Sun Worshiper and Mazadaznan [IAPSOP]

Periodical:	*The Sun Worshiper \| Mazdaznan*

Summary:	From Pat Deveney's database: Mazdaznan, The. A Magazine of Modern Thought for Mental and Physical Development / Master-Thought or the Thought That Matters / Universal Philosophy, Sociology, Religion, Science, Cultivation of the Higher Senses and the Development of Body, Mind and Soul. Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing. It is for the eyes to behold the sun Other titles: Mazdaznan; Mazdaznan and the Messenger (1913-1914) 1903 Monthly, then quarterly Chicago, IL, then Los Angeles, CA, then Lowell, MA; then Encinitas, CA. Language: English. Publisher: Mazdaznan Publishing Co.; Mazdaznan Association; Mazdaznan Press; The Household of Mazda. Editor: Orlando G. Beeler (1920s). Succeeds: The Sun-Worshiper Succeeded by: Mazdaznan and the Messenger 2/1, January 1903-current. 32-48 pp., $1.00 a year. Volume numbering continues that of The Sun-Worshiper. Called Mazdaznan and the Messenger, 1913-1914. This propagates the teachings of Otoman Zar-Adusht Ha'nish, and was largely written by him. Notable is the original version of what became Anyahita. On him see the note under The Sun-Worshiper. The journal served as the advertising medium for Ha'nish's various diet and beauty concoctions and for his books.
Other Sources:	NYPL microfilm; Association of Research Libraries; University of Illinois; NY Historical Society; California State Library; Stanford University; Harvard University; Universiteitsbibliotheek; Marymount University; etc.
Issues:	Mazdaznan V1 1903
	Mazdaznan V12 1913
	Mazdaznan V13 1914
	Mazdaznan V14 1915
	Mazdaznan V15 1916
	Mazdaznan V16 1917 and an alternate for Jan-Jun 1917
	Mazdaznan V17 1918
	Mazdaznan V18 1919
	Mazdaznan V19 1920
	Mazdaznan V20 1921
	Mazdaznan V21 1922
	Mazdaznan V32 1933
	Mazdaznan V34 N2 Feb 1935
	Mazdaznan V34 N9 Sep 1935
	Mazdaznan V35 N4 Apr 1936
	Mazdaznan V35 N9 Sep 1936
	Mazdaznan V36 N3 Mar 1937
	Mazdaznan V36 N4 Apr 1937
	Mazdaznan V36 N6 Jun 1937
	Mazdaznan V36 N8 Aug 1937
	Mazdaznan V36 N9 Sep 1937
	Mazdaznan V49 N10 1950 Oct
	Mazdaznan V51 N2 1952 Feb
	Mazdaznan V51 N4 1952 Apr
	Mazdaznan V51 N5 1952 May
	Mazdaznan V51 N7 1952 Jul
	Mazdaznan V51 N8 1952 Aug
	Mazdaznan V51 N10 1952 Oct
	Mazdaznan V51 N12 1952 Dec
	Mazdaznan V52 N3 1952 Mar
	Mazdaznan V52 N8 1953 Aug
	Mazdaznan V52 N10 1953 Oct
	Mazdaznan V52 N12 1953 Dec
	Mazdaznan V59 N1 Jan 1960
	Mazdaznan V59 N2 Feb 1960
	Mazdaznan V59 N3 Mar 1960
	Mazdaznan V59 N4 Apr 1960
	Mazdaznan V59 N5 May 1960
	Mazdaznan V59 N6 Jun 1960
	Mazdaznan V59 N8 Aug 1960
	Mazdaznan V59 N9 Sep 1960
	Mazdaznan V59 N10 Oct 1960
	Mazdaznan V59 N11 Nov 1960
	Mazdaznan V59 N12 Dec 1960
Claude-Generated Themes:	Mazdaznan was the magazine of the movement of the same name, founded by Otoman Zar-Adusht Ha'nish, and it takes its own eponymous place in this archive's map. Above all else it is a system of breathing. Rhythmic breath exercises, described in minute detail and tied to a doctrine of contraction and expansion held to underlie all life, fill its pages more densely than any other subject fills any other title here, and they are joined by a strict vegetarian dietetics, instruction in infant care and physical culture, and the promise of continual bodily rejuvenation. Around that practical core the movement built a Zoroastrian frame, borrowing the name of Mazda and an invented Persian lineage for its founder, and a layer of New Thought affirmation and prosperity teaching of the kind common in the American metaphysical market it sold into. Its constant talk of control is breath-control, and its organs are the organs of the body. Mazdaznan sits at the crossroads of alternative health reform, diet reform, invented Zoroastrianism and mind-cure. Generated by Claude from the periodical's digitized text; a thematic reading, not a bibliographic description.
Topics:	Health Reform and Alternative Medicine \| Mazdaznan