ANDRÉ LUIZ AND THE SPIRITIST THOUGHT
ALLAN KARDEC'S BIOGRAPHY

INCISIVE, CONSISE, DEEP, ALLAN KARDEC KNOW TO PLEASE AND TO MAKE UNDERSTOOD, IN A SIMPLE AND RAISED LANGUAGE, AS SO FAR OF THE FAMILIAN STYLE, AS OF THE BLACKNESSES OF METAPHYSICS.

Allan Kardec is the pseudonym of Hippolyte Léon-Denizard Rivail, born October, 3 of 1804 in Lyon, France, of one old family of magistrates and lawyers. Educate in the Pestalozzi's School, in Yverdum, Switzerland, became one of its more eminent disciples.
He was member of some wise societies, between which the Academie Royale d'Arras. Of 1835 to 1840, established in his home free courses, where it taught chemistry physics, compare anatomy, astronomy, etc. Amongst its innumerable works of education, we can cite:
- Plan considered for the improvement of the public instruction (1828)
- Practical and theoretical course of Arithmetic (according to method of Pestalozzi)
- For use of the primary teachers and mothers of family (1829)
- Classic French Grammatical (1831)
- Program of usual courses of chemistry, physics, astronomy and physiology (Lycée Polymatique)
- Normal dictateds of the examinations of the City hall and the Sorbonne
- Special Dictated on the orthographic difficulties (1849)
For 1855 rollback, since that he doubted the manifestations of the Spirits, Allan Kardec delivered persistent comments to it on this phenomenon, and he pledged mainly in deducing the philosophical consequences to it. In it seed indistinctly, since the beginning, the principle of new natural laws, the ones that conduct the relations of the visible and the invisible world; recognized in the action of this last one the forces of the Nature, whose knowlegde would have to launch light on a crowd of problems, insoluble reputed, and understood the importance for it of the religious point of view.
Its main Spiritist works are:

- The Book of the Spirits (April, 18 of 1857), for the philosophical part.
- The Book of the Mediums (1861), for the experimental and scientific part.
- The Gospel according the Spiritism (1864), for the moral part.
- The Sky and the Hell (1865), or the God justice according the Spiritism.
- The Genesis, the Miracles and the Predictions (1868).
- The Spiritist Magazine, periodical of psychological studies.
Allan Kardec established in Paris, in April, 1 of 1858, the first regularly consisting Spiritist Society, under the name of " Parisian Society of Spiritist Studies".
Untiring worker, he died in March, 31 of 1869, in Paris, in the way as he always lived: working. (Source: "Posthumous Works, edition IDE, Brazil)

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