1/1, May 10, 1879-62/6, June 1934.

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Hector Durville (1849-1923) intended this as the successor of the homonymous journal founded by Jules Dupotet (1845-1861), and called it a "second series." He first started Revue Magnetique (April 1878-April 1879) and renamed it the Journal du Magnetisme. The masthead listed H.P. Blavatsky, Charles Fauvety, Stanislaus de Guaita, Stainton Moses, and other notables as founding members of the Societe Magnetique de France, and named Blavatsky as a correspondent, along with Abbe Roca, E.D. Babbitt, W. Crookes, Max Dessoir, J. Peladan, Pietro d'Amico, Rene Caillie, and many others. Among its Honorary Correspondents were Dr. A. de Das [Albert de Das, Comte de Sarak], director of "La Hipnoterapia" of Madrid, and G. Demarest, fils. Over its lifetime, the journal increasingly moved from clinical magnetism to accommodation with current spiritist and especially occult and magical ideas of vital and psychic forces and personal magnetism that had first come to the fore initially in the Baron Dupotet's writings and were exemplified in Henri and Gaston Durville's Journal du Magnetisme et du Psychisme Experimental (1910-1911) that was merged into this journal in October 1911. On the Durvilles and their various journals, see the note under Eudia. Listed in Notes and Queries, January 1900, and in Edouard Blitz's Social Science and Freemasonry, 1896, as one of the official organs of Papus's Union Idealiste Universelle.