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From Pat Deveney's database:
Occult Quarterly, The.
A Magazine For Spiritual Illumination.
1934--1935 Quarterly
Chicago, IL. Language: English.
Editor: Royal Eugene Parks.
1/1, January-March, 1934. 50 cents a year, 16 pp. Parks ("Lecturer, Teacher, Healer") serialized his "Lessons on psychic unfoldment" in the journal and ran a Silent Healing Center from the same address as the journal, where he also sold incense, candles, and the like. Contribution by Effa Danielson (publisher of the Occult Digest), and advertisements for fringe mediums, "Emissaries of the Divine Light," healers, psychic readers, spiritualist counselors, and numerologists of the time.
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The Occult Quarterly was a general-purpose occult review that treated the whole esoteric field rather than championing a single school. Its departments moved between practical occultism and self-mastery ('Occult force is like unto a two-edged sword'), adepts, magic and initiation, the reporting and evaluation of Spiritualist mediumship, a working astrology section of horoscopes and planetary lore, and a New Thought column on concentration, affirmation, and demonstration. Theosophical concepts such as karma and brotherhood appear in the mix without dominating it. The result is a broad, eclectic occultism of the kind common in the early twentieth-century periodical trade, where a single subscriber could find séance-room news, a birth chart, and a lesson in mental prosperity between the same covers.
Generated by Claude from the periodical's digitized text; a thematic reading, not a bibliographic description.
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