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The Spirits\' Book, Containing the Principles of Spiritist Doctrine on The Immortality of the Soul; The Nature of Spirits and Their Relations with Men: The Moral Law; The Present Life, The Future Life, and The Destiny of the Human Race
Author: Kardec, Allan; Translated by Anna Blackwell
Title: The Spirits\' Book, Containing the Principles of Spiritist Doctrine on The Immortality of the Soul; The Nature of Spirits and Their Relations with Men: The Moral Law; The Present Life, The Future Life, and The Destiny of the Human Race
Publication: London: George Redway, 1898
Description: Octavo, 24, l, 438 pages. Publisher’s original gilt-lettered and decorated red cloth-covered boards. The Spirits’ Book is the foundational text of Spiritism and the most influential work of the French educator, philosopher, and spiritualist Allan Kardec. First published in French in 1857, the book presents a systematic exposition of Spiritist doctrine through a series of questions and answers said to have been communicated by advanced spirits through multiple mediums. Kardec addresses the immortality of the soul, reincarnation, the nature and hierarchy of spirits, communication with the dead, mediumship, free will, divine justice, moral responsibility, spiritual evolution, the afterlife, the causes of suffering, and the ultimate destiny of humanity. Rather than treating spirit communication merely as supernatural phenomena, the work attempts to establish a coherent religious, philosophical, and ethical system combining Christianity, metaphysics, psychical research, and belief in progressive spiritual development across successive lives. Translated by Anna Blackwell, an important advocate of Kardec’s teachings in the English-speaking world, this substantial late-nineteenth-century edition is an important source for the study of Spiritualism, Spiritism, occultism, esotericism, reincarnation, mediumship, comparative religion, afterlife studies, and Victorian alternative spirituality. Slight damage to spine, minor rubbing and wear, corners slightly bumped, some discoloration to endpapers, else in very good condition.
Seller ID: 480
Subject: Metaphysics, Occult, Philosophy, Religion
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