Skip to content
Libra Esoterica

Spiritualist philosophy

the spirits' book : containing the principles of spiritist doctrine ... according to the teachings of spirits of high degree, transmitted through various mediums

Also known as The Spirits' Book, Containing the Principles of Spiritist Doctrine

by Allan Kardec, Anna Blackwell & Harry Houdini Collection DLC

  • First published:
  • 19th century
  • Language: English
  • Content type: Primary source
Read free

Description

Description from Internet Archive (opens in a new tab)

Book digitized by Google from the library of Harvard University and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb.

Provenance

Why this book is in the catalog

Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Afterlife, reincarnation, and near-death experiences and Spiritualism, mediumship, and channeling.

  • Spiritualism, mediumship, and channeling

    Controlled discovery queries from internet-archive, online-books-page, and openlibrary-historical matched “Spirit writings” and “Spiritualism”. Retained metadata contains “Mediums” in the subtitle, “Spirit writings” in the subject metadata, “Spiritualism” in the subject metadata, and 1 additional metadata match(es).

    • “Spirit writings”· via Internet Archive
    • “Spiritualism”· via Internet Archive
    • “Spirit writings”· via The Online Books Page
    • “Spirit writings”· via Open Library
    • “Spiritualism”· via Open Library
    • “Mediums”· in subtitle
  • Afterlife, reincarnation, and near-death experiences

    A contributing source assigned this topic during controlled cataloging, but the exact triggering term is not present in the merged metadata.

Membership records how this book met the catalog’s discovery criteria — relevance to a tradition, not a judgment of the book’s claims.

Read & download

Free, public copies reported by our sources. Links open the source directly.

Not yet in passage search

Pro research answers quote indexed passages. Ask the library to index this book’s public text.

marks a direct file download. Rights vary by country; each source states its own terms.

Buy or borrow

Links to ISBN 0405079737; other editions may be cheaper. As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases. WorldCat shows libraries near you that hold a copy.

Editions

2 editions cataloged here.

the spirits' book : containing the principles of spiritist doctrine

Internet Archive institutional pre-1900 scan

revised edition; translated from the 120th thousand

1893-01-01T00:00:00ZBoston : Colby and RichEnglish—Public digitized item

the spirits' book : containing the principles of spiritist doctrine ... according to the teachings of spirits of high degree, transmitted through various mediums

Internet Archive institutional pre-1900 scan

1875Boston : Colby and Rich; Colby and RichEnglish—Public

Subjects

4 subject headings

Identifiers & provenance

How this record was assembled, and the authority identifiers it carries.

Cataloging notes

  • Contributing institution: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
  • Contributing institution: Harvard University
  • Contributing institution: The Library of Congress
  • Digitization sponsor: Google
  • Digitization sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and Harvard Medical School
  • Digitization sponsor: The Library of Congress
  • Discovery required Internet Archive search metadata to report a PDF format; the exact direct-file URL is added only after the item's file listing confirms an unrestricted PDF filename.
  • Internet Archive institutional collection: americana
  • Internet Archive institutional collection: americana; medicalheritagelibrary
  • Open Library reports 1 editions; this snapshot catalogs one representative edition and preserves work-level ISBN, date, and publisher aggregates.
  • Open Library reports 2 editions; this snapshot catalogs one representative edition and preserves work-level ISBN, date, and publisher aggregates.
  • Scanner: google
  • Scanner: scribe3.boston.archive.org
  • Scanner: scribe5.capitolhill.archive.org
  • Source-listed Library of Congress call number(s): BF1290 .K37313
  • The Online Books Page bibliographic note: revised edition; translated from the 120th thousand
  • Translators: Blackwell, Anna
Catalog id
openlibrary-work:OL15436266W
Edition coverage
Multi source partial
Retrieved