New Age Interpreter.
A [Monthly] Messenger Devoted to Studies designed to aid the Modern Seeker to a Spiritual Reorientation in the Light of the Ageless wisdom.
Survey the Past, Illumine the Present, Contemplate the Future
Other titles: New Age Bulletin (September 1940-July 1941)
1940--1976 Monthly, bimonthly, then quarterly (all irregular: "Issued every month or two")
Los Angeles then La Canada, CA.
Publisher: New Age Press.
Succeeds: New Age Bulletin
1/1, 1940-37/1, 1976.
24 pp., $1.50-$2.00 a year.

This is typical of the New Age journals of the last three-quarters of the twentieth century that were built around the communications received by a central spiritual leader and transmitted seriatim to receptive followers. In this case, the leader was Corinne Heline (Corinne Smith Dunklee Heline, 1875 (or 1882)-1975), who before World War I began to communicate with "Inner Plane Immortals," especially the Virgin Mary. She was born in Georgia but moved to Southern California at some time before 1900, where she became a follower of Max Heindel (1865-1919) at his Rosicrucian Fellowship in Oceanside, California. There she met John Theodore Heline (1883-1971), another follower of Heindel. He is said to have been a Shakespearean actor. In the late 1920s he was leading a New York City branch of Heindel's Rosicrucians and in the early 1930s he and Corinne were running the Three-Eleven Rosicrucian Fellowship on West 80th in New York City while he was editing Rays for the Rosy Cross for Heindel's widow. They wee said to have married in 1938 but she did not begin to use his name until the mid-1940s. By 1936 he had started the New Age Press in Los Angeles for which he wrote a series of "Mystic America Pamphlets" on "America's Destiny' ("A New Order of the Ages based on the Message of the Great Seal") and "The Neo-American" (‘Building a New Race") and studies of the "Russian Sphinx," Poland, Turkey, Japan, Spain, Germany, etc. in the light of occult truth, and studies on the occult meaning of Romeo and Juliet, Capek's "Rossum's Universal Robots, "etc. Corinne was early on moved to give an "exposition of the inner significance of the Holy Scriptures in the light of the Ancient Wisdom," which she did in several series, most significantly in Occult Anatomy and the Bible, a twelve-volume exposition of regeneration from the Fall (and its consequence, divided male and female sexuality) leading to the re-emergence of the primordial androgyne. This began to appear in the 1930s in pamphlets published by the New Age Press and then was excerpted in this journal along with her New Age Bible Interpretation and other Biblical occult exegesis and articles on the whole panoply of what was to compose the New Age canon: chromotherapy, angels and fairies, magic gardens and flowers, the Holy Grail, the virtues of vegetarianism, the Tarot, the esoteric powers of music, Star Gates, the Knights Templar, etc. She also expatiated upon "America's Invisible Guidance" by the Exalted brotherhood from the higher levels of the inner planes." Later issues began to carry contributions by Mrs. Adrienne Ashley and George Perkins. NYPL. Skidmore Library, Lily Dale (1 issue, 1945); Michigan State University; Temple University; University of California, Santa Barbara, etc.

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