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From Pat Deveney's database:
Licht en Waarheid. This was the organ of the "Wie Denkt Overwint" ("The one who thinks, wins") association, and was one of the journals like Modern Mystics, Mensch en Kosmos, the Eranos Yearbooks, etc., that sought to synthesize all religious, spiritualist and occult thought into a rational mode of life in opposition to materialism. See the note under Mensch en Kosmos. Unlike those journals, this was more strongly Christian in tone. Its emblem was the Tao shedding rays of light. It presented excerpts from various Theosophical and occult journals and short articles on and about
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| Licht En Waarheid V17 N455 Feb 9 1907 | |
| Licht En Waarheid V17 N456 Feb 23 1907 | |
| Licht En Waarheid V18 N496 Sep 5 1908 | |
| Licht En Waarheid V33 N877 Apr 13 1923 | |
| Licht En Waarheid V34 N916 Dec 6 1924 | |
| Licht En Waarheid V34 N917 Dec 1924 | |
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Licht en Waarheid (Light and Truth) reads as an eclectic Dutch occult magazine of the early 1920s rather than the organ of any one school. A Theosophically-tinged occultism leads — occultism, Mahatmas, adepts — but shares the pages with a working spiritualism of mediums and séances, a steady diet of astrology, and lighter touches of tarot and kabbalah. It is the kind of survey periodical that treats the whole esoteric field as a single 'light and truth' to be explored. Heavy OCR damage in the surviving scans makes close reading unreliable, so the finer classifications here are offered with a light hand. What is clear is the breadth: this is generalist occultism, Theosophy-inflected, canvassing astrology, spiritism and the divinatory arts together. Generated by Claude from the periodical's digitized text; a thematic reading, not a bibliographic description. |
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| Rosicrucianism | Spiritualism | Theosophy |
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