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The Gospel According to Spiritism (L'Évangile Selon le Spiritisme in French), by Allan Kardec, is a book published in 1864 that relates the teachings of Jesus to Kardecist Spiritism, the moral and religious philosophy that Kardec had been preaching. It is intended to demonstrate that Spiritism clarifies and extends the most important teachings ...
Hippolyte Léon Denizard Rivail (; 3 October 1804 – 31 March 1869), known by the pen name of Allan Kardec (French:), was a French educator, translator, and author. He is the author of the five books known as the Spiritist Codification, and the founder of Spiritism .
Allan Kardec Festival in São Paulo From 1857, the year of the release of The Spirits' Book , to 1869, the year of Kardec's death, Spiritism gained 7 million followers. [ 119 ] According to data from 2005, Spiritism has about 13 million followers worldwide, [ 15 ] and according to data from 2010, Brazil – the country with the most followers ...
The Book on Mediums or Mediums and Evokers' Handbook (a.k.a.The Mediums' Book —Le Livre des Médiums, in French), is a book by Allan Kardec published in 1861, second of the five Fundamental Works of Spiritism — the philosophy Kardec had been publishing — being the tome in which the experimental and investigative features of the doctrine were presented, explained and taught.
The Espiritismo differs from the Spiritism as the first consists of the syncretic religious practices described above while the second is the established religion-doutrine itself, directly based coding Allan Kardec's and other mediums' books, such as those from Francisco Xavier and Divaldo Franco.
It was the first and remains the most important Spiritist book, because it addresses in first hand all questions developed subsequently by Allan Kardec. The book is structured as a collection of questions regarding the origin of spirits, the purpose of life, the order of the universe, good and evil, and the afterlife .
The Basic Works are part of the Fundamental Works of Spiritist Doctrine, [2] which comprise 11 publications by Allan Kardec. The Basic Works consist of five books, starting with The Spirits' Book , the most comprehensive one, composed of a lengthy introduction presenting Spiritism and 1019 questions addressed to the spirits, whose answers were ...
Spiritism may refer to: . Espiritismo, a Latin American and Caribbean belief that evolved and less evolved spirits can affect health, luck and other aspects of human life ...