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# 📖 O Livro dos Espíritos — Allan Kardec

**The Spirits' Book** | **Le Livre des Esprits** | **El Libro de los Espíritus**

The complete **1,019 questions and answers** from Allan Kardec's foundational work, structured as machine-readable JSON in **4 languages**.

## Files

| 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 |

> 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.

## About the Work

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:

- **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)

## Dataset Structure

All files share the same schema. Field names are in English; content is in each file's native language.

```json
{
  "Id": "1",
  "Question": "Que é Deus?",
  "Answer": "Deus é a inteligência suprema, causa primária de todas as coisas."
}
```

```json
{
  "Id": "1",
  "Question": "What is God?",
  "Answer": "God is the Supreme Intelligence, the First Cause of all things."
}
```

```json
{
  "Id": "1",
  "Question": "¿Qué es Dios?",
  "Answer": "Dios es la inteligencia suprema, causa primera de todas las cosas."
}
```

```json
{
  "Id": "1",
  "Question": "Qu'est-ce que Dieu ?",
  "Answer": "Dieu est l'intelligence suprême, cause première de toutes choses."
}
```

| 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 |

## Use Cases

- **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

## Related Resources

- 📖 **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)

## License

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.

## Citation

```
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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