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Publisher: Health Research Books
ISBN: 9780787310622
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 468
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Or, Guide for Mediums and Invocators. Containing the special instructions for the spirits on the theory of all kinds of manifestations. the means of communicating with the invisible world, the development of mediumship, and the difficulties and the dang.
Author: Allan Kardec
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Category : Spiritualism
Languages : en
Pages : 488
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Languages : en
Pages : 482
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Languages : en
Pages : 480
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Author: John Warne Monroe
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 0801461715
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 308
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At a fascinating moment in French intellectual history, an interest in matters occult was not equivalent to a rejection of scientific thought; participants in séances and magic rituals were seekers after experimental data as well as spiritual truth. A young astronomy student wrote of his quest: "I am not in the presence or under the influence of any evil spirit: I study Spiritism as I study mathematics." He did not see himself as an ecstatic visionary but rather as a sober observer. For him, the darkened room of occult practice was as much laboratory as church. In an evocative history of alternative religious practices in France in the second half of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries, John Warne Monroe tells the interconnected stories of three movements—Mesmerism, Spiritism, and Occultism. Adherents of these groups, Monroe reveals, attempted to "modernize" faith by providing empirical support for metaphysical concepts. Instead of trusting theological speculation about the nature of the soul, these believers attempted to gather tangible evidence through Mesmeric experiments, séances, and ceremonial magic. While few French people were active Mesmerists, Spiritists, or Occultists, large segments of the educated general public were familiar with these movements and often regarded them as fascinating expressions of the "modern condition," a notable contrast to the Catholicism and secular materialism that prevailed in their culture. Featuring eerie spirit photographs, amusing Daumier lithographs, and a posthumous autograph from Voltaire, as well as extensive documentary evidence, Laboratories of Faith gives readers a sense of what being in a séance or a secret-society ritual might actually have felt like and why these feelings attracted participants. While they never achieved the transformation of human consciousness for which they strove, these thinkers and believers nevertheless pioneered a way of "being religious" that has become an enduring part of the Western cultural vocabulary.
Author: Allan Kardec
Publisher: FEB Editora/CEI
ISBN: 6555703342
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 207
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A work that is still up-to-date, What is Spiritism? is useful for adherents of the Spiritist Doctrine as well as for those who want to understand the nature of Spiritism and its fundamental points. Kardec’s logic and common sense are obvious in this book as he confounds Spiritism’s detractors while answering the questions of those who believe in and aspire to a superior life. The book is divided into three chapters. The first is composed of dialogues between Kardec and a critic, a skeptic and a priest, providing answers to those who do not understand the basic principles of Spiritism. It also presents appropriate refutations to its opponents. The second chapter presents practical and experimental aspects of the science and is a kind of summary of The Mediums’ Book. The third chapter is a short synthesis of The Spirits’ Book, with solutions to psychological, moral and philosophical problems according to the Spiritist Doctrine. In addition, the book is prefaced with an abridged version of Henri Sausse’s biography of Allan Kardec.
Author: Eduard von Hartmann
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108052711
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 139
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Published in 1885, this was one of the first works to attempt a complete psychological explanation of all occult phenomena.
Author: Cesare Baudi di Vesme
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Category : Egypt
Languages : en
Pages : 296
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Author: Léon Denis
Publisher: FEB Editora
ISBN: 6555705868
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 433
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Allan Kardec recommended prudence and knowledge as necessary preparation for the practice of mediumship, as they are the means for avoiding conscious and unconscious errors. In the Invisible is an indispensable book for students of mediumistic experimentation. Léon Denis wrote this treatise on experimental Spiritism, which, besides studying the laws that govern the communications between the invisible and physical worlds, presents a large number of spirit-related cases researched by scholars and the conclusions they reached. The author concludes that, “The constant and in-depth study of the invisible world, which is also the world of causes, will be the great resource and the inexhaustible reservoir on which thought and life must be nourished. Mediumship is the key.”
Author: Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County
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Category : Catalogs, Classified
Languages : en
Pages : 914
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