International Association for the Preservation of Spiritualist and Occult Periodicals

   

Periodical: Lux (Rome)

Summary:  From Pat Deveney's database:

Lux.
Bollettino dell' Accademia Internazionale per gli Studi Spiritici e Magnetici / Bollettino dell' Accademia Internazionale per gli Studi Psicologici.
1888–1896 Monthly
Rome, Italy. Language: Italian. Editor: Giovanni Hoffman . Succeeded by: Nova Lux
1/1, January 1888-December 1896. 15 francs a year.

In July 1892, the subtitle changed significantly to Bollettino dell' Accademia Internazionale per gli Studi Psicologici, to reflect the increasing change of emphasis from spiritualism to parapsychology. The journal is listed as adhering to the 1892 Spanish-American spiritualist congress convened by Fraternidad Universal in Madrid to honor the discovery of America. Noted in the exchanges of L'Initiation, April 1889. The same journal in February 1892 notes that the editor, Giovanni Hoffman, was a member of the Ordre Martiniste. The journal contained articles by A. Pioda, the founder of "Fraternitas" (noted in the exchanges of El Sol, 1891) and a notable article in 1891 on examinations of Eusapia Palladino by Cesare Lombroso. The journal was succeeded in 1897 by Nova Lux, which was more Theosophical in its approach.

Other Sources:LOC microfilm.
Issues:Lux V6 1893
Lux V8 1895
Claude-Generated Themes:   Lux was a Roman bulletin of the late 1880s, the organ of Giovanni Hoffmann's Accademia per gli Studi Spiritici e Magnetici — an academy whose name claims two subjects, the spiritist and the magnetic. On the evidence of the surviving issues the spiritist half dominates, and it is spiritism of a specific school: the pages teach the perispirit, Allan Kardec's own doctrine of the semi-material envelope of the soul, and name Kardec himself. Around that doctrine sit the reports the Italian movement was known for, materialization seances described with their sitters named and their tangible, temporary forms and unseen hands recorded in detail. A second thread runs to the medical psychology of the moment, with Charcot and Bernheim cited on suggestion and trance, and a third to the new esoteric currents, where Blavatsky and Theosophy appear as neighbours rather than as teachers. The academy's magnetic half — Reichenbach's odic force, the mesmeric tradition — is present in these issues only faintly, more a statement of the founders' interests than a description of what the bulletin printed.

Generated by Claude from the periodical's digitized text; a thematic reading, not a bibliographic description.
Topics:Mediumship and Channelling | Psychical Research and Parapsychology | Spiritualism | Theosophy