We live in a time in which the actions of the evil one run free and invisible among us, because human consciousness about evil has become corrupted and numbed to the point that people no longer believe in Hell – and, to our undoing, that is all the evil one can do. the devil wants more. This week’s highlight is precisely a novel about this sweet deception, a work that was recently adapted for the cinema with great repercussion among the public.
And if the problem is the bad thing’s mistakes, a holy remedy could be the recently released biography of one of the greatest saints of the 13th century. And we can also keep the horned one away with a work made for little ones, which warms the heart and teaches them about the importance of bonds of love and charity in the family.
Another good tonic against the perversions of the timorous is a launch that arrives to demolish the work of one of its most committed agents, laureate as patron of Tupiniquim education. Also: an instruction manual to escape satanic financial control. And, finally, returning to the field of fiction: what would our political history be like if certain infernal conspiracies had not killed one of the main defenders of freedom in Brazil?
Check out these exciting releases below, and have a great weekend!
Highlights
For the second consecutive week, the main highlight of the Wall is the Seventh Sealthis time with the novel Nefarious: the evil plan, by Steve Deace. The book inspired the 2023 film of the same name, and its plot reveals evidence of the subtle and “invisible” – but strong and extremely destructive – demonic presence in today’s world, proving the popular saying that the devil’s greatest asset is to convince us of that it doesn’t exist.
The preface of the work, itself already part of the plot, involves the reader in a powerful way. Check out an excerpt:
“I have no intention of explaining how I obtained the following manuscript. This fact has its own story, quite sordid in itself. Although not nearly as important as the one you are about to read. Who knows? If the book is successful enough to, one day, be published in a paperback edition, perhaps this story will be the ‘bonus material’, added later to encourage people to buy the book once again, in a different format. Even better, when we sell the film rights, the filmmakers will have creative freedom to add backstory if they wish.
Or perhaps this story is best left untold, by me or anyone else. This only adds to the mystery.
However, it is perfectly reasonable to question whether what you are about to read is ‘true’ in the truest sense of the word. Or is it all made up? Live or Memorex, so to speak. Was this manuscript actually given to me for me to pass on, or did it all come from my imagination?
I should hope and pray that the second hypothesis is not true, and so should you, because it would be very disturbing to discover that our fellow Americans have a vivid enough imagination to foresee such absolute darkness regarding the country we share. For me, it would be even more disturbing to discover that this imagination is mine.”
The second highlight is a launch of Badger, The open door, by Aracelli Alcântara. In the book, we follow the story of Vicente, a boy who always waited for his friends to play, and who one day discovered that he could ask his mother for a best friend, who would always be with him: Vicente wanted a little brother. Vicente got what he asked for, and more, as his family continued to grow… A beautiful story about a large, united family, whose plot involves the importance of family bonds of love and charity, illustrated by the talented Gisele Daminelli. Check out a page of the work:
Other releases
By Edições Livre, the biography of Saint Elizabeth of Hungary, written by Father Albano Stolz. Daughter of the Hungarian king Andrew II, Saint Elizabeth of Hungary (1207 – 1231) was betrothed at the age of 4 to Louis IV, Duke of Thuringia. She married at 14, and had 3 children. Despite her husband’s love for her, she suffered veiled persecution at court, especially from her husband, who saw her as wasteful due to her charity towards the poor. With the death of Louis IV on a crusade, she was expelled from court, having to take shelter with her children in a pig pen. Even the beggars she once helped insulted her, fearful that they would displease her late husband’s uncle, now regent of Thuringia. She and her children were helped by pious Franciscan friars.
With the return of Louis IV’s companions from the Crusades, Isabel, along with her children, could have her rights reestablished at court, but she preferred to renounce that life to embrace the Third Order of Saint Francis. With the inheritance left by her husband, she founded a Franciscan convent and helped build a hospital. She served the poor and sick until her death at the age of 24.
Father Stolz, in this Livre publication, tells this story in detail, including the various prodigies of this gigantic heroine of faith who was a princess, a beggar and a saint. Check out an excerpt of the work below:
“He remained in this mood until midnight, when he heard the bell ringing at Matins, in the next Franciscan convent; for at this time religious people rise to praise God instead of men who sleep.
Isabel got up and went to church, where she attended divine worship. It was she who, during her husband’s lifetime, had founded that monastery, which is why she considered herself entitled to make a request to the religious. Anyone who has not yet heard or read it will never guess what the duchess requested; because only the Holy Spirit could inspire him with this idea. She begged the Franciscans to sing the Te Deum, in thanksgiving for the great tribulations that God had sent her.
This was done, and the nightly singing performed in the church of Saint Francis of Eisenach certainly pleased God as the songs of angels please Him, if not even more. Isabel, certainly, in her entire life, was never so great in the eyes of the Lord as at the time when, poor and abandoned, she spent the cold winter night in church, her heart overflowing with love and praise to God. ”
For the Avis Rare, The past promises: a new Brazil in the rearview mirror, novel by Guilherme Fiuza. Fiuza’s debut in fictional literature, the book has as its protagonist Carlos Lacerda, who, in a plot of the “What if” genre, escapes the death that was prepared for him in a clinic where he would undergo routine exams and, in hiding, will interfere in the process of redemocratization of Brazil and modifying the history that, in this reality, has not lived.
Also by Avis Rare, The Pedagogy of Marxism: Paulo Freire’s disastrous educational method created to train activistsby James Lindsay.
Gustavo Maultasch, diplomat and author of Against all censorshipdescribes with surgical precision the work on the Patron of our educational failure:
“For many Brazilian intellectuals, Paulo Freire is above any question; he is a mythical figure, a visionary guru, a messianic leader who revolutionized Brazilian education by bringing the discussion about “oppression” into the classroom. For politicizing education and justifying the indoctrination of students, Freire was adopted and idolized by the Brazilian and global left, and in 2012 he was declared ‘Patron of Brazilian Education’.
The merit of being declared patron of one of the most bankrupt educational systems in the world is questionable; It even seems offensive. But the tribute clearly reflects the inability of our urban students to recognize nonsense disguised as philosophy, indoctrination disguised as education, fraud disguised as a masterpiece.
The reader has certainly heard all kinds of ready-made laudatory phrases describing Freire’s work as a transformative, liberating, inclusive pedagogy, etc. Many highlight the fact that your book Pedagogy of the Oppressed It is one of the most cited works in the world in the area of social sciences. But this says more about the academy’s failure than about any Freire’s merit.
Paulo Freire’s work contributes not only to the destruction of education, but also to current political radicalization, and therefore it is essential that we understand it, so that we can diagnose the threat and thus work towards a solution. This book by James Lindsay is an exceptional treatise on the pernicious influence of the Brazilian pedagogue’s ideas, and can help us understand, debate and redesign the direction of our education.”
And a third release from Avis Rare: The philosophy of Bitcon: the evolution of the monetary system and guaranteeing property against abusive laws, authoritarian states and economic instabilitysa work in which Álvaro María aims to bring readers closer to the bitcoiner universe, with essential information for those who want to understand the proposal in depth before starting to invest in digital currency.
