SPIRITIST VOCABULARY.

(Agenere) (Rapper) (Erraticity) (Spiritist) (Spiritism) (Espiritista) (Spirit) (Spiritualism) (Spiritualist) (Stereotype) (Medianimic) (Medianimity) (Medium) (Mediumate) (Mediumship) (Perispirit) (Pneumatophony) (Pneumatography) (Psychophony) (Psychography) (Psychographer) (Reincarnation) (Sematology) (Typtology) (Typtologist) AGENERE. (From the Greek, a, privative, and géiné, géinomai, to beget; that which has not been begotten). A modality of tangible apparition; a state of certain Spirits when they temporarily assume the forms of a living person, to the point of producing complete illusion. RAPPER. A quality of some Spirits, those who reveal their presence in a place by means of knocks and noises of various kinds.

ERRATICITY. The state of wandering, or erratic, Spirits, that is, those who are not incarnated, during the interval between their corporeal existences.

SPIRITIST. That which has a relation to Spiritism; an adherent of Spiritism; one who believes in the manifestations of the Spirits. A good, a bad Spiritist; the Spiritist Doctrine.

SPIRITISM. A doctrine founded upon the belief in the existence of the Spirits and in their manifestations.

ESPIRITISTA. This word, employed at first to designate the adherents of Spiritism, was not consecrated by usage; the term espírita [Spiritist] prevailed.

SPIRIT. In the special sense of the Spiritist Doctrine, the Spirits are the intelligent beings of creation, who populate the Universe, outside of the material world, and constitute the invisible world. They are not beings derived from a special creation, but rather the souls of those who lived on Earth, or in the other spheres, and who left the corporeal envelope. SPIRITUALISM. Used in a sense opposed to that of materialism; belief in the existence of the spiritual and immaterial soul. Spiritualism is the basis of all religions.

SPIRITUALIST. That which refers to spiritualism; an adherent of spiritualism. A spiritualist is one who believes that within us not everything is matter, which in no way implies belief in the manifestations of the Spirits. Every Spiritist is necessarily a spiritualist; but one can be a spiritualist without being a Spiritist; the materialist is neither one nor the other. One says: the spiritualist philosophy. — A work written according to spiritualist ideas. — Spiritist manifestations are produced by the action of the Spirits upon matter. — Spiritist morality derives from the teaching given by the Spirits. — There are spiritualists who scoff at Spiritist beliefs. In these examples, the substitution of the word spiritualist for the term Spiritist would give rise to evident confusion.

STEREOTYPE. (From the Greek, stéreos, solid). A quality of tangible apparitions.

MEDIANIMIC. A quality of the force of the medium. — Medianimic faculty.

MEDIANIMITY. The faculty of mediums. A synonym of mediumship. These two words are frequently employed indifferently. If one wishes to make a distinction, one may say that mediumship has a more general sense and medianimity a more restricted sense. — He possesses the gift of mediumship. — Mechanical medianimity. MEDIUM. (From the Latin, medium, middle, intermediary). A person who can serve as an intermediary between the Spirits and men.

MEDIUMATE. The providential mission of mediums. This word was created by the Spirits. (See Chapter XXXI, communication XII.)

MEDIUMSHIP. See: Medianimity.

PERISPIRIT. (From the Greek, peri, around.) The semimaterial envelope of the Spirit. In incarnated beings, it serves as an intermediary between the Spirit and matter; in wandering Spirits, it constitutes the fluidic body of the Spirit. PNEUMATOPHONY. (From the Greek, pneuma, and phoné, sound or voice.) The voice of the Spirits, the oral communication of the Spirits, without the aid of the human voice.

PNEUMATOGRAPHY. (From the Greek, pneuma, air, breath, wind, spirit, and graphô, I write). The direct writing of the Spirits, without the assistance of a medium's hand.

PSYCHOPHONY. The communication of the Spirits by the voice of a speaking medium.

PSYCHOGRAPHY. The writing of the Spirits by the hand of a medium.

PSYCHOGRAPHER. (From the Greek, psiké, butterfly, soul, and graphô, I write). One who practices psychography; a writing medium.

REINCARNATION. The return of the Spirit to corporeal life, the plurality of existences.

SEMATOLOGY. (From the Greek, sema, sign, and logos, discourse). The language of signs. The communication of the Spirits by the movement of inert bodies.

TYPTOLOGY. (From the Greek, tipto, I strike, and logos, discourse). Language by knocks, or rappings: a mode of communication of the Spirits. Alphabetic typtology.

TYPTOLOGIST. A kind of medium apt for typtology. A typtologist medium.