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Periodical: The Open Way

Summary:  From Pat Deveney's database:

Open Way, The.
Universal Roll Call of Faith.
1950s Irregular
Celina, TN. Language: English.
Editor: Lovie Webb Gasteiner.
Succeeds: Echoes-->The Faithist
No. 9 is copyright 1958.

She published Echoes in the late 1940s. On Gasteiner, see the note under the Faithist.

Other Sources:Skidmore Library, Lily Dale.
Issues:Open Way N1 1952
Open Way N2 1952
Open Way N3 1952
Claude-Generated Themes:   The Open Way is a syncretic American occult periodical of the later 1920s, blending an eclectic esoteric vocabulary — occult, magic, mahatma, brotherhood, with Theosophical and Rosicrucian touches — around a coded initiatory membership that even invokes Oahspe 'Faithist' affiliation and Native-American ceremony. Running alongside the occult matter is a practical program of vegetarianism and drugless, electro-hygienic healing, plus a light New Thought register of 'the silence' and success. Its machine profile flags a 'Shaver/hollow-earth' theme, but that is an anachronistic false positive — the Shaver mystery lay more than a decade in the future. It reads as an eclectic occult-and-healing house organ of the interwar American esoteric scene.

Generated by Claude from the periodical's digitized text; a thematic reading, not a bibliographic description.
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