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From Pat Deveney's database:
Bible Review. Should be read in context with The Esoteric, The Occult and Biological Journal, and The Christian Esoteric, which are all Society Esoteric/ publications. |
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| Bible Review V1 1902-1903 | |
| Bible Review V2 1903-1904 | |
| Bible Review V3 1904-1905 | |
| Bible Review V4 1905-1906 | |
| Bible Review V5 1906-1907 | |
| Bible Review V6 1907-1908 | |
| Bible Review V7 1908-1909 | |
| Bible Review V8 1909-1910 | |
| Bible Review V9 1910-1911 | |
| Bible Review V10 1911-1912 | |
| Bible Review V11 1912-1913 | |
| Bible Review V12 1913-1914 | |
| Bible Review V13 1914-1915 | |
| Bible Review V14 1915-1916 | |
| Bible Review V15 1916-1918 | |
| Bible Review V16 1918-1920 | |
| Bible Review V17 1920-1922 | |
| Bible Review V18 1922-1923 | |
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Bible Review was the journal of Hiram Erastus Butler's Esoteric Fraternity at Applegate, California, and the successor to his earlier magazine The Esoteric. Despite the scriptural title it is not devotional commentary but a thoroughgoing esoteric system: the word 'esoteric' saturates its pages, joined by occult doctrine, reincarnation, and Butler's own 'Solar Biology' astrology. At its heart lies the Fraternity's teaching of regeneration — sexual continence and purity as the path by which the soul, 'a piece of God,' reclaims an inner sanctuary the animal world cannot touch. New-Thought mental practice and reports of luminous phenomena appear at the margins, but the spine is esoteric Christianity fused with astrology and a demanding regeneration discipline. It is a distinctive American attempt to read the Bible as a manual of occult self-transformation. Generated by Claude from the periodical's digitized text; a thematic reading, not a bibliographic description. |
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| Hermeticism and Western Esotericism | Occult Science and Esoteric Philosophy | Sexual Elements: Continence, Free Love, Regeneration, and Sex Magic |
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