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Reason tells us that an intelligent effect must have an intelligent force for its cause. Facts have proved that this force is able to enter into communication with humans by material signs.

This force, asked about its nature, has declared itself to belong to the world of spiritual beings who have thrown off the human corporeal envelope. The spirits existence has so been revealed to us.

Communication between the spirit world and the corporeal world has nothing supernatural. Its traces can be found among all nations and in every age. Now they are becoming general and evident. Spirits assure us that the time appointed by the Providence for a universal manifestation of their existence has now come, and that their mission, as God's ministers and instruments of divine will, is to open, through the instructions they are charged to convey to us, a new regeneration age for the earthly human species.

This book is a compilation of their teachings. It has been written by order and under dictation of high degree spirits, aiming to establish the bases of a rational philosophy, free from prejudice and preconceived opinions. It contains the expression of their thought. Everything has been submitted to their approval. The method adopted in the arrangement of its contents, the comments upon these and the form given to certain parts of the work, are all that has been contributed by the author (Allan Kardec), to whom the duty of publishing has been entrusted.

Many of the spirits who have taken part in the accomplishment of this task declare themselves to have been people whom we know to have lived at different epochs upon the Earth, preaching and practising virtue and wisdom. About the names of others history has preserved no trace. But their elevation is attested by the purity of their doctrine and their union with those who bear venerated names.

We transcribe the words in which, by writing, through the intermediary of various mediums, the mission of preparing this book was entrusted to the writer (Allan Kardec):

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¹ The passage placed between inverted commas are the words from the communicating spirits, whose very words are given textually throughout the whole of this book. The remarks and developments occasionally added by the author are normally printed.
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"We will be with you whenever you ask for our presence, and will aid you in all your labour, because this book preparation is only part of the mission which has been confided to you, and of which you have already been informed.

"Of the teachings given to you, some are to be kept to yourself for the present. We will tell you when the time for publishing them has come. Meanwhile make them subject of your meditats, so that you may be ready to treat them at the proper moment.

"Put at the beginning of the book the vine-branch (see below) we have drawn for this purpose, because it is the emblem of the Creator's work. In it are united all the material elements that most fitly symbolize body and spirit: the stem represents the body; the juice, the spirit, the fruit, the union of body and spirit. Human labour calls forth the latent qualities of the juice. The labour of the body develops, through the knowledge thus acquired, the latent powers of the soul.

"Do not allow yourself to be discouraged by hostile criticism. You will have rancorous contradictors, especially among those who are interested in keeping the existing abuses. You will receive censorship even from spirits, because those who are not completely dematerialized often endeavour, by malice or ignorance, to spread the doubt seeds. Believe in God and go boldly forward. We will be with you, to sustain you on your way. And the time when the truth will shine forth on all sides is coming.

"The vanity of some humans, who imagine that they know everything, and are bent on explaining everything in their own way, will give rise to opposing opinions. But all who have in view the Jesus' grand principle will be united in the same love of goodness, and in a brotherhood bond that will embrace the entire world. Putting aside all vain dispute about words, they will devote their energies to practical importance subjects, in regard to which, whatever their doctrinal belief, the confidence of all who receive the advanced spirits'communications will be the same.

"Perseverance will render your labor fruitful. The pleasure you will feel in witnessing the spread of our doctrine, and its right appreciation, will be for you a rich reward, though rather in the future than in the present. Be not troubled by the thorns and stones that the incredulous and the evil-minded will place in your path. Hold fast your confidence, for your confidence will ensure our help, and, through it, you will reach the goal.

"Remember that good spirits only give their aid to those who serve God with humility and disinterestedness. They disown all who use heavenly things as a stepping-stone to earthly advancement, and withdraw from the proud and the ambitious. Pride and ambition are a barrier between Humans and God, because they blind people to the splendours of celestial existence, and God cannot employ the blind to make the light known."

"THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH, JOHN THE EVANGELIST, ST AUGUSTINE, ST VINCENT DE PAUL, ST LOUIS, SOCRATES, PLATO, FÉNELON, FRANKLIN, SWEDENBORG" etc.

Do to others what you want that others do to you. (Matthew 7:12)
You'll know the truth and the truth will make you free. (John 8:32)
 
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