Growth [IAPSOP]

Periodical:	*Growth*

Summary:	From Pat Deveney's database: Growth. An Exponent of the Higher Principles of Physical, Mental and Spiritual Unfoldment. 1907? Monthly Pasadena, CA. Language: English. Publisher: The Hundred-Year League. Editor: Edgar Wallace Conable and Louise A. Conable. Succeeds: The Pathfinder 1/1, 1907. Noted in New Theology, September 1908, and in Nautilus, March 1907, as a new magazine to be published "in the interests of their 'Hundred-Year League'"-i.e., in the interest of physical immortality. Conable (1850-1909) didn't make the century mark, dying at 55. He and his followers, who had earlier pioneered a colony in Arkansas, believed in the prevention of the loss of sex vitality through improper sexuality, the avoidance of alcohol, tobacco and stimulants generally, and in fasting, especially the avoidance of breakfast. Mrs. Conable was Anna Louise Ambrose, the author of Our Invisible Supply: How to Obtain (1907).
Other Sources:	LOC.
Issues:	Growth V1 N1 Jan 1907
	Growth V1 N2 Feb 1907
	Growth V1 N3 Mar 1907
	Growth V1 N4 Apr 1907
	Growth V1 N5 May 1907
Claude-Generated Themes:	Growth was the monthly organ of the Hundred-Year League, published in Pasadena from 1907 by Edgar Wallace and Louise Conable as 'An Exponent of the Higher Principles of Physical, Mental and Spiritual Unfoldment.' Its idiom is pure New Thought — demonstration, concentration, opulence, abundance and 'the silence,' with Louise Conable's prosperity tract 'Our Invisible Supply' close at hand — but its signature doctrine is physical immortality: the League held that death could be prevented by conserving sexual vitality, abstaining from alcohol, tobacco and stimulants, and fasting (down to skipping breakfast). Reincarnation appears as a minor belief. The paper reads as a Californian New Thought monthly bent toward bodily immortality and vital-force health reform — a program its own editor, dead at fifty-five, did not outlive. Generated by Claude from the periodical's digitized text; a thematic reading, not a bibliographic description.
Topics:	New Thought