Sebastiao Mota de Melo, The New World Teacher ?

In 1909 Theosophists, Charles Leadbeater and Annie Besant, thought Juddi Krishnamurti might be the person who was destined to bring a new cycle for humanity. But, as Richard Smoley (2011) says in his introduction to Leadbeater’s Christian Gnosis, this belief was thwarted by Krishnamurti himself, who, in 1929, dissolved The Order of the Star, the organization set up by the Theosophists to promote his works. Although very influential in the spiritual development of the twentieth century, Krishnamurti was not the reincarnation of the World Teacher. That is what happens when one is looking on the wrong continent. Leadbeater moved to Australia in 1915. He was finally in the right hemisphere to find the man he was looking for, but like many men two thousand years ago, who were looking for the Messiah, Leadbeater was looking for a Spiritual leader among the Brahmins, the Hindu’s highest caste. He expected to find the Christ among the Wizard Kings of the Orient. But as we know from reading the Gospel account in the Christian Scriptures, one doesn’t find the Messiah among the rich, wise and famous. Like many nineteenth century Victorians, Leadbeater couldn’t imagine that a man of humble origins could be the man to usher in the new era. He was in love with the ancient Indian gurus and believed spiritual evolution was a mark of civilization and education. Leadbeater wasn’t looking in the right place.  Had Leadbeater looked in the Amazon rain forest of Brazil, he would have found his Order of the Star and the reincarnated teacher for whom he was looking.

Who might that be? According to Alex Polari de Alverga’s account in Forest of Visions: Ayahuasca, Amazonian Spirituality, and the Santo Daime Tradition, (1999) the reincarnation of St. John the Baptist was an illiterate rubber tapper. Sebastiao Mota de Melo was one of the first Brazilian leaders of the Santo Daime Tradition, which was started by another illiterate man, Raimundo Irineu Serra, who discovered the indigenous people of the rain forest used ayahuasca to heal themselves and to connect themselves to the Divine. In 1930 Krishnamurti had dissolved the Order of the Star and Leadbeater started talking about the World Mother. That was the same year the Queen of the Forest, the Theotokos or Mother of God, the Virgin Mary appeared to Irineu and told him to start a new church to usher in the new era. If Sebastiao is St. John, the prophet of this new church, then where is the Christ? He is embodied in the Holy Medicine, where He has been for the last two thousand years, waiting to come again through direct connection within the person of those who drink his body and blood, the Santo (Holy) Daime (Giving). The Divine Being dwells in the plant medicine which has been used in South America for thousands of years. According to oral tradition it was the drink of the pre-Columbian gods.

The Inca High Priest, Ayahuasca, fled from the Spanish Conquistadores with his people, abandoning the sky city of Machu Pichu for the protection of the rain forest, where his name was given to the sacred drink. The people of the forest are the children of this man and his royal family. They are the children of god, within whom Jesus of Nazareth is resurrected. And in the Santo Daime Tradition, which is the Church of the Universal Flowing Light, Charles Leadbeater’s vision of the Order of the Star has become a reality. Leadbeater believed in testing things with one’s own experience, one’s own gnosis as the Greeks called experiential knowing. That is why he started the Liberal (free thinking) Catholic Church in 1916. He was right about the new World Teacher reincarnating at that time, he just got the location wrong. I recommend you read about the evidence in Forest of Visions and decide for yourself.

Raimundo Irineu Serra

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