I have a few of the books written by Adoum, and I'd very much like to ask the Cs how much of his texts are accurate. I feel I have a very slim chance of this happening, so I chose to post a biography taken from a Brazilian website.
Maybe it can spark some interest and start an exchange of opinions.
Biography (translated fromhttps://jorgeadoum.org.br/biografia/)
Jorge Elias Adoum or Mago Jefa, writer and naturist doctor. He was born on March 10,1897, on the agricultural property of his father, Francisco Adoum, in Karf-Shbeil, near Byblos, Lebanon, and belonged to a Maronite Catholic family. Still in Lebanon, he began his higher studies (and there began the process of his Initiation into the Occult Schools),and finished them in Lyon, France, graduating in Medicine. He suffered in Lebanon the horrors of the 1914 war, whose accounts, in part, are found in his book “Adonai”.
He lived much of his life in Ecuador, where he raised his family.
He traveled to almost all South American countries giving free conferences, editing his works, doing good.
He lived in Brazil for many years and died in Petrópolis, Rio de Janeiro, on May 4, 1958, due to a stroke,at the age of 61, and fulfilling his wishes he is buried in the city where he is remembered as “Jefa, The Venerable” (Note:Apparently, Jorge Adoum himself was warned by Issa that his lifes hould end through his heart, as can be read in the book “The Baptism of Pain”).
He was a hermetic person when it came to his life. His childhood must have been difficult, like that of all Christians in Eastern Europe and close to the East, the Turkish occupation was extremely cruel, as evidenced by well-known events,provoked by Ottoman fanaticism in Arab countries and Europe. The restrictions imposed by the Turks were draconian, to the extreme of prohibiting going near the sea, and anyone who did so would receive shots from some of the civil guards who watched the beaches, during the war they could not even salt their food, as salt was scarce. ,particularly among Christians. However, the Turks did not pose any obstacle for their subjects to emigrate, which is why they granted passports and safe conduct to leave the empire. So, when things got difficult between 1900 and 1918, there was an avalanche of Lebanese,Syrian and Palestinian Christians to the Americas, this is the reason why they were mistakenly given the demonym of Turks, to all immigrants who identified themselves with such documents.
He once told his children that during the First World War he joined Emir Faisal of Syria as his secretary, fighting for the independence of his country, and when they asked him why he didn't continue by his side, he explained that an inopportune sentence of his changed his life, and perhaps that of his country, adding: “The Emir invited me to return when I was here, but it was already too late”.
Around 1916, news reached his home that he had died at the front. His father and brother decided to mortgage the family lands to a usurer and go to America. However, he had not died, and at the end of the war he returned to his home in search of refuge, persecuted, without the protection of Emir Faisal and with a price placed on his head for being a nationalist, he found that the land no longer belonged to them and that the his family members had gone to Ecuador. He then abandoned Lebanon and no acquaintance returned, namely from him until 1924, when he arrived in Ecuador. Coming from studying in France, when he arrived in Ecuador he spoke and wrote French correctly, a language that was not taught in schools and universities in Lebanon until 1918. He knew Naturist Medicine, Hypnotism and Suggestion, which were not subjects in schools of medicine of Europe at that time, which raises an additional question in the investigation of what could have been done in this period of time.
He arrived in Ecuador in poor health, looking for his family, but was surprised not to find them, as his father and brother, one after the other, had traveled to Brazil, where they lived until their deaths.
Doctors recommended that he settle in the mountains, because the Guayaquil climate would be fatal for him. Dr. Abel Gilbert diagnosed tuberculosis and predicted three months to live. This was how he decided to travel to Ambato, where, having overcome his ailments, which were far from being the terrible illness of those times he met, through a friend, Juana Auad Barciona (who would become his wife), Lebanese, only daughter, who came to Ecuador with her parents when she was 5 years old and had just become a widow. He had five children with her: Violeta, Jorge Enrique, Handel, Wagner (died in 1977) and Nancy.
Ambato in 1924 was a city little suited to manifest its talent. Unable to practice the medicine he knew, he tried to survive through commerce, but discovered that he had no aptitude for this field. And in fact the rest of his life showed a total disinterest in money, which justified his failure as a merchant. When a friend came to him in search of health, he did not charge for the treatment. Still, later, when he obtained authorization to practice medicine, he considered it unworthy to receive fees for curing the sick, causing the natural irritation of his wife, who had to face the economic constraints of a home with five children; while he practiced medicine, he always appreciated the generosity of his patients without ever asking for a penny.
In the cultural isolation he maintained in Ambato, he dedicated himself to painting with reasonable results in informal and artistic terms and deplorable in economic terms, but in the intellectual field he immersed himsef. To combat boredom, he learned to play classical music on the violin, translated and published “Asas Asas Bradas” by Khalil Gibran, probably making this renowned poet known for the first time in Ecuador, and “A Eva Moderna” by Nicolas Haddad, another notable Lebanese writer.
For the Medical Corps of Ecuador in the 1930s, closed to innovations or investigations of new techniques, Adoum was nothing more than an irresponsible wizard, despite the fact that those who came to his aid only did so when the academic doctors had disabused them.
In 1935 he sought broader horizons in Quito and moved with his family to the capital. There, with better cultural elements, he was able to develop his capacity, although always within extreme limitations. He published a theosophical magazine called “I Am”, whose circulation was produced abroad, with very limited sales in the country. That year he took care of he Supreme Chief Eng. Federico Paez, for the serious illness he was suffering from, and was rewarded with authorization to freely practice Medicine in Ecuador. Among the important cures he performed was that of a lady called Maria de Leon,who had suffered from asthma attacks for many years, having visited as many doctors as she knew, without any results. Adoum gave her a hypnosis treatment and prescribed that at five in the morning she should walk without shoes on the grass in Quito's El Ejido park. Maria de Leon, after a few months, stopped having asthma attacks. In 1978 (43 years later) a Russian medical magazine from the Soviet Union published that Russian doctors were experimenting for the treatment of asthma, marching on the grass, in the early hours of the morning, because during the night, cosmic rays, beneficial for asthmatics, accumulates on the leaves and can be used by patients before the Sun and traffic reduce their potency. Adoum never revealed the source from which he learned this treatment, nor did he live long enough to be able to read the mentioned article. He never practiced medicine in any country other than Ecuador.
In 1943, Lebanon achieved independence, so Adoum became founder and first president of the Arab Cultural Center in Quito, whose advertising organ was the magazine 'Oasis', of which 16 issues were published in three years.
Since 1946 his existence changed completely and was full of personal satisfactions in the spiritual field and the admiration that his disciples had for him exceeds all consideration. Their generosity meant that the economic hardships he suffered in Ecuador were overcome effortlessly; he was already a well-known figure on the South American continent, in the esoteric field. He lived between Chile, Argentina and Brazil. Finally, in 1950, he decided to settle in Rio de Janeiro, from where he visited other countries. His book sales multiplied and continue to be a hit in bookstores in Latin America. That same year, the Publicizing Commission for the Works of Dr. Adoum was created in Brazil, whose headquarters are still in Santos Dumont, state of Minas Gerais. In 1953, his wife died.
In 1955 he traveled to Buenos Aires, and someone committed the indiscretion of letting it be known in which hotel he would stay. He stayed peacefully on the night of his arrival and the following morning the police came to his room asking him to leave the city as soon as possible. This discourteous attitude was completely incomprehensible to him, because he had not yet realized that the Hotel Hall was full of people in wheelchairs, with crutches and frowning faces, who wanted to visit Dr. Adoum for medical reasons; a fact that forced the administration to call the police.
In April 1957 he was affected by a circulatory disorder that lasted 20 days, during which his health was quite critical, leading to exceptional psychic experiences, resulting in the book “20 Days in the World of the Dead”.
As for his personal characteristics, he was tall, very slender, with an imposing walk and careful dressing. His gaze, never inexpressive, was penetrating and inspired fear or tenderness, depending on who the interlocutor was. He spoke very clearly, in a voice that was never loud, but always clearly audible, with a firm and confident tone. In both Spanish and French, he spoke almost without an accent, with great authority. He used to get up early and start the day with his breathing exercises, which included certain sounds from the vocal chords, many of them with the mouth closed, emitted in a faint, very prolonged way, which varied in tone. As a curious fact, it is also worth mentioning that Adoum practiced fortune-telling through cigarette ash and coffee grounds as a pastime, very old techniques from the East.
The spelling with which he wrote his surname, including a letter 'O' between 'D' and 'U', comes from his passport issued by French authorities, in whose language it is essential to write 'Adoum', so that it sounds the same as 'Adum' in Spanish.
The pseudonym of “Mago Jefa”, which consists of the initials of his name plus his father's baptismal name according to Arab custom (Jorge Enrique Francisco Adoum), a name that identified his later literary production.
Another aspect,notable when you do a Google search with the name Adoum, is the appearance of ‘another’ Adoum: he is the son of Mago Jefa whose name is Jorge Enrique Adoum. Jorge Enrique Adoum is a notable Ecuadorian poet, born in Ambato in 1926. He was the secretary of the no less notable Chilean poet, Nobel Prize winner for literature in the 70s, Pablo Neruda. It is said that Neruda once commented on J. Enrique Adoum, saying: He is the fine flower of poetry.
Master of the FRA and Freemasonry, Dr. Jorge Adoum, Mago Jefa, bequeathed to us a precious collection of initiatory works, which deal with the inner forces that man has, without knowing that he possessed them. Several of his works uncover hidden meanings in the sacred writings of all religions, particularly Christianity. All of his books aim man to awaken and activate his superior tendencies, giving him practices to achieve physical, mental and spiritual health.
Two of the first novels he wrote, 'Adonay' and 'The Baptism of Pain or what happened to Adonay' are apparently autobiographical accounts of his life in Lebanon and France; However, every time he was asked whether they could really be considered as events in his life, he systematically alluded to an objective answer, saying that the question was unimportant, an attitude he maintained, as he explained to one of his children, for fear of that a reverence for his person had been cultivated, because of the admiration he had and still has for his disciples.
Author: Anonymous
Maybe it can spark some interest and start an exchange of opinions.
Biography (translated fromhttps://jorgeadoum.org.br/biografia/)
Jorge Elias Adoum or Mago Jefa, writer and naturist doctor. He was born on March 10,1897, on the agricultural property of his father, Francisco Adoum, in Karf-Shbeil, near Byblos, Lebanon, and belonged to a Maronite Catholic family. Still in Lebanon, he began his higher studies (and there began the process of his Initiation into the Occult Schools),and finished them in Lyon, France, graduating in Medicine. He suffered in Lebanon the horrors of the 1914 war, whose accounts, in part, are found in his book “Adonai”.
He lived much of his life in Ecuador, where he raised his family.
He traveled to almost all South American countries giving free conferences, editing his works, doing good.
He lived in Brazil for many years and died in Petrópolis, Rio de Janeiro, on May 4, 1958, due to a stroke,at the age of 61, and fulfilling his wishes he is buried in the city where he is remembered as “Jefa, The Venerable” (Note:Apparently, Jorge Adoum himself was warned by Issa that his lifes hould end through his heart, as can be read in the book “The Baptism of Pain”).
He was a hermetic person when it came to his life. His childhood must have been difficult, like that of all Christians in Eastern Europe and close to the East, the Turkish occupation was extremely cruel, as evidenced by well-known events,provoked by Ottoman fanaticism in Arab countries and Europe. The restrictions imposed by the Turks were draconian, to the extreme of prohibiting going near the sea, and anyone who did so would receive shots from some of the civil guards who watched the beaches, during the war they could not even salt their food, as salt was scarce. ,particularly among Christians. However, the Turks did not pose any obstacle for their subjects to emigrate, which is why they granted passports and safe conduct to leave the empire. So, when things got difficult between 1900 and 1918, there was an avalanche of Lebanese,Syrian and Palestinian Christians to the Americas, this is the reason why they were mistakenly given the demonym of Turks, to all immigrants who identified themselves with such documents.
He once told his children that during the First World War he joined Emir Faisal of Syria as his secretary, fighting for the independence of his country, and when they asked him why he didn't continue by his side, he explained that an inopportune sentence of his changed his life, and perhaps that of his country, adding: “The Emir invited me to return when I was here, but it was already too late”.
Around 1916, news reached his home that he had died at the front. His father and brother decided to mortgage the family lands to a usurer and go to America. However, he had not died, and at the end of the war he returned to his home in search of refuge, persecuted, without the protection of Emir Faisal and with a price placed on his head for being a nationalist, he found that the land no longer belonged to them and that the his family members had gone to Ecuador. He then abandoned Lebanon and no acquaintance returned, namely from him until 1924, when he arrived in Ecuador. Coming from studying in France, when he arrived in Ecuador he spoke and wrote French correctly, a language that was not taught in schools and universities in Lebanon until 1918. He knew Naturist Medicine, Hypnotism and Suggestion, which were not subjects in schools of medicine of Europe at that time, which raises an additional question in the investigation of what could have been done in this period of time.
He arrived in Ecuador in poor health, looking for his family, but was surprised not to find them, as his father and brother, one after the other, had traveled to Brazil, where they lived until their deaths.
Doctors recommended that he settle in the mountains, because the Guayaquil climate would be fatal for him. Dr. Abel Gilbert diagnosed tuberculosis and predicted three months to live. This was how he decided to travel to Ambato, where, having overcome his ailments, which were far from being the terrible illness of those times he met, through a friend, Juana Auad Barciona (who would become his wife), Lebanese, only daughter, who came to Ecuador with her parents when she was 5 years old and had just become a widow. He had five children with her: Violeta, Jorge Enrique, Handel, Wagner (died in 1977) and Nancy.
Ambato in 1924 was a city little suited to manifest its talent. Unable to practice the medicine he knew, he tried to survive through commerce, but discovered that he had no aptitude for this field. And in fact the rest of his life showed a total disinterest in money, which justified his failure as a merchant. When a friend came to him in search of health, he did not charge for the treatment. Still, later, when he obtained authorization to practice medicine, he considered it unworthy to receive fees for curing the sick, causing the natural irritation of his wife, who had to face the economic constraints of a home with five children; while he practiced medicine, he always appreciated the generosity of his patients without ever asking for a penny.
In the cultural isolation he maintained in Ambato, he dedicated himself to painting with reasonable results in informal and artistic terms and deplorable in economic terms, but in the intellectual field he immersed himsef. To combat boredom, he learned to play classical music on the violin, translated and published “Asas Asas Bradas” by Khalil Gibran, probably making this renowned poet known for the first time in Ecuador, and “A Eva Moderna” by Nicolas Haddad, another notable Lebanese writer.
For the Medical Corps of Ecuador in the 1930s, closed to innovations or investigations of new techniques, Adoum was nothing more than an irresponsible wizard, despite the fact that those who came to his aid only did so when the academic doctors had disabused them.
In 1935 he sought broader horizons in Quito and moved with his family to the capital. There, with better cultural elements, he was able to develop his capacity, although always within extreme limitations. He published a theosophical magazine called “I Am”, whose circulation was produced abroad, with very limited sales in the country. That year he took care of he Supreme Chief Eng. Federico Paez, for the serious illness he was suffering from, and was rewarded with authorization to freely practice Medicine in Ecuador. Among the important cures he performed was that of a lady called Maria de Leon,who had suffered from asthma attacks for many years, having visited as many doctors as she knew, without any results. Adoum gave her a hypnosis treatment and prescribed that at five in the morning she should walk without shoes on the grass in Quito's El Ejido park. Maria de Leon, after a few months, stopped having asthma attacks. In 1978 (43 years later) a Russian medical magazine from the Soviet Union published that Russian doctors were experimenting for the treatment of asthma, marching on the grass, in the early hours of the morning, because during the night, cosmic rays, beneficial for asthmatics, accumulates on the leaves and can be used by patients before the Sun and traffic reduce their potency. Adoum never revealed the source from which he learned this treatment, nor did he live long enough to be able to read the mentioned article. He never practiced medicine in any country other than Ecuador.
In 1943, Lebanon achieved independence, so Adoum became founder and first president of the Arab Cultural Center in Quito, whose advertising organ was the magazine 'Oasis', of which 16 issues were published in three years.
Since 1946 his existence changed completely and was full of personal satisfactions in the spiritual field and the admiration that his disciples had for him exceeds all consideration. Their generosity meant that the economic hardships he suffered in Ecuador were overcome effortlessly; he was already a well-known figure on the South American continent, in the esoteric field. He lived between Chile, Argentina and Brazil. Finally, in 1950, he decided to settle in Rio de Janeiro, from where he visited other countries. His book sales multiplied and continue to be a hit in bookstores in Latin America. That same year, the Publicizing Commission for the Works of Dr. Adoum was created in Brazil, whose headquarters are still in Santos Dumont, state of Minas Gerais. In 1953, his wife died.
In 1955 he traveled to Buenos Aires, and someone committed the indiscretion of letting it be known in which hotel he would stay. He stayed peacefully on the night of his arrival and the following morning the police came to his room asking him to leave the city as soon as possible. This discourteous attitude was completely incomprehensible to him, because he had not yet realized that the Hotel Hall was full of people in wheelchairs, with crutches and frowning faces, who wanted to visit Dr. Adoum for medical reasons; a fact that forced the administration to call the police.
In April 1957 he was affected by a circulatory disorder that lasted 20 days, during which his health was quite critical, leading to exceptional psychic experiences, resulting in the book “20 Days in the World of the Dead”.
As for his personal characteristics, he was tall, very slender, with an imposing walk and careful dressing. His gaze, never inexpressive, was penetrating and inspired fear or tenderness, depending on who the interlocutor was. He spoke very clearly, in a voice that was never loud, but always clearly audible, with a firm and confident tone. In both Spanish and French, he spoke almost without an accent, with great authority. He used to get up early and start the day with his breathing exercises, which included certain sounds from the vocal chords, many of them with the mouth closed, emitted in a faint, very prolonged way, which varied in tone. As a curious fact, it is also worth mentioning that Adoum practiced fortune-telling through cigarette ash and coffee grounds as a pastime, very old techniques from the East.
The spelling with which he wrote his surname, including a letter 'O' between 'D' and 'U', comes from his passport issued by French authorities, in whose language it is essential to write 'Adoum', so that it sounds the same as 'Adum' in Spanish.
The pseudonym of “Mago Jefa”, which consists of the initials of his name plus his father's baptismal name according to Arab custom (Jorge Enrique Francisco Adoum), a name that identified his later literary production.
Another aspect,notable when you do a Google search with the name Adoum, is the appearance of ‘another’ Adoum: he is the son of Mago Jefa whose name is Jorge Enrique Adoum. Jorge Enrique Adoum is a notable Ecuadorian poet, born in Ambato in 1926. He was the secretary of the no less notable Chilean poet, Nobel Prize winner for literature in the 70s, Pablo Neruda. It is said that Neruda once commented on J. Enrique Adoum, saying: He is the fine flower of poetry.
Master of the FRA and Freemasonry, Dr. Jorge Adoum, Mago Jefa, bequeathed to us a precious collection of initiatory works, which deal with the inner forces that man has, without knowing that he possessed them. Several of his works uncover hidden meanings in the sacred writings of all religions, particularly Christianity. All of his books aim man to awaken and activate his superior tendencies, giving him practices to achieve physical, mental and spiritual health.
Two of the first novels he wrote, 'Adonay' and 'The Baptism of Pain or what happened to Adonay' are apparently autobiographical accounts of his life in Lebanon and France; However, every time he was asked whether they could really be considered as events in his life, he systematically alluded to an objective answer, saying that the question was unimportant, an attitude he maintained, as he explained to one of his children, for fear of that a reverence for his person had been cultivated, because of the admiration he had and still has for his disciples.
Author: Anonymous
