Initiation into Spiritism

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“Spirits have no gender (not in the way we understand different sexes, with their structure and function in one’s physical body). Depending on the biological sex of the body they occupy, the same Spirits can animate bodies of men or women, and there is no superiority or inferiority between them on that account.” – Book excerpt
With extraordinary scope, this book covers dozens of relevant topics in its well-argued thirty seven chapters, all written and updated by one of the major authorities in the field. It should be read not only by Spiritists but also by Spiritualists, and sympathizers in general, since it deals with a number of contemporary topics – some quite controversial – with clarity and profundity. Never tiring the reader or sounding pedantic in the process, it also presents practical solutions to challenges of everyday life, teaching how to face and transcend them. One quick glance at its contents should reveal its thoroughness.

Contents
1 RADIATIONS OR VIBRATIONS
2 GOD
3 CREATION
4 SPIRITS
5 CLASSIFICATION OF SPIRITS AND WORLDS
6 LOVE OF GOD AND NEIGHBOR
7 PERISPIRIT
8 SPIRITS’ ACTION UPON FLUIDS
9 THE GOSPEL AT HOME
10 MIRACLE OR PHENOMENON?
11 LAW OF CAUSE AND EFFECT
12 FREE WILL AND PROGRESS
13 A SPIRITIST VIEW OF MARRIAGE
14 CHRISTIAN CONFESSION AND COMMUNION
15 REINCARNATION
16 ARGUING ABOUT REINCARNATION
17 PARENTS AND CHILDREN IN THE LIGHT OF REINCARNATION
18 FAMILY IN THE LIGHT OF REINCARNATION
19 BLESSED ARE THOSE WHO MOURN
20 DISINCARNATION
21 TRIALS AND EXPIATIONS
22 INEQUALITIES OF WEALTH
23 A STUDY ABOUT BAPTISM
24 SLEEP AND DREAMS
25 WITHOUT CHARITY THERE IS NO SALVATION
26 PRAYER
27 THE LORD’S PRAYER
28 ALLAN KARDEC, THE CODIFIER
29 THE THREE REVELATIONS
30 SPIRITISM AND ITS PRACTICES
31 MEDIUMSHIP AND ITS DEVELOPMENT
32 MEDIUMSHIP AND SPIRITISM
33 “YOU RECEIVED WITHOUT PAYING; GIVE WITHOUT PAY”
34 ON CHRISTIAN VIGILANCE
35 THE PARABLE OF THE SOWER
36 THE PARABLE OF THE LAMP UNDER A BASKET
37 THE PARABLE OF THE LABORERS IN THE VINEYARD