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Periodical: Light and Life

Summary:  Light and Life.
An Unsectarian Magazine of Mystic Literature.
1886 Monthly
Glasgow, Scotland. Language: English.
Publisher: Light and Life.
1/1, marked “new series,” August 1886. 16 pp, 2s./issue, $1.00 to US.

The journal contains occasional references to spiritualism and occultism (including regular notices of R.F. Fryar's offerings and articles by Thomas Moore Johnson, a Platonist and member of the H.B. of L.), but was devoted mainly to studies of Boehme, Pordage, Madame Guyon, et al., and to alchemy, Quakerism, etc. Hamilton College, Harvard, U of Glasgow.

Other Sources:
Issues:Light And Life NS N1 Aug 2 1886
Light And Life NS N2 Sep 4 1886
Light And Life NS N3 Oct 2 1886
Light And Life NS N4 Nov 1 1886
Light And Life NS N5 Dec 1 1886
Light And Life NS N6 Jan 1887
Claude-Generated Themes:   Light and Life (Glasgow, New Series 1886) was 'An Unsectarian Magazine of Mystic Literature,' a monthly given over to the Christian-theosophic and Western-esoteric canon. Its numbers featured Jacob Boehme, Karl von Eckartshausen's 'The Interior Eye,' Thomas Erskine, and Bronson Alcott, tracing an interior mysticism it was happy to follow back through Swedenborg's discrete degrees to Plato 'and perhaps beyond.' The 'theosophy,' 'alchemy,' and 'adept' vocabulary that dominates its keyword profile belongs to this Boehmean and Hermetic literature rather than to Blavatsky's Theosophical Society, and the magazine is best placed among the late-Victorian organs of comparative Christian mysticism and Western esotericism.

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