Faro Oriental.
No hay religion superior a la verdad
1912--1916 Monthly, bimonthly
Montevideo, Uruguay.
Language: Spanish.
Editor: F. Diaz Falp.
1/1, January 1912-4/48, September-December 1915. 24 pp.

This was a Theosophical journal, whose goal, it proclaimed, was to be a beacon ("faro") to the modern world of confusion. It carried the usual articles by Annie Besant, et al., and excerpts from B.P. Wadia as well as news of the local lodges and the Theosophical Society around the world, but it also paid unusual attention to more general occult and spiritual themes and review of occult publications worldwide. In 1913 it noted the books of then unknown Arnoldo Krumm Heller, and it also noted and discussed Vivekananda, Rabindranath Tagore, Bahai, Eliphas Levi, Marc Haven's study of Cagliostro, Robert Fludd, Mario Roso de Luna, and others. The issue for May-June 1913 recounts the coming to Uruguay of Theosophy and occultism in 1896-1897 in the person of Alberto de Das, Conde de Sarak, an international confidence man and swindler, whose biography is detailed in the notes to Etoile d'Orient, Radiant Centre, and other journals. His current (and last) wife was Uruguayan and his children were born there. The Revista Teosofica (Cuba), February 15, 1917, notes the cessation of this journal and the transformation of the enterprise into a "Center for Initiatory Publications" to achieve a wider diffusion of its ideas and the teachings of the "Orientalist Philosophy." Biblioteca Nacional del Uruguay.