THE DEVIL'S GARDEN
"THE CARLOS DE BOURBON-MONTENEGRO STORY"
On May 1, 2013, the De Bourbon -Montenegro Family celebrated our 150th Year Anniversary as being one of the longest surviving Congo religious temples in the Americas.
Since the very beginning of my writing success of over 28 years, my life has been shrouded in controversy and has been interpreted for me by individuals, many whom I have never met before. I use to let the controversy and negativity bother me, but I realized long ago that along with fame also comes the pain, sorrow and criticism caused from individuals who themselves are on a destructive spiritual journey and who are lost spirits on the journey of life. Because of my strong spiritual beliefs in the religious principles of our (American Quimbanda) religious tradition, I was able to preserver and to triumph over these negative spiritual forces. In the philosophy of our American Gnostic Quimbanda religious tradition, It is very important to remember, that it is isn't important how others define your character, integrity or try to discredit you through untruths. What is important is how you define yourself within the meaning of life and within your inner spiritual self. By implementing the spiritual concepts of good character and integrity into your life, you will be able to free your minds of negative thought patterns and break the fetters around your mind, which only has meaning because you alone have allowed others to define you and did not take responsibility to define yourself. The Gnostic Quimbanda religious philosophy teaches individual self-spiritual expression, self-determination of your spiritual journey by freeing your mind of negative spiritual thoughts and energies.
For the first time in history, I am also going to share my own past personal experiences with you in this new book, which will give you a better understanding of just who I am, where I have come from and where this great magical American Gnostic Quimbanda religious tradition, which I have been entrusted with, is going. I have never before revealed any of these past experiences to anyone outside of my spiritual religious family because they are very personal for me, but the spirit of Exu has spiritually advised me that it is finally time to tell my incredible story and share it with the world.
It is my hope that by telling my story, it will answer many of the questions and untrue myths that many individuals may have regarding my spiritual journey and about our sacred Afro-Brazilian Gnostic Quimbanda religious tradition.
In the beginning of the 1984 year, I was initiated into the Afro-Caribbean Congo mysteries by a very long time friend of our family, François Ponce de León, an Afro-Caribbean Congo Priest of the Palo Mayombe (Cuban) religious tradition and the Haitian Voudoun religious tradition of Bizango.
François Ponce de León was of Haitian and Cuban heritage. It was François Ponce de León that I learned the art of making and preparing sacred Congo ngangas (spirit pots). The reason that many of my nganga formulas mentioned in many of my books are very different than those from many Cuban religious lines is because our ngangas come from a Haitian Congo religious line of Voudoun known as Bizango and are crossed with Palo Mayombe a Cuban Congo religious line. Because of this crossing between two distinct Congo religious traditions, that makes the ngangas formulas that I present in my books some of the most powerful and rarest forms of Afro-Caribbean magical tradition of the world. My one and only Spiritual Godfather in the Afro-Caribbean religious mysteries of Haitian Voudoun and Cuban Palo Mayombe died in the year of 1988 on the island of Haiti from old age. Since that time, I have been working in the Congo mysteries by myself and I have never had another spiritual teacher in these particular mysteries. It is because of my initiations with François Ponce de León that I also have the spiritual right and religious authority to confer the sacred Afro-Caribbean spirit mysteries of Vititi Congo Bizango to other individuals and to perform initiations for others into these particular sacred Congo spirit mysteries. Over the years up until the present time, these mysteries of Vititi Congo Bizango have been incorporated into the spiritual pantheon of the American Quimbanda Gnostic religious tradition.
In 1985 I traveled to Brazil and lived with family members for 2 years where I was introduced into the deeper mysteries of Candomble De Congo and Quimbanda. Upon returning to the United States, our present day practice of the Quimbanda Gnostic religious tradition began evolving and has now become one of the most popular and powerful forms of magic found in the world because it has become a universal occult magical practice which embraces both old world and western occultism.
The following picture is of my one and only Godfather in the Vititi Congo Bizango religious spiritual line, François Ponce de León, in the early 1900's standing there with one of my Great Grandmothers.
The very controversial book, THE DEVIL'S GARDEN, "THE CARLOS DE BOURBON-MONTENEGRO STORY"........
will be published sometime this weekend, when I get done painting my book cover....... Have a great weekend.... Sarava.....Carlos Antonio De Bourbon Galdianio Montenegro
