Purpose and structure
The order describes its purpose as awakening members' creative potential according to what it calls laws of invisible vibration, directing that energy toward physical, moral, and social well-being, and generating collective thought aimed at Harmony, Love, Truth, and Justice — the four principles that recur throughout its literature and that later appear in Santo Daime doctrine. It presents itself as open to people of any religion, philosophy, gender, race, class, or nationality, and it built a following substantially through a publishing arm, Editora Pensamento, whose readership skewed toward the literate urban middle class of Brazilian cities, particularly São Paulo.
Its cell in Acre: the Círculo de Regeneração e Fé
The order expanded through local cells called Tattwas beginning around 1910, and one such cell, the Círculo de Regeneração e Fé (CRF), took root far from the order's urban base, in the rubber-tapping region on the Acre frontier with Bolivia and Peru. Founded in 1916 under the motto "Harmony, Love, and Truth," the CRF counted among its members the young Raimundo Irineu Serra, alongside CRF president Antônio Raimundo Costa and his brother André — a membership drawn mostly from rubber tappers, hunters, and farmers rather than the order's typical literate urban affiliate.
CRF gatherings combined the drinking of ayahuasca, a practice already established among migrant and caboclo communities of the rubber economy, with mediumistic sessions in which members received messages from spirits identified by titles such as king, queen, or marshal — communications researchers Moreira and MacRae describe as covering moral guidance, personal advice, and forest or industrial remedies for the sick. Irineu Serra's formative years in this setting, more than a decade before he founded Santo Daime, are documented largely through family records held by descendants of the Costa brothers.