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Periodical: Inspiration (Newhouse)

Summary:  From Pat Deveney's database:

Inspiration.
The Magazine that Promotes Inspired, Christian Living / A Balanced Interpreter of Metaphysical, Mystical, and Esoteric Christianity.
Other titles: Inspiration Magazine / Aspiration
1941-1950 Quarterly
Vista, CA.
Language: English.
Editor: Flower A. Newhouse, Lawrence G. Newhouse.
Succeeds: The Inspiration Newsletter/ (1934-1940)—>Aspiration Magazine (1942-1943)
Succeeded by: Training for Self-Conquest (1946-1951)
10/1, 1941-1950. 32 pp., $1.00 a year.

The volume numbering continues that of The Inspiration Newsletter/ that Newhouse had started in 1934 to keep contact with her students before she and her husband acquired a vast tract of land near San Diego in 1940 for her Questhaven community. Flower Arlene Sechler Newhouse (Mildred "Mimi" Arlene Sechler, 1909-1994) was a nonsectarian Christian (almost certainly from her writings from a Catholic background) mystic and clairvoyant who taught a form of Practical Christian Idealism enlivened by all the Southern California fads of the time. On her, see the note under Training for Self-Conquest. The majority of the content of the journal consisted of Newhouse's lectures, with additional articles by her students and a notable article by Dorothy Day.

Other Sources:
Issues:Inspiration V13 N4 Q4 1946
Inspiration V14 N1 Q1 1947
Inspiration V15 N1 Q1 1948
Inspiration V15 N3 Q3 1948
Claude-Generated Themes:   Inspiration was the magazine of Flower A. Newhouse's esoteric-Christian ministry, the strand of American mysticism that would gather at Questhaven Retreat. Its pages blend the affirmative idiom of New Thought — speaking words of Truth, awakening the Inner Self, drawing on prosperity, abundance and the subconscious, with a friendly nod to the era's inspirational literature — and the initiatic vocabulary of Western esoteric Christianity, invoking a spiritual brotherhood and the language of inner initiation. A Christ-centred, liturgical sensibility runs through it, framing the year's festivals as milestones in 'the journey of our souls' across successive lives. The result is devotional and interior rather than phenomenal: a guide to inner unfoldment, reincarnational progress, and union with the divine Wayshower.

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