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From Pat Deveney's database:
Lumen. This was a standard Kardecist journal.
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| Lumen Algoas V1 N9 Oct 1908 | |
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Lumen was the house-organ of the Federação Espírita Alagoana, a Brazilian state Spiritist federation founded in January 1908 and published in Maceió. Its pages are institutional and movement-building — reporting the founding of new Spiritist groups across Alagoas by named confrades — and doctrinally Kardecist: spirit communication, the immortality and moral progress of the soul, and reincarnation across successive lives. A distinctly anticlerical, freethinking tone runs through it, quoting Goethe and 'O Livre Pensador' and needling the Catholic Church, in the reformist idiom that organized Latin-American Spiritism often took at the turn of the century. Occasional esoteric cross-references sit at the edges, but the paper belongs firmly to the Kardecist current, whose mediumistic phenomena it shares with Anglo-American Spiritualism while its reincarnationist doctrine and federative, reformist mission set it apart. Generated by Claude from the periodical's digitized text; a thematic reading, not a bibliographic description. |
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