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Periodical: Bulletin Spirite de Liege

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Bulletin Spirite de Liege.
Revue Mensuelle. Organe de la Federation Spirite de la Region de Liege
Liege, Belgium.
Language: French.
Editor: J. Fraikin.
1/1, March 1907.
1,00-1,10 Belgian franc a year, 2 francs beyond, 8 pp.

It is very difficult to keep track of Belgian spiritualists and their myriad internecine squabbles and divisions. This journal was an attempt at uniformity in the Liege region, but is but one of several trying to achieve the same in other areas, with varying results: e.g., Bulletin spirite de la Federation de Mons, l'Ere mouvelle, le Bulletin mensuel des phenomènes spirites d'Anvers, and La Vie d'Outre-Tombe (Charleroi). J. Fraikin was the president of the Federation Spirite de Liege and was vice-president of the Federation Spirite Belge, of which Le Clement de Saint-Marcq was president. The Bulletin carried organizational news of the federation and its doing, accounts of traveling mediums' appearances in the province, and news of local groups and their meetings. The bulletin also carried short expositions on various Kardecist themes .


Related organization: Federation Spirite de Liege.
Other Sources:
Issues:Bulletin Spirite De Liege V1 N1 Mar 1907
Bulletin Spirite De Liege V1 N2 Apr 1907
Bulletin Spirite De Liege V1 N3 May 1907
Bulletin Spirite De Liege V1 N4 Jun 1907
Bulletin Spirite De Liege V1 N5 Jul 1907
Bulletin Spirite De Liege V1 N6 Aug 1907
Bulletin Spirite De Liege V1 N7 Sep 1907
Bulletin Spirite De Liege V1 N8 Oct-nov 1907
Bulletin Spirite De Liege V1 N9 Nov-dec 1907
Bulletin Spirite De Liege V2 N10 Oct1908
Bulletin Spirite De Liege V2 N11 Nov 1908
Bulletin Spirite De Liege V2 N12 Dec 1908
Bulletin Spirite De Liege V2 N7 Jul 1908
Bulletin Spirite De Liege V2 N8 Aug 1908
Bulletin Spirite De Liege V2 N9 Sep 1908
Bulletin Spirite De Liege V3 N10 Oct 1909
Bulletin Spirite De Liege V3 N11 Nov 1909
Bulletin Spirite De Liege V3 N1 Jan 1909
Bulletin Spirite De Liege V3 N2 Feb 1909
Bulletin Spirite De Liege V3 N3 Mar 1909
Bulletin Spirite De Liege V3 N4 Apr 1909
Bulletin Spirite De Liege V3 N5 May 1909
Bulletin Spirite De Liege V3 N6 Jun 1909
Bulletin Spirite De Liege V3 N7 Jul 1909
Bulletin Spirite De Liege V3 N8 Aug 1909
Bulletin Spirite De Liege V3 N9 Sep 1909
Claude-Generated Themes:   The Bulletin Spirite de Liège was the organ of organized Kardecist spiritism in Liège, Belgium—by a wide margin a spiritism periodical rather than anything else. Its pages read like the working life of a circle: schedules of weekly séances, a Sunday spiritism class for children, notices from the Cercle central Spirite and its affiliated groups, obituaries of departed members consoled by the doctrine of spirit survival, and reports of telepathy and mediumship. The vocabulary is diagnostically Kardecist and French—séances, esprits, spiritisme—and a reformist social conscience surfaces in passages on capital and labor. It documents Continental spiritism as a lived community practice, close in spirit to survival-after-death consolation and touched at the edges by animal-magnetism healing.

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