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Periodical: Luz Sideral

Summary: From Pat Deveney's database:

Luz Sideral.
Folleto bimestral pedagogico e instructivo de la Escuela Universal Cientifico Filosofico Racional.
1952--1965 Semimonthly
San Andres Tuxtla, Veracruz, Mexico.
Language: Spanish.
Editor: Dr. Jose C. Aragon, director; Jose A. Ceja Romero, administrator.
1/1, 1952-1965.
$6.00 a year, 36 pp.

This was the organ of an unknown Escuela Universal Cientifico Filosofico Racional. That may have been an offshoot of the Escuela Magnetico-Espiritual de la Comuna Universal of Joaquin Trincado, on which see the note under La Balanza, since the director of this journal, Aragon had been one of the principal Celadores of the EMECU in the 1930s, and Ceja had been a member. HNDM; EMECU archives, University of Texas, Austin; Hemeroteca Nacional de Mexico.

Other Sources:
Issues:Luz Sideral V2 N1 Aug 1 1952
Claude-Generated Themes:   Luz Sideral ('Sidereal Light') is a small Spanish-language Kardecist Spiritist magazine. Notwithstanding its astral title, its concern is not the stars but the spirit: the soul as an entity that incarnates in and departs from the body, communicates through mediums after death, and returns across successive lives. A representative passage records a discarnate communicator struggling to recall an earlier birth 'in that era' in Valencia, France — the reincarnation-memory motif central to Allan Kardec's doctrine. Alongside this runs a moral idealism that prizes the 'light that wisdom gives' over material fortune. It belongs to the Latin-world spiritist press rather than to Anglo-American spiritualism, with which it nonetheless shares the séance and the medium.

Generated by Claude from the periodical's digitized text; a thematic reading, not a bibliographic description.
Topics:Occult Science and Esoteric Philosophy | Spiritism (Kardecist)