International Association for the Preservation of Spiritualist and Occult Periodicals

 

The IAPSOP is a US-based private organization focused on the digital preservation of Spiritualist and occult periodicals published between the Congress of Vienna and the start of the Second World War.

Our all-volunteer staff digitizes, indexes and makes available free-of-charge these periodicals, in our archive, for use by students and researchers.

We have a standing want list and will respond promptly to inquiries and offers from sellers.

We accept contributions of material and labor to further this work.



Periodicals281 gigabytes22,759 files1,313,913 pages
Monographs182 gigabytes7,681 files1,702,387 pages
463 gigabytes30,440 files3,016,300 pages
as of 9 June 2017

 

 

 

 

DateUpdate Summary
October 2016 Release 6 of the Standard Spiritualist and Occult Corpus (+6700 texts). More than 50 new and updated periodicals in English, including major contributions from the Marion Skidmore Library in Lily Dale, New York.

April 2016 Rehosting of the site with a reliable hoster. Release 5 of the Standard Spiritualist and Occult Corpus (+6200 texts). New and updated periodicals in English, French, Italian, Spanish and German. Reindexing, additions and new materials spanning Spiritualism, Theosophy, New Thought and the Occult Revival.

November 2015 85 new and updated periodicals in English, French, Italian, Spanish and German. Reindexing, additions and new materials spanning Spiritualism, Theosophy, New Thought and the Occult Revival. Consult the updated index to access these new materials.

June 2015 The Deveney Lessons Wing, featuring private lessons and teachings from Spiritualist and occult mages, is officially opened, as is the Hodge Ephemera Wing.

May 2015 330+ new and updated periodicals in English, French, German and Russian. Reindex, additions and brand-new materials spanning Spiritualism, Theosophy, New Thought and the Occult Revival. Consult the updated index to access these new materials.

August 2014 Doubling in size, with more than 80 new and updated periodicals in English, French and German: Adept (11 issues); Adiramled (11 issues); Agitator (2 issues); L'Anti-Materialiste (23 issues); The Astrologer and Oracle of Destiny (26 issues -- complete run?); Biblioteca Platonica (1 issue); Brittan's Journal (8 issues); Carrier Dove (UPDATED: 3 new issues); Cassadagan (3 issues); Christliche Theosophie (1 issue); Common Sense (12 issues); Communication (1 issue); Crucible (1 issue); Direct Voice (UPDATED: 3 new issues); Divine Life (1 issue); Echoes from Mount Ecclesia (24 issues); Eclectic Medical Journal (5 years); Facts (16 issues); Freemason (UK) (8 years); Friend of Progress (6 issues); Gallery of Spirit Art (UPDATED: cleaned up issues); Golden Dawn (1 issue); Guiding Star (32 issues); Harmony (8 years, plus 10 miscellaneous issues); Herald of Progress (UK) (27 issues); Herald of Progress (US) (99 issues); Higher Law (1 issue); Historic Magazine and Notes and Queries (19 years); Human Nature (UPDATED: 1 new issue); Index (10 years); International Journal of the Tantrick Order (1 issue); Kingdom of Heaven (UPDATED: complete issue); L'Initiation (119 issues); La Courriere (4 issues); La Gnose (27 issues); Light for Thinkers (2 issues); Light in the West (36 issues); Light of Truth (1 issue); Mercury (30 issues); Mountain Cove Journal (17 issues); Mysteria (12 issues); Mystic Triangle (51 issues); Nautilus (14 issues); Neue Gedanken (6 issues); New England Spiritualist (6 issues); New Era (9 issues); New Thought (Chicago) (3 issues); New Thought (Massachusetts) (1 issue); New Universe (1 issue); New Way (8 years); OE Library Critic (16 years); Occult Word (7 issues); Ohio Spiritualist (1 issue); Olive Branch (1 issue); Phoenix (1 issue); Phreno-Magnet (11 issues); Present Age (6 issues); Principle (UPDATED: 2 issues); Radium (1 issue); Rays from the Rose Cross (44 issues); Revue des Hautes Etudes (6 issues); Sermon (1 issue); Shiloh's Messenger of Wisdom (1 issue); Spiritual Clarion (2 issues); Spiritual Republic (2 issues); Spiritual Telegraph (108 issues); Spiritual Truth (1 issue); Spiritual Universe (2 issues); Spiritualist at Work (9 issues); Spiritualist (US) (1 issue); Star of the Magi (23 issues); Summerland Messenger (1 issue); Sunflower (1 issue); Tiffany's Monthly (3 years); To You (15 issues); Triangle (11 issues); Voile d'Isis (257 issues); White Cross Library (1 issue); Woodhull and Claflin's Weekly (2 issues); World Liberator (1 issue); World's Advance Thought (18 years); World's Paper (2 issues); Wunder Das (3 issues). Consult the updated index to access these new materials.

March 2014The Spiritual Age, The Spiritual Eclectic, Spiritual Manifestations, The Magnet, The St. Louis Magnet, Nichols' Monthly, Lucifer, The Theosophist, The Path, The Oracle (Boston), Occultism (The Key of Nature), The Swastika, The Principle, The Kingdom of Heaven, The Instructive Light, The Agitator, The Age of Progress, American Rosae Crucis, The Temple, The Eastern Star, and The Direct Voice. In addition, the The Religio-Philosophical Journal has been re-indexed to improve searchability, and four more years have been added.

January 2014The Spiritualist Newspaper, The Rosicrucian, Mind and Matter, Daybreak, The Medium and Daybreak, Human Nature, The Journal of Progress, The Spirit of the Age, The Herald of Light, The Spiritual Philosopher, The Univercoelum, and The Sacred Circle.

Fall 2013The Spiritualist Newspaper, Spiritual Notes, a complete run of the Zoist, more volumes of the Religio-Philosophical Journal, Buchanan's Journal of Man (First and Second Series) and Mind and Matter.

March 2013Added a complete run of The Yorkshire Spiritual Telegraph, completing a cluster with The British Spiritual Telegraph and The Spiritual Herald.

Also:

The Seer and Celestial Reformer, The Occultist (Hermetic Brotherhood of Luxor) and The Occult Magazine, (Hermetic Brotherhood of Luxor).

Six years of The Religio-Philosophical Journal and the entire run of The Rosicrucian Brotherhood (1907-9).

The Spiritual Herald, the first London-based Spiritualist magazine.

In related project areas, John Buescher's spirithistory.com has been incorporated into IAPSOP, and is (permanently) available at http://spirithistory.iapsop.com/, and IAPSOP's Standard Spiritualist and Occult Corpus (SSOC) -- at present, more than 2200 machine-readable electronic texts, in English, covering Spiritualism, occultism and allied parasciences, from the 1790s to the 1940s -- is available in beta form for testing and use.

 

February 2013Added The Esoteric, The Occult and Biological Journal, The Bible Review, and some issues of The Christian Esoteric, the first 15 years of both the Journal and the Proceedings of the American Society for Psychical Research, and 11 issues of Francis Rolt-Wheeler's The Seer.

 

January 2013Added Banner of Light to 1894, some issues of The Carrier Dove, about a decade of The Truthseeker, the first 8 volumes of The Annals of Psychical Science and six years of Light.

 

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