Espiritismo, El.
Revista Mensual / Organo de la Associacion de Estudios Psicologicos "Dios y Progreso".
1922--1937? Monthly
Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Language: Spanish.
Editor: Manuel Eiras, Pablo Mayoral, Carlos Calvo; Amadeo v. Podesta.
1/1, March 1922.
$2.00 in Buenos Aires, $5.00 elsewhere., 16 pp.

The Associacion de Estudios Psicologicos "Dios y Progreso" was founded formally in January 1900 and grew out of the circle that formed around the Spanish medium Francisca Lozano de Latorraca ("Hermana Paca"). It was Kardecist spiritist in its philosophy, with communications from "Grandfather Pablo," but made room in its activities for work on clairvoyance, telepathy, Theosophy, and the occult generally, although it strongly condemed the fraud that it found rampant in spiritualism. On the inside of the front cover the journal ran this strong message:

"Spiritism Condemns Fortune Telling and Healing ('curanderismo') in Bad Faith

Let everyone know this and not consider as spiritualists -- because they are not such -- so many 'miserable' and 'unfortunate' people who, to enhance their 'business,' advertise themselves in cards and newspapers, now as teachers of Spiritism, now as famous spiritualists, now as fortune tellers and healers by spiritualism. Spiritualism condemns this insane trade in divination and quackery by evil arts, so generally widespread in this country, and we energetically protest against the unspeakable abuse committed by these so-called male and female fortune tellers who take the names spiritualism and spiritualist to enhance exactly what spiritualism and spiritualists reject and execrate."

In 1928 started a spiritualist library and also became associated with the Laboratorio Metapsiquico-Espirita "Dr. Gustavo Geley" which sought to explore the wonders of contemporary parapsychology in a "scientific" manner, free from imposture, especially the production of ectoplasm and spirit photography. The journal published many of the photograph of the sessions, demonstrating that, at least in the case of spirit photography, the art had not notably improved since the days of Mumler. The journal also published a balance sheet, but did not report the items of profit or loss from the enterprise. Archivo General de la Guerra Civil Espanola; BNE

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