Harbinger of Dawn.
A Review of Occult, Psychical, Spiritual, and Metaphysical Reviews / A Review of Occult and Psychic Reviews, and an Exponent of the Laws of Life in All Worlds of Time and Eternity.
1899--1900 Monthly, irregular
San Francisco, CA.
Editor: Ernest S. Green, editor and publisher.
Succeeds: Herald of Light (1895); Psychical World (1898); Psychological Review (1898)
Succeeded by: Psychical Science Review and Harbinger of Dawn (name changed to this, March 1900)
1/1, August 1899-March 1900.
$1.00 a year ($1.50 bundled with a premium copy of Willis Whitehead's Mystic Thesaurus and a subscription to Star of the Magi), 24 pp.

The advertisement for the journal in World's Advance Thought in August 1899, says that the journal "gives Gives the most extraordinary facts and theories from all journals in these lines from all languages and countries. Reviews the great poets and authors of all ages, showing their psychical natures and spiritual teachings. No commonplace platitudes. Nothing like it ever published." The reference to all languages and countries is instructive because Ernest Sherman Green (1866-1902) had been the reviewer of "Foreign Exchanges" for the Banner of Light and occasionally for the Philosophical Journal and seems to have been competent in most European languages. He had translated (with Harriet V. Lowenfels) Mexican and South American Poems (1892) and his letters appeared in Union Espiritista, Irradiación and other foreign journals, as well as regularly in the Banner of Light, Star of the Magi, the Philosophical Journal, the Adept, Progressive Thinker, etc. He had been a soldier and an editor of the El Cajon Valley News and was a serial starter of unsuccessful journals, beginning with Herald of Light in 1895 in San Diego, which he started at the behest of the spirits, communicated to him on a slate by his medium wife, Emma. There followed Psychical World (1898) and Psychological Review (1898) which, if they actually appeared were only ephemeral. Green was an astrologer and peddled several small treatises as well as a series of lessons on the subject, advertising "guaranteed satisfaction" for his "scientific horoscopes" for $1.00 ($2.00 if typewritten). With vol. 1, no. 6, March 1900, this journal became Psychical Science Review and Harbinger of Dawn which concerned itself primarily with astrology. Green's reputation as an astrologer was diminished somewhat by his bold errors in predicting the result of the 1900 presidential election and foretelling the demise of Admiral Dewey and Mark Hanna.

The journal carried reports of seances attended by Emma Green in 1893 with the medium Henry Allen (postmaster at Summerland, California), analyses of Colonel de Rochas's Exteriorisation de la Motricite, notes on Atlantis, levitation, the "Remarkable Psychical Experiences of Dr. Cyriax" (the bringer of American Spiritualism to Germany and publisher of Spiritualistische Blatter), Eusapia Paladino's seances, frauds, and levitation in St. Petersburg, Flammarion, a UFO (or UAP) seen by Mme Bourdin in the spirit world, premonitions, Alexander Pope and various other poets as a Prophetic Speakers, indexes of interesting articles in foreigh and American journals, and Green's exposition of his thesis that "Mental Science and Christian Science (so called) had their origin in the early history of Modern Spiritualism -- were first given to the world as spirit teachings and first publicly advocated by Spirtualist lecturers," among other topics. The journal included articles by Lucy A. Mallory, Harry Gaze ("How we may Attain Physical Beauty, Health, Wealth and Happiness"), J.S. Loveland, et al., and and a pointed refutation by Green of Charles Dawbarn's theories that spirits retained no memories of their earthly lives except in rare instances. The journal carried advertisements by many of the journals and healers it reviewed in its pages and regular advertisements for Dr. P. Davidson or Loudsville, Georgia ("Cure Yourself at Home. Chronic diseases a speciality. No drugs or poisons employed. Terms very moderate") and Davidson's Morning Star, as well as for Star of the Magi and the Order of the Magi.

Psychical Science Review and Harbinger of Dawn.
Devoted to Scientific Astrology, Psychical Research, Occultism, and Other Studies Tending to the Improvement of the Mental, Moral, and Physical Conditions of Humanity.
1900--1900? Monthly
San Francisco, CA.
Editor: Ernest S. Green.
Succeeds: Herald of Light (1895); Psychical World (1898); Psychological Review (1898); Harbinger of Dawn (1899-1900)
1/6, March 1900.
16 pp., $1.00 a year.

This is the last of the journals started or announced by Ernest S. Green (1866-1902). It continued Harbinger of Dawn, vol. 1, nos. 1-5, August 1899-January 1900), under this new name with a shift in stated emphasis from spiritualism and occultism to astrology, and from theory to practice: "Hereafter we will devote more space to facts and less to theories; more to the practical and less to the ideal." In actuality, the journal continued the style of its predecessor, with small notes on odd events (a young girl whose body gave off electric shocks) and excerpts the obituary of Joseph Rodes Buchanan and from the last interview Elliott Coues gave, on ghosts he had encountered and the projection of his own living spirit, and the like, with occasional articles on the history of astrology and auspicious times for business. A summary of the contents of the May 1900 issue appeared in Banner of Light, May 1900. On Green, see the note on Harbinger of Dawn. In Star of the Magi, July 1900, Green announced that the unexpired subscriptions to his journal would be continued by Star of the Magi, because of the "difference between the cost of publication and the receipts for subscriptions" and because his astrology practice was thriving, leaving little time for editorial duties.

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