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Periodical: The Irish Theosophist

Summary:   From Pat Deveney's database:

Irish Theosophist, The.
1892-1897
Dublin, Ireland. Language: English.
Editor: D.N. Dunlop. Succeeded by: Internationalist (united with Grail to form)
1/1, October 15, 1892-September 15, 1897. 8 pp.

Published by the Dublin Lodge of the Theosophical Society, the journal was one of the most thoughtful of Theosophical periodicals. Contributions by W.Q. Judge, G.W. Russell ("AE") and W.B. Yeats (under the name "D.E.D.I," "Demon est Deus Inversus"), with studies of Irish folklore and extensive discussion of of the Besant/Judge split in the Theosophical Society. Dunlop later edited Anthroposophy (London) and The Path (London).

Other Sources:University of Texas, Austin.
Issues:Irish Theosophist V1 October 1892 - September 1893 and an alternate version
Irish Theosophist V2 October 1893 - September 1894 and an alternative version
Irish Theosophist V3 October 1894 - September 1895 and and alternate version
Irish Theosophist V4 October 1895 - September 1896 and an alternate version
Irish Theosophist V5 October 1896 - September 1897 and an alternate version
Irish Theosophist V1-V5 1892-1895 Index
Claude-Generated Themes:   The Irish Theosophist was the Dublin voice of the early Theosophical movement, edited by D.N. Dunlop and animated by the circle around George Russell (AE), Charles Johnston, and the young W.B. Yeats. Its pages are dominated by Theosophical ethics and metaphysics—universal brotherhood, karma and reincarnation, and close reading of Blavatsky—rendered in an unusually literary register. A comparative and yogic strand runs through it, reflecting Johnston's translations from the Sanskrit and the group's interest in Eastern paths of self-discipline. Distinctively, it fuses this Theosophy with a Celtic-mystical sensibility that would feed the Irish Literary Revival. Spiritualist and healing vocabulary surfaces only as material to be examined from a Theosophical vantage rather than as the journal's own practice.

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