Proceedings of the Annual Convention of the Hermetic Brotherhood of Atlantis, Luxor and Elephanta [IAPSOP]

Periodical:	*The Hermetist*

Summary:	From Pat Deveney's database: Annual Convocation of the H.B. of A., L. and E., Proceedings of the [Eighth]. 1894—1901? Annual Chicago, IL, and then San Francisco, CA. Language: English. Editor: W.P. Phelon. 1/1, 1894-1901(?) Annual reports on the Hermetic Brotherhood of Atlantis, Luxor and Elephanta. Prior years convention reports were published in The Hermetist. W. P. Phelon died in San Francisco in December of 1904, and the leadership of the HB ALE passed to Frances (sometimes Francese) Frances Rogers. On Phelon and the brotherhood, see the note under The Hermetist. University of California, Berkeley, microfilm
Other Sources:
Issues:	HB ALE Seventh Annual Convocation 1900
	HB ALE Eighth Annual Convocation 1901
	HB ALE Eighth Annual Convocation 1901 (Version 2)
	HB ALE Ninth Annual Convocation 1902
	HB ALE Ninth Annual Convocation 1902 (Version 2)
	HB ALE Tenth Annual Convocation 1902
	HB ALE Tenth Annual Convocation 1902 (Version 2)
	HB ALE Eleventh Annual Convocation 1902
	HB ALE Eleventh Annual Convocation 1902 (Version 2)
Claude-Generated Themes:	The Proceedings of the Annual Convocation record the yearly gatherings of an American hermetic brotherhood (the 'H.B. of A.L. & E.') that met at its 'Home Temple' in San Francisco around 1900–1904, with affiliated 'Knots' across the Pacific Coast. They are the minute-book of an initiatic order rather than a magazine of phenomena: convocation chants, the Elder Brother's chair, a six-pointed star, and grades of membership fill the pages. The brotherhood blended Western hermetic ritual with a distinctive mind-power discipline it called 'the power of the Silence and Concentration,' and carried an Atlantean and Lemurian mythology. Faint mesmeric ('odic') language survives from an older animal-magnetism vocabulary. The result is a window onto turn-of-the-century Californian esoteric ordering, where hermeticism, ceremonial initiation, and New Thought self-culture were braided together. Generated by Claude from the periodical's digitized text; a thematic reading, not a bibliographic description.
Topics:	Atlantis and Lost Continents