Allan Kardec

Allan Kardec
Birth name	Hippolyte Lon Denizard Rivail
Other names	Allan Kardec
Activity (s)	Auteur de manuels pdagogiques et codificateur du spiritisme
Birth	3 October 1804 Lyon , France
Deaths	31 March 1869 Paris , France
Writing language	French
Movement (s)	spiritualist
Genre (s)	philosophy spirituality

Alan Kardec Allan Kardec or, whose real name was Hippolyte Lon Denizard Rivail born on 3 October 1804 and died on 31 March 1869 , is a French educator, founder of the Spiritualist philosophy ^, . It is generally known as the "codification of spiritualism" ^, . His work today strongly influence the culture and public life in Brazil .

Youth

Bust of Allan Kardec.

Rivail Leon was born in Lyon in 1804 into a family of lawyers. He goes to the local primary school till he was 10 years. But his rich bourgeois family sends away Disorders end of the Napoleonic period to complete his studies abroad.

He became an intern at the castle of Yverdon on Lake Neuchtel with the famous pedagogue Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi who then put into practice the principle of "Emile" Rousseau. In this "mutual school", he learned with other young people of high society in Europe. He speaks many languages, like English or German or Dutch.

The influence of Pestalozzi were very strong on the future Kardec, and principles of pedagogy will be reflected in the doctrine Spiritualist: cosmopolitanism and openness to women.

The teacher

Flyleaf of a book teaching of Hippolyte Lon Denizard Rivail, 1828.

He is in his early life a disciple of pedagogue Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi. It is important in France his ideas and school type. In 1820 he moved to Paris and opened in 1824, at 35, rue de Sevres a private school based on the methods of Pestalozzi. It publishes many educational books, including a "Proposed Plan for Improving Public Education" (supported by Ampere , a fellow Lyonnais) and who received an award from the Royal Academy of Arras in 1828.

In 1832 he married Amlie Boudet , a teacher who works with him in his school and continued his educational work. When for financial reasons, the school must close, Leon Rivail German texts translated and published manuals for a living. He continues to teach, for free, chemistry, physics, anatomy, astronomy.

In 1850, he held various accounts including that of the "Barrack Lacaze, a theater owned by the magician Lacaze.

It is a great positivist, not at all turned to the supernatural. In this capacity he is an educator positivist asked to supervise sessions turntables. Asked us to put order in the minds of communications received during sessions. This will give The Book of Spirits.

The Spiritualist

Allan Kardec and Amlie Boudet.

Allan Kardec Memorial in Lyon.

He discovered the turntables in 1855 , practice from the United States. That's when he takes his nickname of Allan Kardec, name match that he thinks that he wore during a previous life, when he was a druid . Through various mediums , he converses with several years all sorts of spirits and draws a lesson. Much is written in The Book of Spirits (1857), The Book of mediums. Kardec product and the basic five books of Spiritism , continually reprinted today. He also founded the spiritualist journal , magazine still published today, in several languages.

According to Kardec:

"Man is not only composed of matter, there is a principle in thinking related to the physical body he left as one leaves a garment worn when its present incarnation is complete. Once disembodied, the dead can communicate with the living, either directly or through mediums as a visible or invisible ( The Book of Spirits ) "

He died of an aneurysm in 1869, leaving many texts being written. A sixth book whose title was: The forecast for spiritualism, was also found. All these works were unfinished grouped by publisher PG Leymarie few years later and published under the title: The posthumous works of Allan Kardec .

He is buried in the cemetery of Pre-Lachaise in Paris. Above his grave, his motto: "Born to die, be reborn again and constantly improving, as is the Law." It's Camille Flammarion who pronounces his eulogy and says that as Kardec "Spiritualism is a religion, but it is a science ... . His grave in the cemetery of Pre-Lachaise remains a place of contemplation. Of mediums and followers of various spiritual currents coming regularly seek the inspiration on the bust of Allan Kardec .

Posterity

Allan Kardec College in So Paulo.

Many personalities were attracted by spiritualism , like Victor Hugo , Theophile Gautier , Sardou , Camille Flammarion or Conan Doyle. They were convinced that Spiritualism could offer scientific proof of life after death.

After his death, his work was continued by Leon Denis (1846-1926), Gabriel Delanne (1857-1926), Chico Xavier (1910 - 2002), or Divaldo Pereira Franco (1927 -).

Today, Allan Kardec is a sociological authors most widely read French Brazil with more than 30 million books sold. More than 6 million Brazilians are spiritualists and apply the doctrine of Kardec in thousands of spiritist centers .

The main Brazilian cities all have a street Allan Kardec ^, and even more often as Sao Paulo who has six and a college Allan Kardec . Several primary schools in Brazil are also the founder of the Spiritist Doctrine . The lawmakers have dedicated sessions of the National Assembly to Allan Kardec and his work

Allan Kardec Spiritist Center of Santa Catarina, Brazil.

The life of Allan Kardec was also the theme of a play Brazil in 2009 .

Globally, movements that claim to Kardec spiritism are united by the International Spiritist Council that has multiple media (TVCEI Radio Kardec Spiritist Journal ...).

Hundreds of spiritist centers and associations around the world now carry the name of Allan Kardec and perpetuate his teaching ^, .

Moreover, the Antoinism and Cao Dai are other religious movements directly inspired by the spiritualist philosophy of Kardec.

Tomb of Allan Kardec, continuously flowering of Pere-Lachaise Cemetery , Paris.

Works

Works Teaching

DHL Rivail, wrote several textbooks :

• Practical and theoretical course in arithmetic from the Pestalozzi method (published in 1824, 1845, 1847).
• Proposed Plan for the Improvement of Public Education (1828), crowned by the Royal Academy of Arras.
• Submission on Public Instruction sent to distinguished members of the commission to revise the university legislation (1831).
• French grammar and classical (1831).
• Catechism of the French language grammar (1848, 1868).
• Grammar normal examinations (1849, published each year until 1883). Book written in collaboration with Marc-Edouard Yves Alvarez and Levi.
• Dictated normal examinations (1850 and reprinted four times).

Works Spiritualists

Allan Kardec memorial in Niteroi , Brazil.

• The Book of Spirits ( 1857 )
• The Book of mediums ( 1861 )
• The Gospel According to Spiritism ( 1864 )
• Heaven and Hell ( 1865 )
• Genesis According to Spiritism ( 1868 )
• What is the Spiritism? , introduction to the knowledge of the unseen world. ( 1859 )
• The posthumous works of Allan Kardec (a collection of unpublished texts published after his death).

Stamps bearing the portrait by Allan Kardec

Due to the popularity of Kardec's work in Brazil , four commemorative stamps have been published by that country. Ironically, France , the birthplace of the philosopher, has never printed a stamp that represents it.

Brazilian stamp of 1957 (Centennial Book of the Spirits ).

Brazilian stamp of 1964 (the centenary of The Gospel According to Spiritism ).

Brazilian stamp of 1969 (the centenary of the death of Allan Kardec).

Brazilian stamp of 2004 (the bicentenary of the birth of Allan Kardec).

Notes

• The Spirits' Book - Allan Kardec (PDF)
• The Book of Mediums - Allan Kardec (PDF)
• The Gospel According to Spiritism - Allan Kardec (PDF)

Biographies edited

• Christian Bouchet , Kardec, Pardes, et al. "Who am I? "Puiseaux, 2003 ( ISBN 978-2867142932 ).
• Nicole Edelman, "Allan Kardec: the prophet of spiritualism," in History, ^No. 98, 1987, p. 63-72 .
• Nicole Edelman under the direction of Jean-Pierre Chantinie, Dictionary of the religious world in modern France: the fringes of Christianity, vol. 10, Beauchesne, with the assistance of the University Jean Moulin (Lyon III) and the Institute History of Christianity, Paris, 2001, 206-207 (HLD Rivail) P. ( ISBN 2-7010-1418-2 )
• Luc Francois, Presence of Allan Kardec, Dervy, Paris, 1994 .
• Andre Moreil Allan Kardec: his life, his work, Vernet, Paris, 1980 .
• John Prior , Allan Kardec and his time, Le Rocher, Paris, 2004 ( ISBN 0 2268 04976 ).
• Jean Prieur , Europe mediums and insiders, Le Rocher, Paris, 1987 .
• Henry Sausse Biography of Allan Kardec, Jean Meyer, Paris, 1927 .
• Claude Varese, Allan Kardec, Athena, Paris, 1948 .
• Vartia John Allan Kardec: the birth of Spiritualism, Hachette, Paris, 1971 .
• Zeus Wantuil Francisco and Thiesen, Allan Kardec: the educator and the coder, CSI, Brasilia, 2004 , ( ISBN 978 8 598161 March 7 ).

References

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