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Periodical: Golden Rays (Michigan)

Summary:  From Pat Deveney's database:

Golden Rays.
Other titles: Golden Rays Magazine
1943?-1949? Monthly
Eaton Rapids, MI.
Language: English.
Editor: Rev. Austin D. Wallace.
Publisher: The Library.
1/1, June 1943.
(Vol. 7, no. 5 is October 1949. 35 pp.

The Spiritualist Episcopal Church was founded in 1941 by, among others, Robert Chaney, a midwestern medium who frequented Camp Chesterfield. He later resigned from his church at Eaton Rapids and moved to Los Angeles with his wife, Earlyne, who had been communicating with a spirit called Kut-Hu-Mi, who she later learned had a role in Theosophy. The two then proceeded to found Astara in 1951 and put out the voluminous Book of Life lessons. The journal featured meditations, healing, etc., and carried articles on "A Practical Spiritualist’s Philosophy," "An Occult Interpretation of the 23rd Psalm," "Apports," and the like.

Other Sources:Michigan State University.
Issues:Golden Rays V7 N5 Oct 1949
Claude-Generated Themes:   Golden Rays is a small Michigan metaphysical monthly in which mid-century American Spiritualism — mediums, seances, materializations, survival — is braided tightly with a New Thought mind-cure vocabulary of 'demonstration,' success, abundance and 'the silence.' A lighter occult seam surfaces in its natural-philosophy of magnetic currents condensing through the ethers, alongside scattered talk of karma, reincarnation and brotherhood. The register is devotional and eclectic, ranging from occult cosmology to New Thought sermons on personal integrity. It reads as a household paper of the Spiritualist / New-Thought borderland rather than a doctrinally strict organ of either.

Generated by Claude from the periodical's digitized text; a thematic reading, not a bibliographic description.
Topics:Physical Phenomena of Mediumship | Spiritualism | Spiritualist Camp Meetings and Communities | Theosophy