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Periodical: The Occult Magazine

Summary: From Pat Deveney's database:

Occult Magazine, The.
A Monthly Journal of Psychical and Philosophical Research.
A chronicle of strange, and secret, and forgotten things—Shelley
1885-1886 Monthly, then quarterly
Glasgow, Scotland; then Loudsville, GA. Language: English.
Publisher: Hay Nisbet & Co.. Editor: Peter Davidson.
Succeeds: Occultist
Corporate author: H.B. of L. (Hermetic Brotherhood of Luxor)
1/1, February 1885-2/21-23, October-December 1886.

This was started as The Occultist, but after disputes with John Thomas, the publisher of that journal, it was begun anew under this title. This was the organ of the H.B. of L., the Hermetic Brotherhood of Luxor, the most influential practical occult group in the last quarter of the nineteenth century and an avowed enemy of the "Buddhistic Mahatmas" of the competing Theosophical Society. Davidson later edited The Morning Star.

Other Sources:LOC; National Library of Scotland; University of Manchester
Issues: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
Claude-Generated Themes:   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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