The New Century | The New Century Path | The Century Path [IAPSOP]

Periodical:	*The New Century \| The New Century Path \| The Century Path*

Summary:	From Pat Deveney's database: New Century, The. 1897-1903 Weekly, semimonthly, weekly New York, NY, then Point Loma, CA. Language: English. Publisher: New Century Corp.. Editor: Katherine A. Tingley. Succeeds: New England Notes->Theosophical News Succeeded by: Merged with Universal Brotherhood Path to form New Century Path (1903-1911)->Theosophical Path (1911-1935) 1/1, September 30, 1897-6/20 , March 29, 1903. 1/1, September 30, 1897-6/20, March 29, 1903. An organ of the Katherine Tingley branch of the Theosophical Society and of her "unsectarian" International Brotherhood League, founded in 1897. The journal is essential for the early history of Tingley's Theosophical Society and its international spread. It contained contributions by or notes on Albert G. Spalding, Clark Thurston, Iverson Harris, August Neresheimer, Cyrus Field Willard, Burcham Harding, Alexander Wilder, Reginald Machell, et al. It carried reports on the progress of Tingley's international crusade, accounts of new journals around the world that adhered to Tingley, a Children's Department, and extensive photographs of the members of the society and the headquarters at Point Loma (and of the extraordinary tableaux vivants presented there). Noted in Neue Metapsychische Rundschau, June-July 1898, and in Notes and Queries, August 1900. NYPL; California State Library; University of California, San Diego; Yale University Library; Harvard University. New Century Path. 1903-1907 Weekly San Diego, CA. Publisher: New Century Corp. Succeeds: New England Notes (1895?-1896)->Theosophical News (1896-1897)->New Century (1897-1903); Merged with Universal Brotherhood Path to form New Century Path (1907-1911) Succeeded by: Century Path->Theosophical Path (1911-1935) 6/21, April 5, 1903-January 6, 1907. An organ of Katherine Tingley's branch of Theosophy, most notable today because the issue for August 13, 1905, in an article on "Major-General Abner Doubleday" adds the note: "It is of interest to note the fact that it is to this stanch Theosophist, well-known army officer and author, that the national game of Base Ball owes not only its name, but also in large degree its development from a simpler sport; or, indeed, according to some writers, its very invention." This was the second promulgation of the claim (first made by a man named Abner Graves a few months earlier in an Ohio newspaper) and its publication probably owed much to the fact that Albert G. Spaulding, the sporting goods robber baron, was in the process of trying to establish baseball’s pedigree and was, with his wife, a member of Tingley's Theosophical Society and lived at Lomaland. Doubleday, despite the lack of any evidence to support the claim, was a worthy candidate because he had joined the Theosophical Society in New York in 1878, had acted as its "President Ad Interim" when Blavatsky left for India, and had worked closely with W.Q. Judge, Tingley's predecessor in the American Theosophical Society. Century Path. Weekly Illustrated / Magazine Devoted to The Brotherhood of Humanity, the Promulgation of Theosophy and the Study of ancient and modern Ethics, Philosophy, Science, and Art. 1907-1911 Weekly Point Loma, CA. Publisher: New Century Corp. Succeeds: New England Notes (1895?-1896)->Theosophical News (1896-1897)->New Century (1897-1903); Merged with Universal Brotherhood Path to form New Century Path (1907-1911) Succeeded by: The Theosophical Path 10/10, January 13, 1907-14/32, June 11, 1911. 20 pp., $2.00. Organ of Katherine A. Tingley's branch of Theosophy.
Other Sources:	NYPL; California Historical Society; Stanford University; Yale University; and other locations in OCLC. ZDB: Berlin UB Humboldt.
Issues:	New Century V1 N1 Sep 30 1897
	New Century V1 N2 Oct 7 1897
	New Century V1 N3 Oct 14 1897
	New Century V1 N4 Oct 21 1897
	New Century V1 N5 Oct 28 1897
	New Century V1 N6 Nov 6 1897
	New Century V1 N7 Nov 13 1897
	New Century V1 N8 Nov 20 1897
	New Century V1 N9 Nov 27 1897
	New Century V1 N10 Dec 4 1897
	New Century V1 N11 Dec 11 1897
	New Century V1 N12-13 Dec 25 1897
	New Century V1 N14 Jan 8 1898
	New Century V1 N15 Jan 15 1898
	New Century V1 N16 Jan 22 1898
	New Century V1 N17 Jan 29 1898
	New Century V1 N18 Feb 5 1898
	New Century V1 N19-20 Feb 18 1898
	New Century V1 N21-22 Mar 5 1898
	New Century V1 N23 Mar 18 1898
	New Century V1 N24 Mar 26 1898
	New Century V1 N25 Apr 2 1898
	New Century V1 N26 Apr 9 1898
	New Century V1 N27 Apr 16 1898
	New Century V1 N28 Apr 21 1898
	New Century V1 N29 Apr 30 1898
	New Century V1 N30 May 7 1898
	New Century V1 N31 May 14 1898
	New Century V1 N32 May 21 1898
	New Century V1 N33 May 28 1898
	New Century V1 N34 Jun 4 1898
	New Century V1 N35 Jun 11 1898
	New Century V1 N36 Jun 18 1898
	New Century V1 N37 Jun 25 1898
	New Century V1 N38 Jul 2 1898
	New Century V1 N39 Jul 16 1898
	New Century V1 N40 Jul 23 1898
	New Century V1 N41 Jul 30 1898
	New Century V1 N42 Aug 6 1898
	New Century V1 N43 Aug 13 1898
	New Century V1 N44 Aug 20 1898
	New Century V1 N45 Aug 27 1898
	New Century V1 N46 Sep 3 1898
	New Century V1 N47 Sep 10 1898
	New Century V1 N48 Sep 17 1898
	New Century V1 N49 Sep 24 1898
	New Century V1 N50 Sep 24 1898
	New Century V5 Jan-nov 1902
	New Century Path V6 May-nov 1903
	New Century Path V7 Nov 1903-nov 1904
	New Century Path V8 Nov 1904-nov 1905
	New Century Path V9 Nov 1905-nov 1906
	New Century Path V9 Nov 1906-may 1907
	Century Path V10 May-nov 1907
	Century Path V11 Nov 1907-nov 1908
	Century Path V12 Nov 1908-nov 1909
	Century Path V13 Nov 1909-nov 1910
	Century Path V14 Nov 1910-jun 1911
Claude-Generated Themes:	Century Path is the house organ of Point Loma — Katherine Tingley's Universal Brotherhood and Theosophical Society — carried across successive titles from The New Century in 1897, through Century Path, to 21st Century Path in 2015. It is two things at once. As a doctrinal organ it teaches Theosophy in the Point Loma recension: the writings of Helena Blavatsky, karma and reincarnation, the sevenfold constitution of the human being, and a long exposition of what the paper called the Universal Mystery-Language, the symbolic vocabulary held to underlie every scripture. As a community paper it reports Lomaland itself, the settlement above San Diego with its Raja Yoga school and its children, its Greek theatre and pageants, its visitors, its farm and its finances. That double character is what separates it from the other Theosophical journals in this archive: at Point Loma, Universal Brotherhood was not only a doctrine but an address. Generated by Claude from the periodical's digitized text; a thematic reading, not a bibliographic description.
Topics:	Theosophy \| Utopian and Communal Living