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From Pat Deveney's database:
Archives du spiritisme mondial. This was the organ for the annual meeting reports of the Federation spirite internationale / |
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| Archives Du Spiritisme Mondial N1 1923 | |
| Archives Du Spiritisme Mondial N4 1926 | |
| Archives Du Spiritisme Mondial N6 1927 | |
| Archives Du Spiritisme Mondial N8 1929 | |
| Archives Du Spiritisme Mondial N9 1930 | |
| Archives Du Spiritisme Mondial N10 1931 | |
| Archives Du Spiritisme Mondial N11 1932-1933 | |
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Read across its 1923-1933 holdings, Archives du Spiritisme Mondial is not a journal of doctrine or phenomena but of organization: it is the minute-book of a movement trying to become an institution. Published trilingually (French, English, Spanish) from the Maison des Spirites in Paris, it is the official record of the Federation Spirite Internationale -- congress proceedings, executive-committee minutes, secretaries' and treasurers' reports, and the roster of a genuinely transnational leadership in which Lady Conan Doyle and Ernest Oaten of the English The Two Worlds sit alongside the French Kardecist establishment of the Revue Spirite and the Union Spirite Francaise. Its interest is precisely that it straddles the fault line the corpus usually keeps apart: the Anglo-American 'spiritualism' of mediumship and survival, and the Latin, Kardec-descended 'spiritisme' of reincarnation and rational religion, here federated under one letterhead. It documents Spiritualism at its most self-consciously respectable and diplomatic -- the phase in which a heterodox enthusiasm organizes committees, holds international congresses (The Hague, and others), and speaks the language of bureaus and resolutions rather than seances. Generated by Claude from the periodical's digitized text; a thematic reading, not a bibliographic description. |
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