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Eurípedes Kühl |
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Kardec:
Defender
of Spiritism
Part 2 -
Final
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On pages
179/183
of the
Spiritist
Magazine
of 1862,
you will
find an
article
entitled
"This is
how they
write
History",
with the
subtitle
"The
Millions
of Allan
Kardec”.
In it
the
Encoder
answers
a
priest,
who
lives in
a large
commercial
city
(probably
Lyon),
who
stated
there
was a
fabulous
fortune
saved by
Allan
Kardec
in his
name due
to
Spiritism.
The
priest
foolishly
said
that
Kardec,
in his
home,
walked
on the
most
beautiful
carpets
from
Aubusson,
had a
carriage
pulled
by four
horses
and
spent
like a
prince
in
Paris.
(...)
The
priest
reported
that all
of
Kardec's
fortune
came to
him from
England
(?) and
that he
sold the
manuscripts
of his
works at
a high
price,
and
still
charged
over
them a
percentage.
And he
said
many
other
absurd
and
foolish
things.
Answering
this
foolish
story
about
the
“millions”,
Kardec
said:
-
carriage
of four
horses:
my
journeys,
I make
them by
train;
-
princely
life:
(...) my
meals
are much
leaner
than the
leanest
of
certain
dignitaries
of the
Church;
-
sale of
my
manuscripts:
this
enters
my
private
life,
and
nobody
has the
right to
do this
(…) if I
sold
what I
write, I
would be
using
the
right
that
every
worker
has to
sell the
product
of his
work:
but, I
sold
none:
there
are even
those I
gave
only to
some
with the
purest
intention
and in
interest
of the
cause,
and who
may sell
them as
they
wish,
but I
receive
no money
from
this.
Answer
given to
an
insignificant
priest
It also
says:
- The
first
edition
of "The
Book of
Spirits"
was
published
at my
own
expense
and full
risk,
because
I did
not find
an
editor
who
wanted
to
publish
it;
- in the
Spiritist
Magazine
of
June/1863,
you will
find:
a.
The
words of
a priest
considering
that
nothing
is more
abject,
more
degrading,
more
empty of
fundament
and form
than
these (Spiritist)
publications.
Then the
priest
goes on:
destroy
them,
and you
will
lose
nothing.
With the
money
used in
Lyon
because
of this
nonsense,
one
could
easily
have set
up some
more
places
in the
hospices
for the
insane,
crowded
after
the
invasion
of
Spiritism.
Kardec,
firm and
peacefully,
gave a
master
reply:
Read,
and if
it
behooves
you,
return
to us;
we will
do more,
we say:
read the
pro and
the
contra
and
compare
them. We
answer
your
attacks
without
fierceness,
without
animosity,
without
bitterness,
because
we have
no anger
in us.
b.
The text
of a
retired
former
officer,
a former
representative
of the
people
in the
Constituent
Assembly
of 1848,
who
published
in
Algiers
a
brochure
of
slander,
insults
and
personal
offenses
directed
at
Spiritism
and the
master
of Lyon.
About
the
Spiritist
Magazine,
he said:There
is a
monthly
Spiritist
magazine,
published
by Mr.
Allan
Kardec,
an
indigestible
collection
that far
surpasses
the
wonderful
legends
of
Antiquity
and of
the
Middle
Ages...
The
slanderer
tried to
prove
that the
purpose
of
Spiritism
was a
gigantic
speculation.
To do
so, he
presented
a series
of
absurd
calculations,
which
resulted
in a
fabulous
income
for
Kardec,
leaving
behind
the
"millions"
with
which a
certain
priest
of Lyon
(item
above)
had
generously
gratified
him.
The
works of
Kardec
in the
Church
Index
The
mentioned
officer
-
considering
the
absurd
amounts
received
by
Kardec –
ended
stating
that:
if
Europe
lets
itself
be taken
by this,
the
fortune
of the
owner of
the
magazine
Revue
and
sovereign
pontiff
will be
in the
order of
billions
and not
millions.
Not
letting
himself
be
shaken
by this,
Kardec
shows
that
there
were
only 429
francs
and 40
cents
left at
the end
of the
annual
balance
of the
Paris
Society
and that
nothing
was ever
charged
to
anybody.
And
that,
instead
of the
3,000
members,
they did
not even
reach
100, of
which
only a
few paid
(volunteers);
and what
was
collected
was
administrated
by an
Expense
Committee,
and no
amount
ever
passed
through
to the
president
(Kardec,
himself).
c.
In the
Spiritist
Magazine
of June,
1864
there is
the news
that the
Sacred
Congregation
of the
Index,
at the
court of
Rome,
was
focusing
on the
works of
Kardec,
on
Spiritism.
Kardec
pointed
out:
If one
thing
surprised
the
Spiritists
was that
such a
decision
had not
been
taken
earlier,
and that
this
measure
of the
Church,
one of
which I
had
already
expected,
would
only
have
good
results,
and,
according
to the
news
received
by
Kardec,
most
bookstores
rushed
to give
a
greater
publicity
to the
banned
works;
d.
In the
Spiritist
Magazine
of 1869,
reading
in a
newspaper
the
phrase
"In
France
the
ridicule
always
kills";
it makes
several
considerations
about it
and it
ends:
In
France,
ridicule
always
kills
what is
ridiculous.
This
explains
why
ridicule,
spilled
in
profusion
on
Spiritism,
did not
kill.
Kardec:
"Spiritism
was the
work of
my life"
There is
much
more,
but
space
and
importance
itself
do not
advise
it.
- And
also, to
present
other
nonsense…
what
for?
However,
if any
researcher
wants to
find out
about
the
countless
tribulations
that
Allan
Kardec
went
through,
being
fiercely
attacked
by all
sorts of
slander,
there
are more
records
in
different
works.
Anyone
who is
careful
to go
through
the
Spiritist
Magazine
collection
will be
astonished
at the
many
absurd
and
cruel
attacks
to
Kardec,
who
answered
in a
courageous
way and
always
based on
the
Doctrine,
being
above
all wise
and
loving.
At one
point in
his
life, he
said, in
the
Spiritist
Magazine
of 1865,
page
163:
(...) I
never
asked
anyone
for
anything,
no one
ever
gave me
anything
personally;
not one
collecting
of
money,
nor a
coin to
supply
my
needs;
in a
word, I
do not
live at
the
expense
of
anyone,
since,
for the
amounts
voluntarily
entrusted
to me in
the
interest
of
Spiritism,
no
portion
has been
diverted
to my
advantage.
(...)
Spiritism
was the
work of
my life.
I gave
it all
my time,
sacrificed
my own
sleep,
my
health,
because
before
me the
future
was
written
in
irrefutable
characters.
I did it
myself,
and my
wife,
who is
neither
more
ambitious
nor more
interested
than I,
fully
supported
me in my
objectives
and
stood
for me
in this
laborious
task.
Since
Spiritism
is a
true
compass
for the
evolutionary
route of
Humanity
and
beacon
to
dispel
the
mists of
human
limits,
reminiscing
the
intransigent
struggles
and the
intransigent
defenses
of the
one who
codified
it, my
heart,
as well
as my
mind,
will
always
be
murmuring:
-
Kardec,
Kardec:
God
bless
you!
Notes:
1st
- Amelie
Gabrielle
Boudet
(1795-1883),
wife of
Kardec,
in the
40 years
she was
with
Kardec,
and even
after
her
husband's
death in
the 14
years
she was
still
incarnated,
she
courageously
continued
to
support
"the
work of
Spiritism"
in all
fronts
of work,
particularly
in the
publication
of the
Revue
Spirite.
(We,
Spiritists
of the
whole
world,
owe her
a lot!).
2nd
- Only
as a
brief
record,
see the
barbarity
perpetrated
against
the
widow of
Allan
Kardec,
when
already
very
old: she
had to
face the
storm of
a
lawsuit
against
the
Spiritist
Magazine,
because
Pierre-Gaëtan
Leymarie
(editor
of the
works of
Kardec)
accepted
the work
of a
photographer,
who
claimed
to
produce
transcendental
photographs,
that is,
when
photographing
a
person,
disincarnated
relatives
and
friends
of the
photographed
appeared
in the
photo.
The
photographer
made an
agreement
with the
judge,
and
signed a
confession
of
fraud,
thus
escaping
from
prison.
Leymarie,
however,
was
convicted
and
served a
year in
prison
at the
Paris
Penitentiary.
Intimidated
as a
witness,
the old
lady was
disrespected
by the
judge,
demeaning
the
memory
of Allan
Kardec,
which
provoked
a lively
reaction
from the
Encoder's
widow,
demanding
respect
for her
husband's
memory.
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