The Spirits' Book
- Idioma:
- inglés
- Estado:
- Obra completa
- Autoría:
- Escrita por el autor
- Estado del texto:
- Sin ruido de escaneo detectado (medición automática sobre todo el texto, no revisada a mano)
- Extensión:
- ~190.000 palabras · 881 pasajes
Cita esta obra
- APALibro de los espíritus. (n.d.). The Spirits' Book. Digital reproduction: SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/es/works/allan-kardec/the-spirits-book
- MLALibro de los espíritus. The Spirits' Book. Digital reproduction, SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/es/works/allan-kardec/the-spirits-book.
- ChicagoLibro de los espíritus. The Spirits' Book. Digital reproduction, SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/es/works/allan-kardec/the-spirits-book.
Referencia de la edición que reproduce SigPhi: SigPhi es su reproducción digital, no el editor. El año de la edición no consta en los metadatos (por eso «n.d.») y el traductor solo aparece cuando consta.
De qué trata
El libro fundacional del espiritismo: mil y pico preguntas sobre Dios, el alma, la reencarnación y la vida moral, con sus respuestas.
Contexto e historia
Hay que explicar cómo se presenta, porque es parte del texto: la obra afirma que las respuestas fueron dictadas por espíritus a través de médiums, y que Allan Kardec —seudónimo del pedagogo Hippolyte Rivail— solo las recogió y ordenó. Esa atribución es una doctrina, no un hecho comprobable, y la ficha no puede darla por buena ni puede ocultarla. El libro es de 1857 y está aquí como lo que es: el documento fundacional de un movimiento que tuvo mucha influencia, sobre todo en Brasil, y una pieza para entender la religiosidad del siglo XIX.
Contexto editorial, no una fuente citable: a diferencia de los pasajes de la obra, estos datos no se pueden comprobar contra 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.…