Associations to the word «Spiritism»

Wiktionary

SPIRITISM, proper noun. A philosophical doctrine, established in France in the mid nineteenth century, postulating that humans are essentially immortal spirits that temporarily inhabit physical bodies, and may have influence on the physical world.
SPIRITISM, noun. The belief that the dead communicate with the living, especially through a medium having special powers.

Dictionary definition

SPIRITISM, noun. Concern with things of the spirit.

Wise words

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do, as well as talk, and to make our words and actions all of a color.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca