Trough this book, written through the pen of the medium Francisco Cândido Xavier, he humbly offers his help to us through the recipe that we all need in order to move onward with our journey towards righteousness. The wide range of messages that comprise this marvelous opuscule covers a varied extent of situations that we all face in our everyday lives, and Emmanuel’s counseling are opportune and clear. May everyone that comes across the pages of this devoted work of our brother Emmanuel finds the help needed to succed.
Francisco de Paula Cândido Xavier, popularly known as Chico Xavier was a popular "medium" in Brazil's Spiritism movement and wrote 412 books through a process known as psychography. The profits of his books were all donated into charity work.
He influenced the establishment of Kardecist Spiritism as one of the religions professed in Brazil.
In 1981 and 1982, Chico Xavier was nominated for the Nobel peace prize and on October 3, 2012, was named as "The Greatest Brazilian of all time" by one of the biggest brazilian television channel (SBT), based on a viewer-supported survey.