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Periodical: Archives du Spiritisme Mondial

Summary:   From Pat Deveney's database:

Archives du spiritisme mondial.
Recueil des actes officiels de l'Office international des relations spirites et de la Federation spirite internationale / Organe de la Federation spirite internationale.
1923--1933 Published annually in the 4th quarter of the year
Paris, France. Language: French, English, Spanish. Publisher: Maison des Spirites. Editor: Louis Gastin.
Succeeds: Bulletin Officiel du Bureau International du Spiritisme Corporate author: Federation spirite internationale / I.S.F.
1/1, 4th Quarter, Nouvelle Serie 1923-1933(?) 6 francs a year.

This was the organ for the annual meeting reports of the Federation spirite internationale / International Spiritualists Association. It contained the foundational documents of the organizations and announcements of important decisions taken Noted Bulletin de la Societe d'Etudes Psychiques de Nancy, 1926, and in Hartmann's Who's Who in Occult, Psychic and Spiritual Realms (Jamaica, NY: Occult Press, 1925), as the Organ of the International Spiritualists' Federation and of the International Office of Spiritual Relations.

Other Sources:BNF.
Issues: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
Claude-Generated Themes:   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.
Topics:Spiritism (Kardecist) | Spiritualism