Celestial Life.
A Periodical of Cosmic Knowledge / Cosmic Attunement.
Know Thyself / Knowledge Wisdom / Zoe Phos / When Man Dies . . . Does He Live Again?
1946 Bimonthly
Chicago, IL.
Editor: Konstantinos B. Dokas.
Publisher: Kondor Publishing House.
1/1, July 1946.
36 pp., 15-25 cents a copy; six issues, $1.25-$1.00.

The journal's scover proclaimed its interest in Cosmic Life, Art, Science, Philosophy, Religious Beliefs, Progressive Reasoning, and Ancient Earth Life, but its specialty was tales by "famous celebrities" from beyond the grave: Amelia Earhart on her last flight, Houdini on his transition, Clarence Darrow on the "Criminal Spirit World," etc., and revelations byAgatha Menkara, the First Queen of Egypt, and by Dorothy May, Dokas's deceased wife. The journal announced that "the major part of the material published are [!] genuine spirit writings written through the powers of De-Chard . . . and all sittings have been paid for." Dokas (1896-1993) was a peripatetic spiritualist lecturer , metaphysician, and minister who dabbled in various of the diploma mills of the period. He was a practitioner of Psycho-Occult Science in Toledo, and an instructor at the Central Scientific College in Indianapolis and Secretary of the American Occult College of Indianapolis in the 1920s, in the latter of which he was an associate of Charles H. Gunsolus (1893-1982), an antisemitic "America First" proponent and spiritualist. By the late 1940s Dokas was teacher and lecturer of Metaphysics at the College of Divine Metaphysics, Inc., in Chicago, and Dean of Instruction, Secretary and Treasurer of the Kondora Theosophical Seminary in Chicago, founded "to provide, impart and furnish opportunities for all departments of higher education . . . . The seminary is now offering a residential and home study academic course of instruction to all persons, who may apply and qualify for matriculation leading to academic degrees, providing the student qualifies for same." The degrees offered included the B.Ps.Sc. (Bachelor of Psychic Science) and a variety of similar distinctions, all for $5 down and $5 per month per subject, for which paltry sum the student received the guidance of a cosmic teacher, assigned to him personally by the eternal to develop his psychic centers. The bearded and sage photograph of one of the cosmic teachers can be seen emerging from the thoughtful head of Dokas in a photograph in the journal. Dokas himself participated in the fruits of mail-order education by accumulating some 200 diplomas. Duke University.

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