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From Pat Deveney's database:
Seculo XX. The journal in its first (and perhaps only) issue proclaimed that: "Unfurling the banner of reform it came to fight for the interests of a healthy propaganda throughout the world by the work of the workers of spiritualism." "Healthy" propaganda meant that "blind faith" [i.e., Catholicism] was to be replaced by the scientific teachings brought by spiritualism, to which alone men should give their faith. This was buttressed by excerpts from C. Flammarion,
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Século XX was a free fortnightly published in Campos (Rio de Janeiro province) in 1885 as the organ of the Sociedade Spírita Concórdia, notable for carrying a French-language 'Bulletin pour l'étranger' that addressed an international Spiritist readership. Its pages preach the codified, progressive Spiritism of Allan Kardec — communication with spirits, the immortality and moral progress of the soul, and reincarnation across successive lives — in a polemical, reformist voice that inveighs against ignorance, false learning, and 'the blindness of those who will not see.' The paper takes pains to correct popular misconceptions about the nature of spirits held by those unacquainted with Spiritism. It belongs to the Latin Kardecist current, whose mediumistic phenomena it shares with Anglo-American Spiritualism while its reincarnationist doctrine and self-consciously international outlook set it apart. Generated by Claude from the periodical's digitized text; a thematic reading, not a bibliographic description. |
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