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Periodical: El Mensaje

Summary:  From Pat Deveney's database:

Mensaje, El.
Organo oficial de la Sociedad Teosofica en Uruguay / Revista Uruguana de Teosofía.
Antes que los ojos puedan ver deben ser incapaces de llorar
Other titles: Revista de la Federacion Teosofica del Uruguay
1925--1926? Monthly
Montevideo, Uruguay.
Language: Spanish.
Editor: Mario Radarelli Panzacchi; "Dr. Jehel, S.I.".
Succeeds: Revista de la Federacion Teosofica del Uruguay
1/1, October 1925-December 1926(?)
16-24 pp., free to members of the Theosophical Society in Uruguay, and then one gold Uruguayan peso a year.

The journal began life as Revista de la Federacion Teosofica del Uruguay in 1924 and then become El Mensaje. This was a standard Adyar Theosophical magazine. "Jehel" (Leo Alvarez Costet de Mascheville) is said to have been active in editing the journal. On him and his activities in Martinism, see the note under Iniciacion. Mario Radarelli Panzacchi later contributed to Lumen de Lumine, and Hector and Alberto Cassinelli who graced the journal’s masthead were part of the influential family that supported Accion Femenina and Alborea.

Other Sources:
Issues:Mensaje V1 N1 Aug 1925
Mensaje V1 N2 Sep 1925
Mensaje V1 N4 Nov 1925
Mensaje V2 N6 Jan 1926
Mensaje V2 N7 Feb 1926
Mensaje V2 N8-9 Mar-apr 1926
Mensaje V2 N10 May 1926
Mensaje V2 N13 Jul 1926
Mensaje V2 N14-15 Aug-sep 1926
Mensaje V2 N16 Oct 1926
Mensaje V2 N17 Nov 1926
Mensaje V2 N18 Dec 1926
Claude-Generated Themes:   Mensaje was a Theosophical magazine published in Montevideo in the mid-1920s, at the height of the Besant–Leadbeater era of the Adyar Society. Its articles teach the characteristic cosmology of that moment — the Masters at work through their pupils, nature-spirits, and a Solar Deity from which all life emanates and to which it returns — in a devotional, self-purifying register. A vegetarian and dietary-reform strand reflects the Theosophical lifestyle culture of the day. Spiritualist vocabulary appears, but references to 'control' read as self-mastery rather than mediumistic spirit-control, keeping the periodical within Theosophy rather than Spiritism. It documents the flourishing of organized Theosophy in 1920s Uruguay.

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