Francisco Ignacio Madero or the syncretic spiritualism of a revolutionary.
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Spiritism, Syncretism, Hermeticism, Porfiriato, Mexican RevolutionAbstract
Although it has already been written about the Spiritist Manual (1911), published by Francisco Ignacio Madero (1873-1913) under the pseudonym Bhîma, it remains to discuss the role that the spiritist thought of its author represented in the face of the rationalist positivism that supported the dictatorship of Porfirio Diaz. Published after The Presidential Succession in 1910 (1908), the Spiritist Manual proposes an unusual alternative, Hermetic in nature, which imagines a dualistic universe, composed of living and dead people, in perpetual evolutionary dialectic. Influenced by the French writer Hippolyte León Denizard Rivail (alias Allan Kardec), Madero made the spirits speak to conceive and promote his own democratic utopia, of a pacifist nature, which gave a metaphysical character to his own death. In the following article, the components of his spiritualist thought, his hermeticism and his Catholicism are studied hermeneutically, as well as the influence it had on his revolutionary action.
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