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IDENTITY OF THE
SPIRITIST DOCTRINE
"The
Spiritist Doctrine" or "Spiritism":
name given by Allan Kardec to the Doctrine of the Spirits contained in the works of the
Codification.
"For new ideas new words are required, in order to secure clarity of language by
avoiding the confusion inseparable from the usage of the same term for expressing
different meanings. The words 'spiritual', 'spiritualist', 'spirtualism', have a definite
acceptance; to employ a new one, would be to multiply the causes of amphibology, already
so numerous."
"Instead, therefore, of the words spiritual, spiritualism, we employ the words
'spiritist' and 'spiritism' to better designate the latter belief, (...)"
"We say, then, that the fundamental principles of The Spiritist Doctrine or Spiritism
is the relationship of the material world with Spirits, or the beings of the invisible
world. We designate the followers of Spiritism as spiritists."
"In a special sense, The Spirits' Book contains the Spiritist Doctrine; in a general
sense, it appertains to the spiritualistic doctrine (...)"
Allan Kardec ("The
Spirits' Book" - Introduction - I)
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