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Periodical: Bulletin Officiel du Bureau International du Spiritisme

Summary:   From Pat Deveney's database:

Bulletin Officiel du Bureau International du Spiritisme.
Affilie a L'Union des Associations Internationales.
Other titles: Official bulletin of the International Bureau of Spiritualism
1910 Quarterly
Anvers, then Liege, Belgium. Language: French and English.
Editor: Chevalier Georges Le Clement de St-Marcq.
Publisher: Le Bureau.
Succeeded by: Archives du Spiritisme Mondial (1923)
1/1, September 1910.
24 pp., 1 franc a year and distributed free of charge to every spiritualist periodical whose address had been sent to the Bureau and to every associated spiritualist association.

This was to be the official repository of the organizational documents and decisions of the various spiritualist congresses of the period, and was decided upon at the Universal Spiritualist Congress in Brussels in May 1910. It is notable for its review of the progress of spiritualism in often-neglected countries, like Morocco, Croatia, and Japan, and for its sometime editor Le Clement de St-Marcq (1865-1956), who was not only a prominent spiritist but also a pioneering figure in the establishment of the Belgian air force but also the author of L'Eucharistie (1912) which proposed that the original secret of Christianity was spermatophagy. On Le Clement de St-Marcq, see Marco Pasi, “The Knight of Spermatophagy,” in Hidden Intercourse (2008). The journal's purpose was taken up again after the War in Archives du Spiritisme Mondial. Also published in English as Official Bulletin of the International Bureau of Spiritualism.

Other Sources:LOC; BNF.
Issues:Bulletin Officiel du Bureau International du Spiritisme V4 N1 Sep 1913
Claude-Generated Themes:   The Bulletin Officiel du Bureau International du Spiritisme is the house organ of the international Spiritist bureau in the years around its 1913 world congress at Ghent and Brussels. Much of the sampled number is administrative — logged correspondence, inter-organizational notices, even a committee for an international auxiliary language — the paperwork of a movement trying to federate across borders. Yet it also reaches into substantive psychical territory, reporting work on the 'supernormal phenomena of telepathy and levitation,' and it registers the period's Theosophical cross-currents through a French translation of Annie Besant. It belongs to the Kardecist Spiritist tradition at its most institutional, documenting the organized international movement rather than the seance itself, with psychical research and Theosophy at its edges.

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