By Allan Kardec
For brand spanking new rules new phrases are wanted, for you to safe clearness of language through fending off the confusion inseparable from the employment of an analogous time period for expressing various meanings. The phrases religious, spiritualist, spiritualism, have a distinct acceptation; to provide them a brand new one, which will follow them to the doctrine set forth by way of spirits, will be to multiply the factors of amphibology, already so quite a few. Strictly talking, Spiritualism is the other of Materialism; each is a Spiritualist who believes that there's in him anything greater than topic, however it doesn't stick to that he believes within the lifestyles of spirits, or of their conversation with the obvious global. in its place, for this reason, of the phrases religious SPIRITUALISM, we hire, to designate this latter trust, the phrases SPIRITIST, SPIRITISM, which, via their shape, point out their beginning and radical that means, and feature hence the benefit of being completely intelligible; and we reserve the phrases spiritualism, spiritualist, for the expression of the which means hooked up to them through universal acceptation. we are saying, then, that the elemental precept of the spiritist thought, or Spiritism, is the relation of the fabric global with spirits, or the beings of the invisible international; and we designate the adherents of the spiritist conception as spiritists. In a different feel, "THE SPIRITS' e-book" includes the doctrine or conception of spiritism; in a basic feel, it appertains to the spiritualist institution, of which it provides one of many stages. it's for that reason that we've got inscribed the phrases Spiritualist Philosophy on its title-page. Allan Kardec is the pen identify of the French instructor and educator Hippolyte Léon Denizard often called the systematizer of Spiritism for which he laid the basis with the 5 books of the Spiritist Codification.
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Foreseeing the vast importance, to science and to religion, of such an extension of the field of human observation, he entered at once upon a careful investigation of the new phenomena. " They were gay, lively, amiable girls, fond of society, dancing, and amusement, and habitually received, when "sitting" by themselves or with their young companions, "communications" in harmony with their worldly and somewhat frivolous disposition. " Much astonished at so unlooked-for an announcement, he at once proceeded to test its truthfulness by drawing up a series of progressive questions in relation to the various problems of human life and the universe in which we find ourselves, and submitted them to his unseen interlocutors, receiving their answers to the same through the instrumentality of the two young mediums, who willingly consented to devote a couple of evenings every week to this purpose, and who thus obtained, through table-rapping and planchette-writing, the replies which have become the basis of the spiritist theory, and which they were as little capable of appreciating as of inventing.
A joke may amuse for a moment, but a mystification, if kept up too long, would become as wearisome to the mystifier as to the mystified. Besides, a mystification carried on from one end of the earth to the other, and among the most serious, honourable, and enlightened people, would be at least as extraordinary as the phenomena in question. IV If the phenomena we are considering had been limited to the movement of objects, they would have remained, as we have already remarked, within the domain of physical science; but so far was this from being the case, that they speedily proved to be only the forerunners of facts of a character still more extraordinary.
Similar associations were speedily formed all over the world. Many of these published periodicals of more or less importance in support of the new doctrine; and all of them transmitted to the Parisian Society the most remarkable of the spirit-communications received by them. An enormous mass of spirit-teaching, unique both in quantity and in the variety of the sources from which it was obtained, thus found its way into the hands of Allan Kardec by whom it was studied, collated, coordinated, with unwearied zeal and devotion, during a period of fifteen years.
