The Genesis According to Spiritism

[citation needed] It tries to reconcile science and religion,[1] and develops a series of important scientific and philosophical topics, relating them to Spiritism.

The Genesis contains diverse articles on the creation of the universe, the formation of the world, the origins of spirits and the role of divine intervention in the order of nature.

This first chapter is a thorough rationalisation of the Spiritist theory and an attempt to justify it in face of harsh criticism: They accuse it [Spiritism] of relationship with magic and sorcery; but forget that Astronomy has Astrology as an elder sister, not much removed from us.

Explains that the (mis)conceptions about the world originated from the scarcity of information available to man in the past and that, as science advances, our worldview will change dramatically, affected by it.

Contains some interesting insights which were either original or very novel[citation needed]: Attempts to reconcile the then recent science of geology with legends from the Bible and from other ancient peoples.

This chapter accepts spontaneous generation as fact: a phenomenon that took place every day (which was according to mainstream scientific thinking of that time, only to be displaced decades later by the work of Louis Pasteur).