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| Periodical: | Herald of Light (Merrell-Wolffs) |
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From Pat Deveney's database:
Herald of Light. The surviving number of the journal is vol. 6, no. 11, November 1924, and the entry in the archives of the Merrell-Wolff Library Archives lists vols. 3-7, 1920-1923, as being edited by Sarah Merrell-Wolff and Edgar Conrow, which indicates that the journal was being published while Merrell-Wolff was connected with the Temple of the People in Halcyon, California, which he and Sarah and Conrow left in 1922. $1.00 a year, 16 pp. Franklin Merrell-Wolff (Franklin Fowler Wolff, 1887-1959) was a college-educated advaita mystic who devoted his life to attaining realization, leading to his "Fundamental Realization" of "Consciousness-without-an-Object" in 1936. He had joined the Temple of the People in 1912 while a student at Stanford and then lived at its compound at Halcyon, California, from 1915 to 1922 where he became a Temple Priest and met his future wife, Sarah (1876-1959), both of whom received channeled messages from "Blue Star" (Francia LaDue) and after her death in 1922 from the Master Hilarion himself, who said that Sarah was to succeed LaDue as head of the Temple. This conflicted with the expectations of Dr. William Dower, LaDue's husband, who wanted that honor for himself, and led to Dower's condemnation of their "false messages" and to the couple's resignation and joining the United Lodge of Theosophists. In 1928, Merrill-Wolf and Sarah founded the Assembly of Man, an ashram near Mount Whitney. The advertisement for the journal in the Equitist, September 1921, says that it "stands for fundamental principles in all its aspects and aims to understandably correlate all the facts of the Diamond of Truth. It treats of Finance, Economics, Co-operation, Occult Science, Symbology, the Religion of Regeneration or Spiritual Alchemy." The journal believed in and advocated the essential unity of all forms of spiritual development and called for their unification, centered on the tenet that there was a "Central Fraternity" of "Illuminated Souls" who were the Gardeners of the Garden of Humanity. The journal was to stand "for the unification of all advanced movements and lines of thought. This purpose it seeks to accomplish through three lines of effort: First, by providing space in which different movements and organizations will contribute articles and will formulate their own points of view in the domains of Religion, Science, Philosophy and Sociology; second, through the "Open Forum"-- a Department opening the door to impersonal discussion of points of difference in the interpretation of Truth, thereby affording better opportunity for a just valuation of those differences; third, by the General Department, for which the editors stand responsible, in which the policy is that of emphasizing the principles of Unification and Synthesis, thereby seeking to bring into the foreground the common basis on which different bodies may stand united." To further these ends, the journal carried full-page presentations of movements like the Sufi Movement of Geneva, the United Lodge of Theosophists, and other groups, and also published continuing messages from Hilarion. University of California, Santa Barbara; San Diego State University; Harvard University.
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| Issues: | Herald Of Light V6 N11 Nov 1924 |
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