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Periodical: The Interpreter

Summary:  From Pat Deveney's database:

Interpreter, The.
Issued Monthly in the Divine Year and Devoted to "The Final Things" / A Monthly Periodical of 40 Pages Devoted to the Interpretation of The Sacred Writings of the World: Visions, Dreams and Dream Stories; the Restoration and Consummation of All Things.
Behold, He cometh with Clouds
1901-1905? Bimonthly, monthly
Chicago, IL; Williams Bay, WI.
Language: English.
Editor: George Chainey, editor and conductor.
1/1, March-April 1901. $1.00 a year. 40 pp.

Advertised in Weltmer's Magazine, 1901, and in The Life, 1902, 1904, and 1905: "Issued monthly in the Divine Year and devoted to 'The Final Things.' Exponent of the 'School of Interpretation.'" "Devoted to the interpretation of the Sacred Writings of the world: Visions, Dreams and Dream Stories: the Restoration and Consummation of All Things." The school was also called The Mahanaim School of Interpretation which Chainey ran in Chicago and then California as a mail-order venture coupled with personal lessons and Sunday worship services. The advertisements carried in the journal ran from Weltmer, to J.F.C. Grumbine, Evelyn Arthur See, S.C. Greathead (exponent of Levi Dowling), H.E. Butler to Peter Davidson's The Morning Star. On Chainey, see the note under The Infidel Pulpit and The Gnostic. University of California Santa Barbara.

Other Sources:
Issues:Interpreter V1 N1 Mar-apr 1901
Interpreter V2 N2 Apr-may 1902
Claude-Generated Themes:   The Interpreter was the organ of an early-1900s Chicago 'School of Interpretation' that treated the Bible as a coded esoteric text to be unlocked rather than merely preached. Its public sessions and printed studies moved through Isaiah, Acts, the Song of Songs, Jonah and John, but read them through an occult lens — 'illumination,' the 'Gates of Life,' initiation and 'secret doctrine' — and set Hebrew scripture alongside Vedic hymns and Greek myth in a comparative, perennialist spirit. Scattered through it are the era's other esoteric enthusiasms: the odic force of Reichenbach, yogic breath, and zodiacal astrology. It belongs less to devotional Christianity than to the turn-of-the-century occult-philosophy magazines that dressed Western esotericism in scriptural clothing.

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