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The Spirits' Book (Le Livre des Esprits in French) is part of the Spiritist Codification, and is regarded as one of the five fundamental works on Spiritism. It was published by the French educator Hippolyte Léon Denizard Rivail, under the pen name of Allan Kardec [ 1 ] on April 18, 1857.
Liber Officiorum Spirituum (English: The Book of the Office of Spirits) [1] [2] was a goetic grimoire and a major source for Johann Weyer's Pseudomonarchia Daemonum and the Ars Goetia. The original work (if it is a single work) has not been located, but some derived texts bearing the title have been found, some in the Sloane manuscripts , some ...
The Livre des Esperitz (Book of Spirits) is a 15th- or 16th-century French goetic grimoire that inspired later works including Johann Weyer's Pseudomonarchia Daemonum and the Lesser Key of Solomon.
They address, from the spirits' point of view, topics related to the interaction with the spirit world (The Mediums' Book), Christian morality (The Gospel According to Spiritism), philosophy and justice (Heaven and Hell), and finally, science-related subjects (The Genesis). 1857 - The Spirits' Book - presents the principles of the Spiritist ...
Grimoires are fundamentally books that will supposedly grant their users magical powers, which date back to ancient times. In several of these books, rituals designed to help summon spirits are found. [1] The following table lists spirits whose titles show up in these grimoires for evocation ritual purposes. The list does not include all ...
On 18 April 1857, as Allan Kardec, Rivail published his first book on Spiritism, The Spirits Book, comprising a series of answered questions (502 in the first edition and 1,019 in later editions) [citation needed] exploring matters concerning the nature of spirits, the spirit world, and the relationship between the spirit world and the material ...
The House of the Spirits (Spanish: La casa de los espíritus, 1982) is the debut novel of Isabel Allende. The novel was rejected by several Spanish-language publishers before being published in Barcelona in 1982. [ 2 ]
The Gashadokuro is a spirit that takes the form of a giant skeleton made of the skulls of people who died in the battlefield or of starvation/famine (while the corpse becomes a gashadokuro, the spirit becomes a separate yōkai, known as hidarugami.), and is 10 or more meters tall. Only the eyes protrude, and some sources describe them as ...