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Periodical: Fohat

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Fohat.
An International Monthly Magazine of Practical Idealism, Devoted to the Dissemination of Truth and the Correction of the Latest Science Facts with Occult Science.
1922 Monthly
San Francisco, CA. Language: English.
Editor: Miriam Milner French, M. Witter, associate editor.
1/1, May 1922. $2.50 a year. 6 x 8 1/2, 32 pp. The journal touts its non-sectarian editorial policy, but, as the O.E. Library Critic, May 3, 1922, notes, it was decidedly on the side of the to the Back to Blavatsky movement of the time that sought to prune the innovations of Annie Besant and C.W. Leadbeater from the original ideas of the Theosophical Society. Contributions by, among other less well known authors, Edgar Lucien Larkin and George W. Carey. Advertisements for Carey's School of the Chemistry of Life that taught the wonders of cell salts and the regenerative powers of cultivating and restraining sexual energy.

Other Sources:University of Pennsylvania.
Issues:Fohat V1 N1 May 1922
Claude-Generated Themes:   Fohat is a Blavatskyan Theosophical journal named for the cosmic-energy principle of the Secret Doctrine, and its pages stay close to that source current — Blavatsky, the Secret Doctrine, Kosmos, the Bhagavadgita Lectures, and the occultist's axiom that every atom traces to One Unity and that there is no such thing as dead matter. It represents the source-text-centered wing of Theosophy rather than the later Adyar or neo-Theosophical developments, with a genuine minor thread of alchemy inside its esoteric natural philosophy. Its heavy 'electro' vocabulary is not medical hygiene but the electric aspect of Fohat itself, cosmic electricity as vital force. It belongs to the modern Blavatskyan Theosophical press.

Generated by Claude from the periodical's digitized text; a thematic reading, not a bibliographic description.
Topics:Occult Science and Esoteric Philosophy | Theosophy