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From Pat Deveney's database:
Now.
A Journal of Affirmation / A Monthly Journal of Positive Affirmations, Devoted to Mental Science and the Art of Living / The Biggest Little Paper in the World.
The biggest little paper in the World
1900--1928 Annual, then monthly (irregular)
San Jose, CA; Glenwood, CA. Language: English.
Publisher: Now Folks. Editor: Captain Henry Harrison Brown, founder and editor; then Sam Exton Foulds.
1/1, March 1900-September 1928. Suspended November 1906-December 1909, during which period Brown published in the New Thought and advertised in the same journal for "a gentleman with capital" to assist him in re-establishing this journal. $1.00 a year. 8- pp. This was the premier New Thought journal of the "Dollars Want Me" (the title of one of Brown's books) school. Devoted to Affirmations ("All is one; That One; That One is all things; I am a manifestation of the One; I possess Power to do all and enjoy all," etc.), suggestion and optimism. In its heyday before World War I, the journal printed 24 pages of instruction and uplift, supplemented by 12-24 pages of advertisements--at $2.00 a line. Advertised in The Free Man, August 1901: "Devoted to the New Thought, teaches the art of gaining health, wealth, happiness, and business success, by right thinking." Noted scathingly in Upton Sinclair's Profits of Religion (1918). Horatio Dresser in his A History of the New Thought Movement (1919), 239, says this was the "most vigorous" of the New Thought journals and describes its message as follows: "Man is spirit here and now, with all the possibilities of Divinity within him and he can consciously manifest these possibilities here and now." Brown, in his New Thought Primer(1903), 54-55, calls this "a leading New Thought journal, carefully edited, outspoken and fearless, yet ever kindly," and says that the journal contained in each issue a lesson on Soul Culture, a series of Affirmations, editorials, selections from other journals and "dialect poems" by Sam Exton Foulds. University of California, Berkeley; LOC; University of Michigan; University of Cape Town; San Francisco Public Library; Harvard University; International Institute of Social History, Netherlands; Brown University.
Now Folk, Inc.
Announcement from San Francisco, Ten Days after Memorable Earthquake and Fire.
1906
San Francisco, CA.
1906. This began as a 9 x 11 broadside subscription announcement for Now: A Journal of Affirmation, and proclaimed itself to be the first magazine printed in San Francisco after the earthquake. The appeal apparently did not work, and Now (q.v.) remained suspended until 1909.
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Now, subtitled a Journal of Affirmation, was published in California from 1900 to 1925 by Henry Harrison Brown, and it is New Thought as one man's cosmos rather than a denomination's platform. Its operative method is suggestion — the word appears in these pages more often than New Thought itself — used awake and deliberately, as an affirmation to be spoken rather than as a hypnotic trance to be induced, and directed at health, at character and at circumstance alike. Around that method Brown assembled everything he valued: an unembarrassed prosperity teaching, of which his notorious Dollars Want Me is the emblem; psychometry, the reading of an object's history from its emanations, which is unusual in a New Thought paper and which Brown took from the eclectic rather than the Spiritualist tradition; spiritual healing at a distance; drugless living; and a soul-culture drawn explicitly from Ralph Waldo Emerson and, above all, from Walt Whitman, whose sense of the eternal present gave the magazine its title. Where the big commercial New Thought papers shed the psychic and kept the marketplace, Brown kept both.
Generated by Claude from the periodical's digitized text; a thematic reading, not a bibliographic description.
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