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From Pat Deveney's database:
Lux. In
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| Lux V6 1893 | |
| Lux V8 1895 | |
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Lux was a Roman bollettino of the late 1880s serving Giovanni Hoffmann's Accademia per gli Studi Spiritici e Magnetici — the twin remit, spiritist and magnetic, that shapes its whole content. Its reports document materialization séances with tangible, temporary phantom-forms and multiple unseen hands, naming the sitters, alongside a serious interest in animal magnetism and the Reichenbachian 'Od.' A Theosophical adjacency (Blavatsky, adepts, karma) marks the porous boundary between spiritism and the new Blavatskyan currents in 1880s Rome. It belongs to the phenomenal, demonstration-minded wing of Italian spiritualism rather than to ceremonial magic or mental-science. (Sampled read of a small corpus.) Generated by Claude from the periodical's digitized text; a thematic reading, not a bibliographic description. |
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| Mediumship and Channelling | Psychical Research and Parapsychology | Spiritualism | Theosophy |
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