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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.
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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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