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From Pat Deveney's database:
Greeley's
Truths of Nature.
A Monthly Journal of Natural Science.
Other titles: Greeley; Wade's Truths of Nature
1889 Monthly
Boston/Dorchester (?), MA. Language: English.
Editor: Joseph M. Wade.
Succeeds: Greeley: A Journal of Natural Science Succeeded by: Occultism and Theosophy -> Occultism: The Key of Nature
The masthead proclaimed that Wade's enterprise had been begun in December 1888, indicating some previous publication, but the first issues of this magazine were published by Wade under the name Greeley, with new numbering (1/1, January 1889), and by July at least the title had become Truths of Nature. Wade (1832 or 1833-1905), who published a series of general-science (he was an ornithologist) and textile journals before turning to the spiritual, seems to have had a proclivity to changing the name of his journals. Published gossip on developments in the Theosophical Society, astrological notes, short translations from Eliphas Levi, Noted in "Occultism and Theosophy. An Exposition of the Truths of Nature," Light, October 18, 1890): 508, which announced the appearance of the journal's successor: Occultism and Theosophy. Wade was the publisher of Posthumous Memories of Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (1896), received through a Yost typewriter operated by the spirit of HPB. On Wade, see also the note under Occultism: Key of Nature.
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This magazine is an eclectic occult miscellany that sets a Theosophical core — Blavatsky, the adepts, 'F.T.S.' contributors — alongside a working astrological department of ephemerides, ascendants and the zodiacal houses, all bound together by a general vocabulary of occultism and magic. Its Rosicrucian coloring comes mainly from advertisements for Franz Hartmann's esoteric titles rather than from any sustained engagement with the Christian-Rosenkreutz current, so it is best read as a late-nineteenth-century esoteric-astrological digest rather than the organ of a particular order. Degraded OCR and an opaque catalogue slug leave its exact title and run still to be confirmed.
Generated by Claude from the periodical's digitized text; a thematic reading, not a bibliographic description.
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