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Periodical: La Fleche

Summary:  From Pat Deveney's database:

Fleche, La.
Organ d'Action Magique / Lumière occulte = Lances sociales = Perles litteraires.
1930-1935?
Paris, France. Language: French. Editor: Marie de Naglowska.
1/1, October 15, 1930-January 15, 1935(?) 4-8 pp., 10 francs a year. The journal is perhaps best viewed as an extended advertisement for Naglowska's "Erotisme Initiatique," which was the sexual magic of P.B. Randolph with ritualistic additions of her own. The journal claimed that" it had been created to prepare humanity through new idea-forms for the erection of the Temple of the third Term of the Trinity in which the Masses of Gold would be celebrated." The first issue carried an article by Giulio Evola. On Naglowska, see Sarane Alexandrian, "Maria de Naglowska et le satanisme feminin," in Les Liberateurs de l'Amour (Paris: Editions du Seuil (1977), 185-206. Rene Guenon in Voile d'Isis, January 1932, noted suspect tendencies in the journal!

Other Sources:BNF.
Issues:La Fleche N1 Oct 15 1930
La Fleche N5 Feb 15 1931
La Fleche N6 Mar 15 1931
La Fleche N7 Nov 15 1931
La Fleche N8 Dec 15 1931
La Fleche N9 Jan 15 1932
La Fleche N10 Feb 15 1932
La Fleche N11 Mar 15 1932
La Fleche N12 May 15 1932
La Fleche N13 Jun-Jul 15 1932
La Fleche N14 Oct-Nov 15 1932
La Fleche N15 Feb 15 1933
La Fleche N16 Mar 15 1933
La Fleche N17 Apr 15 1933
La Fleche N18 Dec 15 1933
La Fleche N19 Mar 15 1934
La Fleche N20 Jan 15 1935
Claude-Generated Themes:   La Flèche was a French esoteric-magical review whose contents range across the Western occult field — initiation, kabbalah, talismans, ritual magic — braided with a full astrological practice and a Theosophically colored cosmology of lost continents and root-races. It reads as an organ of practising esotericism rather than detached scholarship, and is most likely Maria de Naglowska's La Flèche, Organe d'Action Magique (Paris, 1930–1935), the vehicle for her sexual-magical "Third Term of the Trinity" doctrine. On that identification the paper's erotic-magical teaching is its distinguishing core, though the sampled front-of-run pages foreground general esotericism, astrology and magical cosmology instead. It belongs firmly to the interwar French current of ritual and hermetic magic.

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