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From Pat Deveney's database:
Great Work In America, The.
The Philosophy of Individual Life.
1925-1928? Monthly
Hollywood, CA. Editor: John E. Richardson, Noneta Richardson, assistant editor, Joseph A. Sadony, associate editor.
Succeeds: Indo-American Magazine—>Life and Action Succeeded by: To You
Corporate author: Great School of Natural Science
1/1, May 1925-3/1, February 1928(?) 42-48pp, $3.25 a year, 35 cents a copy. Successor of Life and Action, after John E. Richardson was caught out in financial and sexual irregularities and fled, with the organization’s money and a new, underage wife, Noneta, to California. On Richardson and his Great Work, see the note under Life and Action. Noted in Hartman’s Who’s Who in Occultism, etc. (1927). NYPL.
The Great Work in America features, as an associate editor, Joseph Alexander Sadony (1877-1960), another Chicago-area mage who taught sex magic and was plagued by scandal. The Great Work still continues (in California) as The Great School of Natural Science.
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