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From Pat Deveney's database:
Harmony. This was started by Malinda Elliott Cramer (
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| LOC; NYPL microfilm; California State Library; Association of Research Libraries; University of Colorado, Boulder. | |
| Harmony V1 1888-1889 | |
| Harmony V2 1889-1890 | |
| Harmony V3 1890-1891 | |
| Harmony V4 1891-1892 | |
| Harmony V5 1892-1893 | |
| Harmony V6 1892-1894 | |
| Harmony V7 1894-1895 | |
| Harmony V8 1895-1896 | |
| Harmony V10 1897-1898 | |
| Harmony V12 1899-1900 | |
| Harmony V13 1900-1901 | |
| Harmony V14 1901-1902 | |
| Harmony V15 1902-1903 | |
| Harmony V16 1903-1904 | |
| Harmony V17 1903-1904 | |
| Harmony V18 1905-1906 | |
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Read across its 1888–1905 run, Harmony is a journal of DIVINE SCIENCE, and it reads not as self-help but as theology. Where commercial New Thought sells success, Harmony expounds a religion: God as omnipresent Life, Truth, and Good; the “Christ within”; the oneness of the soul with the divine. Its dominant register is devotional and scriptural — prayer, worship, and close biblical exegesis (the Gospel of John, the Logos, “I and my Father are one”) — carried in a vocabulary saturated with “truth,” “divine,” “Spirit,” and “Science.” Healing is prominent, but framed differently than in the marketplace papers: not a purchased outcome but a religious consequence of realizing one's unity with omnipresent God. This makes Harmony the DEVOTIONAL pole of the New Thought family — the strand that became a church rather than a business — and, of the traditions surveyed, the furthest from Spiritualism's phenomena-and-mediumship world. Its God-immanence theology is the sharpest marker separating this wing both from the commercial self-help magazines and from the older Spiritualist press. Generated by Claude from the periodical's digitized text; a thematic reading, not a bibliographic description. |
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