The Higher Law [IAPSOP]

Periodical:	*The Higher Law*

Summary:	From Pat Deveney's database: Higher Law, The. 1897?-1902? Monthly Boston, MA. Language: English. Editor: H.W. Dresser, editor and manager. 5/2, in the Skidmore Library, Lily Dale, is March 1902, and the year the journal began is derived from that. Contributions by Dresser, Ernest Wood, Lyman C. Newell, et al. Less blatantly commercial than many of its contemporaries, the journal still found place for full-page advertisements for Dresser's books and his Correspondence Course, and for Evelyn Arthur See's The Shrine: A Healing Home and School in the Higher Life, in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Noted in "List of Advance Thought Publications," The New Cycle, March 1900, 159-60., and advertised in The Life, January 1902. Skidmore, Lily Dale (5/2, March 1902).
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Issues:	Higher Law V3 N1 Dec 1900
	Higher Law V5 N2 March 1902
Claude-Generated Themes:	The Higher Law was a New Thought and mental-science magazine written in an unusually philosophical key, its columns given to mind-power, the subconscious, and the demonstration of success and abundance. It treated the mental sciences seriously as philosophy—invoking the 'universal' character of philosophy and the unification of the special sciences—so that its self-improvement teaching sat inside a broader metaphysical argument. Alongside New Thought it engaged the theory of animal magnetism (Reichenbach's odic force and magnetic 'passes') and hypnotic suggestion, treating them as allied routes to mental mastery. Its recurring language of 'control' is the language of self-control, not séance spirit-control, and its 'faculties' are the faculties of consciousness rather than phrenological bumps. It belongs to the intellectual wing of the New Thought movement, where mind-cure met evolutionary and philosophical reflection. Generated by Claude from the periodical's digitized text; a thematic reading, not a bibliographic description.
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