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Periodical: Luz y Ciencia

Summary: From Pat Deveney's database:

Luz y Ciencia.
Organo de la Catedra Provincial "Luz y Ciencia" de San Antonio, Texas, de la Escuela Magnético-Espiritual de la Comuna Universal.
1931 Monthly
San Antonio, TX.
Language: Spanish.
Editor: Antonio Campos Flores.
1/1, September 1931.
One silver Mexican peso or 50 cents US.

The journal bragged that it was the "cheapest and the highest circulation journal in Mexico and the United States." It listed branches (”catedras ciudadanas”) of the EMECU in Texas, including "Luz y Verdad," the "primera seccion intelectual" in Texas, founded in 1923 by Jose M. Mora, who had started La Ofrenda in Laredo in 1918 and contributed to Confraternal in Monterrey. This was the organ of the San Antonio branch (catedral) of the Escuela Magnetico-Espiritual de la Comuna Universal of Joaquin Trincado. On him and his organization see the note under Balanza. EMECU archives at Univeristy of Texas, Austin.

Other Sources:
Issues:Luz y Ciencia V1 N1 Sep 1931
Claude-Generated Themes:   Luz y Ciencia was a Spanish-language Kardecist Spiritist magazine of the San Antonio borderlands, published under the direction of a founder who ran an affiliated 'Escuela' — a spiritist study circle in the Mexican-diaspora mold. Its pages join the séance to a program of moral and social regeneration: they denounce the 'insatiable thirst for gold,' diagnose a society 'organized on false foundations,' and sing of a universal human brotherhood of 'diamantine links' under one Father-Creator. Traces of od-fluid and imponderable-agent language mark the magnetism that Latin spiritism carried inside it. It is a periodical of doctrine and uplift as much as of phenomena, characteristic of the reformist wing of Hispanophone espiritismo.

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