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From Pat Deveney's database:
Courriere, La.
Dedicated to the Fatherhood of God and the Brotherhood of Man.
Other titles: La Courriere Magazine / The Messenger
1907-1915 Monthly
Oakland then San Francisco, CA. Language: English.
Editor: Dr. Nellie Craib Beighle. Succeeded by: The Messenger (San Francisco)
1/1, September 1907. $1.50 a year. After several issues and an eight-year hiatus, the journal was begun again in June 1915, with the numbering restarted at 1/1, and with the issue of September 1915 (possibly the last) it became The Messenger. 100 pp., $1.50/year. Helen ("Nellie") Craib Beighle (1853-1916) was a medium and an electric physician. She wrote a book of Psychic Poems (1907) and The Book of Knowledge: Psychic Facts (1903), and was honored with a glowing tribute by J.J. Owen: "Our Little Doctor" Helen Craib-Beighle and the Magic Power of Her Hands (1893). See also J.M. Peebles, "The Bodily Departure and Spiritual Ascent of Dr. Nellie Beighle," Spiritual Alliance Weekly (March 25, 1916), who testified "as a regular physician and officially registered in Los Angeles" that Beighle's cures and diagnoses were miraculous. Like many other mediums of the time, Beighle easily made the transition to New Thought and ran a School for Enlightenment in San Francisco. University of California, Berkeley; California State Library; California Historical Society.
Messenger, The.
Dedicated to the Fatherhood of God and the Brotherhood of Man.
1915—1915
San Francisco, CA. Editor: Dr. Nellie Craib Beighle.
Succeeds: La Courriere—>La Courriere Magazine
September 1915. Succeeded La Courriere and its continuation La Courriere Magazine. University of California; NSAC, Lily Dale.
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La Courrière, on the sampled evidence, is an English-language Spiritualist courier whose pages turn on the seance room — mediums, materializations, the spirit world and communion with the dead — bound tightly to a Christian-devotional register of Bible stories, intercessory prayer and guardian 'beneficent guides.' It warns readers that impurity and 'inharmony' invite 'malicious and depraved spirits,' pairing moral counsel with spirit-communication. A faint New Thought vocabulary of demonstration and success drifts across the top, but the paper's center of gravity is devotional Christian Spiritualism rather than occult or mesmeric science.
Generated by Claude from the periodical's digitized text; a thematic reading, not a bibliographic description.
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