We had announced, some time ago, the project of publication of a rational catalogue of the works that interest Spiritism, and the intention to attach it as a supplement to one of the issues of the Spiritist Review. In the meantime, the project of creating a special house for works of this kind, having been designed and executed by a society of Spiritists, we gave them our work that was completed in view of its new destination.
Having recognized the undeniable usefulness of such foundation, and the solidity of the basis on which it is established, we have not hesitated in giving it our moral support.
Here are the terms in which it is announced, at the top of the catalog that we address to our subscribers, with this issue.
"The growing interest in Psychological Studies in general, and particularly the development that the Spiritist ideas have had in recent years, led to the feeling of usefulness of a special house for the concentration of documents concerning these subjects. Apart from the fundamental works of the Spiritist doctrine, there are many books, both ancient and modern, useful for the complement of these studies and that are ignored, or on which there is a lack of information necessary to obtain them. It was to fill that gap that the Spiritist Bookstore was founded.
The Spiritist Bookstore is not a commercial enterprise; it was created by a society of Spiritists for the benefit of the doctrine, renouncing by the contract that binds them, to any personal speculation.
It is administered by a manager, a simple agent, and all the profits recorded by the annual inventories, will be paid by him to the General Fund of Spiritism.
This fund is provisionally administered by the manager of the bookstore, under the supervision of the founding society; accordingly, he shall receive the funds from all sources allocated to that destination, shall take an accurate account of them, and shall invest them until the circumstances determine their use.”
