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Periodical: The Occult Review (Boston)

Summary:  From Pat Deveney's database:

Occult Review.
A [Quarterly / Bimonthly] Journal Devoted to Theosophy, Psychology, Astrology, Palmistry, Occultism, and Literature of the Occult Associations.
1888-1900? Quarterly, then bimonthly from 1895 Boston, MA. Language: English.
Publisher: Occult Publishing Co.
Ten-50 cents a year. 8 pp.

Noted in The Theosophist, 1890, in a discussion of the Occult Publishing Company of Boston, and in "Astrological Serial Publications in the United States" in S.C. Gould's Notes and Queries and Historic Magazine 18, no. 2 (February 1900): 58-59. Strongly Theosophical in its approach.

The Boston-based Occult Publishing Company produced a dozen or two Theosophical and occult works, including several by Franz Hartmann, and appears to have been an imprint of the American Theosophist and Bahaist, W. W. W.W. Harmon.

The business apparently passed to Walrond's Occult Publishing company, in Denver Colorado, "on the manager's death in December 1903" -- that manager not being W. W. Harmon.

Other Sources:
Issues:The Occult Review V1 N2 Apr 1888
The Occult Review V5 N3 July 1892
Claude-Generated Themes:   The Occult Review (Boston) is a general survey of the late-nineteenth-century American esoteric scene rather than a single-doctrine organ, taking Theosophy as its center of gravity while ranging widely across Hermetic and ceremonial magic, Kabbalah, Rosicrucianism, spiritualism and reincarnation. A substantial astrology department — ephemerides, horoscopes, nativities — runs alongside book notices of Theosophical and occult titles and advertising for works such as Oahspe and the Hermetic Brotherhood of Luxor's publisher W.P. Phelon. Its register is reportorial and eclectic, digesting the whole movement for its readers. It is best placed in the general occult-philosophy topic, with strong Theosophy and astrology and a fan of minor esoteric bands, and should not be confused with the London Occult Review.

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