The Spirits' Book
- Idioma:
- anglès
- Completesa:
- Obra completa
- Autoria:
- Escrita per l'autor
- Estat del text:
- Sense soroll d'escaneig detectat (mesura automàtica sobre tot el text, no revisada a mà)
- Extensió:
- ~190.000 paraules · 881 passatges
Cita aquesta obra
- APALlibre dels esperits. (n.d.). The Spirits' Book. Digital reproduction: SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/ca/works/allan-kardec/the-spirits-book
- MLALlibre dels esperits. The Spirits' Book. Digital reproduction, SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/ca/works/allan-kardec/the-spirits-book.
- ChicagoLlibre dels esperits. The Spirits' Book. Digital reproduction, SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/ca/works/allan-kardec/the-spirits-book.
Referència de l'edició que reprodueix SigPhi: SigPhi n'és la reproducció digital, no l'editor. L'any de l'edició no consta a les metadades (per això «n.d.») i el traductor només hi surt quan consta.
De què tracta
El llibre fundacional de l'espiritisme: mil i escaig de preguntes sobre Déu, l'ànima, la reencarnació i la vida moral, amb les respostes.
Context i història
Cal explicar com es presenta, perquè és part del text: l'obra afirma que les respostes van ser dictades per esperits a través de mèdiums, i que Allan Kardec —pseudònim del pedagog Hippolyte Rivail— només les va recollir i ordenar. Aquella atribució és una doctrina, no un fet comprovable, i la fitxa no la pot donar per bona ni pot amagar-la. El llibre és del 1857 i és aquí com el que és: el document fundacional d'un moviment que va tenir molta influència, sobretot al Brasil, i una peça per entendre la religiositat del segle XIX.
Context editorial, no una font citable: a diferència dels passatges de l'obra, aquestes dades no es poden contrastar amb el corpus.
Grave, slow of speech, unassuming in manner, yet not without a certain quiet dignity resulting from the earnestness and single-mindedness which were the distinguishing traits of his character, neither courting nor avoiding discussion, but never volunteering any remark upon the subject to which he had devoted his life, he received with affability the innumerable visitors from every part of the world who came to converse with him in regard to the views of which he was the recognised exponent, answering questions and objections, explaining difficulties, and giving information to all serious inquirers, with whom he talked with freedom and animation, his face occasionally lighting up with a genial and pleasant smile, though such was his habitual sobriety of demeanour that he was never known to laugh. Among the thousands by whom he was thus visited were many of high rank in the social, literary, artistic, and scientific worlds. The Emperor Napoleon III., the fact of whose interest in spiritist-phenomena was no mystery, sent for him several times, and held long conversations with him at the Tuileries upon the doctrines of THE SPIRITS’ BOOK. Having suffered for many years from heart-disease, ALLAN KARDEC drew up, in 1869, the plan of a new spiritist organisation, that should carry on the work of propagandism after his death. In order to assure its existence, by giving to it a legal and commercial status, he determined to make it a regularly constituted joint-stock limited liability publishing and bookselling company, to be constituted for a period of ninety-nine years, with power to buy and sell, to issue stock, to receive donations and bequests, etc. To this society, which was to be called "The Joint Stock Company for the Continuation of the Works of ALLAN KARDEC," he intended to bequeath the copyright of his spiritist writings and of the Revue Spirite.…