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Periodical: The Mystic Key

Summary:  From Pat Deveney's database:

Mystic Key, The.
A Monthly Magazine of Personal Power, Spiritual and Psychic Unfoldment.
Other titles: Super-Psychology
1928—1930 Monthly
Rochester, NY. Language: English.
Publisher: Erwood Publishing Co.. Editor: Will J. (William Joseph) Erwood; Florence Russell, associate editor; Francis J. Flanagan.
Succeeds: Radiant-->The Radiant Life-->Super-Psychology
1/1, September 1928-August 1930. 34 pp., $1.50 a year.M

The journal offered "Health Culture, Mental Science, Occultism, Mediumship, Oriental Mysticism and the Teachings of the Masters." Erwood (1874-1948) was an essayist, poet and spiritualist who earlier had edited The Radiant Life and went on to Super-Psychology.

Other Sources:Yale University; University of Illinois; Skidmore Library, Lily Dale.
Issues:Mystic Key V3 N6 Feb 1930
Claude-Generated Themes:   The Mystic Key was a monthly Spiritualist magazine of 'Personal Power, Spiritual and Psychic Unfoldment,' edited by Will J. Erwood out of Rochester, New York, with ties to the Lily Dale camp. Its pages turn on mediumship — mediums, séances, spirit controls, and the spirit world — including firsthand accounts of demonstrating and testing psychic gifts, framed with scripture that casts the medium as one who reveals the word of God. A lighter New Thought current of 'personal power' and 'the silence,' plus a drugless-health note, threads through the psychic teaching. It documents mediumistic American Spiritualism of the 1920s–30s in the Lily Dale orbit.

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