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Periodical: The Library of Health

Summary:  From Pat Deveney's database:

Library of Health, The.
1897-1900 Monthly
New York, NY. Language: English.
Publisher: Alliance Publishing Company. Editor: Charles Brodie Patterson.
1/1, May 1897-April 1900. 16 pp., $1.00 a year. The journal was a platitudinous series of ruminations by Patterson, on "Hidden Mysteries," "Power of the Will," "Spiritual Growth," etc. The journal’s prospectus called it "a serial publication devoted to advanced thought, giving special attention to questions bearing upon individual happiness, harmony, and health. An able exponent of the metaphysical principles of being." Offered with the Temple, May 1897, for the bargain price of $1.50 a year for both. At the time this was being published, Patterson was also editing Mind.

Other Sources:NYPL.
Issues:Library of Health V1 1897-1898
Library of Health V3 1899-1900
Claude-Generated Themes:   The Library of Health was a New Thought mental-healing monthly published between 1897 and 1900 by Charles Brodie Patterson's Alliance Publishing Company in New York, a sister to his better-known journal Mind. Its programme is mind-cure therapeutics: illness traced to mental causes and met with right thinking, affirmation and what the magazine calls the giving of mental treatment, wrapped in the hygienic framing its title promises. The doctrine is stated as a moral metaphysic as much as a technique — that there is no personal self to be gratified at the expense of other selves, that the good of one is the good of all, and that thoughts of kindness, love, power and wholeness will enter the soul and stay there. Like most New Thought writing of its generation it reads the gospels for support, arguing that the mission was to the outcasts rather than to those who counted themselves chosen. The word control recurs constantly in its pages and means self-mastery throughout; there is no seance room here.

Generated by Claude from the periodical's digitized text; a thematic reading, not a bibliographic description.
Topics:Health Reform and Alternative Medicine | Mind Cure and Mental Science | New Thought