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From Pat Deveney's database:
Spirite, Le. The journal announced its intention of being a forum for all branches of spiritualism and magnetism but also carried articles on the history of occultism and on Martinism in
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| Le Spirite V1 N1 Nov 1 1885 | |
| Le Spirite V1 N2 Nov 15 1885 | |
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Le Spirite is a French Kardecist journal from Lyon, the very cradle of Allan Kardec's spiritism, and it reads exactly so. Its vocabulary is doctrinal — 'spiritisme,' 'esprit,' 'périsprit,' 'réincarnation,' 'séance' — and its creed is Kardec's rationalist naturalism, the insistence that nothing is miraculous or supernatural and that all in nature is governed by law. Around that doctrine cluster the phenomena its readers prized: a sitter seen rising bodily off the floor in three separate sessions, a spirit beating time on a table like a conductor. An older magnetic layer of magnetizers, somnambulism and clairvoyance runs beneath, and reincarnation, though lightly worded here, is the movement's doctrinal spine. Keyword panels that scatter its 'occult' and 'hypnotisme' vocabulary toward Theosophy or clinical hypnosis mistake ordinary adjacencies for programs; this is a Kardecist spiritist review through and through. Generated by Claude from the periodical's digitized text; a thematic reading, not a bibliographic description. |
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