La Vie Posthume was a French spiritist review whose title declares its single preoccupation — the posthumous life of the soul. Written in the Kardecist idiom of the périsprit and spiritisme rather than Anglo-American spiritualism, it argues the mechanics of survival after death: what becomes of the spirit, how reward and punishment operate without a punishing God, and how the phenomena of the séance are to be distinguished from the convulsive ecstasies of quakers, fakirs, and dervishes. Reincarnation, the keystone of Kardec's system, underlies its picture of the soul's ongoing career. It is a doctrinal organ of French spiritism, more concerned with the destiny of the spirit than with the theatre of the séance.
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