Spiritist Knowledge

"Stop weeping, for she has not died, but is asleep." (Luke, VIII, 52) H umankind, to you I address these words! To you, who say lost, those who try to read you future! To you, annihilated by unbelief, frozen by skeptical selfishness, befogged by doubt! On you, poor daughter of Jairus, many exclaim: "No use calling, the girl is dead !!!" But the Master gets in the house and moving closer says: "Stop weeping, for she has not died, but is asleep!" Humankind, near this deathbed, where passions bind you, the Master has deigned to approach and, followed by some of his dear ones, has extended to you his divine hands and said: "My child, get up and walk! Leave this lethargy, this apathy so common to those approaching death, get up and walk!" Get up Humankind and leave this deathbed of agony, the cause of your sufferings! Leave selfshness that restricts and smothers your noble passions; leave your pride, the thirst of gold erasing the ...

A s announced in the blog NWSpiritism , we can now read some historic editions of " La Revue Spirite" (originally published in French, 1 ) by Allan Kardec in English . The formal name of the work in English is " The Spiritist Magazine - Journal of Psychological Studies ". This achievement is just the beginning of a monumental translation work still under preparation by IPEAK (Allan Kardec Institute of Research) and carried out by Luiz A. V. Cheim. IPEAK website is a bilingual page (in Portuguese and French) which we hope will bring more content in English in the future. This is surely a relevant endeavor, since A. Kardec was one of the pioneers of the psychic research but he is widely unknown to English speaking people. There are several cases of hauntings and psychic communications analysed by Kardec as a first read through "The Spiritist Magazine" can reveal.  The Magazine also was a key tool in the beginning of Spiritism, since it contains m...