Anonymous 1
Anonymous 2
Mestre Irineu maintained good relations with the State authorities. He voted for Guiomard, who never missed an opportunity to visit him, sometimes spending entire weeks in Alto Santo. Agnaldo Moreno says that once, when Guiomard was counting on God’s help to be elected, Mestre Irineu replied: “I’m here.” Agnaldo Moreno also says: “When he received the plan for the Center and started the campaign to obtain resources to build it, he could have collected triple what he needed, if he hadn’t been honest.” Numerous people came forward to help. Everyone, specifically, wanted the political support that the “Master had”.
He supported Ary Rodrigues’ campaign by instructing him to make a poster showing some rays illuminating the candidate’s head. It said that he would have to win by light, as his opponent worked in the dark. Old-timers say that Ary lost the election through a skillfully orchestrated fraud. He predicted the rise and fall of Vargas, Jânio and Jango. He warned in advance of things that would happen in the country’s politics.
Anonymous 3
It was very difficult at that time. Everything had to be very hidden, hidden, because there was a lot of persecution, even from the police. There was a lot of talk about daime and Mestre Irineu, and people were very afraid because they didn’t understand the power of daime, how that tea could cure. There were even cases of people who asked for the Master’s help, took daime with him and, even so, afterwards, they kept saying that they had been bewitched, or that the Master had done evil against them. There were even those who said that the Master was a charlatan.
Anonymous 4
Leôncio Gomes, when he was preparing to receive the position of president, which the Master was already preparing for, already knowing the game he had to play, Leôncio spent from nine o’clock at night until three o’clock in the morning. He had drunk half a glass of daime, spent it from nine o’clock at night until three in the morning, saying that he was nobody, that he couldn’t handle himself, and “pei”, “pei”.
And the Master from his house preparing him, taking him to the point he would reach. When it was three o’clock in the morning, he said: “Now he’s ready, bring Leôncio from there to here.” He was in the warehouse, thrown there, and the group was there, supporting him, the assistants there to not let him weaken any further. Then he comes bringing Leôncio like someone bringing a paralytic, some holding on to one side and others holding on to the other, dragging Leôncio until he arrived in the presence of the Master sitting in his chair, in his armchair, sitting there and looking.
When Leôncio came, he threw himself at Master Irineu’s feet saying: “Help me, my boss.” Mestre Irineu put his hand on his head and said: “Get up!” Leôncio said that it seemed like he had never taken daime in his life. I also saw this, the preparation of my compadre Leôncio. He said, “Get up, what weakness is this? Leôncio got up, it looked like he had never taken daime, since nine o’clock at night he had been suffering, in the preparation that he thought was not enough, until three o’clock in the morning. When he got there, he said: “Get up!” Leôncio stood up, prepared for all intents and purposes. This I saw.