#spiritsm

In traditional spiritism, #Santeria, #Quimbanda & #Candomble, we believe the Spirits must evolve, as we do in the material world. You can help your spiritual guide to evolve. This is done through prayers and lighting ceremonies. Apart from that, avoid feeding a spirit with blood, food, alcoholic beverages, body fluids or anything other than a simple glass of water and a candle.

Providing physical or energy links to a spirit is but a recipe for disaster, especially if it is a spirit that has the skills to mask your intentions for you and other mediums.

Your role as a spiritualist is to provide light and elevation through prayer, not to provide a heterogeneous mix of energy to help the spirit acquire strength in the material realm.

The spirits are not here for your entertainment to manifest in the material world, to see you well as a physical medium and to be able to brag to your friends that you can be a physical medium. It is important never to deviate from humility and charity.

The slave trade towards America was a millionaire business, the Spanish and Portuguese traffickers (that is why the expression "Goes with a license", meaning license as permission in Portuguese) took into account the physical conditions of its human merchandise. , then sent to America slaves between 14 and 19 years... Which meant that priests with little experience in Afro-descendant cults will arrive on our lands... No slave owner dared to take the risk for reasons that there was a slave law He said: "Slaves who are old or ill cannot work, should be fed by their owners and can not be given freedom" So how did Santeria or Palo Monte arrive?

In several books that I have investigated and conversations... The Bantues were the first to transmit through signatures what we know as their knowledge with their partners, because they had a muzzle and was forbidden to communicate ... and through strokes they did on the ground (there were no cement floors) with their fingers communicated if there was any dead (skull, if there was a Spaniard with the cross and the family with the circle) then this became an encrypted method of communication that allowed rebellions of the blacks.

The Bantues from very small were hunters and this technique worked not to give away the position with respect to some animal, from as soon as 6 years were initiated in the hunting, which implied to imitate and observe hunting techniques, herbal medicine and use of the same for the poisoning of the dams. This training could last for years but it was learning by doing, so it implies that those who came to America had a basic knowledge or were in training period.

In the same way, it happened with the Yorubas who at that young age were brought as slaves and had little more than the knowledge of those divinatory arts.

As the years passed and these slaves had children, they reached agreements to teach the Yoruba el Palo and the Bantu the Osha, so that if they were sold, the remaining one could teach their culture to the children of the absent one.

Spirit Photography. The picture was commissioned by Ella Anker

19 March, the Feast of Saint Joseph, husband of the Virgin Mary. He is the foster-father of Jesus Christ. March 19 always falls during Lent, and traditionally it is a day of abstinence. This would explain the custom of St Joseph tables being filled with meatless dishes. Personally I am not familiar with St Joseph. As in, I do not work with him. Not because I don’t want to, but simply because he hasn’t come into my life. And there is such a thing as having too many saint statues in one house. Though since this is a Catholic folk magic/ Catholic witchcraft blog, I would still love to mention him here.  St Joseph.  Patron saint of: fathers, day workers, men who care/work with children, carpenters, immigrants, the universal church. (and probably a few other things too, but these are the most common) Feast day: March 19th. Most prayed to for: moving house/selling a house. By praying to him and turning his statue upside down, or buried that way.

Links to read more: https://www.italianfolkmagic.com/blog/2018/3/19/saint-joseph

https://www.catholiccompany.com/getfed/joseph-patron-fathers-families-universal-church/