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Periodical: New Thought Library (Chavannes)

Summary:  From Pat Deveney's database:

New Thought Library.
Other titles: New Thought Library Quarterly
1897 Quarterly
Knoxville, TN. Language: English.
Publisher: Albert Chavannes. Editor: Albert Chavannes.
1/1, 1897.

Each issue bears a separate title. Albert Chavannes (1836-1903) was a novelist, utopian thinker, and utopian socialist. In the mid 1880s he published his Studies in Sociology, expatiating on his views of the “law of exchange.” For present purposes, he is notable because he advocated the practice of karezza (which he called “Magnetation”—the process of increasing and exchanging sexual energy through prolonged intercourse). He also published The Philosopher/Modern Philosopher, and Vibrations (q.v.).

Other Sources:LOC microfilm; University of Tennessee.
Issues:New Thought Library N9 May 1898 Partial
Claude-Generated Themes:   New Thought Library is a mental-science tract series in the orbit of Albert Chavannes, the Knoxville sociologist-reformer who coined 'vitosophy' and 'magnetation.' Its argument is a naturalistic, evolutionary New Thought: mind as the 'efficient factor in evolution,' the 'living mind in the cell,' and belief and knowledge as the levers by which a person masters conditions and remakes the self. The idiom is mind-cure and self-improvement — success, concentration, the powers of mind — with only a light breathing-and-health note. Despite a large spiritualism signal in the automated panel, that score is entirely an artifact of the word 'control,' which here means mental self-control rather than spirit-control.

Generated by Claude from the periodical's digitized text; a thematic reading, not a bibliographic description.
Topics:New Thought | Sex Magic and Erotic Occultism | Sexual Elements: Continence, Free Love, Regeneration, and Sex Magic