and astrologers, could
it miraculously generate conservatism through the Ministry of Education? Could
it generate genuine conservatism in the Brazilian homeschooling movement?
Carvalho himself said:
“I have already decided: whoever wants to
see in conservative politics the purpose and essence of my writings is a square
beast, a son of a bitch and a shit across the board.”
So do not be surprised when Nadalim
promotes an alleged “homeschooling” and “conservatism” that in the end will
cause confusion for millions of children. His “homeschooling” and “conservatism”
are not centered on Jesus Christ and the Gospel, but on an extremely confused
and contradictory man who has a mouth that speaks many dirty words daily.
In one thing Laubach was absolutely right:
People need to learn to read and write in order to get to know the Bible and
its Author better. Only then will they be able to get rid of indoctrination,
illiteracy and ideological idolatry — from any source and abyss where they come
from.
Woe to anyone who falls into the tale of
Carvalho. Those who have already fallen have gained nothing. Early in his administration,
Bolsonaro appointed Ricardo Vélez as Minister of Education, who failed.
Bolsonaro confessed that he blindly named him, trusting Carvalho, who later did
not accept any responsibility, simply saying that he had had no contact with
Velez for 20 years.
The fact is that there is so much
indigence of genuine intelligence in Carvalho’s movement that he himself has
not found a single competent name among his adherents to occupy the Ministry of
Education. He had to search through his old contacts for someone who could be
much better than his current intellectually slave “students,” and the chosen
one was Velez, who has a history
of attacking Trump and praising the leftist Hillary Clinton.
To avoid the intellectual confusions of
his current adherents, Carvalho sought out an old friend and student, but to no
avail, as the result was chaos and confusion.
Another attempt by Bolsonaro to name a
“superior intellect” of the Carvalho movement was the choice of Roberto Alvim
for the highest position in the Ministry of Culture. Like Nadalim, Alvim is a hard-core
adherent of Carvalho. He
fell after praising Hitler’s Nazi German propaganda minister.
If an adherent is the result of his
master, here are the results.
Even so, fanatics are blind and prefer to
flatter to the end. On Teacher’s Day, former Minister of Education Abraham
Weintraub compared Carvalho to Jesus Christ, saying about Carvalho: “A teacher
is the one who teaches, who is really concerned with passing on knowledge. An
activity so sacred that it was what the Apostles called Jesus (rabbi or rabbi =
teacher or master). Happy Teacher’s
Day!”
One of his strangest acts as a minister
was to launch
an astrology campaign on the Ministry of Education’s own website.
After witnessing the fanaticism of
Carvalho’s adherents in the government, any intelligent person would conclude
that in their trail there is much confusion and disaster — normal elements in
the trail of any occultist.
Voegelin made a big mistake. It is not in
the evangelical movement that there is a lack of intelligence and Gnosticism.
It is in the Carvalho movement, where its adherents demonstrate remarkable
intellectual slavery.
There must be a lack of intelligence in
the Brazilian government, and there must be a lack of prayers from the people
of God for God to grant intelligence to the members of the government, because
even after Nadalim put Carvalho and Voegelin as “educational models,” few people
in the government are seeing, or confessing, that the ideas pf Carvalho are
causing confusion and disaster.
With information from Voegelin View.
Portuguese
version of this article: Mentes escravas trabalhando para escravizar a mente das
crianças do Brasil
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