De tudo que já li e pesquisei, nada me abalou mais do que saber que a palavra Espiritismo não foi criada por Kardec, como conta a tradição oral espírita. Não me consta (realmente não me lembro) de nenhuma passagem onde ele tenha se colocado como seu autor... Mas, também não me lembro de nenhuma outra onde ele tenha atribuído a sua origem.

“You are necromancers, diviners with the spirits of the dead. Necromancers are almost as old as history. We find them alluded to in Genesis. Moses forbids necromancy, or the evocation of the dead, and commands that necromancers shall be put to death. In all ancient and modern pagan nations, necromancy is found to be a very common species of divination. The African magicians found at Cairo practice it even at the present time, as we find testified to by an English nobleman and a French academician, though by a seeing medium, not, as is the case with you, by rapping, talking and writing mediums. The famous Count de Cagliostro, or rather Giuseppo Balsamo, at the close of the last century, professed to enable persons of distinction to converse with the spirits of eminent individuals, long since dead; and evocation of the dead has long been practiced at Paris by students of the University. You are real diviners, attempting, by means of evoking the dead, to divine secrets, whether of the past or the future, unknown to the living. You practice what the world has always called divination, and that species of divination called necromancy.Thus far, all is plain, certain, undeniable, and therefore you do that which the Christian world has always held to be unlawful, and a dealing with the devils. This, however, is nothing to you, for you place the authority of the spirits above that of Jesus Christ, and do not hesitate to make Christianity give place to spiritism. But what I wish you to tell me is, the evidence on which you assert that the invading or communicating spirits are really the souls of men and women who once lived in the flesh?”

“Let us next examine some other facts of the ancient Spiritism, of a somewhat different character, and see whether they also are sufficiently analogous to those of the presentSpiritism to prove their apocatastatical relation to each other. The first quotation which I shall bring forward, I desire to make use of for a double purpose, viz: as a specimen of spirit-writing, and of that quality of certain ancient waters, which conferred the power of divination, and induced the clairvoyant state, a quality, in this respect, precisely like that of magnetized water in our time. The ancient spirits, so far as I have hitherto ascertained, were not accustomed to make use of the Medium’s hand for writing communications, except in the case of the poet, who was supposed to be the writing-medium and amanuensis of the Muses; and with one other remarkable exception viz:  that of the Sybils. These ladies were a sort of female hermits, who lived in forests, mountains, and caves, in various places and countries, and gave responses in writing to those who consulted them (…)”