Numa série de crônicas, o autor trata, com seu espírito atilado, de matérias como longevidade, paz e verdade, Sócrates e outros. Retrata, pela ótica do mundo espiritual, a Casa de Ismael (Federação Espírita Brasileira) definindo seus destinos no cenário espírita brasileiro. Estende-se com apreciações sobre os objetivos da Doutrina Espírita, em consolar os aflitos nas provações do mundo corporal. É obra muito lida e citada pelos espíritas estudiosos.
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.