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Periodical: The Coming Light

Summary:  From Pat Deveney's database:

Coming Light, The.
A Monthly Magazine Devoted to Higher Liberal Thought, without any Hobbies to Ride.
1886-1899 Monthly
San Francisco, CA. Language: English.
Publisher: Ray L. Bernier; The Coming Light Publishing House. Editor: Dr. Cora A. Morse and Edward B. Payne.
Succeeds: Rays of Truth Succeeded by: Arena (consolidated with in 1899)
1/1, 1898-June 1899. Illustrated. 80 pp. $1.00 a year, In 1897 the journal succeeded Rays of Truth, edited by Bernier, and in June 1899 it was consolidated with and became the Pacific Department for the Arena. Coming Light was said to stand for "right and justice in all things, and for a truly progressive, educational, rationalistic Spiritualism," and was described as "new, illustrated, progressive." Note, Banner of Light 82/25 (February 19, 1898): 4; "Send us 10 Cents," Banner of Light 84/19 (January 7, 1899). Paul Tyner was a contributor.

Other Sources:
Issues:Coming Light Dec 1897
Coming Light Jan 1898
Coming Light Feb 1898
Coming Light Mar 1898
Coming Light Apr 1898
Coming Light May 1898
Coming Light Jun 1898
Coming Light Jul 1898
Coming Light Aug 1898
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Coming Light Oct 1898
Coming Light Nov 1898
Coming Light Dec 1898
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Coming Light Feb 1899
Coming Light Mar 1899
Coming Light Apr 1899
Coming Light May 1899
Claude-Generated Themes:   The Coming Light is a turn-of-the-century progressive-reform magazine that blends Spiritualism with the rising New Thought and mental-science current. Alongside mediums, spirit-controls and survival of the dead, it preaches success, prosperity and the demonstration of mind — the two vocabularies braided together in a single reform-minded voice. Its pages reach beyond the seance room into freedom-and-emancipation oratory and vernacular humor, marking it as a broad West-Coast periodical of spiritual and social progress. Light phrenological and occult references round out a paper more interested in reform and self-culture than in phenomena for their own sake.

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