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Periodical: International Journal of the Tantrick Order

Summary:   From Pat Deveney's database:

International Journal: Tantrik Order
Vira Sadhana / American Edition.
1906?
New York, NY. Language: English.
Publisher: Tantrik Press.

Corporate author: Tantrik Order in America / International Tantrik Order. The only issue known is called vol. 5, no. 1 which is probably the only one since the name of the organization was copyrighted the same year. In some printings this is called "external Issue." This was the journal published by "Oom the Omnipotent" (Dr. Pierre Arnold Bernhard, 1875-1955). On him and his Tantrik Order, see Hugh B. Urban, "The Omnipotent Oom: Tantra and Its Impact on Modern Western Esotericism," Esoterica: journal of Esoteric Studies 3 (2001): 218-39, online at http://esoteric.msu.edu. The volume is rather an extended (almost 200 pages) nosegay of quotations on the virtues of tantra and of phallicism generally and was obviously intended to introduce and promote Bernhard's order.

Other Sources:Free Library of Philadelphia; BL; ZDB: München BSB; Leipzig UB.
Issues::International Journal Of The Tantrick Order V5 N1 1906
Claude-Generated Themes:   The International Journal of the Tantrik Order is the organ of Pierre Bernard's Tantrik Order in America, and it is exactly what its title says: a journal of transplanted Hindu Tantra, quoting the Tantric texts, invoking Siddhas and Sadhakas, and running thick with initiation, adept-lineage and karma. Its heaviest single term, 'breath,' is pranayama — yogic breathing — not the hygiene the classifier reads it as, and its idealization of love and passion in frankly divinized language points to the order's notorious erotic-sacred (Tantric sexual) teaching. It maps primarily as Hindu religion and philosophy on a strong esoteric-initiatory base, with a distinctive sex-magic strand, rather than the Theosophy or health reform the raw signal suggests.

Generated by Claude from the periodical's digitized text; a thematic reading, not a bibliographic description.
Topics:Hermeticism and Western Esotericism | Sexual Elements: Continence, Free Love, Regeneration, and Sex Magic