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Periodical: Herald of Light

Summary: From Pat Deveney's journal database:

Herald of Light, The.
1857-1861 Monthly
New York, NY. Language: English.
Publisher: New Church Publishing Association. Editor: Thomas Lake Harris and Rev. M.C.C. Church.
1/1, May 1857-August 1, 1861. $1.50, then $2.00 a year. New Church, Swedenborgian. When Harris left for London in May 1859, Marius C. C. Church carried on the paper alone.

Other Sources:Columbia U; Princeton Theological Seminary; Yale U; NYS Library; Amherst College; etc.
Issues:Herald Of Light V2 N1 May 1858
Herald Of Light V2 N2 June 1858
Herald Of Light V2 N3 July 1858
Herald Of Light V2 N4 August 1858
Herald Of Light V2 N5 September 1858
Herald Of Light V2 N6 October 1858
Herald Of Light V2 N7 November 1858
Herald Of Light V2 N8 December 1858
Herald Of Light V2 N9 January 1859
Herald Of Light V2 N10 February 1859
Herald Of Light V2 N11 March 1859
Herald Of Light V2 N12 April 1859
Herald Of Light V3 N1 May 1859
Herald Of Light V3 N2 June 1859
Herald Of Light V3 N3 July 1859
Herald Of Light V3 N4 August 1859
Herald Of Light V3 N5 September 1859
Herald Of Light V3 N6 October 1859
Herald Of Light V4 N1 November 1859
Herald Of Light V4 N2 December 1859
Herald Of Light V4 N3 January 1860
Herald Of Light V4 N4 February 1860
Herald Of Light V4 N5 March 1860
Herald Of Light V4 N6 April 1860
Claude-Generated Themes:   The Herald of Light (1857–1861) was the monthly voice of Thomas Lake Harris and his New Church Publishing Association, a heterodox Swedenborgian organ steeped in the doctrine of conjugial love and the states of the soul after death. Its pages move between Swedenborg's teaching on the spiritual world and Harris's own visionary, trance-uttered verse, framing the New Church as the seed of a regenerated social order. Its most distinctive thread is Harris's doctrine of Divine Respiration — an internal 'open breathing' that recurs throughout — later carried into his Brotherhood of the New Life communities. Spiritualist in idiom but Swedenborgian in structure, it belongs to the mystical wing of the New Church rather than to evidential mediumship, and its communitarian aspirations point ahead to Harris's utopian colonies.

Generated by Claude from the periodical's digitized text; a thematic reading, not a bibliographic description.
Topics:Swedenborgian and New Church