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Spiritism is a religious and philosophic doctrine established in France in the mid 19th Century by Allan Kardec. The term was coined by him as the specific name of the doctrine he was about to publish but, given the fact that the word was created from roots taken from the common language, it was soon incorporated into the normal use and has been used to name other doctrines as well, though the ...

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Spiritism - Fox Sisters: Encyclopedia II - Spiritism - Precursors One thing Spiritists often have to deal with is the fact that the events and theories that influenced Kardec or based his initial interest on the subject are believed to be fake. These were the famous Fox Sisters and the phenomenon of the Spinning Tables. The hype of Mesmerism also contributed a lot to the early Spiritist practice. Spiritism - Fox Sisters. In 1847 the Fox family moved into a house in Hydesville, New York which had been previously owned by one Venckman. The Foxes had six children, but only the youngest girls, Margaret (14) and K ...

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Spiritism - Fox Sisters: New Age Spirituality Dictionary on Spiritualism

Spiritualism

A movement that began in 1848 with the “raps” of the Fox Sisters (Kate and Margaret) in Hydesville, NY. Normally associated with mediums or channelers, who contact the spirits of the deceased .

Spiritism - Fox Sisters: New Age Spirituality Dictionary on Fox Sisters

Fox Sisters

Margaret, 1836–93, Leah, 1814–90, and Catherine, 1841–92. In 1848, Margaret and Catherine claimed to hear mysterious rappings in their Arcadia, N. Y. , home. Claiming the sounds to be communication from spirits, the sisters became the founders and most famous seers of 19th-cent, American spiritualism, which claimed about one million followers by 1855. They moved to Rochester, N. Y. , and the rappings followed them. They organized “performances” in theaters to which they charged admission, attracting attention and skepticism. See Spiritualism.

Spiritism - Fox Sisters: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary on Spiritualism

Spiritualism Properly, the philosophy, religion, or pneumatological science held by those who believe in the universal spirit as the cosmic originant of all the hierarchies of evolving monads; its opposite is materialism. Spiritualism is "in philosophy, the state or condition of mind opposed to materialism or a material conception of things.

Theosophy, a doctrine which teaches that all which exists is animated or informed by the Universal Soul or Spirit, and that not an atom in our universe can be outside of this omnipresent principle -- is pure Spiritualism. As to the belief that goes under that name, namely, belief in the constant communication of the living with the dead, whether through the mediumistic powers of oneself or a so-called medium -- it is no better than the materialisation of spirit, and the degradation of the human and the divine souls. Believers in such communications are simply dishonouring the dead and performing constant sacrilege. It was well called 'Necromancy' in days of old" (TG 307).

The modern movement which began about the middle of the 19th century, mainly with the Fox sisters, embraces a large range of differing beliefs, so that any strictures directed against certain phases of it may justly be resented by those to whom such strictures do not apply. But the characteristic doctrine which identifies Spiritualism or astralism as such, is the belief that it is possible for the living to communicate with the departed spirits of the deceased. Theosophy, however, holds that at death the personality disintegrates, the individuality of the person passing into the devachanic state, while its lower components gradually fade out in the kama-loka. It is impossible to obtain communications with the ego in devachan, except when a purely impersonal love of one human being for another reaches into the devachanic condition and comes into spiritual rapport with the devachani. A far lower rapport may be established with the astral or kama-lokic remains which have been left behind to disintegrate in the lower regions of the astral light.

All the apparent proofs of identity of "spirit" can be accounted for otherwise than by supposing the actual presence of the departed individual in the seance room. Such communications as are received evince no knowledge beyond that which we already have, and show no signs of emanating from a high source -- and almost invariably such communications are trifling and paltry. Mediumship and seances are most harmful practice, as they open the door to the entry of pernicious obsessing influences from the lower astral realms. Moreover such practice may obstruct and retard the natural decomposition of the discarded lower elements of the deceased, and thus keep alive his kama-rupa beyond the term of its natural astral death. The appeal of astralism is very powerful to those who feel convinced that they have thereby obtained assurance of immortality and of the continued existence of their lost loved ones.

Spiritism - Fox Sisters: Encyclopedia II - Spiritism - An Overview

Spiritism - Basic Books. The basic doctrine of Spiritism (a.k.a. "the codification") is defined in five books written and published by Allan Kardec, collecting communications received from Enlightened Spirits. The Spirits Book -- Defines the guidelines of the doctrine and clarifies its roots and relationship to similar or namesake doctrines. The Book on Mediums -- Details the "mechanics" of the spiritual world, the processes involved in chanelling spirits, techniques to be developed by would ...

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