Very well, good evening. In truth I am paying a visit here and at the same time inspecting and reviewing the small centers or affiliates of CEFLURIS that have been around a while. And, and as I always do this review in various places, even foreign ones, I always like to say the truth that I see and the truth that I aim for. We yearn for a pure and sound truth.

In the course of my review, I have observed in all the centers that are established, a warning is necessary. I've been giving this warning, and I will reaffirm it: it takes care for a person to begin and to observe the good continuance of that which he really started in the Doctrine. Then, with this care we will thus have power to cure a series of extravangant illnesses created by the ego. Even in spirituality, in this spiritual school, we are plagued by all kinds of things in our thoughts, many times by intuitions that seem like the power of wisdom that will take us beyond steps, which are really the humble stride of the apprentice in a school in which the professor is owner of all, is God.

Thus I would like, possibly, to find a way to explicate a heedfulness for all persons who would be responsible, be it for a prayer, or for a Center of 1000 or 2000 people, it matters not the size, the heedfulness for people not to lose themselves on the way, before reaching the objective, reaching the goal, because it is a satanic temptation that one can see a lot in tbe Bible. Those who read the Bible know this, and what's more, this brings us a sign of the end of times, a sign in spiritual study of an awakening to a new stage of work. So the warning is that in all families, disunity seeks to destroy. The majority of orphans today, and most of the suffering of poverty and difficulty today, is the action of Satan within the families. Whether they be a couple without children, or a couple with many children, If the people haven't had the happiness to have faith and courage and the protection to free themselves from the effect that this power has, that is to separate father from mother, and separate the son from the father, set one against another. This is commonly seen in marriages today, 90% of which dissolve. The theme, the evidences, and even the teaching of disunion to the children makes them continue in this condition of not being able to have peace not even united, not even with their families. This happens in that moment in which the families of the Universal Family begin to have a perception of the awakening of the true union in God.

Thus, as soon as one founds a church or a center, it starts with one person or two. This is a joy, this is a force, this is a power. Soon, more and more come, and the same rhythm is strengthened, it grows. At a certain point down the road, there begins to enter a divergence between the group that committed itself to fulfilling the law of the Doctrine, and not the law of the thought of each one. It is necessary to feel this quite well, since it's necessary, when forming a Directorate, that people be very clear about fulfilling the law of the Docrine and not the law of each one.

Because when three people want to each follow their own path, each one will take their path, and that's what's happening in the Brazilian Regions and the Foreign Regions today.

I may say this: satan is reaping many people from the Doctrine because of the great ego people have, the pride, the suspiciousness, the failure of commitment, the failure of punctuality, because God is not a joke. If we would like to make groups to walk crooked, we should make a tourism group, like any other business, so we can screw around and get arrested and then it comes out in the paper that it was corrupt, that is was this or that.

However, with the Doctrine, it is different. The Justice of the Doctrine is Divine. Therefore, one cannot say that a person is right if they are not right; that a group is united, if it is not united. Therefore, by itself it clearly presents itself that it is not united. Not being united, it has no force. Now, this is not the fault of the goodwill of the spirit of each to unite, because this is the will of God in each one of us. It is the fault of the actions of various other worldly senses, egoist, powerful, that work their way into the Directorate, in the united groups, and make the fabric come undone. This is very bad for CEFLURIS because it diminishes the capacity for union that CEFLURIS brings, it diminishes the capacity of people to transmit, and expand the truth of Sebastião Mota de Melo, who is responsible for the entity that is today doctrinating in various places. Therefore, I want to give this warning here because there are already several centers and it may be that each one would like to speak briefly about their center, not only of that which is nice and pretty, and which we see, but also of that which they themselves know is not nice and pretty, and which cannot be covered because one sees the ugly as well. Well, may all this bring about this force and this understanding, which I desire, through this, my work here, my sacrifice, and the sacrifice of all my brothers, to help us strengthen this chain so that satan does not have more force than God. And likewise, let us not give energy to make that negative current become stronger within a sector of the church than the positive current. Because, when there is disunion, the negative current is receiving more force than the positive current. And I come here to fortify the current of the Doctrine, the current of spiritual education. One very fine point that deserves our attention, our care, because often disagreeable things happen that are not to the liking, nor are the will of the members themselves, but rather from the negative force that comes and puts suspicion in a person- be it from jealousy, from envy, be it from the "bad news mail"-that they are a divine being prepared, very well prepared, to test whether the group is firm with God, whether it is firm within itself or not.

There are other motives that are thoughts, but which are very strong, and can lead a group to spend ten years and never become cohesive, never collect its people, and in turn, never be able to do, at their center, the work of curing at the level expected by Mestre Irineu and Sebastião Mota de Melo.

Thus this force of mine that I have been giving, be it in this Regional that I have travelled just now, or in other Regionals where I have been explaining this, giving it as an alert to the brothers and sisters, to the fighters, to the warriors of this Light-this care is calculated toward this negative front that is destroying our group. It has been destroying groups I have helped for four years, groups that bring together 50 or 60 fardados, who sing all the hymnals, observe all the calendars, and today are suffering the need of even one drink of Daime. Only now is it being recognized that all that was the result of a lack of care when they are in the cradle, when the Doctrine is budding. So, it is necessary to be careful because when it is budding, many demands of envy, of jealousy and other things that bring one down, attack. Therefore, I want to warn our Brazilian group, as well as those who are helping overseas, against making the Doctrine of Santo Daime points of contention over spirituality, nor grounds for power struggles. Because the power of matter goes only to the level that it can bear. And this means that matter is humble. If matter wants to be more than it is, then the ego is dominating. And this is no place for us to place our faith, because all matter is transitory. It thinks that it will take over the whole world, but it's already gone, there's already another president taking over Brazil, taking over whichever sector for things to be able to continue.

All the brothers and sisters who are founding Santo Daime centers, under the responsibility of CEFLURIS, which is Sebastião Mota de Melo, I represent and clarify, I authorize, that they not let satan have more power than Santo Daime itself within their throne, which is you yourself. Try to discipline all your egos, to discipline all your desires to try and have an apparatus that will fulfill the desires of God, the disires of this Doctrine, the desires of Santo Daime, which are to do good, not to do evil.

Thus, with this force in our thought, I believe that all the centers will be able to reach better understanding with their partners, they will be better able to pardon some thing, some difference that exists, and possibly introduce themselves into the official calendar of CEFLURIS, which is the trabalhos: from the first page, which is the Oration, second are the Concentrations, third are the Trabalhos de Cura, and finally, the entire book, or the Official Hymnals. And further: all centers that are firm and strong, will be able to have voluntary trabalhos for the betterment of the group, which may be a Trabalho de Cura, a trabalho of betterment, which we have been doing through the improvement and the comprehension of groups with our communitarian work in the forest. Each group that is firm, which holds onto the hand of the Mestre grows, creates support and gives support to the communities from which will come the continuation of this Eternal Daime, the name of the Project that I applied many years ago to this Divine vehicle that is Eternal Daime. For all to have comprehension of who eternalizes, it is us, if we work in this communitarian line of Padrinho Sebastião Mota, which is being at peace with oneself, with one's house, with one's community, and with the duties of planting and feitio and betterment of the Doctrine.

This holds for all those here, for all in Brazil and for the entire World.

It is like a prayer one does for others, for the whole World and for oneself. And this prayer is contained in this tea. This tea is this Doctrine. Thus we cannot invent, we cannot invent, we cannot run over, we also cannot brake too much, nor retreat.

We must proceed with calm and comprehension, with a force to maintain union among the brothers and sisters, avoiding the entrance of negativity, because if it enters it is for a study, so the person will have, in the end, a positive result, and not lose one's chance, because if the result is not positive, it will certainly be negative.

Someone will leave there feeling rage toward the Doctrine, someone will leave suspicious of the wife of another, and this comes to destroy. I say this because, from the first people my dad gathered at Colônia 5000, we went through a work of this kind for us to be able to understand what we are going to do, and if we do it, to learn. Many people did not triumph. And those who did, almost all have scars because it is hard and difficult to maintain union.

But it is possible through this care, through this enlargement, through this calm. We must be calm with the brothers and sisters. Each center has its would-be Councillors, would-be Directors, and they form the Directorate in such a way that it can always have one more, and two more, and three more, and be careful here, because I am explainin because it has been like this: eight become seven, then six, thenfour, even four spread out and each one wants to construct a church…and there resounds a thing that I have said to my brothers and sisters: who speaks of CEFLURIS, speaks of Padrinho Sebastião Mota de Melo. CEFLURIS, the more it takes pity, the more it wears itself out, the more it, through these confusions, through this lack of spiritual education of people, gains a reputation of being a bad entity, or being an entity that does not take account, of being an entity that is this and that, because a person who doesn't know often uses the entity to speak grandiosely, to speak vainly or to say things that he does not fulfill.

With this care, let us speak of healing, of betterment, of who doesn't know the Hymns of Mestre Irineu because he hasn't connected, understood, he who doesn't know the Hymns of Padrinho Sebastião because he is not connecting, and connect with this. This way, soon more people are knowing, soon the person has better faith, and everything moves forward. With this care, we go, to accompany the Regional centers from here, so that soon we will have the pleasure and this great force, that thus we saw a pretty thing, in every center I went there was a pretty thing, thus it is worthwhile to try to gather the brothers and sisters together, to fulfill the Divine Promise, to complete the Divine Mission. It is not because he comes, he will be the slave of the owner of the house, or will be tossed alongside the highway, no. It is all being able to feel equal, and to feel the force of the will to speak and vibrate, not only at the point he is at, but at all points (centers).

And with this we can enter into this undersanding that he who doesn't know the root, possibly doesn't know the stalk. It is much more difficult to enter the stems and come out through the flowers, and fell the fruit to be able to be born again.

Thus, I advise my brothers and sisters of the possibility of better exchange of our understandings, to know that the mission of CEFLURIS in Amazônia is to root this Doctrine evermore so that it can withstand the swaying of the stalk and branches, which are all of these Communities of brothers and sisters, and always to put themselves on the level of Sebastião Mota de Melo of Céu do Mapiá, and of Céu do Juruá, because I am expanding his model.

This is a warning to my brothers and sisters, centers that are here, for those who would follow CEFLURIS, which I am, this entity of Padrinho Sebastião, that so much have people revolted here and there, thinking that they are even bigger than the whole world (I don't know why), but it is because of these happenings in the centers, besides which, we have the authorities that these are other lines, which we have to keep showing our spiritual mettle, without messing up. Because, what is more, they have the capacity to complicate things, and bring difficulty down on God, many times by the apparatuses that are outfitting this Divine Force. Well, the more we avoid being collected like a swindler by the authorities, being collected like a thief or a person without integrity, the more you are respecting CEFLURIS, this spiritualist entity of Mestre Raimundo Irineu Serra and of Padrinho Sebastião Mota de Melo, and of ours.

This is for those who want. Those who don't want, also, CEFLURIS is very clear in my person, for I am a brother even to those who do not want. He can come to me just the same an say I can't, I only know how to go fighting, making a scene, very well, then, keep being my brother, now the entity needs to heal, the entity needs to have a center of responsibility, be they two people, be it one, it doesn't take many people for us to be sincere, I think that it only takes one to be sincere. If I am sincere, and you're sincere, we've already united, and from there things can go. Thus, I say this because, on the contrary, things don't go. On the contrary, as I saw in churches of ours of 120 people fardados, the Padrinho there blessing, the nicest shine, and a Hinário with great force, and then something goes wrong, and they end up in a rage at the Padrinho and it all ends in nothing…it ends in nothing, or a big chunk of people wanting one thing, another wanting something else, and giving trouble to me, giving trouble to CEFLURIS, many people also wanting to get Daime from CEFLURIS without wanting to fulfill the orders, without wanting to following the regulations, and I am caught in the middle, with the burden of having to be a brother when people aren't respecting the law of the Hinários.

Up to now, I have been working, thanks to God that I haven't yet said no to anyone in respect to the good ritual functioning of Santo Daime. But it may come to pass that I cannot continue consenting to CEFLURIS certain things that many afiliates have already invented. There are afiliates to whom I gave the first Daime and taught all the Hinários, taught to make Daime, then when they learned everything, can I separate from you, friend?

Of course, I wasn't born together, nor with the belly button stuck together…and the person simply swipes the dagger and takes off, and when the Daime runs out will the Padrinho come around? How can it be? I think that however much justice there is, the closer it comes to the time when the line is drawn: who wants, fine, who doesn't want, get out, to be able, for the person to feel the truth, to feel the difficulty, not to think everything is easy, that everything is in jest. So in this sense, my brothers and sisters, I am not asserting or trying to guess anything, I am speaking about everything that CEFLURIS has been finding in the Regionals of Rio de Janeiro, Regionals of São Paulo, of the South, and Overseas. What I say here, I say wherever I go.

Let us take heed, because I am gathering, I am noting the people that I am gathering, I am noting the groups, the afiliates, and I need more firmness in all the groups, in all the afiliates, for us to speak out loud and clear to our governments, to the despots of the world, because if it is not with much truth, with all truth, many or all can shout the truth, but the world won't mend. The world swings back and forth, and it will continue to do so.

So, I want to say this, for the good of our universal family of Santo Daime: may all the centers beware of the correio de má notícia [editor's note: this phrase, attributed to Mestre Raimundo Irineu Serra, literally means "bad news postal service," and refers to the process of speaking ill of others], of jealousy, pretension, egotism, withdrawal, bad relations with CEFLURIS, you understand, so that you won't go in reverse, or even that you come to a time such that it is not possible for a person to be linked to our movement.

In this good sense of finding, on the next visit, this house much more beautiful, that other one shining, another one growing well, that one over there…you understand, because if I find less, in my account and on my scale, it will fall to the side of less because I am weighing with the scale of justice. I cannot…It is not politics, it is not the truth of the world, it is the truth of God.

My brothers and sisters, what most demonstrates the truth and what gives greatest satisfaction to Sebastião Mota de Melo and to CEFLURIS, which is the spiritualist entity representing him here, is a Trabalho well done of Cura, and people saying, I was cured of cancer, I was cured of this, I was cured of that, I saw the truth, I changed, I gave up drugs, that's it.

And this is done with faith, with courage, with calm and hope in the Mestre.

There is one more thing: the Mestre has it. If you know how to seek right, you will expand in this pleasure, but never in this pride. Pride is the owner of the world, but it only cripples. If pride were as pride wants to be, greater than God, the tranca-rua [translator's note: this is the name given to a disruptive spirits like the one channeled by an evil medium who entered the Daimista community under Sebastião Mota de Melo and contested his authority. It literally means "blocks-the-road." Read more in Alex Polari de Alverga's Forest of Visions] would not all be defective. And look at what trouble they cause. Even in spiritual hospitals, if a tranca-rua uncoils himself, there needs to be a doctor of the caliber of Sebastião Mota de Melo, a doctor and a medium. Otherwise, the two die together and he can't bring health, the respite that entity needs to be able to shine again. Let everyone be strong and every spirit will be strong. From there comes our line of having no enemies. In our Doctrine, we have opened a broad band of charity so that we have no enemies.

The enemy who comes wanting to destroy, we have the spiritual rearguard, so that before he destroys, he destroys himself, he collapses by himself.

Since we are dealing with spiritual labors, one should not look only to the material, one should not heed only the material meetings. One must be alert to the demands that come from the side of the spirits, from the side of those mocking spirits, that come from the side ofthose who don't want to renounce their business, and have the force to channel these beings and to show them the other side that they don't know, since they live in darkness on the earth and die in that same darkness of the ego.

Well, I say that it will be better when I can, thus, fitting in this warning, even if it is in a few words, but that it may be equally a prayer of CEFLURIS, and say: be careful, my brothers and sisters, not to confuse CEFLURIS with disharmony, discord and confusion. Free of this confusion, there will be no lack of Daime on this table, there will be no lack of people to gather, no lack of hinários to practice, there will be no lack of wisdom. We must learn and better ourselves for a lesson much greater than what is being seen today, which is a lesson that Padrinho Sebastião Mota gave notice of, and he is present and may gather his people at any time "and on this day many people will cry because there are many of them who don't know how to love" [in Portuguese: "e nesse dia muita gente vai chorar porque tem muitos deles que não sabem amar"]

The world is like that - soon comes the time for it to take us awayl, and it may be that there are people who say Padrinho, I drank Daime for 50 years, and the answer will still be, following that of Christ: I know thee not, you took Daime but you were always fighting, you did not live in my presence, you did not live doing as I ordered - isn't it? Thus I say that we ought to be careful. I say it not because I am free, no, but because I am walking in this sea of darkness, as Mestre Irineu Serra said.

Even if we are born mature, there are so many things in illusion there, pretty and delicious, that sometimes entangle a person. From one wanting to mix Daime with this or that, with that other force, with this or that other, inventing things without having conviction of what one is doing, without having real knowledge of what one is doing. Or showing something ugly to the authorities. If a person mixes a lot and doesn't admit to it, ends up not admitting to it, he is making a blemish on the line of the Doctrine. Thus I give here this warning for us to experiment with caution.

You may get to know, it is good to get to know, but to think that you already know, to take a poison, you will end up dying of the poison. Thus, the mixture of drugs, even Dona Jurema [translator's note: Vinho da Jurema is a psychoactive brew made from Mimosa hostilis and used in northeastern Brazil], whatever it may be. A person must know quite well which is his Lord, because the sheep know the voice of their Shepherd [In Portuguese: as ovelhas conhecem a voz do seu Pastor]. So, if Daime is a Lord and the Shepherd of our sheep, we should hear what the Doctrine has been saying and do as Padrinho Sebastião indicated.

My brothers and sister, without union, things don't move forward, they don't have much force, and CEFLURIS continues to feel the necessity of the brothers and sisters knowing more, taking more, so we will be able to, very soon, see an eternal fount of Santo Daime, an eternal fount of health, an eternal fount of healing, and develop mediumship to the point of knowing other types of illness lodged in the back of the caverns, all kinds of ugly things that come seven on top of eight and nine more behind…all this is on earth as it is in heaven. If the junk is already forming there, spiritually, when people die, they are in the same confusion, and the Spiritual Trabalhos feel this in the current. If the apparatuses do not clean themselves well, we will feel uneasy throughout the Trabalho, every Trabalho we will feel heavy, not feel joy in singing, you understand, weight even in spirituality there, there's always an emptiness in the heart, or perhaps in the clavicle, or there in the lung, the enemy arrives there and sits in a corner, or even worse if he's on the throne. The worst thing that I went through in the teachings of Saint Michael is, is to see if it is Jesus who is on the throne or if it is a Herod. Now, will we wait for this Jesus on a throne of stone there, which we will never find? Unless we make our church within ourselves, the center of our church, those who lead toward joy, toward union, toward betterment, and always there looking for success, taking away ignorance, which is a devourer, isn't it? Even heal oneself and keep healing the brothers and sisters, and keep working that Directorate of the spiritual family, from there, to have force to stop whoever it may be. Because illnesses of many types are there, waiting for the power of so many powerful people there are in the world who don't heal.

Who invents illnesses? The deeds of each one and the spiritual state of each one. And if there is no enlightenment, there will be an extermination in the material world. Because the individual himself comes and puts AIDS in a person, puts a cancer there, puts satan there, puts whatever he wants.

If a person is in the Doctrine only for power, and only wants to be big, doesn't prepare himself humbly with his guide and doesn't know himself, doesn't know his guide, it is difficult. But this is our school, this is our apprenticeship. Taking Daime, singing the Hinos, waiting for the opportunities the Mestre speaks of, you keep seeing, you keep comprehending, you keep receiving force, and along comes the component of the Doctrine, along comes the component of this work. Until one has no more doubt between himself and his group, nor between his group and CEFLURIS. The same thought, the same will, of the spiritual expansion of Raimundo Irineu Serra and Sebastião Mota de Melo, and contribute to this through one's healthy mind, one's spiritual guide, one's Guardian Angel, and all that is safety in life.

Well, I hope that this illness is cut out at the root, and that the centers which, until today have not grown in two, three years, in six months prosper, to give more animation and more hope to those struggling, struggling without doubt, to take this Doctrine forward.

All the centers that are here, I believe that they are occupying themselves with a liter of Daime or ocuppying CEFLURIS or someone from CEFLURIS to receive a cup of Daime, it is because he wanted. If he wanted, he must want more, because it is no joke. If in debt, if it doesn't work out, throw the rest there in the corner, that's fine, no one will charge me for it. Because it is not I who charge, but rather the Mestre, justice, and death. Death does not bargain. And I say this: who mistrusts CEFLURIS, mistrusts Sebastião Mota himself, because he mistrusts everything he doesn't know. Now, to doubt is common. We are here to doubt, for sure. If you do not want to be caught in doubt, you will try to get things right. Doubt and fear are the two entities that have sufficient force to cause any incarnated person difficulty.

Later comes a series of things that disturb the good growth of the brotherhood. Later come the things that will make up the balms that come to help, to heal, which is the force of the will of each to better himself, to learn the Doctine. There, at last, comes the glory that is the capacity for us to be happy, firm and strong, singing this Doctrine, without wondering which is the Master who is ordering. Certainly, the Master is God and everything is in his hands. Thus we go, building our spiritual current of Santo Daime, and many things will happen.

More I will not speak, because you will only understand this better in the continuation. Therefore, it is not necessary to speak much. Speaking of my communities in Juruá, they are open. With this connection that we have, we may be at the complete disposal of anyone that may wish to connect with the thing, to know the thing, you understand, and to improve oneself more, Mapiá is open.

Alfredo Gregório de Melo