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Periodical: Luz (Tampico)

Summary: From Pat Deveney's database:

Luz, La.
Revista Mensual de Arte, Ciencia y Literatura.
1926 Monthly
Tampico, Tamaulipas, Mexico.
Language: Spanish.
Editor: A.A. Camara, directio; A.E. Fonseca, administrador.
1/1, 1926.
30 centavos an issue, 32 pp.

This was a magazine of general interest, heavily supported with advertisements for the Tamaulipas lottery, cigarettes, beer, hotels, lawyers, restaurants, clothing, General Electric motors, etc. It included sections on commerce, sports, society, poetry, crossword puzzles, pets, etc., but also regularly carried under the caption "Del Campo Eclectico" an article on "Un Fragmento de Filososofia Esoterica del Antiguo Egipto": La identidad del 'KA' con el cuerpo eterico," and a "Seccion Teosofica" with news of the society, and a "Seccion Masonica." and a catch-all philosophy page. It also carried an advertisement for Azteca's-News of Tampico ("Fume Ud. los Buenos Puros") which is listed in Hartman's Who's Who 1925.

Other Sources:
Issues:Lux V1 N8 Sep 20 1926
Claude-Generated Themes:   Luz was a Spanish-language review published at Tampico on Mexico's Gulf coast, one of the many spiritist papers that took 'Light' as their masthead. Its sampled pages mix Kardecist spiritist matter — mediumship and the moral doctrine of the spirits — with an occult, faintly Theosophical cosmology of the 'etheric body' and a secret priesthood guarding memory, alongside the civic and social life of a provincial spiritist centre: patriotic oratory invoking the heroes of independence and columns of society notes. It exemplifies the blended spiritist-occult culture of early-twentieth-century Mexican provincial associations, where Espiritismo, Theosophy and civic sociability overlapped. The surviving sample is small, so its precise doctrinal centre of gravity remains provisional.

Generated by Claude from the periodical's digitized text; a thematic reading, not a bibliographic description.
Topics:Freemasonry and Masonic Orders