The Mediums' Book

Book Title: The Mediums' Book
Author: Allan Kardec
First Published: Paris, 1861
Original Title: (in French): Le Livre des Médiums 
 

Description: This book is extremely valuable for any serious student of the Spiritist Doctrine, and is essential for those who participate in mediumship sessions. The second book of the Codification of the doctrine, it  not only explains the physical occurrence of spirit communications/ mediumship phenomena, but it also provides us with a guide to the disciplined and knowledge-based practice of mediumship oriented towards its true benevolent purpose.  

Allan Kardec describes the book (in Le Revue Spirite (Spiritist Journal) 1861 ) as such: "It constitutes the complement to "The Spirits' Book" and contains the experimental piece of Spiritism, just as the latter contains the philosophic piece.  In this work, fruit of a long experience of laborious studies, we sought to clarify all the questions tied to the practice of the manifestations.  In agreement with the Spirit teachings, it contains the theoretic explanation of the diverse phenomena and of the conditions in which they are produced.  But the section pertaining to the development and exercise of mediumship was, on our part, was a topic of particular attention and focus."

The serious and moral nature of the practice of mediumship within the Spiritist Doctrine follows the instruction provided by Kardec, who recognized the need for comprehension of both the phenomena in operation as well as the nature of the communicating spirits, recognizing both the wide range of advancement (and hence knowledge and morality) found among the Spirits (just as much as that found among men) and the ultimate fraternal goals of the practice of mediumship.  This importance is reflected in a comment by Anna Blackwell in her 1876 translation into English where she writes, "The high moral tone of 'The Mediums' Book', as of all the writings of Allan Kardec, is in unison with the assertion so often repeated by the Spirits whose communications he has co-ordinated with such exceptional clearness and reach of though, that the the aim of the open intercourse which is now being established between spirits and men is not the mere gratification of curiosity, not the mere enlargement of the sphere of interesting inquiry, not even the mere giving of the certainty of our continued existence beyond the grave, that sole aim of this intercourse is the moral improvement of the human race, which it will accomplish through the new light it will throw on the nature and purpose of human life."

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