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The Spiritist Review - 1862 Journal of Psychological Studies ALLAN KARDEC Original Title – La Revue Spirite – Allan Kardec Translator: Luiz A.V. Cheim IDEAK - Instituto de Divulgação Espírita Allan Kardec THE SPIRITIST REVIEW – 1862 TABLE OF CONTENTS January 1862 Essay aBout the interpretation of the doctrine of the fallen angels Spiritist Communications and Publicity Control of the Spiritist Teaching Questions and Issues Proposed to Several Spiritist Groups About the Supernatural Poetry from Beyond the Grave BiBliography: Spiritism in its simplest expression BiBliography: Revelations from Beyond the grave BiBliography: A Will in Favor of Spiritism BiBliography: Letter to Mr. Mohéry with respect to Ms. Godu February 1862 Greetings from Last Year Is Spiritism Proven By Miracles? The Wind - Spiritist Fable Reincarnation in America New American Mediums in Paris Fund-Raising on Behalf of the Workers of Lyon Spiritist Teachings and Dissertations: Faith Spiritist Teachings and Dissertations: Hope Spiritist Teachings and Dissertations: Charity Forgetting Humiliation About Instinct Religious and Philosophical Meditations: The Cross Religious and Philosophical Meditations: How Blessed are the poor in spirit Religious and Philosophical Meditations: Slavery March 1862 To Our Correspondents The Spirits and the Family Crest Conversations from Beyond the Grave: Sr. JoBard Carrère, Verification of Identity Spiritist Teachings and Dissertations: Reincarnation Spiritist Teachings and Dissertations: Realism and Idealism in painting Spiritist Teachings and Dissertations: The Workers of the Lord Spiritist Teachings and Dissertations: Moral instruction Spiritist Teachings and Dissertations: The Vineyard of the Lord Spiritist Teachings and Dissertations: Charity to Criminals – A Moral Issue April 1862 Spiritualist and Spiritist Phrenology - Perfectibility of the black race Consequences of the Doctrine of Reincarnation on the Propagation of Spiritism Demoniacal Epidemic in the Savoie Answers to the questions aBout the fallen angels Family conversations from beyond the grave: Girard de Codemberg Family conversations from beyond the grave: de La Bruyère Spiritist poetry: Believe in the Spirits of the Lord Spiritist poetry: Voices of heaven Spiritist Dissertations: The Martyrs of Spiritism Spiritist Dissertations: Attacks to the new idea Spiritist Dissertations: Persecution BiBliography May 1862 Last Rites of Mr. Sanson Family conversations from beyond the grave: Captain Nivrac Family conversations from beyond the grave: Maximilian V. Causes of disBelief Response of a Lady to an Ecclesiastic on Spiritism The merciless Baker - suicide Spiritist Dissertations: To the members of the Parisian Society of Spiritist Studies that are leaving to Russia Spiritist Dissertations: Friendly relationship between the dead and the living ones Spiritist Dissertations: The two teardrops Spiritist Dissertations: The two Voltaires June 1862 Parisian Society of Spiritist Studies: Speech given by Mr. Allan Kardec Opening ceremony of the social year, April 1st 1862 Family conversations from beyond the grave: Mr. Sanson Family conversations from beyond the grave: Child Jesus among the doctors - Last painting of Ingres That is how history is made – the millions of Mr. Allan Kardec Spiritist Society of Vienna Vital principle of the Spiritist societies Spiritist teachings and dissertations: Philosophical Spiritism An apocryphal Spiritist in Russia July 1860 The point of view Statistics of suicide Moral inheritance Spiritist poetry: The child and the vision DouBle suicide for love and duty – moral study Spiritist Teachings and Dissertations: Sympathetic union of souls Spiritist Teachings and Dissertations: A roof tile Spiritist Teachings and Dissertations: Cesar, Clovis and Charlemagne Notice August 1860 Conference By Mr. Trousseau, professor at the faculty of medicine Necrology – death of the Bishop of Barcelona Necrology – death of Mrs. Home Spiritist Society of Constantine Letter from Mr. Reynaud to the Journal of DeBates Pandus and Kurus - Reincarnation in ancient times Planet Venus Letter to the journal of Saint-Jean-d’Angély Punishment of a greedy man The merit of prayer Spiritist Dissertations: The conquest of the future Spiritist Dissertations: The Pentecost Spiritist Dissertations: Forgiveness Spiritist Dissertations: Vengeance BiBliography: Spiritism in Lyon September 1860 Inauguration of a Spiritist Center in Bordeaux Letter from Mr. DomBre to a preacher Spiritism in a distribution of prizes Persecutions Reconciliation through Spiritism Answer to the Spiritists of Lyon and Bordeaux (to Mr. SaBô) Spiritist poetry: Pilgrimage of the soul Spiritist poetry: The guardian angel Spiritist dissertations: Cosmological studies Vacation of the Spiritist Society of Paris To the Spiritist Centers to Be visited To Mr. E.K. October 1860 Apollonius of Tyana Answer to Abeille Agénaise By Mr. Dombre Honorary memBers of the Parisian Society What should the history of Spiritism Be? Arsène Gautier – memory of a spirit Can a spirit step Back Before a test? Answer to a mental question Spiritist poetry: The child and the atheist Spiritist poetry: The pumpkin and the sensitive Spiritist dissertations: The soul and the evil spirit Spiritist dissertations: The crow and the fox Spiritist dissertations: Style of the good communications Spiritist dissertations: Reason and the supernatural November 1860 Spiritist trip in 1862 To our correspondents The mysteries of St. Michel’s tower in Bordeaux: Story of a mummy Mrs. Remone Jacques Noulin Medication prescriBed By the Spirits Spiritist poetry: My will Multiple faBles and poetry: The monologue of the little donkey Multiple faBles and poetry: The medium and Dr. Imbroglio Spiritist dissertations: The duel Spiritist dissertations: Foundations of the social order Spiritist dissertations: Here lie eighteen centuries of light Spiritist dissertations: Role of the Spiritist Society of Paris Spiritist dissertations: The origin of the language Answers Errata December 1859 Studies about the possessed of Morzine: Causes of oBsession and the means of fighting it Spiritism in Rochefort: An episode from Mr. Allan Kardec’ trip Is Spiritism possible? Extracted from the Écho de Sétif Charles Fourier, Louis Jourdain and the reincarnation The lodge and the lounge - Study of Spiritists customs Spiritist dissertations: All Saints Magnetic dispensary Response to a gentleman from Bordeaux Erratum The Spiritist Review Journal of Psychological Studies January 1862 Essay about the interpretation of the doCtrine of the fallen angels The issue of origins has always had the magical power of attracting curiosity and, from that point of view, it attracts even more with respect to the origins of the human being, particularly when considering that it is impossible for any sensible person to literally accept the biblical report, setting it aside as one of those allegories so much typical of the oriental style. In fact, science comes to explain through indisputable means the material impossibility of the formation of the globe in a period of six days of twenty-four hours each. Given the irrefutable facts written in the geological layers, the Church had to yield before the opinion of scholars and agree with them that the six days of creation represent periods of undetermined lengths, as the Church did in former times with respect to the Earth’s rotation. Hence, if the biblical text is susceptible to this kind of interpretation, with respect to that capital point of view, it can also be with respect to others, notably with respect to the time of appearance of the human beings on Earth, about their origin and the meaning that must be given to the qualification of fallen angels. Since the origin of things is in God’s designs and since it is only revealed to us when God judges it to be adequate, we are limited to conjectures. Many systems have been envisaged to solve that issue and up until now none has completely satisfied this rationale. We will also try to raise a tip of the veil. Will we be more successful than our predecessors? We do not know. It is up to the future to respond. The proposed theory is thus a personal opinion that seems to agree with reason and logic. This is what is going to give that theory a certain degree of likelihood. To begin with we assert the fact that it is impossible to uncover any piece of truth unless we resource from the Spiritist theory. This theory has already solved a number of issues that were unsolvable up until now, and it is with the support of the guidelines provided by this theory that we will try to go back the course of times. The literal meaning of certain passages of the sacred books, contradicted by science and rejected by reason, has produced more nonbelievers than one may suppose, given the obstinacy in turning those texts into an article of faith. If a rational interpretation can make them acceptable, it will evidently bring back to the Church those who ran away from it. Before moving on it is of the essence that we be clear about the meaning of certain words. How many quarrels have been eternalized but for the ambiguity of certain expressions whose meaning were based on individual interpretations! This was demonstrated in The Spirits’ Book about the word soul. Any controversy was promptly eliminated since we clearly stated the meaning that was given to that word. The word angel is in the same situation. People use it regardless both in the good as well as in the bad sense by saying things like: “the good and the bad angels, the angel