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Periodical: New Zealand Lotus Buds

Summary:  From Pat Deveney's database:

New Zealand Lotus Buds' Journal.
Live, Love, Rejoice
1909-1912? Monthly
Auckland, New Zealand.
Language: English.
1/1, July 1909.
1s. 6d. a year, 28pp.

This was a Theosophical journal intended to entertain and uplift young children. It printed energetic marching songs for them, along with "stories of pets" and dubious verse, and promoted the likes of the Golden Chain: A Children's Guild of Kindness ("I am a link in a golden chain of love that stretches round the world, and must keep my link bright and strong . . ."). The Theosophist, September 1911, praised the journal's new garb (light green paper and blue ink) and wished it well.

Other Sources:
Issues:New Zealand Lotus Buds Journal V2 N9 Mar 1912
New Zealand Lotus Buds Journal V2 N12 Jun 1912
Claude-Generated Themes:   The New Zealand Lotus Buds' Journal (c. 1911–12) was the children's magazine of the New Zealand Theosophical movement, produced for the 'Lotus Buds' — the youngest members of the Theosophical Society's Lotus Circle and Order of the Round Table youth work. Its pages are given to gentle virtue lessons ('Just Before Bed-Time' on truthfulness, punctuality and tidiness), kindly animal stories, and a pen-pal scheme knitting New Zealand children to correspondents in India — the Theosophical ideal of Universal Brotherhood scaled to childhood. Simplified Theosophical vocabulary (astral body, karma, initiation, brotherhood) confirms the parent tradition without heavy doctrine. It is best catalogued as a Theosophical youth auxiliary rather than an adult esoteric periodical.

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