Denominated basic works of Spiritism (Portuguese: Obras básicas do Espiritismo),[1] also referred to as Codificação Espírita, are five books published by the French educator Hippolyte Léon Denizard Rivail under the pseudonym Allan Kardec, between 1857 and 1868.
In addition to these basic works, Kardec wrote a series of booklets with the aim of popularizing the doctrine and making its dissemination easier and faster.
Some of them went through several editions and continued to be reprinted even after the Codifier's passing: We had published a 'Practical Instruction' with the aim of guiding mediums.
This work is now sold out, and although we created it with serious and important goals, we will not reprint it because we still do not consider it complete enough to clarify all the difficulties that may be encountered.
We have replaced it with this book, in which we have gathered all the data that long experience and conscientious study have allowed us to gather.Finally, the following addition is made to this list: In Brazil, other lesser-known works were published: This small book[2] by Allan Kardec lists the "Fundamental Works of Spiritist Doctrine" codified by himself, summarized as follows: