Book Title: Heaven and Hell (or Divine Justice Explained by the Spiritist Doctrine)
Author: Allan Kardec
First Published: Paris, 1865
Original Title: (in French): Le Ciel et L'Enfer Selon Le Spiritsime (ou La Justice Divine Selon Le Spiritsme)

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This is the fourth book in the codification of Spiritism, published in 1865.  It is is divided into 2 parts.  The first part addresses ideas such as: the destiny of the soul upon physical death and the passage from the material life to the spiritual life; the causes for man's fear of death;  the Spiritist interpretations of ideas such as "heaven" and "hell" , and of "angels" and "demons"; and  the traditional opinion of eternal punishment vs. the divine justice found in a philosophy of reincarnation and spiritual evolution.  In the second part of the book, titled "Examples", Kardec compiles a selection of numerous communications from Spirits, classified by categories such as happy, suffering, regretful, hardened, suicides, etc, which exemplify the the theory laid out in the previous section.

Allan Kardec wrote, in Le Revue Spirite (Spiritist Journal) of September 1865 , "The title of this work clearly indicates its objective.  There, we compiled all the elements needed to enlighten man about his destiny.  As in our other writings about the Spiritist Doctrine, we have introduced no product of any preconceived system or of any personal notion, which would have no authority.  Everything there is deduced from observation and agreement of facts."
 


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(Note: When you download the book, you'll find the index on pages 231-234)

PREFACE TO THE NEW ENGLISH EDITION
TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE

 PART FIRST- DOCTRINE 
CHAPTER I
FUTURE LIFE AND ANNIHILATION
 
 
 
 
CHAPTER II
FEAR OF DEATH

Causes of the Fear of Death
Why Spiritists are not Afraid of Death
CHAPTER III
HEAVEN
 
 
 
CHAPTER IV
HELL 
 
intuition of Future Punishments
The Christian Hell an Imitation of the Hell of Pagans
Limbo
Picture of the Pagan Hell
Picture of the Christian Hell
CHAPTER V
PURGATORY
 
 
 
 
 
 
CHAPTER VI
DOCTRINE OF ETERNAL PUNISHMENT

Origin of the Doctrine of Eternal Punishment
Argument in support of the Doctrine of Eternal Punishment
Physical Impossibilities of Eternal Punishment
The Doctrine of Eternal Punishment is a Thing of the Past
The Testimony of the Prophet Ezekiel against the Doctrine of Eternal Punishment and Original Sin
CHAPTER VII
THE SPIRITIST VIEW OF FUTURE PUNISHMENT
 

The Flesh is Weak
Sources of the Spiritist Doctrine of Future Punishment
Penal Code of the Life to Come
CHAPTER VIII
ANGELS
 

Angels according to the Church
Refutation
Angels According to Spiritism
CHAPTER IX
DEMONS
 

Origin of the Belief in Demons
Demons According to the Church
Demons According to Spiritism
CHAPTER X
INTERVENTION OF DEMONS IN THE SPIRIT
MANIFESTATIONS OF THE PRESENT DAY
 
CHAPTER XI
THE PROHIBITION TO EVOKE THE DEAD
 
 PART SECOND - EXAMPLES 
 
CHAPTER I
THE PASSAGE
 
 
 
 
 
CHAPTER II
HAPPY SPIRITS

Mr. Sanson
Mr. Jobard
Samual Philippe
Mr. Van Durst
Sixdeniers
Dr. Demeure
Madame Foulon
A Russian Physician
Bernardin
Countess Paula
Jean Reynaud
Antoine Costeau
Mademoiselle Emma
Dr. Vignal
Victor Lebufle
Madame Anais Gourdon
Maurice Gontran
CHAPTER III
SPIRITS IN A MIDDLING CONDITION
 
joseph Bré
Mrs. Helen Michel
The Marquis of St. Paul
Dr. Cardon
Eric Stanislas
Madame Anna Belleville
CHAPTER IV
SUFFERING SPIRITS
 
 
 
punishment
Novel
Auguste Michel
Regrets of One who had Indulged in High Living
Lisabeth
Prince ouran
Pascal Lavic
Ferdinand Bertin
Francois Riquier
Clara
CHAPTER V
PURGATORY
 
 
The Suicide at the Samaritain
The Father and the Conscript
Francios-Simon Louvet
A Mother and her Son
A Double Suicide from Love and from a Sense of Duty
Louis and Victorien
An Atheist
Mr. Félicien
Anthony Bell
 
 
CHAPTER VI
REPENTANT CRIMINALS

Verger (Assassin of the Archbishop of Paris)
Lemaire
Benoist
The Spirit of Castlenaudary
Jackues Latour
CHAPTER VII
OBDURATE SPIRITS
 

Lappommeray, The Chastisement of Light
Angela, a Useless Life
A Victim of Ennui
The Queen D'Oude
Xuméne
CHAPTER VIII
TERRESTRIAL EXPIATION
 

Marcel, "No. 4"
Syzmel Slizgol
Julienne-Marie, "The Beggar-woman"
"Count Max," The Beggar
History of a Footman
Antonio B- Burried Alive
Mr. Lentil
An Ambitious Scientist
Charles de Saint G- (An Idiot)
Adelaide-Margaret Gosse
Clara Rivier
Frances Vernhes
Anna Bitter
Joseph Maitre (Blind)
Insertions included in the book Heaven and Hell by the Spiritist Alliance for Books, according to 
the French original, which were left out of the original translation.