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From Pat Deveney's database:
Espiritista, El. This was begun by Torres-Solanot y Casas after a schism within the ranks of El Criterio Espiritista and its constituent groups over the issue of phenomena in spiritualism. Torres-Solanot, whose Grupo Marietta had discovered the "Medium of the Flowers" and favored phenomena, and the journal published articles on mediums' fluctuations in weight under the spirits' influence and on the moving of compass needles without physical contact--essays that would have been commonplace in the United States but were unknown in Spain. The last four issues were published in Saragossa. Catalogo Hemeroteca, Municipal de
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| Espiritista V1 N9 1878 Sep | |
| Espiritista V2 N1 1879 Jan | |
| Espiritista V2 N2 1879 Feb | |
| Espiritista V2 N3 1879 Mar | |
| Espiritista V2 N4 1879 Apr | |
| Espiritista V2 N5 1879 May | |
| Espiritista V2 N6 1879 Jun | |
| Espiritista V2 N7 1879 Jul | |
| Espiritista V1 N10 1878 Oct | |
| Espiritista V1 N11 1878 Nov | |
| Espiritista V1 N12 1878 Dec | |
| Espiritista V3 Supplement 1 1880 Apr | |
| Espiritista V3 Supplement 2 1880 Apr | |
| Espiritista V3 Supplement 3 1880 Apr | |
| Espiritista V3 Supplement 4 1880 May | |
| Espiritista V3 Supplement 5 1880 May | |
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El Espiritista was a Madrid organ of Kardecist Spiritism, the Latin, reincarnationist branch of the Spiritualist movement founded on Allan Kardec's teachings. Its pages combine doctrine and apologetics: reports of mediumship and materialization phenomena sit alongside spirited defences of Spiritism against Catholic clergy, including a point-by-point answer to Father Juan Vilá's anti-spiritist discourse. The moral core is thoroughly Kardecian — charity, love of neighbour, and the progressive moral evolution ('progreso') of the spirit through successive lives. It reads as a confessional review addressed to Spanish believers rather than as neutral psychical research, positioning Spiritism as a religion-and-science that the Church had wrongly condemned. 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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