Il libro degli spiriti
- Lingua:
- inglese
- Stato:
- Opera completa
- Autorialità:
- Scritta dall'autore
- Stato del testo:
- Nessun rumore di scansione rilevato (misura automatica su tutto il testo, non verificata a mano)
- Estensione:
- ~190.000 parole · 881 passi
Cita quest'opera
- APAAllan Kardec. (n.d.). The Spirits' Book [Il libro degli spiriti]. Digital reproduction: SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/it/works/allan-kardec/the-spirits-book
- MLAAllan Kardec. The Spirits' Book [Il libro degli spiriti]. Digital reproduction, SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/it/works/allan-kardec/the-spirits-book.
- ChicagoAllan Kardec. The Spirits' Book [Il libro degli spiriti]. Digital reproduction, SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/it/works/allan-kardec/the-spirits-book.
Riferimento dell'edizione che SigPhi riproduce: SigPhi ne è la riproduzione digitale, non l'editore. L'anno dell'edizione non figura nei metadati (da qui «n.d.») e il traduttore compare solo quando è noto.
Di che cosa tratta
Il libro fondativo dello spiritismo: un migliaio di domande su Dio, l'anima, la reincarnazione e la vita morale, con le relative risposte.
Contesto e storia
Va spiegato come si presenta, perché fa parte del testo: l'opera afferma che le risposte furono dettate da spiriti tramite medium, e che Allan Kardec — pseudonimo del pedagogista Hippolyte Rivail — si limitò a raccoglierle e ordinarle. Quell'attribuzione è una dottrina, non un fatto verificabile, e questa scheda non può né avallarla né tacerla. Il libro è del 1857 ed è qui per ciò che è: il documento fondativo di un movimento di grande influenza, soprattutto in Brasile, e una fonte per capire la religiosità dell'Ottocento.
Contesto editoriale, non una fonte citabile: a differenza dei passi dell'opera, questi dati non si possono verificare sul 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.…