Inter-American Institute was closed because of Julio Severo, accuses Olavo de Carvalho, who asked his adherents to write against Severo
By Julio Severo
In a video of June 11, 2020 Olavo
de Carvalho asked the administration of the Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro
to investigate me for the “crime” of exposing his occultism and his defense of
the Inquisition. In 2019, he
also asked the Federal Police in Brazil to investigate me.
His main accusation in the video is that
he had to shut down the Inter-American Institute (IAI) because of me, because I
sent my articles to IAI members and that my articles became the center of
attention at IAI, according to Carvalho’s accusation, who asked his adherents
now to take all my articles to use as a basis for attacks against me. He said:
“For example, take all the reports that
Julio Severo distributed to people, especially here in the United States,
especially to the people at the Inter-American Institute. Every week he
invented something and distributed it to all the members of the Inter-American
Institute. Until a point came where I had to close the Inter-American Institute
because it no longer made sense. Only this was being discussed at the
Inter-American Institute. Then it lost its meaning.”
He added that the closing of the
Inter-American Institute because of my articles was undoubtedly some type of
action by the São Paulo Forum (For de São Paulo). He said in his accusation:
“Of course, this is the São Paulo Forum, folks.”
It’s unbelievable. He faces a single
evangelical — who prays and has a prayer book published in the United States —
and thinks he is facing a large army or some gigantic force.
If the members of the Inter-American
Institute wanted to read my articles, they — who were educated men — knew what
they wanted.
The discussions took place in an email
group led by John Haskins, an apostate Calvinist who was the real founder of
the institute, but who for some reason gave the foundation to Carvalho. I say
apostate because today Haskins does not attend any church and thinks that all
(or almost) are heretical.
After almost 10 years in the group, I
asked to leave, but evidently the information I gave them — translations of
Carvalho’s comments available only in Portuguese — were very useful. Americans
are analytical readers. Carvalho’s habit of making himself and his supposed
merits great is something that appeals to Brazilians who are not analytical
readers. But Americans liked to read the information I made available.
Americans were and are free to read and
interpret Carvalho’s texts. They are also free to read and interpret texts by
Carvalho that I translated into English. It makes no sense to wish to take away
such freedom from readers. Only cult leaders do that.
It also makes no sense to deprive American
readers of everything Carvalho says against evangelicals in Portuguese. Because
Carvalho never had the courage to translate these attacks, I did it.
What Americans did not know about
Carvalho:
* They did not know that he uses profanity
and foul and immoral language daily on his Facebook.
* They did not know that he is the
greatest Brazilian advocate of the Inquisition.
* They did not know that he was a
professional astrologer for many years.
* They were unaware of his past and
present occult connections.
* They did not know that he has mocked and
attacked evangelicals and Protestantism in general.
While members of the Inter-American
Institute read my articles, I argued with Haskins. One of these discussions is
recorded here: Answer
to John Haskins, the Creator of the Inter-American Institute.
Haskins claimed that Carvalho has nothing
anymore to do with astrology because he allegedly fought with other astrologers
decades ago and proved that astrology is a fraud, although Carvalho never said
it in Portuguese. The problem is that Haskins tried to defend Carvalho without
understanding anything of Portuguese, the language most used by Carvalho, who
also claims that he fought with occultists.
But fights and confusions, which are
frequent problems among occultists, are frequent problems in Carvalho’s
trajectory. Mídia Sem Máscara, his website, is closed because Carvalho fought
with most of the columnists, including Heitor de Paola and Graça Salgueiro, who
were the site’s main writers. He fought with the webmaster. He also fought with
me on October 2013 because he wanted to force me, even cursing and slandering
me, to accept the advocacy of the Inquisition that he does with much passion.
As an evangelical who defends Israel and the Jews, I can never defend the
Inquisition and the Holocaust.
If then a fight of Carvalho with
astrologers and occultists is sufficient evidence that he has no involvement
with astrology and the occult today, then is the fight he had with the biggest
columnists at Mídia Sem Máscara sufficient evidence that he doesn’t have today
any involvement with conservatism?
He may have fought decades ago with
Fritjol Schuon and Martin Lings and other members of the Traditionalist School,
an occult cult that follows Islamic occultist René Guénon, who was Carvalho’s
greatest “conservative” inspiration. But today he is involved with other
members of that cult, including Catholic Steve Bannon, Catholic Wolfgang Smith
and Muslim Seyyed Hossein Nasr, all influenced by Guénon.
He says he is no longer a leftist, but he has never been able to get rid of leftist habits like swearing and defaming.
IAI had virtually no activity outside the
Internet. And one of IAI’s main activities seemed to facilitate visa issues for Carvalho’s
family members.
In his accusatory video, Carvalho said:
“Now for half a century there was no
conservative media, no conservative opposition, no conservative radio station,
no conservative speech, there was nothing, there was only left… If in a nation
with a conservative majority you didn’t have a conservative newspaper, you
didn’t have a conservative party, you didn’t have a conservative radio and you
didn’t have a conservative church.”
How does Carvalho know that during
the last 50 years there was no conservative church in Brazil if in all that
time he only attended occult groups and the Catholic Church?
And who belies Carvalho is also the CIA
itself. In
the Cold War years while the KGB funded leftist Catholic movements, the CIA
funded and encouraged conservative evangelical movements.
In 1978, the old Tupi TV channel
broadcast, every day, from Monday to Friday at 11 am, The 700 Club show, by Pat
Robertson. This show often exposed the evils of Marxism. Even though not
successful, Robertson ran for President of the United States for the Republican
Party in the 1988 campaign.
Years earlier, there was the show of Rex
Humbard, a conservative televangelist.
In 1979 the Jimmy Swaggart Ministries also
started its TV shows in Brazil, often attacking Marxism, communism, socialism,
the gay agenda, the abortion agenda, etc.
All of them were reaching the general
public, as TV was by far the largest channel of contact with the population.
With their TV shows, American televangelists brought information to millions of
people in Brazil.
I learned to admire Ronald Reagan with the
help of American televangelists, who presented all the good things he did. It
was a positive propaganda showing that Reagan was Protestant and did many
Protestant things.
The influence of American televangelists
was so great in Brazil that in 1978, Globo TV Network’s “Fantástico” show presented
a special report against Billy Graham, Pat Robertson and Rex Humbard. For its
attack, “Fantástico” interviewed Rev. William Sloane Coffin, a liberal
Presbyterian minister who was against televangelists. “Fantástico,” broadcast
on Sundays, was the largest show on Brazilian TV.
Even if there were no single evangelical
TV shows, there were evangelical publishers and magazines that were largely
conservative.
To some extent, it is good that Carvalho
suffers from hallucinations, caused by his own inflated ego, that he is the
cause of Brazilian conservatism. Thus, he has no time to accuse evangelicals of
being CIA products.
Simply ignoring the reality that
evangelicals are the greatest conservative force in Brazil, Carvalho said:
“In other words, we got out of
totalitarianism, you didn’t fuc*ing understand yet? And who did that? Was
[Brazilian President Jair] Bolsonaro? No. It was me. I did it alone. So, folks,
I’m sorry to say, but the central character of this whole story was me.”
It is natural that a person who sees
himself as, and demands, the attention of the universe has a trajectory of
fights. He will fight with anyone who opposes the cult of his personality.
There is very little time left for him to
say that he was the first astronaut, or that the Earth is flat.
Although he and his adherents acknowledge
that he alone did everything, as early as 2017 the
U.S. media recognized that evangelicals were Brazil’s greatest conservative
force.
But Carvalho, ignoring this force and even
overlooking all the work of the CIA promoting the conservative evangelical
movement in Brazil, said:
“I opened the doors for there to be a
conservative movement.”
I just didn’t know that it was Carvalho
who introduced The 700 Club show on Brazilian TV in 1978. I also didn’t know
that he had launched Jimmy Swaggart’s show in Brazil in 1979 and guided this
and other televangelists to praise Reagan. There is only one problem: In the
1970s, Carvalho was very busy teaching astrology classes. And even in the 1980s
he was very busy with his involvement in occult groups.
If it was not Carvalho who launched the
conservative American televangelists who forever changed Brazilian TV, then
what did he do? What he did was to open the doors of Brazil to the
Traditionalist School, which is mistakenly seen as a conservative movement. In
fact, although it has a conservative facade, the Traditionalist School is
essentially occult in the Guénon line.
Carvalho then appeals for his adherents to
give priority to defending him, especially against me, writing articles against
me. He said:
“You have to do it. Brazil’s future
depends on it. As a central victim of the biggest smear and slander campaign
ever carried out in Brazil and perhaps in the world. I have been suffering for
at least 25 years. For you to have an idea of the problem, if you take only one
episode of this, the Julio Severo episode, just what Julio Severo did is about
200 pages of narrative.”
Victimism is the standard tactic of communists,
and Carvalho makes use of this tactic in abundance.
In his exaggerated victimism, he puts
himself as the center of the attacks not only in Brazil, but even worldwide. Yet,
it is not quite so. All members of the Traditionalist School are criticized, as
this school is an occult cult that houses famous fascist right-wing occultists.
The most criticized during history was Julius Evola, the Antonio Gramsci on the
right. Then Steve Bannon. In fact, the main modern book against the
Traditionalist School is “War for Eternity,” published by HarperCollins in 2020
and written by the American Jewish writer Benjamin R. Teitelbaum.
The focus of this book is not, even by
far, Olavo de Carvalho, who worldwide is an unknown and strange figure. The
focus is Steve Bannon, who is mentioned 269 times. Julius Evola is mentioned
103 times. And Olavo de Carvalho? He is cited only 19 times, as an example of a
traditionalist who became Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro’s guru. The attention he received, although small, was exclusively at the expense of the attention that Bolsonaro has granted him, just as Rasputin received a lot of fame at the expense of the attention that the Russian tsar granted him. If it were not for Bolsonaro, it is doubtful that he would even be mentioned by Teitelbaum or any other American writer or journalist.
Although there are major
parallels between Julius Evola and Olavo de Carvalho,
Evola is followed by esoteric fascists from Europe, the U.S. and the whole
world, while Carvalho is followed only by Brazilian esoteric fascists. But, in
his mind, he thinks he’s much more famous now than Steve Bannon, Julius Evola
and other members of the Traditionalist School.
Outside Brazil, Carvalho is largely
unknown, despite the fact that he has lived as a self-exiled Brazilian
immigrant in the U.S. since 2005.
That is why the educated members of the
Inter-American Institute found it so interesting to read my articles, which
revealed his obscure views, available only in Portuguese, that Carvalho refused
to show to the American public.
I showed it to the American public.
Result: The Inter-American Institute,
which only worked to inflate Carvalho’s ego and deal with immigration visa
issues for his family, was closed.
The history of the Inter-American
Institute is then summarized by John Haskins founding it, Olavo de Carvalho
taking on its foundation and presidency and, later, closing its activity —
restricted to the internet — because of a Brazilian evangelical, myself, Julio
Severo, who was able to identify the dangers of the Traditionalist School.
It seems that the members of the
Inter-American Institute came to understand that the function of the IAI was
only to serve as a facade for Carvalho's hidden, egocentric and occult goals.
Portuguese
version of this article: Instituto Inter-Americano foi fechado por causa de
Julio Severo, acusa Olavo de Carvalho, que pede que seus adeptos escrevam
contra Severo
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