Heaven and Hell

Book Title: Heaven and Hell (or Divine Justice Explained by the Spiritist Doctrine)
Author: Allan Kardec
First Published: Paris, 1865
Original Title: (in French): Le Ciel et L'Enfer Selon Le Spiritsime (ou La Justice Divine Selon Le Spiritsme)
 

Description: This is the fourth book in the codification of Spiritism, published in 1865.  It is is divided into 2 parts.  The first part addresses ideas such as: the destiny of the soul upon physical death and the passage from the material life to the spiritual life; the causes for man's fear of death;  the Spiritist interpretations of ideas such as "heaven" and "hell" , and of "angels" and "demons"; and  the traditional opinion of eternal punishment vs. the divine justice found in a philosophy of reincarnation and spiritual evolution.  In the second part of the book, titled "Examples", Kardec compiles a selection of numerous communications from Spirits, classified by categories such as happy, suffering, regretful, hardened, suicides, etc, which exemplify the the theory laid out in the previous section.

Allan Kardec wrote, in Le Revue Spirite (Spiritist Journal) of September 1865, "The title of this work clearly indicates its objective.  There, we compiled all the elements needed to enlighten man about his destiny.  As in our other writings about the Spiritist Doctrine, we have introduced no product of any preconceived system or of any personal notion, which would have no authority.  Everything there is deduced from observation and agreement of facts."

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