The Spirits' Book
- Sprache:
- Englisch
- Status:
- Vollständiges Werk
- Autorschaft:
- Vom Autor verfasst
- Zustand des Textes:
- Kein Scanrauschen festgestellt (automatische Messung über den ganzen Text, nicht von Hand geprüft)
- Umfang:
- ~190.000 Wörter · 881 Passagen
Dieses Werk zitieren
- APAAllan Kardec. (n.d.). The Spirits' Book. Digital reproduction: SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/de/works/allan-kardec/the-spirits-book
- MLAAllan Kardec. The Spirits' Book. Digital reproduction, SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/de/works/allan-kardec/the-spirits-book.
- ChicagoAllan Kardec. The Spirits' Book. Digital reproduction, SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/de/works/allan-kardec/the-spirits-book.
Nachweis der wiedergegebenen Ausgabe. SigPhi ist die digitale Reproduktion. Jahr, Verlag und Übersetzer werden angegeben, soweit bekannt; „n.d.“ bedeutet unbekanntes Jahr.
Wovon es handelt
Das Gründungsbuch des Spiritismus: gut tausend Fragen über Gott, die Seele, die Wiedergeburt und das sittliche Leben, samt Antworten.
Kontext und Geschichte
Wie es sich selbst darstellt, muss erklärt werden, denn es gehört zum Text: Das Werk behauptet, die Antworten seien von Geistern durch Medien diktiert worden und Allan Kardec — Deckname des Pädagogen Hippolyte Rivail — habe sie bloß gesammelt und geordnet. Diese Zuschreibung ist eine Lehre, keine überprüfbare Tatsache, und diese Notiz kann sie weder bestätigen noch verschweigen. Das Buch stammt von 1857 und steht hier als das, was es ist: das Gründungsdokument einer einflussreichen Bewegung, vor allem in Brasilien, und ein Zeugnis der Religiosität des 19. Jahrhunderts.
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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.…