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ALLAN KARDEC STUDY GROUP-UK
Centre for Spiritist Teachings
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| The Compilation of the Spiritist Teachings |
The Fox family home Hydesville - USA, 1848
March 31st, 1848. In Hydesville, United States of America,
manifestations of intelligent forces intervening on the physical plane denote
the appearing of Spiritualism through mediumistic phenomena. The seriousness
of those events had large repercussion even in Europe. The phenomena occurred
in a small log cabin, home of the Fox family who were members of a Methodist
church.
During the first every written record of a dialogue between the Fox
sisters and the spirit of a salesman named Charles Rosna, they used letters
in order to form words, following the determination that each letter would
correspond to a certain number of taps. Therefore, they were responsible for
discovering the initial process of communication between both worlds.
We may say that the phenomenon of the turning-tables which followed the
events in Hydesville prepared the emergence of Spiritism, which later called
the interest of men of science, amongst them Professor Rivail, later to be
known as Allan Kardec.
Table-turning seances in Victorian parlous in 1850's
It was 1854 when Prof. Rivail first heard about this phenomenon thought his
friend Mr Fortier, another French scholar interested in the research of
magnetism. Rivail remained sceptical when faced with this news. On being
informed at a later date that the tables were now ‘talking’ he remarked:
“I will only believe when I see it and when it can be proved to me that
a table has a brain that can think, nerves to feel with, and can also become
somnambulic. Until then, allow me to see nothing more than fantasy in these
stories!”. Thus requiring evidence for these facts, he was willing
to observe these questionable events, which were being highly publicised, in
the French press.
In 1855, after attending a mediumistic session, Prof. Rivail decided to
study the phenomena more deeply. He then began visiting various mediums from
whom he received messages from the Spirits regarding the work to be done.
It did not take long before he received instructions that he was facing not
just a scientific research, but a mission. As a result of this message he
started compiling many questions of a scientific, spiritual and moral nature,
and he then sent out this list to all his mediumistic contacts, asking for
answers from the spiritual world. In this way he received many hundreds of
replies to his questions, coming from many different mediums, each unknown to
the other, in many different countries.
Guided by Superior Spirits, he then compiled the questions together with
the answers into a book called The Spirits' Book, published on April 18th,
1857, under the name of Allan Kardec. This date, therefore, is known as the
founding date of Spiritism. Kardec later published The Mediums' Book,
The Gospel According to Spiritism, Heaven and Hell
and Genesis, thus completing his work of codification of the
Spiritist Doctrine, bringing to humanity the Third Revelation, and as Jesus had
promised, The Consoler.
Click here to get further details or download
the Spiritist Codification books
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