Rare 19th Century Mexican Occult Book
Reproches y Consejos: Obra medianímica recibida en el círculo espirita "La Luz" por el médium psicógrafo Francisco Urgel
Notes: A very scarce Mexican spiritualism book, collecting the transcripts of six communications from the spirit world. The medium was the Mexican psychic Francisco Urgel, who worked with Refugio I. Gonzalez's spiritualist circle, La Luz (the light), in Mexico City in 1878 (though not published until eleven years later). The spirits who communicated through Urgel were several saints, including Louis of Granada, and the French political philosopher Montesquieu, who explained the twelve epochs of history. Surprisingly, Montesquieu, dead for more than a century, kept up on political developments and expressed his support of socialism (p. 399) and of spiritualism because it was superior to all other religions.
xiii, 412, [2] pages.
Very scarce. OCLC locates one copy, in Mexico.
For more information, see Everardo G. Carlos González, La República de los Espíritus: Historia del espiritismo en México, 1848–1897 (Ph.D. thesis), pages 164–169.
Edition + Condition: First edition. Quarter leather and pebbled cloth-covered boards. Outer joint split two inches at the top of the spine.
Publication: México (Mexico City): Imprenta de Alfonso E. López, 1889.
Item No: #362459
Price: $500