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. ACCORDING TO THE TEACHINGS OF SPIRITS OF HIGH DEGREE, TRANSMITTED THROUGH VARIOUS MEDIUMS.
Book Details + Condition: Lake-Livraria Allan Kardec Editora Ltda. (Sao Paulo, Brazil). First Revised Edition, 1972. Hardcover. 431 pages with Index. Allan Kardec was a longtime teacher of mathematics, astronomy, and other scientific disciplines before turning to the paranormal. He founded the Parisian Society of Psychologic Studies, and founded and edited the monthly magazine La Revue Spirite, Journal of Psychologic Studies. "The Spirits' Book" is highly regarded as a fundamental work in Spiritualism and Spiritist studies. Chapters include:
- God
- General Elements of the Universe
- Creation
- The Vital Principal
- Spirits
- Incarnation of Spirits
- Plurality of Existences
- Return from Corporeal to Spirit-Life
- Spirit-Life
- Emancipation of the Soul
- Intervention of Spirits in the Corporeal World
- And much more.
Firm binding; light wear to boards; rubbed corners and edges (with rear bottom corner slightly bumped); foxing to text block; light foxing/toning to endpapers; a few pages with residue of metal paperclip or bookmark, to upper edges; interior is otherwise clean and free of markings.
