Alborea.
Revista Eclectica de Teosofia / Organo de la Federacion Americana Vanguardia Teosofica.
1932--1943? Bimonthly, quarterly (first half 1943, then bimonthly)
Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Language: Spanish.
Editor: Adela T. de Cassinelli, editor; Luisa Ferrer, founder.
Succeeds: Accion Femenina (companion journal started by same principals)
1/1, January-February 1932-12/50, November-December 1943.
16 pp., $3.00 a year (which included 6 numbers of this journal and 2 issues of the companion Accion Femenina).

The journal was initially announced as "Albores" but for unspecified "internal reasons" the name was changed to this. This was a radical journal that, in its early days, was "Theosophical" mainly in its name, some veneration for H.P. Blavatsky, and occasional excerpts from and mention of the Adyar Theosophists. As time went on the journal increasingly came to resemble the standard Theosophical journal of the time although it maintained its reform, radical interests as well. The Federacion Americana Vanguardia Teosofica (Central Union Himalaya) also published the radical spiritualist Accion Femenina: Revista Científica, Sociologica y Espiritualista, started in 1922, of which also de Cassinelli was editor. Her family was prominent in Theosophical and spiritualist circles and was the principal supporter of the federation and its work, beginning with its foundation in 1920 by Luisa Ferrer, and it and its journals seem never to have worried about financing. The covers of Alborea were printed in color and the journal advertised a two-reel movie and a radio program about the activities of the federacion and its free "escuela activa" and public library. The federation continued at least into the 1970s, sponsoring feminist, anti-clerical and pacifist causes, conferences opposing vivisection and advocating naturism, progressive education and Henry George's economics, and other liberal fads, but Alborea seems to have ceased at the end of 1943. The founder of the federation was Luisa Ferrer ("Hipatia"), a Spanish-born Theosophist, spiritualist and clairvoyant who had during World War I prophesied that Spain would become a republic "without much bloodshed," and that this would mark the coming end of the Papacy and the arrival of "a New Era of Peace, Love, Wisdom, and Justice on Earth," and the return to the modern world of the hidden secrets and forgotten books of ancient times described in Isis Unveiled. Ferrer wrote for Mario Rose de Luna's Hesperia. In 1925 she died and El Espiritismo announced that Accion Femenina would thenceforth be continued by de Cassinelli alone, without the "ill-fated and unforgettable" Ferrer. Alborea began a few years later but Ferror was still listed as founder. The journal featured regular news of the foundation's activities and articles on current music and the arts and movies. and increasingly, articles on Theosophical themes written by Argentine writers. From its beginnings the journal also carried regular articles on astrology and exchanged issues with Max Heindel's Rosicrucian Fellowship journals.

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