| --- |
| language: |
| - pt |
| - fr |
| - en |
| - es |
| license: cc0-1.0 |
| task_categories: |
| - question-answering |
| - text-generation |
| tags: |
| - spiritism |
| - kardec |
| - allan-kardec |
| - espiritismo |
| - religion |
| - philosophy |
| - spirituality |
| - le-livre-des-esprits |
| - the-spirits-book |
| - el-libro-de-los-espiritus |
| - portuguese |
| - brazilian |
| - multilingual |
| - doctrine |
| - reincarnation |
| - mediumship |
| - rag |
| - digital-humanities |
| pretty_name: "O Livro dos Espíritos — Allan Kardec (1,019 Questions · 4 Languages)" |
| size_categories: |
| - 1K<n<10K |
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| # 📖 O Livro dos Espíritos — Allan Kardec |
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| **The Spirits' Book** | **Le Livre des Esprits** | **El Libro de los Espíritus** |
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| The complete **1,019 questions and answers** from Allan Kardec's foundational work, structured as machine-readable JSON in **4 languages**. |
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| ## Files |
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| | File | Language | Records | |
| |---|---|---| |
| | `livro_dos_espiritos.json` | Portuguese (BR) | 1,196 | |
| | `the_spirits_book.json` | English | 1,103 | |
| | `el_libro_de_los_espiritus.json` | Spanish | 1,067 | |
| | `le_livre_des_esprits.json` | French | 1,123 | |
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| > Record counts vary slightly between editions due to how sub-questions are formatted in each translation. All editions cover the same 1,019 main questions. |
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| ## About the Work |
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| Published on **April 18, 1857** in Paris, *Le Livre des Esprits* is the founding text of Spiritist Doctrine. It contains questions posed by Allan Kardec (Hippolyte Léon Denizard Rivail, 1804–1869) to superior spirits through various mediums, covering: |
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| - **Part I** — Primary Causes (God, the Universe, creation, the vital principle) |
| - **Part II** — The Spirit World (origin, nature, incarnation, disincarnation, spirit life) |
| - **Part III** — Moral Laws (divine law, worship, work, reproduction, conservation, destruction, society, progress, equality, liberty, justice, love, and charity) |
| - **Part IV** — Hopes and Consolations (earthly and future joys and sorrows) |
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| ## Dataset Structure |
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| All files share the same schema. Field names are in English; content is in each file's native language. |
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| ```json |
| { |
| "Id": "1", |
| "Question": "Que é Deus?", |
| "Answer": "Deus é a inteligência suprema, causa primária de todas as coisas." |
| } |
| ``` |
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| ```json |
| { |
| "Id": "1", |
| "Question": "What is God?", |
| "Answer": "God is the Supreme Intelligence, the First Cause of all things." |
| } |
| ``` |
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| ```json |
| { |
| "Id": "1", |
| "Question": "¿Qué es Dios?", |
| "Answer": "Dios es la inteligencia suprema, causa primera de todas las cosas." |
| } |
| ``` |
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| ```json |
| { |
| "Id": "1", |
| "Question": "Qu'est-ce que Dieu ?", |
| "Answer": "Dieu est l'intelligence suprême, cause première de toutes choses." |
| } |
| ``` |
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| | Field | Description | |
| |-------|-------------| |
| | `Id` | Question number (1–1019). Sub-questions use letter suffixes: `"150a"`, `"150b"`, etc. | |
| | `Question` | The question posed by Kardec | |
| | `Answer` | The answer given by the spirits | |
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| ## Use Cases |
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| - **RAG systems** — exact question retrieval for Spiritist AI assistants |
| - **Fine-tuning** — Q&A pairs for training models on Spiritist doctrine |
| - **Research** — structured access to Kardec's codification |
| - **Education** — building study tools, quizzes, and reference apps |
| - **Multilingual NLP** — cross-language analysis of the same doctrinal content |
| - **Digital Humanities** — first machine-readable corpus of the Spiritist Codification |
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| ## Related Resources |
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| - 📖 **O Livro dos Médiuns** — 370+ structured items in 4 languages: [ia-espirita/livro-dos-mediuns](https://huggingface.co/datasets/ia-espirita/livro-dos-mediuns) |
| - 🤖 **RIV IA** — Fine-tuned Spiritist AI model: [ia-espirita/riv-ai](https://huggingface.co/ia-espirita/riv-ai) |
| - 📊 **Training Dataset** — Q&A pairs from all 5 Kardec works: [ia-espirita/riv-ai-dataset](https://huggingface.co/datasets/ia-espirita/riv-ai-dataset) |
| - 🌐 **IA.Espirita** — Try RIV IA live: [iaespirita.com](https://iaespirita.com) |
| - 🎬 **YouTube** — Spiritist content with modern aesthetic: [youtube.com/@ia.espirita](https://youtube.com/@ia.espirita) |
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| ## License |
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| This dataset is released under **CC0 1.0 (Public Domain)**. Allan Kardec's works were published between 1857–1868 and are in the public domain worldwide. |
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| ## Citation |
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| ``` |
| Allan Kardec. Le Livre des Esprits. Paris: Didier et Cie, 1857. |
| Brazilian edition: O Livro dos Espíritos. Tradução de Guillon Ribeiro. FEB. |
| Dataset structured by IA.Espirita (iaespirita.com), 2026. |
| ``` |
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| *Built with 💜 by [IA.Espirita](https://iaespirita.com) — Translating Spiritist Doctrine for the digital age.* |
