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Periodical: Evolucion (Madrid))

Summary:  From Pat Deveney's database:

Evolucion, La.
Revista mensual, Organo de la Hermandad Espiritista Evolucion.
1934--1936 Monthly
Madrid, Spain.
Language: Spanish.
Editor: Cesar de Haro, Jose Domenech Vidal.
1/1, May 1934-1936.
5 pesetas a year, 8-12 pp.

The journal participated in the V Congreso Internacional Espirita held in Barcelona in September 1934 which had been organized by Jose Maria Seseras y de Batlle, one of the journal's principal collaborators. It was a spiritist journal, replete with the usual articles on reincarnation and communications from a medium, excerpts from newspapers on notable spiritualist phenomena proving telepathy and reincarnation, reports on the doings of centers around Spain, and a series on "Impresiones del Verdadero Vivir." The journal strove to rescue spiritualism in Spain from what it saw as deviations that detracted from its core message. Luz del Porvenir, in reviewing the new journal said: "Evolucion, our colleague from Madrid, has carried out a passionate campaign against spiritualists and spiritualist organizations that instead of being called such, conceal their name with that of Metapsychists and Societies of Psychological Studies." Noted in Oscar M. Garcia Rodriguez, "Hemerografia Espiritista Espanola, 1857-1936," https://grupoespiritaisladelapalma.wordpress.com. Biblioteca Nacional de Espana.

Other Sources:
Issues:Evolucion V2 N15 July 15 1936
Claude-Generated Themes:   Evolución was a Spanish-language Kardecist spiritist review published at Madrid, its title naming the doctrine's central promise: the progressive evolution of the spirit through successive reincarnations. Its pages turn on the mechanics of that doctrine — the faculties and organs of the reincarnating spirit, whose energy is measured to the resistance of its still-forming body — and on the associational life of the spiritist circle, with its poetry readings, presiding 'brothers' and moral counsel to shed harmful ideas. It voices the reformist, progressivist optimism characteristic of Peninsular Spiritism, for which mediumship served an ethics of self-improvement and social betterment. It belongs to the Spanish Kardecist press that flourished from the later nineteenth century, carrying Allan Kardec's teaching into Madrid's circles.

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