Table of Contents of “Introduction to the Spiritist Philosophy”-
CHAPTER I
Character of the Spiritist Revelation
CHAPTER II
God
Existence of God - The Divine Nature - Providence - The View of God
CHAPTER
III
The Good and the Evil
Source of Good and Evil - Instinct and Intelligence - Destruction of Living
Beings by One Another
CHAPTER IV
The Scientific Note in Genesis
CHAPTER V
Systems of the Ancient and Modern Worlds
CHAPTER VI
General Uranography
Space and Time - Matter - Laws and Forces - First Creation - Universal
Creation - Suns and Planets - Satellites - Comets - The Milky Way - Fixed
Stars - Deserts of Space - The Eternal Succession of Worlds - The Universal
Life - The Plurality of the Worlds
CHAPTER
VII
Geological Outline of the Earth
Geological Periods - Primitive State of the Globe - Primary Period -
Transition Period - Secondary Period - Tertiary Period - Deluge Period -
Post-Deluge Period - Birth of Man
CHAPTERVIII
Theories of the Earth
Theory of Projection - Theory of Condensation - Theory of Incrustation - The
Earth's Soul
CHAPTER IX
Revolutions of the Globe
General or Partial Revolution - Age of the Mountains - Biblical Deluge -
Periodical Revolutions - Future Cataclysms - Increase or Diminution of the
Volume of the Earth
CHAPTER X
Organic Genesis
First Formation of Living Beings - Vital Principle - Abiogenesis or
Spontaneous Generation - Scale of Organic Beings - Man
CHAPTER XI
Spiritual Genesis
Spiritual Principle - Union of Spiritual Principle with Matter - Hypothesis
upon the Origin of Human Bodies - Incarnation of Spirits - Reincarnation -
Emigration and Immigration of Spirits - The Adamic Race - Doctrine of Fallen
Angels
CHAPTER
XII
Mosaic Genesis
Six Days - Paradise Lost
CHAPTER
XIII
Miracles According to Spiritism
Miracles according to Theology - Spiritism does not perform miracles - Does
God perform miracles? - The superanatural and the religions
CHAPTER
XIV
Fluids
I. Nature and properties of Fluids - Fluids Elements - Formation and
Properties of the Perispirit - Action of the Spirits upon the Fluids -
Fluidic Creations - Photograph of the Thought - Quality of the fluids
II. Explanation of Some Facts Refuted to be Supernatural:
Spiritual or Psychic Sight - Second Sight - Somnambulism - Dreams -
Catalepsy - Resurrection - Cures - Apparitions - Transfiguration - Physical
Manifestations - Mediumship - Obsessions and Possessions
CHAPTER XV
The Miracles of the Gospel
Superiority of the Nature of Jesus - Dreams - The Star of the Wise Men of
the East - Second Sight - Cures - Possessed Persons - Resurrections - Jesus
Walks upon the Water - Transfiguration - The Tempest Stilled - Marriage at
Canaan - The Miracle of the Multiplication of Bread - Temptation of Jesus -
Remarkable Phenomena at the Death of Jesus - Appearance of Jesus After his
Death - Disappearance of the Body of Jesus
CHAPTER
XVI
The Prophecies in the Light of Spiritism. Theory of Foreknowledge
CHAPTER
XVII
Predictions of the Gospels
No One is a Prophet in his Own Country - Death and Passions of Jesus -
Persecution of the Apostles - Impenitent Cities - Ruin of the Temple of
Jerusalem - Maledictions on the Pharisees - "My Word Will Not Pass Away" -
The Cornerstone - The Parable of the Tenants - "One Flock and One Shepherd"
- Advent of Elias - Announcement of the Consoler - Second Coming of Christ -
Precursory Signs - "Your Sons and Your Daughters Shall Prophesy" - The Last
Judgment
CHAPTER
XVIII
The Time Has Arrived
The Time Has Arrived - Signs of the Time - The New Generation