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Periodical: Alma

Summary: From Pat Deveney's journal database:

Alma, El.
Revista Mensual de Studios Psiquicos y Morales / Organo de difusión del grupo espirita Viajeros de la Tierra.
Viajeros de la Tierra
1904--1906 Monthly
Mexico, D.F., Mexico.
Language: Spanish.
Editor: Juan Farias ("el Hermano Ixca").
1/1, 1904-1906 (?)
$1.00 in Mexico City and $1.20 beyond, 16 pp.

This was the organ of the group of intellectuals and Bohemians ("Viajeros de la Tierra") that gathered in Mexico City around the painter and sculptor Juan Farias y Alvarez del Castillo (1873-1948), who called himself Brother Ixca. The journal carried contributions by Francisco I. Madera, on whom see the note under Cruz Astral, and an article ("Credo Pratico para Gente Pratica") by Ella Wheeller [sic) Wilcox.

Other Sources:University of Texas, Austin..
Issues:Alma V2 N21 Nov 1905
Alma V2 N22 Dec 1905
Alma V3 N23 Jan 1906
Alma V3 N24 Feb 1906
Claude-Generated Themes:   Alma ('Soul') is a Spanish-language spiritist review in the apologetic Latin-Kardecist vein, arguing the reality of spiritism and the duty to cultivate one's psychic faculties with the earnestness — and the citations to figures like Herbert Spencer — of a movement that wished to be taken as science. Materialization phenomena and carefully vouched cases give it a physical-mediumship and psychical-research cast, while its title and preoccupations keep the survival of the soul at the center. It sits with the Iberian and Latin American spiritist press rather than with Theosophy or Anglo-American occultism. The hollow-earth score returned by the raw term-panel is an artifact of Spanish orthography, not a theme.

Generated by Claude from the periodical's digitized text; a thematic reading, not a bibliographic description.
Topics:Spiritism (Kardecist)