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Periodical: Magnetiseur Spiritualiste

Summary:  From Pat Deveney's database:

Magnetiseur Spiritualiste, Le.
Journal Redige par les Membres de la Societe des Magnetiseurs Spiritualistes de Paris.
1849-1851 Monthly
Paris, France. Language: French. Publisher: Societe des Magnetiseurs Spiritualistes de Paris chez M. Alp. Cahagnet; Germer Bailliere. Editor: Louis Alphonse Cahagnet.
1/1, 1849-October 1851.

Cahagnet discusses the founding of this journal in his The Celestial Telegraph: Or, Secrets of the Life to Come, Revealed through Magnetism (New York: J.S. Redfield, Clinton Hall, 1851), 225-226. It was the organ of his Societe des Magnetiseurs Spiritualistes de Paris which featured the lucid revelations of Adele Maginot about the spirits of the dead and their universe—which bore a marked Swedenborgian tinge—as well as studies of magnetic healing, dreams, homeopathy, apparitions, magic mirrors, immortality of the soul, ecstasy, somnambulism, etc. The title of the journal marks an early example of the process in which "spiritualism" and its cognates changed from a generic emphasis on the spiritual nature of man to the a specific focus on communication with the dead. Crabtree 577; National Library of Medicine; BNF.

Other Sources:
Issues:Magnetiseur Spiritualiste V1 1849-1850
Magnetiseur Spiritualiste V2 1851-1852 Partial
Claude-Generated Themes:   Read across 1849–1851, Le Magnétiseur Spiritualiste is the hinge of the whole story made into a masthead — animal magnetism turning into spiritism before Kardec codified it. Its pages hold the magnetizer and his fluid alongside a surging interest in esprits and the séance: the somnambulic trance reread as a doorway to the spirit-world. It is a priceless witness to the exact moment the mesmeric tradition gave birth to French Spiritualism, the two doctrines still fused in a single title.

Generated by Claude from the periodical's digitized text; a thematic reading, not a bibliographic description.
Topics:Health Reform and Alternative Medicine | Mesmerism and Animal Magnetism | Spiritism (Kardecist) | Spiritualism | Survival After Death and Immortality | Swedenborgian and New Church