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Periodical: The Occultist (Hermetic Brotherhood of Luxor)

Summary: From Pat Deveney's database:

Occultist, The.
1885
Kingsley-by-Frodsham, Cheshire, England. Language: English.
Publisher: John Thomas, proprietor and publisher. Editor: John Thomas.
Succeeds: The Seer and Celestial Reformer Succeeded by: The Occult Magazine
1/1, January 1885.

This was the journal of the H.B. of L. for one month, until financial disagreements between the order and Thomas terminated the relationship. The H.B. of L. went on to start the Occult Magazine in Glasgow. The journal was filled with promises of occult wisdom and reprints of the "Sages of Antiquity" and featured articles by "Zanoni" and "Mejnour" (Thomas Henry Burgoyne and Peter Davidson), and has advertisements by Thomas (for magnetic healing at a distance) and by Davidson for his magic mirrors. See The Seer and the Occult Magazine (Glasgow).

Other Sources:
Issues:The Occultist: V1 N1 January 1885
Claude-Generated Themes:   Read from 1885, The Occultist belongs to the world of the Hermetic Brotherhood of Luxor (H.B. of L.) — the practical-occult order that offered initiation and magical training as a rival to Theosophy's more Eastern path. Its brief, tightly-held pages speak of the tried and tested aspirant, occult magic and Hermetic initiation. Holdings are very thin, but the lineage is significant: this is initiatic Western occultism at a key moment in its Victorian organization.

Generated by Claude from the periodical's digitized text; a thematic reading, not a bibliographic description.
Topics:Hermeticism and Western Esotericism | Mesmerism and Animal Magnetism | Occult Science and Esoteric Philosophy