Notice concerning this edition

Notice concerning this edition The present edition by the FEB contains the electronic (digitized) reproduction of the 1st French edition of The Spirits' Book, as it appeared in Paris on April 18, 1857, 1 as well as its integral translation into our language, enriched with annotations and commentaries on the role of Allan Kardec in the Codification of Spiritism, which by no means was limited, as some think, to elaborating the questions, classifying the answers, and ordering the chapters that compose the book. As can be easily observed, the 1st edition of the book does not have the same scope as the second, published in 1860, much more complete and developed, comprising more than a thousand questions and their respective answers, besides entire chapters and additional expositions from the pen of the Codifier, an edition that became definitive and that is translated into the principal languages spoken on the planet. Notwithstanding being replaced by the edition that we now divulge, The Spirits' Book, such as the world knew it in 1857, already forms part of History, so that the new generations of students and researchers of the Doctrine cannot and must not remain unaware of the great epic that prepared the ways of Spiritism. It is impossible to be ignorant of the providential action of the Enlightened Spirit who codified it, the struggles and the challenges that he had to face in order to carry forward his mission, whose principal role was to materialize, on Earth, the Consoler promised two thousand years ago by the mercy of Jesus Christ, laying the foundations of the new edifice that rises and that one day shall reunite all men in a single sentiment of love and charity, thus opening a New Era for the regeneration of Humanity. 2