The Spirits’ Book, Second Edition
Entirely restructured and considerably augmented
WARNING ABOUT THIS SECOND EDITION
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n the first edition of this book we announced a supplemental part. It
should be composed by all questions not yet incorporated in the first edition
or originated by posterior events and new studies. However, since these
questions are related to the parts already treated, forming their development,
their isolated publication would not show continuity. We preferred to wait
for the reprint of the book to gather everything, taking the opportunity to
give a more methodic order to the distribution of the subjects, eliminating
everything that had double meaning. This reprint may thus be considered a
new book once the principles did not suffer any alteration except some corrections
that are more additions and clarifications than true modifications in
reality. Such compliance with the issued principles, despite the diversity of the
sources from where they were obtained, is an important fact for the establishment
of the Spiritist Science. Our own correspondence demonstrates that
total identical communications have been obtained in several places, if not in
the form, at least in the content; well before the publication of the book, came
the confirmations and then the organization of them. On its side History
demonstrates that the majority of these principles were professed by the most
eminent people of former and modern times, who have sanctioned them.
