Luz del Porvenir, La.
Semanario Espiritista.
Other titles: Lucifer, La Luz de la Verdad
1879--1903 Weekly, then quarterly
Barcelona (Gracia), Spain.
Language: Spanish.
Editor: Juan Torrents, Luis Llach, Amalia Domingo y Soler.
Publisher: Gracia: Impresa de Cayetano Campins; Juan Torrent, Luis Llach; Cosmos.
Succeeds: Lucifer / La Luz de la Verdad (absorbed); La Union
Succeeded by: El Eco de la Verdad (1879); La Union Espiritista (merged May 1900 to form Luz y Union); Revista Espiritista-->Revista de Estudios Psicologicos (merged 1902 to form Luz y Union: Revista de Estudios Psicologicos); Los albores de la verdad (1917). Luz del Porvenir (revived 1913 under original title)
1/1, May 22, 1879-1903.
8 pp., 4 pesetas a year, 8 pesetas beyond Barcelona.

After the first issue of June, the journal was suspended until December 11, 1879, and during the interval it was published as El Eco de la Verdad (26 issues). Luis Llach, the president of the Centro Espirita Barcelones "La Buena Nueva," conceived the idea of a spiritualist journal written and edited by women and La Luz del Porvenir was the result. Amalia Domingo y Soler (1835-1909), who was chosen to manage (and later own) the journal, was a poet, feminist, reformer and author of real distinction and oversaw the journal for almost 20 years, all the while publishing books and innumerable articles on spiritualism and her controversies with the Catholic Church. See "Amalia Domingo Soler," online at http://www.espiritismo.cc. She also published the free-thought La Conciencia Libre (Barcelona). The journal was suspended again during the first eight months of 1899, and ceased in May of the next year. The journal is a prime examplar of contemporary Spanish Kardecist spiritism, with regular articles on the secular virtues of the selfless developing soul, and exhortations on education ("¡Guerra a la igorantia!"), charity, free thought, feminism ("Los Grandes Triunfos de la Mujer"), opposition to "obscurantism" (the Catholic Church--"The dogmatism of yesterday is the obscurantism of today"), and the like. Although Domingo y Soler wrote a large part of the journal it also attracted a wide range of like-minded women (and the occasional man) internationally.

On the journal generally, see Oscar M. Garcia Rodriguez, Historia del Periodismo Espiritista en Espana; De Kardec Hasta la Guerra Civil Espanola (2006), online at http://www.ameporto.org. BNF; Biblioteca Nacional de Espana; Hemeroteca Municipal de Madrid.

Luz del Porvenir.
Mensuario Ecléctico de Propaganda Espirita y Filosofica (1914) / Revista Popular de Esutdios Psicologicos y Ciencias (1926) / Revista Popular de Estudios Psicologicos y Ciencias Afines (1930) / Organo del Centro La Buena Nueva / organo de la Federacion Espiritista Espanola.
1913--1936 Weekly, then monthly
Barcelona (Gracia), Spain.
Language: Spanish.
Editor: Santiago Arnando; Salvador Vendrell Xucla; Juan Torras Serra; F. Corchon; B. Boorques; Salvador Vendrell Xucia. Succeeds: Luz del Porvenir (1879)
1/1, January 1913-October 1936.
32-36 pp. (varies), 4-30 pesetas in Barcelona, 5 in the remainder of Spain and in Portugal, and 6 outside the peninsula.

This was a re-animation of the earlier journal of the same name founded by Amalia Domingo Soler (1835-1909) in 1879, but displayed the changes that had overtaken the spiritualist movement in the interval with articles on psychic force, Theosophy, orientalism, and the like. The final issues in 1936 called upon spiritualists to support the republic. Noted in Oscar M. Garcia Rodriguez, Historia del Periodismo Espiritista en Espana; De Kardec Hasta la Guerra Civil Espanola (2006), online at http://www.ameporto.org/pt/entrevistas/oscar.pdf. Archivo General de la Guerra Civil Espanola.

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