Es el marco inicial de una doctrina que ha ocasionado profundas repercusiones en el pensamiento y la visión acerca de la vida de una considerable porción de la humanidad. Su estructura está compuesta por cuatro partes que contienen 1019 cuestiones formuladas por Allan Kardec, el Codificador del Espiritismo. Aborda en forma lógica y racional las enseñanzas de los Espíritus desde los aspectos científico, filosófico y religioso. Independientemente de toda creencia o convicción religiosa, la lectura de este libro será de inmenso valor, porque trata acerca de Dios, la inmortalidad del alma, la naturaleza de los Espíritus, sus relaciones con los hombres, las leyes morales, la vida presente, la vida futura y el porvenir de la humanidad, todos asuntos de interés general y de gran actualidad.
“Como todo lo nuevo, la doctrina espiritista tiene adeptos y contradictores. Vamos a procurar contestar a algunas de las objeciones de estos últimos, sin abrigar, empero, la pretensión de convencerlos a todos, ya que hay gentes que creen que para ellas exclusivamente fue hecha la luz. Nos dirigimos a las personas de buena fe que no tienen ideas preconcebidas o sistemáticas, por lo menos, y que están sinceramente deseosas de instruirse, a las cuales demostraremos que la mayor parte de las objeciones que se hacen a la doctrina nacen de la observación incompleta de los hechos y de un fallo dictado con harta ligereza y precipitación. […] Para muchas personas la oposición de las corporaciones sabias es, si no una prueba, por lo menos, una poderosa presunción en contra. No somos nosotros de los que gritamos contra los sabios: ‘¡A ese!, ¡a ese!’, porque no queremos que se nos diga que damos coces al asno, sino que, por el contrario, los tenemos en mucha estima, y nos creeríamos muy honrados siendo uno de ellos, pero no siempre puede ser su opinión un juicio irrevocable.”
El libro de los espíritus contiene los principios de la doctrina espiritista sobre la inmortalidad del alma, la naturaleza de los espíritus y sus relaciones con los hombres, las leyes morales, la vida presente, la vida futura y el porvenir de la humanidad; según la enseñanza dada por los espíritus superiores con la ayuda de diferentes médiums recopilada y puesta en orden por Allan Kardec.
This book is a dissertation on life, afterlife, and reincarnation given by Sylvia Browne's spirit guide, Francine. Within these pages, you'll find a 'gnostic' view of the world and the reason for life. As always, we encourage the reader to 'take what you like and leave the rest behind.' No single work can fully capture this enormous topic. We simply offer this book as a resting point in your lifelong search. Our goal, and hopefully yours, too, is to stimulate your mind to seek God - however you wish. We don't intend to replace your belief system. Rather, we only hope to expand your view to include areas not yet explored. Each person will find and understand God in their own way. This book offers one path, among billions, to find God.
A profoundly original philosophical detective story tracing the surprising history of an anecdote ranging across centuries of traditions, disciplines, and ideas Red Sea-Red Square-Red Thread is a work of passages taken, written, painted, and sung. It offers a genealogy of liberty through a micrology of wit. It follows the long history of a short anecdote. Commissioned to depict the biblical passage through the Red Sea, a painter covered over a surface with red paint, explaining thereafter that the Israelites had already crossed over and that the Egyptians were drowned. Clearly, not all you see is all you get. Who was the painter and who the first teller of the tale? Designed as a philosophical detective story, Red Sea-Red Square-Red Thread follows the extraordinary number of thinkers and artists who have used the Red Sea anecdote to make so much more than a merely anecdotal point. Leading the large cast are the philosophers, Arthur Danto and Søren Kierkegaard, the poet and playwright, Henri Murger, the opera composer, Giacomo Puccini, and the painter and print-maker, William Hogarth. Strange companions perhaps, until their use of the anecdote is shown as working its extraordinary passage through so many cosmopolitan cities of art and capital. What about the anecdote brings Danto's philosophy of art into conversation with Kierkegaard's stages on life's way, with Murger and Puccini's la vie de bohème, and with Hogarth's modern moral pictures? Lydia Goehr explores these narratives of emancipation in philosophy, theology, politics, and the arts. What has the passage of the Israelites to do with the Egyptians who, by many gypsy names, came to be branded as bohemians when arriving in France from the German lands of Bohemia? What have Moses and monotheism to do with the history of monism and the monochrome? And what sort of thread connects a sea to a square when each is so purposefully named red?
In order to walk in the truth and avoid being deceived by the worldly philosophies and satanic attacks, we must try the spirits, according to the mandate of 1 John 4:1, to see if they are of God. Many believers are aware of this command but do not know how to try the spirits. Where do they begin? If you are one of these people, do not fret. This book can help! Mary Garrison has compiled a guide to the principal evil spirits at work in our world today, so that you can identify them remove them from your life and the lives of others. In this book, you will learn… The biblical names of the principal evil spirits The fruits of these spirits The tactics they use in the lives of believers Scriptural methods of overcoming them How to live in victory over the evil one Do not be deceived any longer. Learn how to try the spirits and walk in the victory Christ has purchased for you on the cross. You were made to walk in the truth, and that truth will set you free!
After you have read The Spirits’ Book, you will no longer have any reason to fear death. The Spirits’ Book will provide you with the answers to nearly all the questions you may have with regards to the origin, nature and destiny of each and every soul on earth – and those of other worlds as well. It also addresses the issues of God, creation, moral laws and the nature of spirits and their relationships with humans. The book contains answers that were dictated to mediums by highly evolved spirits who love God. The Spirits’ Book is the initial landmark publication of a Doctrine that has made a profound impact on the thought and view of life of a considerable portion of humankind since the first French edition was published in 1857.
