Manoel Jacintho Coelho
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Born | December 30, 1903 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
Died | January 30, 1991 (aged 87) Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
Notable works | "The Day of the Rational Culture" |
Notable awards | Medal of Honor of liberty (1986) Medal of Cultural Merit named after Jose Da Costa |
Manoel Jacintho Coelho (December 30, 1903 – January 13, 1991) was a Brazilian writer and the founder of the religious cult Rational Culture.[1][2]
Life
[edit]Manoel Jacintho Coelho was born to a musician family in Rio de Janeiro. His father, Manoel, was a conductor and his mother, Rosa Maria, was a piano teacher. When he was thirteen, Manoel Jacinto was already a guitarist. The seven-string guitar has become one of its specialties.
At the age of eighteen, he joined the Brazilian Army, the 1st Heavy Machine Gun Company at the Deodoro barracks in Rio de Janeiro.
He worked for many years in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Itamaraty Palace, in Rio de Janeiro.
Career
[edit]On October 4, 1935, he began the elaboration of the Rational Culture composed of 1,000 volumes and entitled "Universe in Disenchantment", which he would only conclude on December 5, 1990, shortly before his death. The books were divided into five parts:
- 1st - Work, composed of 21 volumes,
- 2nd - Replica, composed of 21 volumes,
- 3rd - Replica, composed of 21 volumes,
- 4th - Historic, composed of 934 volumes and
- 5th - Amarelões, composed of 3 volumes edited between 1935 and 1938.
Courses
[edit]The sixty-nine courses (subjects) covered by his encyclopedia are divided into two categories: those known to humanity, and those still unknown to humanity.
41 courses known to humanity:
- Cosmogony
- Celestial mechanics
- Cosmology
- Astrophysics
- "Astrogenics"
- Astrobotany
- "Astroclimate"
- Astrobiology
- Astrology
- Physics
- Physical chemistry
- Physiology
- Physiotherapy
- Geophysics
- Electricity and magnetism
- Energetics
- Ecology
- Biology
- Age studies
- Ethics
- Anthropology
- Anthroposociology
- "Anthropagogy"
- Ethnology
- "Anthropomagnetism"
- Logical and ethical humanism
- Logic
- Reason
- Etymology
- Etiology
- Theology
- Spiritualism
- Human relations
- Psychology
- Psychiatry
- Linguistics
- Sociology
- Mystical and dogmatic roots and traditions
- Justice and reason
- Metaphysics
- Parapsychology
28 courses unknown to humanity:
- The Rational World and its inhabitants
- The Upper Astral and its inhabitants
- The Lower Astral and its inhabitants
- The true origin of humanity
- All phases of humanity
- Natural, astrological and artificial alphabets
- Universal racionalization
- The pre-existence and cause of existence
- The meaning of life
- The cause of human change from before to now
- Pre-existence of men and women
- Material and spiritual spiritualization
- The true nature and the apparent nature of everything
- Physical and moral recover of individuals
- Electric and magnetic energies
- Mediator rational and rational energies
- The homeworld of humanity, including its map and compass
- Rational immunization
- The hierarchy of the world, space and inferior classes
- The 21 eternities
- Desenchantment
- Transformations of nature
- The cause of semen transforming into a living body
- Two classes: Rational and irrational animal
- Identity of the Rational class
- Answers to all questions everyone ever asked but no one ever answered
- The just and certain formation of the true genesis of everything's existence
- The world that gave origin to this one
Awards
[edit]He received several national and international awards, including the Inconfidência Medal by the state of Minas Gerais on April 21, 1986,[3] and Medalha Doutor “Ulisses Guimarães”, the homage of the OPB - Order of Brazilian Parliamentarians - granted to Mrs. Atna Jacintho Coelho in memoriam of Mr. Manoel Jacintho Coelho - received on June 7, 2005.
References
[edit]- ^ ""Universe in Disenchantment"".
- ^ "Tim Maia: A Brazilian Cult Soul-Rocker". NPR.org. Retrieved 2019-01-06.
- ^ "The Author. Manoel Jacintho Coelho".