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From Pat Deveney's database:
Immortality and Survival.
1930--1932? Monthly
London, England. Language: English.
Publisher: Cathedral Publishing Company. Succeeded by: Survival Magazine (incorporated into, about 1932)
1/1, January 1930. Sixpence an issue, 7s. a year, 48 pp. This journal was printed by J.W. Potter at the Erlestoke Press, Erlestoke, Wilts., on whom see the note under The Christian Spiritualist (Erlestoke), and bears the mark of his style and circle of contributors -- it carried a full-page advertisement for his St. Luke's Church of the Spiritual Evangel of Jesus the Christ in London. It was incorporated into Survival Magazine, published by Clifford Potter, J.W.'s son, about the end of 1932, despite its proclamation that "each month it carries more paid advertising space than any other Spiritualist journal." The journal featured notices of Mrs. Meurig Morris and her addresses around Britain to thousands of people, and attributed her success to "No Free Admission": All profits were to be divided between the sponsoring spiritualist society and Morris. The journal contained articles by Marjorie Bowen, W.H. Evans, Hannen Swaffer, Arthur Conan Doyle, Oliver Lodge, Lady Conan Doyle, G. Vale Owen, Mrs. Meurig Morris, Estelle Stead, and others, short fiction by Madge Donohoe, C.W. Potter, et al., and testimonials on spiritualism by various prominent society figures. Frequent and prominent advertisements by AMORC ("Perpetuating the original and only Rosicrucian Fraternity"), and the usual advertisements for "Reading of your Horosope and coming events in the near future" (Pauline Desti, F.B.I.M.S., Birmingham), "Psychosensics is the Science of Psychic Unfoldment" ("See Clairvoyantly, Hear Clairaudiently, Feel Psychometrically"). Triangle Cash Herbal Stores, etc.
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Immortality and Survival is, as its title promises, a paper devoted to the survival of the personality beyond death, argued largely through the evidence of Spiritualist mediumship. Its columns turn on mediums, seances, clairvoyance and the occasional ectoplasmic phenomenon, all marshaled to affirm continued life in the spirit world. A scatter of esoteric vocabulary — 'rosicrucian', 'brotherhood', 'masonic' — appears in the sample, but in the manner of advertising and cross-reference rather than any engagement with the Christian-Rosenkreutz current, and is best read as a minor borrowing. The paper sits at the meeting point of survival research and organized Spiritualism, cross-listing with physical-mediumship phenomena.
Generated by Claude from the periodical's digitized text; a thematic reading, not a bibliographic description.
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