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THE BOOK ON MEDIUMS by Allan Kardec

Guide for Mediums and Invocators

$15.95

Although over a century has passed since its original publication, The Book on Mediums remains the most comprehensive and basic text on spiritualism, revealing the fundamental principles of communication with the spirit world.  The author covers in detail:

the manifestations in which spirits can appear

how spirits communicate

the different types of mediums who receive spirit communication

how to invoke the spirit, affirm its identity, and reinforce its moral purpose

how to avoid possession by inferior spirits

The author also explores the phenomena of table-rapping, levitation, typtology, pneumatology, and psychography, and discusses mediumship in animals.  Caution is advised because spirits, like humans, exist at different levels of evolution -- they can be superior or inferior and their message gross, frivolous, serious or instructive.  Throughout the text, the reader will find direct quotations from the spirits themselves.

Allan Kardec was born in 1804 in Lyons, France.  It was not until he was in his early fifties that he turned his attention to the fashionable spiritist phenomena that was putting all of Europe under a spell.  Kardec was a scholar and a scientist, and painstakingly collected the details of spiritist phenomena.  By rationally and methodically imposing order on them, he synthesized a distillate of their teachings and thus created the foundation of spiritism.