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From Pat Deveney's database:
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| Le Spiritisme V1 1883-4 | |
| Le Spiritisme V2 1884-5 | |
| Le Spiritisme V3 1885-6 | |
| Le Spiritisme V4 1886-7 | |
| Le Spiritisme V5 1887 | |
| Le Spiritisme V6 1888 | |
| Le Spiritisme V7 1889 | |
| Le Spiritisme V8 1890 | |
| Le Spiritisme V9 1891 | |
| Le Spiritisme V10 1892 | |
| Le Spiritisme V11 1893 | |
| Le Spiritisme V12 1894 | |
| Le Spiritisme V13 1895 | |
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Le Spiritisme was a French Kardecist review and a house-organ of the organized movement, reporting the affairs and 'rapid progress' of the Union Spirite Française. Its pages are saturated with esprit, séance and the diagnostic Kardecist term périsprit, placing it squarely in the Kardec tradition. Its voice is doctrinal and pointedly anticlerical, repudiating the Catholic God of eternal flames in favor of the spirites' benevolent order and the soul's survival. Around that doctrinal spine it reports the movement's evidentiary fringe — magnetic somnambulism and the clinical suggestion of Charcot's era — while brushing only lightly against occultism. It is orthodox French spiritism in its organizational and consolatory key. Generated by Claude from the periodical's digitized text; a thematic reading, not a bibliographic description. |
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| Spiritism (Kardecist) |
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