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From Pat Deveney's database:
Occult Magazine, The. This was started as The Occultist, but after disputes with
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| LOC; National Library of Scotland; University of Manchester | |
| The Occult Magazine: V1 N1 February 1885 | |
| The Occult Magazine: V1 N2 March 1885 | |
| The Occult Magazine: V1 N3 April 1885 | |
| The Occult Magazine: V1 N4 May 1885 | |
| The Occult Magazine: V1 N5 June 1885 | |
| The Occult Magazine: V1 N6 July 1885 | |
| The Occult Magazine: V1 N7 August 1885 | |
| The Occult Magazine: V1 N8 September 1885 | |
| The Occult Magazine: V1 N9 October 1885 | |
| The Occult Magazine: V1 N10 November 1885 | |
| The Occult Magazine: V1 N11 December 1885 | |
| The Occult Magazine: V2 N12 January 1886 | |
| The Occult Magazine: V2 N13 February 1886 | |
| The Occult Magazine: V2 N14 March 1886 | |
| The Occult Magazine: V2 N15 April 1886 | |
| The Occult Magazine: V2 N16 May 1886 | |
| The Occult Magazine: V2 N17-20 June-September 1886 | |
| The Occult Magazine: V2 N21-23 October-December 1886 | |
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The Occult Magazine (Glasgow, 1885–1886) was the organ of the Hermetic Brotherhood of Luxor, the initiatic order edited by Peter Davidson and T. H. Burgoyne that offered a practical-occult alternative to Blavatsky's Theosophy. Its pages are emphatically hermetic and initiatic — adepts, initiation, esoteric science — braided with a working astrology of zodiac, decans and nativities and a mesmeric technique of clairvoyance, lucidity and magnetic emanation. The excerpts move from astral myth to a Platonic demiurge-cosmology and to a theurgy that claims 'control over lower orders of spirits,' operative magic rather than passive mediumship. References to Theosophy are contrastive, marking the order's rivalry with the T.S. rather than allegiance to it. It is a foundational document of late-Victorian practical occultism, adjacent to astrology and (by the order's wider reputation) to sexual occultism not surfaced in this sample. Generated by Claude from the periodical's digitized text; a thematic reading, not a bibliographic description. |
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