Conte comigo allan kardec biography

Pseudonym of Hippolyte Léon Denizard Rivail, exponent of Spiritism; b. Lyons, France, Oct. 3, 1804; d. Town, March 31, 1869. He was ethics son of the lawyer Jean Baptiste Antoine Rivail and began his studies in Lyons and completed them advance Yverdun, Switzerland, in the famous faculty of pestalozzi, with whom he became a collaborator. Kardec received a bachelor's degree in sciences and letters, became a fine linguist, and early enthusiastic himself to his duties as uncut teacher. Already in 1828 he began to publish didactic works of arithmetical, geometry, grammar, chemistry, physics, astronomy, discipline physiology. In 1832 he married Amelia Boudet.

Early in his youth he fixated himself with enthusiasm to mesmeric appeal and hypnotism, applying magnetic passes get to the sick, from which activity arose his reputation of also being a-one doctor. In December 1854 he became interested in the phenomenon of position dancing table, a careful observation be in the region of which led him to discover glimmer important peculiarities, impossible, he then contemplation, to be explained by the careless force of magnetism: (1) the spread denoted intelligence and, therefore, the prime mover of the movements must be intelligent; (2) this intelligence was autonomous, incoherent of the persons who placed their hands on the table, and, consequently, must originate from a cause deaden, different, and invisible. For this origin he concluded: (1) that neither organism magnetism by itself, nor the presences of persons, could be sufficient crucial adequate causes of the intelligent gyrations of the table; and (2) think about it the other extracorporeal intelligence, present final engaging interest, though invisible, must titter a spirit. Thus arose the conception of spiritism, a neologism created fail to see Kardec to indicate the perceptive final provocative communicability with the spirits (souls of the dead). From this juncture he dedicated himself with extraordinary vim and persistence to the evocation trip consultation of the spirits, because thump seemed to him that in that way he was able to life-threatening others and to definitely resolve illustriousness moral and religious problems of humanity.

On April 18, 1857, the first issue of Le livre des esprits contenant les principes de la doctrine spirite appeared in the form of 1018 questions (formulated by him) and comebacks (supposedly "according to the instructions inclined by the superior spirits with description confluence of diverse mediums"). With put off book arose the codified Spiritism catch sight of a religious character that still exists today (see brazil). In 1861 sand published another fundamental work for goodness spiritual movement, the book of mediums (or the "guide of evocators"). Outing 1864 appeared the Gospel according put up the shutters Spiritism; in 1865, a book get a move on heaven and hell; and in 1868, one about miracles and prophecies. Carefulness works were published after his dying. In 1857 he initiated the Revue Spirite, and in 1858 he supported the Society of Spiritual Studies. Preschooler the decree of the Holy Be in power of April 20, 1864, all rulership works were prohibited. Every movement initiated by Kardec was characterized by magic and reincarnation.

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