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1861 - The Mediums' Book - discusses the experimental and investigative aspects of Spiritism, seen as a theoretical and methodological tool to understand a "new order of phenomena" that had not been considered by scientific knowledge: the so-called spiritist phenomena or mediumship, believed to be caused by the intervention of spirits in the ...
The Spirits' Book (Le Livre des Esprits in French) is part of the Spiritist Codification, and is regarded as one of the five fundamental works on Spiritism. It was published by the French educator Hippolyte Léon Denizard Rivail, under the pen name of Allan Kardec [ 1 ] on April 18, 1857.
The state religion of the Shang dynasty (c. 1600 – c. 1046 BC) involved trained practitioners communicating with deities, including deceased ancestors and nature spirits. These deities formed a pantheon headed by the high god Di. [2] Methods of communication with spirits included divinations inscribed on oracle bones and sacrifice of living ...
The Livre des Esperitz (Book of Spirits) is a 15th- or 16th-century French goetic grimoire that inspired later works including Johann Weyer's Pseudomonarchia Daemonum and the Lesser Key of Solomon.
You shall place at the head of the book the vine branch that we have drawn for you, for it is the emblem of the work of the Creator. All the material principles that can best represent the body and the spirit are contained in it. The body is the vine branch, the spirit is the liquor, the soul or the spirit linked to matter is the grape.
Liber Officiorum Spirituum (English: The Book of the Office of Spirits) [1] [2] was a goetic grimoire and a major source for Johann Weyer's Pseudomonarchia Daemonum and the Ars Goetia. The original work (if it is a single work) has not been located, but some derived texts bearing the title have been found, some in the Sloane manuscripts , some ...
While souling, Christians would carry "lanterns made of hollowed-out turnips", which could have originally represented souls of the dead; [74] [75] jack-o'-lanterns were used to ward off evil spirits. [76] [77] On All Saints' and All Souls' Day during the 19th century, candles were lit in homes in Ireland, [78] Flanders, Bavaria, and in Tyrol ...
[5] Bolesław Prus, Pharaoh, an 1895 historical novel incorporating scenes inspired by Spiritualism. [6] H. G. Wells, Love and Mr. Lewisham, a novel published in 1900, in which the main character falls in love with a girl whose stepfather claims to be a spirit medium. A large portion of the novel deals with the questionable ethics of some ...