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From Pat Deveney's database:
Espirita, O. This was a unique and eccentric journal filled with the ramblings and rantings of a man (presumably Ribeiro) driven by poverty and concern to walk the streets filled with widows, orphans and the impoverished, trying to raise the funds necessary to publish this journal and fix the world by the "utility of spiritualism."
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| Espirita V1 N1 Dec 25 1895 | |
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O Espírita was a provincial Brazilian Spiritist paper published in Pernambuco, its first issue dated Christmas Day 1895. Its pages defend Spiritism apologetically as 'the most useful of the sciences' and as 'the true light, peace, and love,' pairing the codified Kardecist doctrine — spirit communication, the immortality and moral progress of the soul, and reincarnation — with a program of instruction and charity. Mediumship is demonstrated concretely: the paper describes psychographic writing in which a spirit guides the pen even of an illiterate hand. In the science-and-charity idiom typical of organized Brazilian Spiritism, it presents the movement as at once empirical and moral. The paper belongs to the Latin Kardecist current, whose mediumistic phenomena it shares with Anglo-American Spiritualism while its reincarnationist doctrine sets it apart. Generated by Claude from the periodical's digitized text; a thematic reading, not a bibliographic description. |
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| Spiritism (Kardecist) | Spiritualism |
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