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Periodical: Aquarian Craftsman

Summary: From Pat Deveney's database:

Aquarian Craftsman, The.
A Magazine with a DEFINITE PURPOSE, that of preparing mankind for the Coming of the New Age. Aquarius. It is the voice crying in the wilderness, "Prepare ye the way of the Lord, (Aquarius) , make His paths straight."
1932 Monthly
Oakland, CA.
Language: English.
Editor: Amy E. McCarthy, editor; Zillah McComb, assistant editor.
1/1, April 1932.
$2.50 a year, 32 pp.

This was a short-lived astrological journal that combined strong elements of dietetics and numerology ("5 is 2, 1, 2 or 3 and 2, or 4 and 1, expresses as expansion, inclusiveness, comprehension, understanding, judgment. justice, reaping and harvesting. In the second tetractys, 5 becomes a higher vibration of 2, so it has to do with the reproduction of self in the material world, increase fecundity, propagation," etc. It also carried studies of "Bio-Elementology," "the Great Pyramid Prophecies," "Esoteric Masonry," etc.

Other Sources:
Issues:Aquarian Craftsman V1 N2 May 1932
Claude-Generated Themes:   The Aquarian Craftsman was a small Oakland monthly (1932) that set out to bring astrology into the Aquarian Age by stripping it of fatalism — teaching that a birth chart is a set of 'tools' one can reforge rather than a sentence. Astrology is its practical backbone, but the interpretive matter is esoteric-symbolic: allegorized Greek myth, esoteric readings of scripture, and Masonic imagery drawn from 'Esoteric Masonry,' where the Lodge's checkered pavement stands for the vicissitudes of life. The 'Craftsman' of the title and its freemason references are Masonic symbolism used esoterically rather than the voice of a working lodge. A light diet-and-breath note rounds out an Aquarian-Age esoteric miscellany.

Generated by Claude from the periodical's digitized text; a thematic reading, not a bibliographic description.
Topics:Astrology | Divination (Tarot, Cartomancy, and Numerology) | New Age Spirituality