What Is Spiritism?

New edition, revised and considerably enlarged. In-12, with nearly 200 pages. Price: 1 fr.; by post: 1 fr. 20c. (Qu'est-ce que le Spiritisme.)

The matters of this new edition are divided as follows:

Chapter I: Short Conference. First dialogue: the critic. Second dialogue: the skeptic. – Spiritism and Spiritualism. – Dissidences. – Simulated Spiritist phenomena. – Impotence of the detractors. – The marvelous and the supernatural. – Opposition of Science. – False explanations of the phenomena. – It is not enough for the incredulous to see in order to be convinced. – Origin of modern Spiritist ideas. – Means of communication. – Self-interested mediums. – Mediums and sorcerers. – Diversity of the Spirits. – Practical usefulness of the manifestations. – Madness, suicide, obsession. – Forgetting of the past. – Elements of conviction. – Spiritist Society of Paris. – Prohibition of Spiritism. – Third dialogue: The Priest. Objections in the name of religion. Chapter II: Elementary notions of Spiritism. – Of the Spirits. – Communication with the invisible world. – Providential purpose of the Spiritist manifestations. – Of mediums. Pitfalls of mediums. – Qualities of mediums. – Charlatanism. – Identity of the Spirits. – Contradictions. – Consequences of Spiritism.

Chapter III: Solution of some problems by the Spiritist Doctrine. – Plurality of worlds. – Of the soul. – Man during earthly life. – Man after death.