{"id":4847,"date":"2024-09-12T14:50:51","date_gmt":"2024-09-12T14:50:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nuevo-renacer.com\/?page_id=4847"},"modified":"2024-10-07T11:49:26","modified_gmt":"2024-10-07T11:49:26","slug":"historia-del-espiritismo-en-espana","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/nuevo-renacer.com\/en\/historia-del-espiritismo-en-espana\/","title":{"rendered":"History of spiritism in Spain"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n

History of spiritism in Spain<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
\n
\"\"<\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
\n

Article written by Juan Miguel Fern\u00e1ndez<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
\n

It fills us with pride to be able to highlight the glorious history of our ideal, of extraordinary personalities who were the protagonists in his time of the spiritist movement world, forming a light path that was cut short by the drama fratricidal civil war, and by the work truly inquisitorial that the victors of the civil conflict subsequently carried out by removing a huge amount of documentation that refers to ideologies that are not consistent with the national-catholicism, ideas that became the creed official of the francoist state, being forced to take refuge in the interior of the homes, where he would attempt to survive the long night of dictatorship.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
\n

We already know almost all the spiritism is a neologism created by Allan Kardec <\/strong>in 1857, to distinguish it from its era of spiritsm, but we must also remember that your look phenomenal as had been practiced with a lot of seriousness prior to 1840, the date on which it is observed the first phenomena qualified spiritists, and still it took years to get your knowledge to our nation.<\/p>\n<\/div>

\"\"<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
\n
\n

The writer and playwright Jos\u00e9 Pl\u00e1cido Samson and Grandy,<\/strong> (1815-1875) natural Tenerife, wrote in his biography his interest in psychic phenomena that broke out first in the united States of America in the wake of the demonstrations that took a stage house of the Fox family, in Hysdesville, New York, to spread like a wildfire across the country, and that shortly after would come to Europe. Jos\u00e9 Pl\u00e1cido spread of the doctrines of spiritists, and is dedicated to experiments of this, driven by his friend, the Professor of Political Economy Benign Carballo. Such was his importance, which we quote in date as early as 1851 already existed in Madrid a nucleus where it experienced the mediumistic communication with the spirits, a group that attended Jos\u00e9 Pl\u00e1cido Samson, and where, in some occasion, called upon the spirit of his dear deceased friend, the poet Richard Murphy and Meade (1814-1840) died at a very young age because of tuberculosis.<\/p>\n<\/div>

\"\"<\/figure><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
\n

We find several references to their sources, direct or indirect, that inform us of spiritism background in Spain.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
\n
\n

Comments Oscar Garc\u00eda Rodr\u00edguez<\/strong>the early date of 1854, as the mediumistic experimentations , following the trajectory at the same time carried out in the main european countries, varying between fun and seriousness, also starting to take an interest in Spain, preparing the ground for the advent of Spiritism as a science and philosophical doctrine of moral consequences codified and systematized, work that would carry forward to Allan Kardec.<\/p>\n<\/div>

\"\"<\/figure><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
\n
\n

Published in C\u00e1diz in 1854 \u201cThe Tables Dancing and how to Use them. Responses of the Spirits or Questions that were submitted through Typology\u201d. We highlight this work and the fact that in it are explained as they were discussed by Kardec in the number of the Spiritist Magazine April 1868.<\/p>\n<\/div>

\"\"<\/figure><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
\n
\n

Nothing reminds previous to 1855, the date on which it is created in C\u00e1diz the \u201cSociety spiritualist\u201d. This first nucleus, at the request of the ecclesiastical authority was dissolved in conclave in 1857. Before, they had published the first book spiritist under the title \u201cLight and truth of spiritism\u201d, which was condemned by the Bishop, and that one of its editions published was seized when passing the border from Gibraltar towards Spain, leading as well to the first auto de fe of C\u00e1diz in 1857.<\/p>\n<\/div>

\"\"<\/figure><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
\n
\"\"
Jos\u00e9 Mar\u00eda Fern\u00e1ndez Colavida<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"\"
Captain Ram\u00f3n Lagier and Pomares <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
\n

In 1860 Jos\u00e9 Mar\u00eda Fern\u00e1ndez Colavida<\/strong>, a native of Tortosa (Tarragona), contact with the captain of the merchant navy Ramon Lagier and Pomares<\/strong> who commanded the steamer \u201cThe Monarch\u201d who gives him one of the books that he had brought from the city of Marseille, \u201cLe Livre des Esprits\u201d. He is impressed by such reading, in French, that visited him in his own boat the next day claiming that, because of his deep knowledge of the French language, translate the work into Spanish. In this way, he begins to forge one of the most prominent figures and highlights of Spiritism in Spain. So, in 1861, published, translated into English as \u201cThe book of the Spirits\u201d, signific\u00e1ndose as the first Spanish that translates the works of Allan Kardec, with whom he had a great friendship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The spiritist ideas are spread all over the world. The bishops put pressure on politicians to prevent freedom of worship and get a ministerial order, which prohibits the books spiritists, who is considered to be highly harmful to the morals of the people, resulting in a new auto de fe on October 9, 1861 in Barcelona, being burned by the torch in favor of ignorance more than 300 works spiritists seized at customs.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
\n
\n

From 1861 to 1865 was founded in Seville in the second society spiritst, directed by the General Primo de Rivera<\/strong>, and in Madrid, the \u201cSociety Esp\u00edrita Espa\u00f1ola\u201d, which later was merged with the \u201cSociety Progress-Spiritualist\u201d and countless other groups. The core seville was the most important within the new address, as well as the Company from Barcelona that it published and disseminated the works of Kardec.<\/p>\n<\/div>

\"\"<\/figure><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
\n
\n

Two years later, in 1867, is verified in Madrid, the third car of faith with the work \u201cNotion of Spiritism\u201d of Joaquin Huelbes Early<\/strong>, poet, doctor in four faculties, and as they say those who knew him, the more prodigious medium save news, well met, without exception, and in the highest degree all the mediumships .<\/p>\n<\/div>

\"\"<\/figure><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
\n
\n

And in 1868 begins the era of the self-aggrandisement of spiritism, for the thrill of the revolution that woke up and opened the consciousness Spanish in all directions, were established several centers in Soria, And\u00fajar and other points. In Madrid he met the Spanish Spiritualist Society, who founded the magazine \u201cThe Criterion\u201d, entitled \" later\u201c, The criterion Spiritist\u201d and ended up calling themselves \u201cThe Brotherhood\u201d in 1893 or 1894.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From then until 1876, countless spiritist centres sprang up.<\/p>\n<\/div>

\"\"<\/figure><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
\n
\n

A Spiritist Society was started in Seville, which published the newspaper \"El Espiritismo\", the second of the newspapers published in Spain and one of the best written. The Society of Cadiz was revived, and others were created in Andalusia and Extremadura, including one for women in Torre de Miguel Sesmero (Badajoz); The \"Sociedad Barcelonesa de Estudios Psicol\u00f3gicos\" appeared with its \"Revista Espiritista\", founded by Jos\u00e9 Mar\u00eda Fern\u00e1ndez Colavida, translator of Kardec, and the \"Fraternidad Humana\" Centre was erected in Terrassa, of which Miguel Vives was the soul, a noble-hearted man, who practised homeopathic medicine and was considered one of the most outstanding spiritists, with great verbosity and conditions to attract a certain public. We are told that he read with predilection the works of Allan Kardec, discarding or ignoring how many works on psychism are due to Rochas, Binet, Ochorowictz, Janet, Gibier, etc. and he composed \"Gu\u00eda pr\u00e1ctica del espiritista\" (Practical guide of the spiritist). At the same time, Dr. Manuel Ans\u00f3 y Monz\u00f3 founded the magazine \"La Revelaci\u00f3n y la Sociedad Espiritista Alicantina\" in Alicante, in which Don Jos\u00e9 Pastor de la Roca, chronicler of Alicante, participated.<\/p>\n<\/div>

\"\"<\/figure><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
\n
\n

The General Don Joaquin Bassols, Minister of War and one of the most zealous, created the Society matritense \u201cProgreso espiritista\u201d, called later the \u201cSociety for Psychological Studies\u201d, and a newspaper entitled \u201cEl Progreso Espiritista\u201d who were-recast in \u201cThe Criterion\u201d. It was in this paper where to Amalia Domingo Soler the published her first poem. Talk about Amalia, as a woman and poet, who knew the Spiritualism thanks to their doctor in 1873, is to highlight one of the women more valuable, which is considered today as a leader in the international spiritists circles. Headed for twenty years, \u201cThe Light of the Future\u201d and even found breaths to face dialectically with the P. Manterola, P. Flat, the P. Fita, and P. Sallar\u00e9s. Lleida due to their \u201cChristian Circle Spiritualist\u201d teachers Don Domingo Miguel and Jose Amig\u00f3 Pellicer, founder of the magazine \u201cThe Good Sense.\u201d Cordoba, Almeria, spain, Soria, Huesca, Granada, Valencia, Murcia, Malaga, Santander, Castell\u00f3n, Le\u00f3n, Logro\u00f1o, Ciudad Real, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, And\u00fajar, Sabadell, Alcal\u00e1 la Real, etc, had societies that are more or less flourishing, and published newspapers such as \u201cSpiritism\u201d (Ciudad Real); \u201cCharity\u201d (Santa Cruz de Tenerife), \u201cThe Light of Christianity\u201d (Alcal\u00e1 la Real); \u201cLucifer,\u201d \u201cThe Light of Truth\u201d and \u201cThe Light of the Future\u201d, different stages of the same newspaper, in the district of Gracia (Barcelona), and \u201cThe Lighthouse Spiritist\u201d (Tarrasa), all of which kept alive controversy with catholics, protestants and materialistic.<\/p>\n<\/div>

\"\"<\/figure><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
\n
\n

The newspaper \u201cSpiritualism\u201d, founded in Seville in 1869 by Francisco Mart\u00ed<\/strong>, and lived there until 1878, two years after the death of its founder, sustained by the widow, until the authority is abolished with a futile pretext.<\/p>\n<\/div>

\"\"<\/figure><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
\n

The group of Alcal\u00e1 la Real, which had the body of \u201cThe light of Christianity\u201d, directed by the active and intelligent practitioner Dr. Don Miguel Ruiz Mata, and the large and enthusiastic Loja (Granada), were the most important in Andalusia. When in Seville, fell the Spiritism, both groups survived many years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By that time the fever was at times, centers, books and magazines are multiplied and the wave came splashing to the regions of officials. In 1873, on the 26th of August, was presented to the parliament a proposal drafted in the following terms: \u201cThe mps who signed, knowing that the first cause of the confusion, lest the queen in the Spanish nation in the field of intelligence, in the region of feeling and in the field of works, is the lack of rational faith, is the lack in the human being of a scientific approach to adjust your relationship with the invisible world, relationships, deeply disturbed by the fatal influence of the religions positive, have the honour to submit to the approval of the Constituent Cortes, the following amendment to the draft law on the reform of the 2nd Teaching and of the faculties of Philosophy and Letters and Science. Paragraph 3 of article 30 of Title II shall be drawn up in the following way: Third: Spiritlism\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Signed this proposition D. Jos\u00e9 Navarrete, D. Anastasio Garcia-Lopez, D. Luis J. Ben\u00edtez de Lugo, D. Manuel Corchado and Mr. Round Franco.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In charge of defending it was Jos\u00e9 Navarrete, but there was no place to have occurred before the coup d'\u00e9tat of 3 January 1874.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
\n
\n

The restoration of the monarchy dealt a mortal blow to spiritism. Nevertheless, Dr. Huelbes Temprano and Torres Solanot, who was the opposite of Vives, and who, if he sinned of anything, was of excessive credulity, a physiological or rather pathological circumstance, as is proved by the brain ailment that dragged him to the grave, published propaganda articles in \"El Globo\" and \"La Tribuna\". In 1879, the determined young Don Julio Fern\u00e1ndez Mateos, a former seminarian, published in Seville \"El Espiritismo\" and two years later \"El Faro\", one of the best newspapers of the school. Fern\u00e1ndez Mateos suffered imprisonment, fines and banishment for his ideas.<\/p>\n<\/div>

\"\"<\/figure><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
\n

The odd centre was founded with its own newspaper, such as the \"Sertorian Society of Psychological Studies\", which published the \"Iris de Paz\" between 1882-1885, and the Centre of Gerona, which also had its own newspaper. In Catalonia, the \"Federaci\u00f3n Espiritista del Valle\" was created, which later became the \"Espiritista Catalana\", but disappeared due to lack of means of subsistence. Several polemics were held, the most notable being that of the Viscount of Torres Solanot with the Augustinian Fray Conrado Mui\u00f1os and those of Amalia Domingo with Manterola and Father Llanas of the Pious Schools.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
\n
\n

In 1888, on 8 September, under the presidency of the Viscount of Torres Solanot, and Jos\u00e9 Mar\u00eda Fern\u00e1ndez Colavida as Honorary President, the most important and transcendental event for spiritism took place, the celebration of the first International Spiritist Congress in Barcelona, convened by the \"Barcelona Centre for Psychological Studies\". Sixty-eight peninsular groups, centres and societies attended and adhered to the Congress, and forty-two foreign representations. Twenty-seven newspapers were represented.<\/p>\n<\/div>

\"\"<\/figure><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
\n
\n

In 1889 the International Spiritist and Spiritualist Congress met in Paris. The Spanish delegates represented the purest Kardetian orthodoxy at the Congress.<\/p>\n<\/div>

\"\"<\/figure><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
\n

Fern\u00e1ndez Colavida died and a monument tomb was erected to him in the civil cemetery of Barcelona as a collective offering of Spanish and Spanish-American spiritists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The library of the \"Centro Barcelon\u00e9s de estudios psicol\u00f3gicos\" was founded, which published the book \"Despu\u00e9s de la muerte\" by Den\u00eds, and \"Defensa del Espiritismo\" by Vallace. Torres Solanot took over the direction of the \"Revista de estudios psicol\u00f3gicos\", created by Fern\u00e1ndez Colavida.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From 1889 to 1891, propaganda continued without great variations. The school youth of Barcelona published its \"Propaganda Sheets\"; Anastasio Garc\u00eda L\u00f3pez, a doctor of baths, a practitioner of homeopathy, a man of clear intelligence, of notable sincerity and animated by the noblest desire, published among several professional books \"Cosmology, Anthropology and Sociology\". He was a freemason and president of the \"Spanish Spiritist Society\". In his last years he tried to set up a spiritist masonry, and around this time Don Quint\u00edn L\u00f3pez published \"El catecismo romano y el espiritismo\" (The Roman Catechism and Spiritism).<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
\n
\n

The seville Mario M\u00e9ndez Bejarano<\/strong>, political, and Professor of Literature, we quote in his \u201cHistory of philosophy in Spain until the TWENTIETH century,\u201d in Loja (Granada) is the multiplication of the adepts. And she says that Spiritualism had fused with the masonry. All the spiritualists were masons, and was created a lodge of adoption, which belonged to quite a few ladies. The day of the anniversary of the desencarnaci\u00f3n of Allan Kardec, is verified annually by an evening magna in the Theatre, which they used to attend as representatives of Andalusia.<\/p>\n<\/div>

\"\"<\/figure><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
\n

The 19 of October of 1892 was held the Congress of Madrid, less remarkable than that of Barcelona. The president was Don Anastasio Garcia-Lopez and the local was the hall of the Society, \"El Fomento de las Artes\u201c (The Encouragement of The Arts). The conclusions were similar to those of the Congress of Barcelona. In the same year, he founded the newspaper \u201cIrradiation\u201d and was formed in Madrid, the \u201cSociety for Psychological Studies\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
\n
\n

In 1893 appeared in the newspapers, \u201cLumen\u201d, the \u201cBulletin of the Federation of spiritist Catalan\u201d, and \u201cSpiritism\u201d in Barcelona; \u201cSpiritist Light\u201d in Madrid, \u201cThe Christian Guide\u201d in The Union; and \u201cThe Revelation\u201d in Alicante. Giving different rallies in Barcelona, Matar\u00f3, spain, Badalona, Sabadell, Tarrasa and other cities of Catalonia, despite the disappearance of the Federation.<\/p>\n<\/div>

\"\"<\/figure><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
\n
\n

In 1894, re-joining the Centre of Barcelona and the Cosmopolitan, and at the end of this year is fused to the paper \u201cConcordance of spiritism with science\u201d with the \u201cJournal of psychological studies\u201d, going on to occupy Gift Quintin Lopez, the head of the Drafting and maintaining the direction of the Viscount of Towers Solanot, now recovered from her illness of the brain, but with attempts of stroke.<\/p>\n<\/div>

\"\"<\/figure><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
\n

By those dates Don Jos\u00e9 Mu\u00f1oz L\u00f3pez, Yecla, published several articles on the successes of the photography spiritist obtained in Crevillente with the medium Do\u00f1a Dolores More. His sheath\u201c, The duty to the family\u201d by Fabregat, a young, enthusiastic cadiz, resident in Barcelona. In these years continued rallies spiritualists, with a multitude of newspapers and disappearing also the \u201cJournal of psychological studies\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
\n

Continue to print books, newspapers and magazines until 1904. At that time the spanish Spiritism is frankly orthodox and the attempts of the independent thinkers have found antipathy in the dough. Spain is orthodox in all things, even the heterodox. Still, in spite of the eclipse that suffers spiritualism, there are a large number of spiritualists and among the popular element are many schools, where it was only in communications and to \u201cgive light\u201d to the disembodied. And in almost all, there is a \u201choly man\u201d willing to revere, and you will see.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Moving forward in time, we can say that the Second Spanish Republic (1931-1939) meant a great advance for Spiritism, as it was no longer the great unknown. Spain, which was the first power in number of followers, since more than 200 Centres were registered in the Federation, was the seat of the International Spiritist Congress, which was again held in Barcelona, from the 1st to the 10th of September 1934. The authorities of both the city council and the Generalitat were very supportive. The Mayor of Barcelona, Carles Pi i Sunyer, in addition to donating the Palacio de Proyecciones, offered a reception in the City Hall to the Congress participants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The president of the Generalitat was not able to attend the opening of the international congress, but sent a representation to the deputy Amadeu Colldeforns that said at the end of his speech to congress: \u201cWelcome to our land, and may God grant that you may achieve great victories in this vast field of study and experimentation, and may these triumphs facilitate the work of the spiritual emancipation of mankind. I augur these triumphs for you, because you are accompanied by the science which enables you to control and demonstrate these spiritualistic phenomena, and with the scientific demonstration of which you can achieve the absolute victory of your ideals and of the humanitarian aspirations with which you seek to struggle against the indifference of men.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sociologist Gerard Horta's documented work \"Cos i revoluci\u00f3\" reports that in 1929, in the house of the future president Companys, mediumistic meetings took place. And likewise, in the early post-war years, in Barcelona's Modelo prison, full of anarchist and communist prisoners, there were also meetings of spiritists in the cells. At that time, the workers' movement and spiritism went hand in hand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Spiritism spread widely among the popular strata despite attacks from the Catholic Church, because of its proposal of a reasoned spirituality, without dogmas or cults, centred on universal brotherhood. In the words of Gerard Horta, it spread like \"secular, anti-authoritarian, egalitarian and socialising religion of the higher ideal of the collective good\". <\/em>It is therefore not surprising that people such as Emilio Castelar, the elected president of the First Spanish Republic, proclaimed themselves to be spiritists. Also, as Miguel Vives expressed in the Congress of 1934: \"For the spiritists, the homeland is the world and the family is humanity\". Spiritism was such a dynamic and liberating social movement in the first decades of the 20th century that only the brutal repression from 1939 onwards, with executions and pillaging, managed to silence it for decades.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During the civil war some spiritist groups continued to meet, but most of them were dissolved due to the war and political pressures, as the minutes of the spiritist centre \"La verdad por la Ciencia\" in Jumilla show. The minutes of dissolution, dated 21 January 1939, contain this revealing piece of information \u201caccording to our federation, are dissolved completely almost all the associations federated, since the onset of the revolutionary movement in Spain, but due to pressure from the revolutionaries of different ideas\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

With the end of the civil war in 1939 and the triumph of the military dictatorship, Spiritualism, like all other forms of thought that did not conform to the new totalitarian regime, was banned and persecuted. Spiritism went underground, many historical centres were closed and their documentation was hidden, destroyed or seized. The documents of the Spanish Spiritist Federation, whose headquarters were in Barcelona at the time, and of some spiritist centres were plundered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From 1939 until 1978, the year of the Spanish Constitution, spiritist ideas were shrouded in a very dark and dense cloak, the deepest of silences made its mark. Any public demonstration was tantamount to a beating and imprisonment. The centres were closed, the spiritist press suspended and all publications banned. Books were treasured with the utmost suspicion in secret places so as not to be found, and meetings, as if in the time of the catacombs, were held in absolute seclusion and almost always with the family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, on the other side of the Atlantic, in Brazil, Spiritism was taking over and many future Spanish spiritists, even without knowing it, were being initiated there to later sow the seeds that would bring it back to life in their homeland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the 1970s, several of these spiritists who had travelled to Brazil began their work of dissemination. The unrepeatable figure of Rafael Gonz\u00e1lez Molina, (1920-2005) true architect of the legalisation of Spiritism in Spain, managed to constitute the Spanish Spiritist Federation in 1984, of which he was its president until 1997, bringing to Spain the most relevant figures of the time such as: Divaldo Pereira Franco, Juan Antonio Durante, Ra\u00fal Teixeira or Jos\u00e9 Medrado, being also founder of the \"Centre for Spiritist Studies and Dissemination\". Jos\u00e9 Aniorte Alcaraz (1920-2013) who, after his experiences in that country (narrated in his autobiography \"Facts and works of a life\"), became convinced of the spiritist reality and began to publish the basic works that he has distributed free of charge since then, especially those that include the articles of Amalia Domingo Soler in collaboration with her group \"La Luz del Camino\" of Orihuela.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another character that is very dear, and that remained the Spiritualism live during all the dictatorship, both in his heart and in his works was Manuel Uceda Flowers (1923-2005), whose group \u201cLight, Science and Love\u201d Ja\u00e9n published an interesting work \u201cFrom the afterlife\u201d, where you will find a selection of papers that were given in their meetings secret from 1931 until 1979, covering the period stated above.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/div>\n\n\n\n
<\/div>\n\n\n\n
\n

In 1981 the First National Spiritist Congress took place, the first important event since the 1934 Congress. Little by little Spiritism in Spain began to emerge from its lethargy, groups began to form and federate; the clandestine meetings of a rather familiar scope, fruit of the long years of prohibition, gave way to meetings with people of identical convictions, in a constructive and comforting exchange; the magazines began their boom again; Spiritist works were once again marketed in Spain, with works coming from Argentina and with Spanish publishers, among which we highlight the \"Editora Esp\u00edrita Espa\u00f1ola\" founded by Rafael Gonz\u00e1lez Molina in 1985.<\/p>\n<\/div>

\"\"<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
<\/div>\n\n\n\n
<\/div>\n\n\n\n
\n

Days 26, 27 and 28 of November, 1992, the CONGRESS SPIRITIST WORLD in Madrid, in the Palace of Exhibitions and Congresses, during which and in the headquarters of the FEE, the madrid Puerta del Sol number 10 3\u00ba Izda., is created to promote the unification of the spiritist movement, he at the global level, the COUNCIL SPIRITIST INTERNATIONAL, being chosen as secretary, Mr. Gonz\u00e1lez Molina recognized at the international level.<\/p>\n<\/div>

\"\"<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
<\/div>\n\n\n\n
<\/div>\n\n\n\n
\n

From 1993, with a MINI CONGRESS, held in Montilla, the National Spiritist Congresses began, which is the Spiritist event par excellence in Spain, usually held during the first long weekend in December, being an ideal moment for the reunion of old friends and to learn what Spiritism is for those who are approaching it for the first time. In 2010 the VI WORLD SPIRITUAL CONGRESS was held again, this time in Valencia, and the president of the Spanish Spiritist Federation, Don Salvador Mart\u00edn Moral, has held the position since 2000. From 1997 until 2000, another very dear and respected person in Spanish Spiritism, Don Santiago Gen\u00e9 Mateu, current president of the \"Centro Espirita Joanna de Angelis\" in Reus, was the president of the Spanish Spiritist Federation.<\/p>\n<\/div>

\"\"<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The number of federated groups in Spain has increased progressively since 1984, with continuous meetings, talks, colloquiums, symposiums, national and regional congresses, editions of newspapers and magazines, various activities, generated by the spiritist groups, as well as the Spanish Spiritist Federation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Therefore, the Spiritism in Spain is brimming with the communicative health and seriousness of its best moments, as its number of followers is increasing day by day and its way of reaching the public in a clear and direct way is modernising.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sources: www.espiritasmadrid.com<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Historia del espiritismo en Espa\u00f1a Art\u00edculo redactado por Juan Miguel Fern\u00e1ndez Nos llena de orgullo poder resaltar la historia gloriosa de nuestro ideal, de personalidades extraordinarias que fueron protagonistas en su tiempo del movimiento espiritista mundial, conformando una trayectoria luminosa que se vio truncada por el drama fratricida de la guerra civil y por la […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4849,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"disabled","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4847","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"yoast_head":"\nHistoria del espiritismo en Espa\u00f1a - Uni\u00f3n Esp\u00edrita<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/nuevo-renacer.com\/en\/historia-del-espiritismo-en-espana\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Historia del espiritismo en Espa\u00f1a\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Historia del espiritismo en Espa\u00f1a Art\u00edculo redactado por Juan Miguel Fern\u00e1ndez Nos llena de orgullo poder resaltar la historia gloriosa de nuestro ideal, de personalidades extraordinarias que fueron protagonistas en su tiempo del movimiento espiritista mundial, conformando una trayectoria luminosa que se vio truncada por el drama fratricida de la guerra civil y por la […]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/nuevo-renacer.com\/en\/historia-del-espiritismo-en-espana\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Uni\u00f3n Esp\u00edrita\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/3431398063740829\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-10-07T11:49:26+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/nuevo-renacer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/flagge-spanien.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"619\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"413\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Estimated reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"21 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/nuevo-renacer.com\/historia-del-espiritismo-en-espana\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/nuevo-renacer.com\/historia-del-espiritismo-en-espana\/\",\"name\":\"Historia del espiritismo en Espa\u00f1a - Uni\u00f3n Esp\u00edrita\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/nuevo-renacer.com\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/nuevo-renacer.com\/historia-del-espiritismo-en-espana\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/nuevo-renacer.com\/historia-del-espiritismo-en-espana\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/nuevo-renacer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/flagge-spanien.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2024-09-12T14:50:51+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2024-10-07T11:49:26+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/nuevo-renacer.com\/historia-del-espiritismo-en-espana\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/nuevo-renacer.com\/historia-del-espiritismo-en-espana\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/nuevo-renacer.com\/historia-del-espiritismo-en-espana\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/nuevo-renacer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/flagge-spanien.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/nuevo-renacer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/flagge-spanien.jpg\",\"width\":619,\"height\":413},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/nuevo-renacer.com\/historia-del-espiritismo-en-espana\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Startseite\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/nuevo-renacer.com\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Historia del espiritismo en Espa\u00f1a\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/nuevo-renacer.com\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/nuevo-renacer.com\/\",\"name\":\"Uni\u00f3n Esp\u00edrita\",\"description\":\"Nuevo Renacer\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/nuevo-renacer.com\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/nuevo-renacer.com\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/nuevo-renacer.com\/#organization\",\"name\":\"UFEC\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/nuevo-renacer.com\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/nuevo-renacer.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/nuevo-renacer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/cropped-LOGO-TERMINADO1-3-3.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/nuevo-renacer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/cropped-LOGO-TERMINADO1-3-3.png\",\"width\":512,\"height\":512,\"caption\":\"UFEC\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/nuevo-renacer.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/3431398063740829\"]}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Historia del espiritismo en Espa\u00f1a - Uni\u00f3n Esp\u00edrita","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/nuevo-renacer.com\/en\/historia-del-espiritismo-en-espana\/","og_locale":"en_GB","og_type":"article","og_title":"Historia del espiritismo en Espa\u00f1a","og_description":"Historia del espiritismo en Espa\u00f1a Art\u00edculo redactado por Juan Miguel Fern\u00e1ndez Nos llena de orgullo poder resaltar la historia gloriosa de nuestro ideal, de personalidades extraordinarias que fueron protagonistas en su tiempo del movimiento espiritista mundial, conformando una trayectoria luminosa que se vio truncada por el drama fratricida de la guerra civil y por la […]","og_url":"https:\/\/nuevo-renacer.com\/en\/historia-del-espiritismo-en-espana\/","og_site_name":"Uni\u00f3n Esp\u00edrita","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/3431398063740829","article_modified_time":"2024-10-07T11:49:26+00:00","og_image":[{"width":619,"height":413,"url":"https:\/\/nuevo-renacer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/flagge-spanien.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Estimated reading time":"21 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/nuevo-renacer.com\/historia-del-espiritismo-en-espana\/","url":"https:\/\/nuevo-renacer.com\/historia-del-espiritismo-en-espana\/","name":"Historia del espiritismo en Espa\u00f1a - Uni\u00f3n Esp\u00edrita","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/nuevo-renacer.com\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/nuevo-renacer.com\/historia-del-espiritismo-en-espana\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/nuevo-renacer.com\/historia-del-espiritismo-en-espana\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/nuevo-renacer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/flagge-spanien.jpg","datePublished":"2024-09-12T14:50:51+00:00","dateModified":"2024-10-07T11:49:26+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/nuevo-renacer.com\/historia-del-espiritismo-en-espana\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-GB","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/nuevo-renacer.com\/historia-del-espiritismo-en-espana\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-GB","@id":"https:\/\/nuevo-renacer.com\/historia-del-espiritismo-en-espana\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/nuevo-renacer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/flagge-spanien.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/nuevo-renacer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/flagge-spanien.jpg","width":619,"height":413},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/nuevo-renacer.com\/historia-del-espiritismo-en-espana\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Startseite","item":"https:\/\/nuevo-renacer.com\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Historia del espiritismo en Espa\u00f1a"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/nuevo-renacer.com\/#website","url":"https:\/\/nuevo-renacer.com\/","name":"Uni\u00f3n Esp\u00edrita","description":"Nuevo Renacer","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/nuevo-renacer.com\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/nuevo-renacer.com\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-GB"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/nuevo-renacer.com\/#organization","name":"UFEC","url":"https:\/\/nuevo-renacer.com\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-GB","@id":"https:\/\/nuevo-renacer.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/nuevo-renacer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/cropped-LOGO-TERMINADO1-3-3.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/nuevo-renacer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/cropped-LOGO-TERMINADO1-3-3.png","width":512,"height":512,"caption":"UFEC"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/nuevo-renacer.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/3431398063740829"]}]}},"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/nuevo-renacer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/flagge-spanien.jpg",619,413,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/nuevo-renacer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/flagge-spanien-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/nuevo-renacer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/flagge-spanien-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/nuevo-renacer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/flagge-spanien.jpg",619,413,false],"large":["https:\/\/nuevo-renacer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/flagge-spanien.jpg",619,413,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/nuevo-renacer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/flagge-spanien.jpg",619,413,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/nuevo-renacer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/flagge-spanien.jpg",619,413,false],"trp-custom-language-flag":["https:\/\/nuevo-renacer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/flagge-spanien-18x12.jpg",18,12,true]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"adbv0","author_link":"https:\/\/nuevo-renacer.com\/en\/author\/adbv0\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Historia del espiritismo en Espa\u00f1a Art\u00edculo redactado por Juan Miguel Fern\u00e1ndez Nos llena de orgullo poder resaltar la historia gloriosa de nuestro ideal, de personalidades extraordinarias que fueron protagonistas en su tiempo del movimiento espiritista mundial, conformando una trayectoria luminosa que se vio truncada por el drama fratricida de la guerra civil y por la…","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuevo-renacer.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuevo-renacer.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuevo-renacer.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuevo-renacer.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuevo-renacer.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4847"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/nuevo-renacer.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4912,"href":"https:\/\/nuevo-renacer.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4847\/revisions\/4912"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuevo-renacer.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuevo-renacer.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}