International Association for the Preservation of Spiritualist and Occult Periodicals: Organizations Index

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(Source: Gemini) The Académie des sciences psychiques (active 1898 – 1908) was a French Catholic esoteric organization dedicated to investigating parapsychological phenomena from the perspective of orthodox Christian theology. Founded in Paris in 1898 by the prominent theologian and Sorbonne professor Mgr Joseph-Élie Méric (1838–1905), the Academy was established following a highly publicized schism within the Société des recherches psychiques. Méric resigned his presidency of the parent society after deep theological and administrative conflicts with Chanoine Ferdinand Brettes, creating the Academy as a rival forum for Catholic psychical research. The Academy's official organ was La Revue du monde invisible. The group's doctrines sought to reconcile modern experimental psychology and psychical science with Catholic dogma, arguing that genuine mediumistic phenomena were verifiable proof of the soul and the invisible realm rather than secular anomalies. Following Méric's death in 1905, the Academy’s operations gradually declined, and its official journal ceased publication in 1908, concluding this unique intellectual attempt to harmonize Catholic apologetics with parapsychological inquiry.

Related Periodicals: Revue du Monde Invisible

The Adiramled Association was an early-twentieth-century esoteric body associated with the teaching of Delmar DeForest Bryant, from whose name it took its coined designation. Its work was conducted through the Adiramled School of Hermetic Science and the Adiramled Publishing Company.

Related Periodicals: The Phalanx

The Adiramled Publishing Company was the publishing arm of Adiram Leddra Ballou's Adiramled Association and Adiramled School of Hermetic Science, active in the early twentieth century.

Related Periodicals: Adiramled

The Adiramled School of Hermetic Science was the teaching arm of the Adiramled Association, offering correspondence lessons in a system named for its founder Adiram Leddra Ballou.

Related Periodicals: Adiramled

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The Advanced Thought Publishing Company of Chicago was one of William Walker Atkinson's publishing enterprises, closely associated with his Yogi Publication Society. It published Atkinson's periodical Advanced Thought as well as writings by other New Thought authors including Alexander James McIvor-Tyndall.

Related Periodicals: Advanced Thought (Chicago)

The Adyar Library and Research Centre was founded in 1886 at the Theosophical Society's international headquarters at Adyar, India by Henry Steel Olcott. It houses a large collection of Sanskrit and other Oriental manuscripts and printed works, and has published scholarly editions and translations of Indian religious and philosophical texts.

Related People: Raja, C. Kunhan

Related Periodicals: Adyar Library Bulletin

Organization identified in the 1910–1950 SSOC monograph pass; entry pending review. (Source: Claude, 2026-07-27.)

Aeon Press was a small British occult publisher associated with the twentieth-century Golden Dawn revival and the Servants of the Light school of Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki, issuing training material and occasional periodicals from the 1980s.

Related Periodicals: Gnostic Forum

(Source: Gemini) The Aerial Phenomena Research Organization (APRO) was founded in 1952 by Coral E. Lorenzen and L. J. Lorenzen and was among the earliest civilian UFO investigation groups in the United States. Headquartered in Tucson, Arizona, it published the APRO Bulletin and pursued case investigation, hypothesis development, and international correspondence with similar groups until it ceased operations in the late 1980s. It was the first civilian organization of its kind to establish a worldwide network of foreign representatives to systematically track global sightings. The organization was highly regarded for its commitment to scientific methodology, maintaining a dedicated panel of Ph.D. consultants, including atmospheric physicist Dr. James E. McDonald and University of California, Berkeley engineering professor Dr. James Harder.

Related Periodicals: APRO Bulletin

(Source: Gemini) Aetherius Press (active c. 1956 – present) is the official publishing division of Aetherius Society, a prominent international UFO religion founded in London in 1955 by the British yoga master and trance medium George King (1919–1997). Operating from offices in London and Hollywood, California, Aetherius Press was established shortly after the Society’s inception to systematically edit, print, and distribute King's extensive collection of metaphysical writings, lectures, and cosmic transmissions. The Press’s catalog forms the core literary and doctrinal framework of the religious movement, known as "King Yoga." Key foundational texts published by the Press include The Twelve Blessings (1958), a series of channeled spiritual invocations, and The Nine Freedoms (1963), an esoteric treatise detailing the soul's journey toward ascension. It also produced the Society's primary periodical, Cosmic Voice. Through its continuous publication of books, audio discs, and journals, Aetherius Press has preserved the historical and theological legacy of one of the mid-century's most influential and enduring flying-saucer movements.

Related Periodicals: Cosmic Voice

The Aetherius Society was founded in London in 1954 by George King, a former taxi driver who claimed to receive telepathic messages from Cosmic Masters, including the Master Aetherius on Venus. It taught a system of cosmic Christianity combining Theosophical Master traditions with UFO contactee elements, and its headquarters were relocated to Los Angeles in 1959, with British operations continuing in London.

Related Periodicals: Cosmic Voice

The Alba Occult Society was one of the several small provincial French and North African occult bodies active in the interwar period; a branch bearing the name operated at Carthage in French North Africa in the 1920s.

Related Periodicals: Initiates | Nautilus

Related Periodicals: Nautilus

(Source: Gemini) The Alchemical Society (November 1912 – Autumn 1915) was a unique British scholarly and esoteric organization founded in London to systematically study the history, science, and philosophy of alchemy. Established by a diverse group of professional chemists, historians, and occultists, its key founders included chemistry lecturer Herbert Stanley Redgrove (1887–1943) and honorary secretary Sijil Theodore Arthur Abdul-Ali. The Society provided an unprecedented, collaborative forum where occultists and empirical scientists could analyze Hermetic literature on equal terms. The organization’s official organ was The Journal of the Alchemical Society, which published scholarly papers and meeting transcriptions featuring contributions from prominent occultists like Arthur Edward Waite and Walter Gorn Old (Sepharial). The society's activities abruptly ended in 1915 due to the severe disruptions of World War I, which claimed the lives of several key members (including Abdul-Ali, who died in combat), and it was never revived.

Related People: Castelot, Francois Jollivet

Related Periodicals: Journal of the Alchemical Society | Rose Alchemica

(Source: Gemini) Aldebaran Press (active late 1940s) was a short-lived American amateur publishing imprint established in Deerfield, Illinois, specifically to publish the final issues of The Shaver Mystery Magazine. Founded during the height of the mid-century "Shaver Mystery" controversy, the press was formed to sustain the printing of Richard Sharpe Shaver’s subterranean mythology in the wake of its banishment from mainstream pulp science fiction magazines like those of Ray Palmer. Under the stewardship of Shaver and co-editor/illustrator Alfred Steber, Aldebaran Press published Volume II, Numbers 3 and 4 of the magazine in 1948. These issues featured striking illustrations by famed pulp artist Virgil Finlay and served as a dedicated forum for Shaver’s theories regarding a hollow Earth. Due to limited financial resources and primitive, manual printing processes, the press folded shortly thereafter.

Related Periodicals: Shaver Mystery Magazine

(Source: Google) The Aletheian Society was a Boston, Massachusetts-based metaphysical and spiritualist organization. The society's doctrines centered on "Psychology, Philosophy, Ethics, Verse, Inspiration, [and] Illumination," promoting a New Thought-adjacent platform of experiential mysticism and intellectual freedom. Its official organ was the bimonthly periodical The Aletheian, edited and copyrighted by Frances Alethia Head Dilopoulo (1888–1941), who also performed widely on the American vaudeville stage under the psychic pseudonym "Alethia" alongside her husband, Alexander "Aleko" Dilopoulo. The Society offered a collaborative venue for a diverse network of contemporary spiritualists, writers, and metaphysical lecturers. Key associates and contributors included the prolific British-born author and lecturer W. J. Colville, California-based medium Lida Briggs Amerige, and New Thought poet Ella Wheeler Wilcox. While the organization's experiential tenets received some critical skepticism from mainstream esoteric publications, the society actively championed progressive spiritual development; its stated purpose was to stand for truth in all things, for the Brotherhood of Man, and for good government, including "equal citizenship for all intelligent people, regardless of sex."

Related Periodicals: The Aletheian

(Source: Gemini) The Alexandrian School of Platonism (c. 1st century BCE – 7th century CE) was a major intellectual tradition centered in Alexandria, Egypt, that synthesized Greek philosophy with Jewish, Christian, and mystical thought. Emerging during the Hellenistic era, its early development was shaped by Philo of Alexandria, who integrated Platonic metaphysics with Jewish scriptural exegesis, and Christian theologians like Clement of Alexandria and Origen of the Catechetical School. In the 3rd century, the school became a foundational crucible for Neoplatonism under Ammonius Saccas, who taught Plotinus. During the late Roman and Byzantine periods, the school shifted towards scholarly commentary and scientific investigation. Key figures included the mathematician and philosopher Hypatia (d. 415 CE), whose violent murder by a Christian mob marked a period of intense religious tension. Under later heads like Ammonius Hermeiou, the school reached a political accommodation with local Christian authorities, prioritizing Aristotelian logic and science to foster a neutral academic environment. This final phase produced major commentators like Olympiodorus the Younger and the Christian philosopher John Philoponus, whose critical assessments of eternity challenged traditional pagan cosmology until the school dissolved following the Islamic conquest of Alexandria in 64 AD.

Related Periodicals: The Platonist

Related Periodicals: The Aletheian

(Source: Gemini) The Alliance Christian Church of Boston, Massachusetts (established 1865) is a designation that may refer to the historic Church of the Covenant -— frequently translated in foreign-language resources as L'Eglise de l'Alliance (literally, "Church of the Covenant"). The historic Church of the Covenant is a progressive, landmark Christian church situated at 67 Newbury Street in Boston's Back Bay. Designed by Richard M. Upjohn in the Gothic Revival style, its grand edifice features a 240-foot steeple. Its sanctuary is renowned as one of the few in the world decorated entirely by the Tiffany Glass and Decorating Co. in the 1890s. Today, it is federated with the United Church of Christ (UCC) and the Presbyterian Church (USA), and serves as a hub for social activism.

Related Periodicals: True Light

The Alliance Publishing Company was a New York-based New Thought publishing house active from the late 1890s into the early twentieth century. It was closely associated with Charles Brodie Patterson and served as the successor publisher of B. O. Flower's Arena and of Ursula N. Gestefeld's Exodus, and issued the monthly Library of Health under Patterson's editorship from 1897 to 1900.

Related Periodicals: The Arena | The Exodus | The Library of Health | The Life [Kansas City] | Mind | New Thought (Massachusetts) | Power | Practical Ideals | Wee Wisdom | The World's Advance Thought

(Source: Gemini) The Alliance School of Applied Metaphysics (active turn of the 20th century) was an influential New Thought educational and collaborative network. It arose from the close partnership between Horatio Willis Dresser’s School of Applied Metaphysics, the mental healing practice of pioneer New Thought teacher Ellen M. Dyer in Philadelphia and Boston, and Charles Brodie Patterson’s Alliance Publishing Company in New York City. Operating from its headquarters in the "Life" Building and later at 569 Fifth Avenue, the Alliance Publishing Company acted as the school's central organ, distributing its correspondence courses, pamphlets, and books. The network's ideas were heavily publicized through prominent New Thought periodicals of the era, notably Mind and The Journal of Practical Metaphysics, as well as Patterson's later journal Practical Ideals. The school sought to synthesize transcendentalism, mental science, and spiritualism into a practical framework.

Related Periodicals: Mind

Related Periodicals: The Golden Dawn

The spirit band marshaled by the "Old Philosopher," the spirit editor of The Watchman.

Related Periodicals: Watchman

The American Astrological Society was among the earliest attempts to form a US national association of astrologers and astrological organizations in the United States. It was founded on September 22, 1915 to champion the cause of astrology among the North American public, with a five-member board and a self-perpetuating membership drawn largely from the New York City metropolitan area, though corresponding members came from as far as Minnesota. The society survived into the 1950s.

Source: J. Gordon Melton, Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology, 5th ed. (Detroit: Gale, 2001), s.v. "American Astrological Society."

Related Periodicals: The Adept

Part of the US Theosophical Society's organization structure, historically. To be updated.

Related Periodicals: The Gnostic | The Platonist

Organization identified in the 1910–1950 SSOC monograph pass; entry pending review. (Source: Claude, 2026-07-27.)

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(Source: Gemini) The American College of Natural Philosophy (active c. 1911–1912) was an esoteric, New Thought, and astrological training school based in Franklin, Ohio (often printed in periodicals under the variant spelling "Franklyn"). The institution primarily served as the corporate backing entity and publisher for the rare occult monthly journal Occult Research Gladiator (IAPSOP) (established c. January 1912) and its immediate successor, Research Gladiator (IAPSOP) (established c. April 1912). The college and its publications were directed by the Midwestern mentalist, vaudeville performer, and publisher Bert Brookhart, who operated under several grandiose pseudonyms, including "Dr. Pierre Valjien" and "Bae Pierre Brookhart." He was assisted by associate editor P. Franklyn Hoisington. The institution's curriculum and publications promoted personal magnetism, astrology, graphology, suggestive therapeutics, and numerological systems, framing these practical esoteric teachings under an academic guise.

Related Periodicals: The Whisper

A mail-order operation founded by Ewing Virgil Neal, Thomas F. Atkin, Charles S. Clark and A. Victor Segno, incorporated under the laws of New Jersey, to give "instruction in personal magnetism, hypnotism, suggestive therapeutics, magnetic healing and other kindred subjects throughout the United States and foreign countries." A central vehicle, along with the Columbia Academy of Science, for the occult mail-order activities of these entrpreneurs, together and separately.

Related Periodicals: Psychic Digest and Occult Review of Reviews

The American Council of Christian Yoga published the periodical Christian Yoga Monthly from Oakland, CA (1912-1914).

Related Periodicals: Christian Yoga Monthly

(Source: Chasing Emma) Situated on the outskirts of Paris, in the town of Ozoir-la-Ferriere, in the grounds of the (former) Chateaux des Agneaux, and run by the occult mail-order operators Elmer S. Prather and Beatrice KcKean Prather, from 1931 until the outbreak of the Second World War. In 1926, the Prathers purchased the Chateaux des Agneaux from its prior owner Guillaume Maurice, and converted it to a golf club in 1931, doing business as the American Country Club of France, with King Alphonse of Spain as the honorary president, Prince Louis de Bourbon as a director, and E. S. Prather (secretary and treasurer) and Samuel H. McKean (board director, and brother-in-law of E. S. Prather), in plain view amongst the glitterati teeing off on one of the club's two courses.

Related Periodicals: Modern Miracles

The American Federation of Astrologers (AFA) was founded in 1938 as a federation of local associations and individuals in twenty countries interested in the advancement of astrology through research and education. It conducted examinations of astrologers, maintained a specialized library, and published educational and research texts and the monthly AFA Bulletin. It has been headquartered in Tempe, Arizona.

Source: J. Gordon Melton, Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology, 5th ed. (Detroit: Gale, 2001), s.v. "American Federation of Astrologers."

Related Periodicals: Journal of the National Astrological Association

The Free Religious Association was founded in Boston in 1867 by Francis Ellingwood Abbot, Octavius B. Frothingham, and other radical Unitarians and reformers. It promoted a nonsectarian religion of ethics and reason, free of creedal requirements, and was among the important vehicles of American religious liberalism in the second half of the nineteenth century.

Related Periodicals: The Index

One of the paper institutions used by A. Victor Segno to sell mail-order lessons, and tracts.

Related People: Segno, A. Victor, Wallraff, Charles Frederic

Related Periodicals: Attainment | The Segnogram

Related Periodicals: Occult Research Gladiator | Research Gladiator

Related People: Sizer, Nelson, Wells, Charlotte Fowler

Related Periodicals: The Character Builder | Occult Science Library

Organization identified in the 1910–1950 SSOC monograph pass; entry pending review. (Source: Claude, 2026-07-27.)

Related Monographs: Report on William Dudley Pelley (1939)

Related People: Thompson, Matthew McBane

Related Periodicals: Universal Free Mason

The American Medical Association (AMA) was founded in Philadelphia in 1847 as the first national organization of physicians in the United States. It promoted standardization of medical education, licensure, and professional ethics, and, from its founding, drew a sharp distinction between graduates of regular medical schools and practitioners of homeopathy, eclectic medicine, and other systems it considered irregular.

Related People: Abrams, Albert, Drown, Ruth Beymer, Ghadiali, Dinshah P.

Related Periodicals: Advanced Thought (Chicago) | Nature's Path (Lust) | Physico-Clinical Medicine | Spectro-Chrome

Related Monographs: Nostrums and Quackery, Volume II (1921), Alcohol, Tobacco and Drug Habit Cures (1922), Cancer 'Cures' and 'Treatments' (1922), The Propaganda for Reform in Proprietary Medicines, Volume 2 (1922), Some Quasi-Medical Institutions (1923)

The American Naturopathic Association was founded in 1919 by Benedict Lust in New York as the professional body of American naturopathy. It coordinated the several naturopathic schools active in the interwar period and defended the practice against regulatory pressure from the American Medical Association.

Related Periodicals: Nature's Path (Lust)

Related Periodicals: Celestial Life

Related Periodicals: American Occultist

Related Periodicals: American Phrenological Journal

American Psychical Society published the periodical The Psychical Review from 1892.

Related Periodicals: The Psychical Review

Related Periodicals: The Ideal Review | The Metaphysical Magazine

The American School of Astrology was the astrological correspondence school operated by Albert H. Postel of New York in the mid-1900s, one of the enterprises associated with F. T. McIntyre and Elmer E. Prather's network. It was one of the enterprises ultimately barred from the mails following a Post Office fraud order in 1909.

Related Periodicals: Modern Miracles

The American School of Magnetic Healing was established in Nevada, Missouri by Sidney A. Weltmer and J. H. Kelly in 1897 as a correspondence school teaching magnetic healing and mental suggestion. It became one of the largest mail-order occupational schools in the United States around 1900 and was a co-defendant in the landmark Supreme Court case American School of Magnetic Healing v. McAnnulty (1902), which limited the Post Office's power to issue fraud orders.

Related Periodicals: Weltmer's Magazine

The American School of Naturopathy was founded in New York in 1902 by Benedict Lust as the first American school of naturopathic medicine. It taught Lust's synthesis of German nature-cure, hydrotherapy, and diet reform, and produced most of the early generation of American naturopathic physicians.

Related Periodicals: Nature's Path (Lust)

The American Secular Union was organized in 1876 (originally as the National Liberal League) by figures including Francis Ellingwood Abbot and Robert G. Ingersoll to promote the strict separation of church and state in the United States. It campaigned against Sabbath laws, tax exemptions for churches, and religious instruction in public schools.

Related People: Putnam, Samuel P., Westbrook, Richard Brodhead

Related Periodicals: Freethought

The American Society for Psychical Research (ASPR) was founded in Boston in 1885, with William James as an early vice-president, as an American counterpart to the London Society for Psychical Research. It was taken over by the SPR, before being reorganized in New York in 1906 under James H. Hyslop, and has published the Journal and Proceedings of the American Society for Psychical Research.

Related People: Barrett, William, Bond, Frederick Bligh, Carrington, Hereward, Garland, Hamlin, McDougall, William, Newton, R. Heber, Prince, W.F.

Related Periodicals: Journal and Proceedings of the American Society for Psychical Research | Journal and Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research | Survival

Related Periodicals: Survival

The American Society of Dowsers is a nonprofit corporation founded in Vermont in 1961 to disseminate knowledge of dowsing (water witching, discovery of lost articles or persons, and related phenomena) and to develop the skills and public recognition of its practice. It has issued the quarterly journal The American Dowser and has been headquartered in Danville, Vermont.

Source: J. Gordon Melton, Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology, 5th ed. (Detroit: Gale, 2001), s.v. "American Society of Dowsers."

Related People: Willey, Raymond C.

Related Periodicals: American Dowser

The American Society of Suggestive Therapeutics was a national professional body for practitioners of suggestion, hypnotism, and mental healing, organized in the early twentieth century out of the loose network of teachers associated with Herbert A. Parkyn's Chicago School of Psychology and Sydney B. Flower's Chicago publishing enterprises.

Related Periodicals: Weltmer's Magazine

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Related Periodicals: The American Spiritualist

Related Periodicals: To-Morrow

The American Temple of Astrology was one of the affiliated enterprises of the McIntyre-Prather group of New York mail-order occult businesses in the mid-1900s, ordered to show cause by the Post Office in January 1909 alongside the Psycho-Success Club, the Metropolitan Institute of Science, and Albert H. Postel. Of these enterprises only Postel's American School of Astrology was ultimately barred from the mails.

Related Periodicals: American Rosae Crucis | The Future Home Journal | Modern Miracles

Organization identified in the 1910–1950 SSOC monograph pass; entry pending review. (Source: Claude, 2026-07-27.)

Related Monographs: The Cosmic Survey (1922)

Organization identified in the 1910–1950 SSOC monograph pass; entry pending review. (Source: Claude, 2026-07-27.)

Related Monographs: Students' Hand-Book No. 2 (For Grades II, III, and IV) (1922), Spiritualism for the Student and Investigator: A Symposium (1923), Introduction to Spiritualism and Lyceumism (1932), The Oral Grade Primer and Junior Groups Manual (1932)

Organization identified in the 1910–1950 SSOC monograph pass; entry pending review. (Source: Claude, 2026-07-27.)

Organization identified in the 1910–1950 SSOC monograph pass; entry pending review. (Source: Claude, 2026-07-27.)

Related Monographs: The Light of Kosmon (The Book of Kosmon): Doctrinal Books reprinted from OAHSPE (1939)

Organization identified in the 1910–1950 SSOC monograph pass; entry pending review. (Source: Claude, 2026-07-27.)

Related Monographs: The de Laurence Company Catalog (1925)

Organization identified in the 1910–1950 SSOC monograph pass; entry pending review. (Source: Claude, 2026-07-27.)

Related Monographs: Dr. Pierce's Neighborhood Gossip and Dream Book (1930)

Organization identified in the 1910–1950 SSOC monograph pass; entry pending review. (Source: Claude, 2026-07-27.)

Related Monographs: Dr. Farnham's Improved-Automatic Electronic Radio Vibratory Instrument: Complete Directions for Operating and Treatment (1924)

Organization identified in the 1910–1950 SSOC monograph pass; entry pending review. (Source: Claude, 2026-07-27.)

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Organization identified in the 1910–1950 SSOC monograph pass; entry pending review. (Source: Claude, 2026-07-27.)

The Krotona colony of the Adyar-affiliated American Theosophical Society, established by A. P. Warrington at Hollywood, California in 1912 and relocated to the Ojai Valley in 1924.

Related Periodicals: The Harbinger

The Ancient and Mystical Order Rosae Crucis (AMORC) was founded in New York City in 1915 by Harvey Spencer Lewis. It teaches an initiatory system claimed to derive from Egyptian mystery schools transmitted through European Rosicrucian traditions, delivered by correspondence lessons. Its international headquarters were relocated to San Jose, California in 1927, where the organization built the Rosicrucian Park complex including the Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum.

Related People: Wackerman, Ralph A.

Related Periodicals: American Rosae Crucis | The Balance | The Mystic Triangle | Rosicrucian Forum | The Triangle

The Ancient Astronaut Society was founded in 1973 by Gene M. Phillips to bring together those interested in the possibility that Earth was visited in prehistoric times by extraterrestrial beings and that advanced civilizations may have existed on Earth before recorded history. It was established largely out of the popular response to Erich von Däniken's 1969 book Chariots of the Gods?, which set out the ancient-astronaut hypothesis in accessible form. The society was headquartered in Highland Park, Illinois and became defunct after Phillips's retirement.

Source: J. Gordon Melton, Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology, 5th ed. (Detroit: Gale, 2001), s.v. "Ancient Astronaut Society."

Related Periodicals: Ancient Skies

The Ancient Druid Order (Universal Bond of the Sons of Men) is a British Druidic revival body whose modern history dates from the early twentieth century, though it claimed a longer traditional lineage. It has been associated with public observances at Stonehenge and with a number of the leading figures of the early twentieth-century Druidic revival in England.

Related People: Nichols, Ross

Related Periodicals: Atlantis Quarterly

Related Periodicals: Initiates

The Ancient Order of Hibernians was formally organized in New York City in 1836 as a Catholic Irish American fraternal society. It provided mutual aid to Irish immigrants, defended Catholic churches from nativist violence, and became a major organizational base for Irish American civic and political life.

Related Periodicals: New York Echo

Related Periodicals: Voice of the Magi

The Ancient Order of Rosicrucians was one of several nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American bodies claiming Rosicrucian lineage. Groups using this or closely related names operated at various times in Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, and elsewhere, generally combining Rosicrucian symbolism with Masonic-style ritual and mystical Christian teaching.

Related Periodicals: Texas Spiritualist

Related Periodicals: New York Echo

Related Periodicals: Anthropological Review [LAS]

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Related People: Donlop, D.N., Heise, Karl, Sievers, Marie von, Steiner, Rudolf

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Related Periodicals: Aquarian Path

Related Periodicals: Aquarian New Age

The Aquarian Foundation was established in 1927 near Nanaimo, British Columbia by Edward Arthur Wilson, known as Brother XII, as an esoteric community drawing on Theosophical and Egyptian symbolism. The foundation attracted followers internationally and controversially collapsed in the early 1930s amid lawsuits, criminal allegations, and Wilson's disappearance.

Related People: Turnbull, Coulson

Related Periodicals: The Glass Hive

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Related Periodicals: Aquarian Path

The Aquarian Ministry was a New Thought body established by William Frederick Nemroe (Nemroel) in the twentieth century, teaching an esoteric Christianity oriented toward the new Aquarian age.

Related Periodicals: Aquarian Age | Reality

The Aquarian Press was a British occult publisher established in London in 1958 by Sydney Foulsham, publishing books on astrology, magic, ritual, and psychic topics through the second half of the twentieth century. It was later acquired by Thorsons and eventually absorbed into HarperCollins.

Related Periodicals: Aquarian Path

The Arcane School was founded in New York City in 1923 by Alice A. Bailey and Foster Bailey as a training school for esoteric meditation and world service. Its teachings drew on the tradition of Blavatsky's Theosophy but were presented as transmissions from the Master identified as Djwhal Khul (D.K., the Tibetan). Its correspondence courses have been offered internationally through what became the Lucis Trust.

Related People: Yarker, John

Related Periodicals: The Beacon (Bailey) | Illumination | Loto Blanco | Teosofia Madrid

(Source: Gemini) The Arena Publishing Company of Boston was a seminal force in late 19th-century reformist literature. Founded by Benjamin Orange Flower, the firm operated as a dedicated publishing house from 1890 to 1896. It functioned primarily to distribute the radical content championed in its flagship monthly, The Arena (established 1889). The company served as a central hub for "progressive modern thought," aggressively promoting social, economic, and political reform. The firm was a leading publisher of utopian and speculative fiction, including Solomon Schindler’s Young West (1894). It also heavily invested in literature addressing gender inequality and feminist critiques of the era. Reflecting Flower’s idiosyncratic editorial style, the company experimented with physical book design, often using colored margins to mitigate perceived eye strain in readers. Despite its influence, the company’s radical agenda and ambitious growth led to severe financial instability. Burdened by debt and legal pressures, the Arena Publishing Company declared bankruptcy in 1896. While the magazine survived under new management until 1909, the dedicated publishing house ceased operations permanently at the close of 1896.

Related Periodicals: The Arena

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Aries Press published the periodical Aries Quarterly from 1936-1938.

Related Periodicals: Aries Quarterly

(Source: Gemini) The Arjuna Lodge was an early and significant branch of the Theosophical Society located in St. Louis, Missouri. It was founded by Elliott B. Page, an early and active member of the movement in the United States. The lodge was formally chartered on September 17, 1882, following an application signed by the Society’s founders, Henry Steel Olcott and Helena Petrovna Blavatsky. It holds a notable place in the organization's history as the third lodge to be chartered globally—following the London Lodge and the Rochester (New York) Lodge—and the second to be granted a charter within the United States. The lodge’s founder, Elliott B. Page, played a larger role in the growth of the American Section; he was later appointed to the American Board of Control in 1884. Named after the central human protagonist of the Bhagavad Gita, the lodge reflected the Theosophical Society's deep interest in integrating Eastern philosophical traditions with Western occultism and inquiry. Like other lodges of the period, the Arjuna Lodge functioned as a local center for the study of comparative religion, philosophy, and the "unexplained laws of nature" that formed the core of the Society's mission.

Related Periodicals: Teosofia Madrid | Zanoni

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(Source: Gemini) The Aryana Company was associated with the Aryana colony, a Mazdaznan settlement and European headquarters established in Herrliberg, near Zurich, Switzerland. It functioned as a central commune and "Lebensschule" (life school) for the movement, serving as a hub for the dissemination of its teachings in Europe. The colony was founded by the Swiss-born Mazdaznan advocate David Ammann (1855–1923) and his wife, Frieda, who were instrumental in spreading the movement throughout Europe beginning around 1907. During the early 20th century, Aryana attracted international followers, including prominent cultural figures like the Bauhaus master Johannes Itten, who visited the settlement to deepen his understanding of Mazdaznan practices.The colony functioned as an administrative and educational base, managing the production and distribution of Mazdaznan literature, dietetic manuals, and therapeutic instruments needed by adherents. While the movement gained popularity in educated and avant-garde circles—notably influencing the pedagogy of the Bauhaus—it also faced significant controversy due to its preoccupation with eugenics and racial superiority, leading to its eventual suppression and banning in Nazi Germany by 1935.

Related Periodicals: The Sun-Worshiper

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The Ascended Master Teaching Foundation is one of several bodies established in the twentieth century to continue the Ascended Master teaching tradition originating in the I AM Activity of Guy and Edna Ballard. Groups within this tradition emphasize dictations from Masters such as Saint Germain, El Morya, and Kuthumi, and practice decree work and visualization.

Related Periodicals: The Bridge to Freedom | Spiritual Caravan | Thomas Printz' Private Bulletin (Bridge to Freedom Activity)

(Source: Gemini) The Association Antimaconnique de France was a French anti-Masonic organization active during the early 20th century. Founded in 1904, it served as the successor to the Comité Antimaçonnique de Paris, which had been established by the Abbé J. Tourmentin in 1897. The association gained significant prominence in the wake of the Affaire des fiches (the "Affair of the Cards"), a major political scandal in which the French government and the Grand Orient de France maintained secret files on the political and religious affiliations of military officers to ensure that promotions favored republican and anti-clerical candidates. The association’s primary goal was to expose and discredit Freemasons, whom they viewed as an ideological threat to French society and the Catholic Church. They published "Masonic directories" containing the names of over 30,000 individuals identified as Freemasons. The association was influential enough to serve as a template for the Ligue antimaçonnique de Belgique (Anti-Masonic League of Belgium). It is important to distinguish the Association Antimaconnique de France from the Ligue française antimaçonnique, which was founded in 1906 by Paul Copin-Albancelli. While both groups operated during the same period and shared a common adversary, they were distinct entities. The association was led by several notable figures of the time, including Admiral Jules de Cuverville, Roger Audren de Kerdrel, and Gabriel de Ramel.

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(Source: Gemini) The Association of Suggestive Therapeutics was a professional organization dedicated to the study and promotion of hypnotic and psychotherapeutic techniques. It was active from approximately 1900 to 1907. The association emerged during a period of intense interest in the intersection of psychology, neurology, and medical practice. It sought to professionalize the use of "suggestion"—the practice of using verbal or mental direction to influence patient health—as a legitimate medical modality. Its members focused on treating nervous disorders, chronic pain, and behavioral ailments through therapeutic suggestion and, at times, hypnotism. The organization aimed to distinguish clinical "suggestion" from stage mesmerism, positioning it as a rigorous, science-based therapeutic tool for physicians. The organization’s most lasting contribution was its official journal, The Journal of Suggestive Therapeutics, which began publication in 1900. The journal served as a clearinghouse for case studies, theoretical papers on the subconscious, and debates regarding the ethical application of suggestion in medical practice. It featured contributions from both American and European practitioners, highlighting the international exchange of ideas in the nascent field of psychotherapy. By the mid-1900s, the association faced challenges common to emerging medical fields, including competition from evolving schools of psychoanalysis and skepticism from the broader, more traditional medical establishment. The organization eventually disbanded, and the publication was largely absorbed or superseded by broader neurological and psychological periodicals by 1907.

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Astara was founded in Los Angeles in 1951 by Robert Chaney and Earlyne Chaney as an esoteric mystical organization drawing on Spiritualist, Theosophical, Rosicrucian, and Egyptian mystery-school elements. It delivered its teachings largely by correspondence lessons and was later headquartered in Upland, California.

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(Source: Gemini) The Astreia Lodge (also spelled Astraea) was Masonic lodge with a significant esoteric focus. It was established in Paris in 1922 under the auspices of the Grand Lodge of France. The lodge was founded by Russian émigrés, including the prominent political figure Nikolai Vasilievich Tchaikovsky (1850–1926). Operating in the wake of the Russian Revolution, the lodge served as a hub for Russians in exile who sought to restore order and "moral emancipation" in their homeland through the principles and practices of Freemasonry. Astreia existed within the broader milieu of early 20th-century Russian occultism and initiatory orders such as Martinism and Rosicrucianism.It is common to conflate the Astreia Lodge with other entities due to the name's frequent use in Russian history and esoteric traditions: Grand Lodge Astreia: In the mid-1920s, figures such as Boris Astromov established underground groups in Russia under the name "Grand Lodge Astreia," which operated under conditions of Soviet repression. Generally, the name "Astraea" (or Astrea) is historically significant in Russian Masonry, dating back to the early 19th century. Various lodges bearing this name have appeared in different iterations of Russian Masonic obediences, including modern lodges in St. Petersburg.

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Astro Distributing Corporation published the periodical Astrology Guide (Lee) from 1938-1987.

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Astro Publishing Company published the periodical The Stellar Ray from Detroit, MI (1906-1914).

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Astro-Digest Publishing Company published the periodical Astro-Digest from 1903-1962.

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(Source: Gemini) The "Astrological College of Sweden" was not a genuine academic or professional institution, but rather a fabrication used by the 19th-century astrologer, patent medicine manufacturer, and self-described doctor C. W. Roback (born Carl Johan Nilsson, also known as Carl Johan Fallenius). Roback prominently cited his title as "President of the Astrological College of Sweden" on the title page of his 1854 book, The Mysteries of Astrology and the Wonders of Magic. He further bolstered his public persona by claiming to be the "Founder of the Society of the Magi in London, Paris, and St. Petersburg". Historical analysis confirms that these organizations were complete inventions designed to lend an air of legitimacy and "Old World" expertise to Roback’s career in the United States. Roback was a known charlatan who fled Sweden in the 1840s under a cloud of fraud charges to escape a prison sentence. In the United States, Roback successfully rebranded himself as a medical and occult authority. His publications and advertisements were primarily vehicles to market patent medicines, "love-powders," and galvanic health devices alongside his services in horary astrology, geomancy, and fortune-telling.There is no historical evidence that an "Astrological College of Sweden" ever existed.

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(Source: Gemini) The Astrological Institute of London (often referred to as the Institut Astrologique de Carthage in its French-language publications) was an esoteric and educational organization active in the early 20th century, particularly prominent around 1930 and 1931.The institute served as the primary organizational backbone for the occult periodical L’Astrosophie, a French review edited by the prolific writer and esoteric researcher Francis Rolt-Wheeler. While the publication had its roots in Carthage, Tunisia, it maintained a strong presence in the international occult community, with the institute acting as the hub for its research, correspondence, and international outreach. The institute functioned as a center for "esoteric and exoteric astrology" and the study of psychic and occult sciences. It aimed to reconcile traditional occult wisdom with contemporary scientific developments, a theme frequently echoed in the pages of L’Astrosophie. To extend its reach to English-speaking audiences, the institute supported a shorter-lived English companion magazine titled The Seer, also edited by Rolt-Wheeler. The two publications frequently shared contributors, astrological predictions, and research findings. Beyond publishing, the institute and its associated circle were involved in various esoteric projects, including historical research into occult traditions, the study of psychic mechanisms, and even the production of specialized items like tarot decks.

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Atlas Printing Company published the periodical MacDonald's Farmer's Almanac and Dream Book from Binghamton, NY (1859-1918).

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The Austin Publishing Company was the publishing vehicle of Benjamin Fish Austin (1850–1933), a Canadian Methodist minister who was expelled from his denomination in 1899 for embracing Spiritualism. Based first in Rochester, New York and later in Los Angeles, it issued Austin's Reason (1905–1932), Radium (1908), and The Austin Pulpit (1927–1932), promoting a nondenominational spiritualist-liberal Christianity.

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(Source: Gemini) The Australian Centre for UFO Studies (ACUFOS) was a prominent civilian research organization dedicated to the study and investigation of Unidentified Flying Objects in Australia. It was primarily active during the early 1980s, with records indicating its operations centered around 1980 to 1985. ACUFOS was established to provide a structured, analytical approach to the study of aerial phenomena, distinguishing itself from the more casual "saucer clubs" of earlier decades. The center compiled data, conducted investigations into sighting reports, and facilitated debate among Australian ufologists. The organization is perhaps best known for the 1985 publication UFOs Over Australia: A Selection of ACUFOS Research Findings and Debate, edited by John M. Prytz and Mark Moravec. This work remains a significant artifact of Australian ufology, collecting various research papers and analysis conducted under the ACUFOS banner. ACUFOS operated during a period when civilian UFO research in Australia was transitioning from the highly active, decentralized "flying saucer clubs" of the 1950s and 60s toward more specialized study groups. While the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) had previously maintained an official interest in UFO reports due to Cold War security concerns -- particularly regarding weapons testing at sites like Woomera -- by the time ACUFOS was active, official military interest had largely waned, leaving the field primarily to civilian researchers.

Related People: Basterfield, Keith

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(Source: Gemini) The Australian Flying Saucer Research Society (AFSRS) was a notable civilian organization within the early Australian ufology movement, founded in Adelaide, South Australia, in February 1955 by Fred Stone. Stone intended for the AFSRS to serve as a national governing body for all UFO research groups across Australia. However, the movement in Australia was highly decentralized, and the society saw varying degrees of success as different state-based groups formed, sometimes splitting or becoming independent. In February 1957, the Australian Flying Saucer Research Society (Victorian Branch) was formed at Melbourne University by Peter E. Norris and John Pinkney. Many regional branches, including the Victorian group, eventually sought independence. By late 1957, the Victorian branch reorganized into the Victorian Flying Saucer Research Society (VFSRS), which later became known as the Victorian UFO Research Society (VUFORS). The AFSRS name continued to appear in various forms over the following decades; for instance, records indicate an Australian Flying Saucer Research Society was associated with a journal titled UFO News as late as 1977. Like other civilian groups of the era, the AFSRS was established to collect, research, and document UFO sighting reports during a period of high public interest in the phenomenon. Their work occurred against a Cold War backdrop where UFO sightings were often reported near sensitive military and scientific facilities, such as the Woomera Rocket Range, leading to significant public and government curiosity regarding aerial phenomena.

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(Source: Gemini) The Theosophical Society in Australia (TSA) is the national section of the international Theosophical Society, headquartered in Adyar, India. While Theosophical interest in Australia began shortly after the Society’s founding in 1875, the national organization was formally established in 1895. The first official lodge in Australia was formed in Sydney in 1891, followed by others in Melbourne and Brisbane. In 1895, these branches unified to form the Australasian Section, which later transitioned into the independent Australian Section. The society gained significant momentum through the early 20th century under the guidance of high-profile leaders like Charles Webster Leadbeater, who spent his final years in Sydney. His presence made Australia a central hub for the movement, particularly during the 1920s. The society became synonymous with the "Manor" in Mosman, Sydney -— a historic estate that served as the residence for C.W. Leadbeater and a center for Theosophical education, meditation, and the propagation of the Liberal Catholic Church. Throughout its history, the TSA has maintained an extensive network of libraries and bookstores across major Australian cities. It continues to publish materials, host public lectures, and facilitate study groups centered on perennial philosophy, Eastern traditions, and esoteric science.

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(Source: Gemini) The Azoth Publishing Company was an American occult and metaphysical publisher based in New York City, active primarily from 1917 to 1923. It was established to serve the growing market for "New Thought," occultism, and esoteric literature during the early 20th century. The company was the publishing arm associated with the monthly periodical Azoth, a magazine that covered topics including astrology, alchemy, tarot, psychical research, and Eastern philosophy. Beyond the magazine, the company published books and pamphlets by influential contemporary figures in the occult and alternative religious movements. Its catalog often featured works that explored the "latent powers of the mind" and the application of occult principles to daily life. The magazine and publishing house were closely tied to the broader New York occult scene of the post-World War I era. While the company was relatively short-lived, it serves as a distinct example of the commercialization of the occult in American urban centers during the 1910s. By the early 1920s, the company struggled to maintain its niche position amidst the shifting landscape of American metaphysical movements, and it largely ceased operations by 1923.

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The "Back to Blavatsky" movement was informal, a Theosophical current of the 1910s and 1920s that arose in reaction to the elaborations of Theosophy introduced by Annie Besant, C. W. Leadbeater, and their circle. Its adherents sought to return to what they took as the original teachings of H. P. Blavatsky as set out in The Secret Doctrine (1888). The movement was particularly strong in the Sydney Lodge under T. H. Martyn — which was expelled from the Adyar-based Society in 1923 — and in the early Alice Bailey group at Krotona.

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Back to Nature Corporation published the periodical Back to Nature from 1877-1951.

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The Battle Creek Sanitarium was established in 1866 by the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Battle Creek, Michigan and became internationally known under the direction of Dr. John Harvey Kellogg from 1876. It combined Adventist health-reform teaching (vegetarianism, hydrotherapy, temperance) with medical and dietary experimentation, becoming both a fashionable resort and a laboratory for early breakfast cereals developed by Kellogg and his brother W. K. Kellogg.

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Beacon Committee published the periodical The Beacon (Bailey) from 1922.

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Beacon Light Ministry published the periodical The Beacon Light from Atascadero, CA (1933-1960).

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The Bell Telephone Company was founded in Boston in 1877 by Alexander Graham Bell, his father-in-law Gardiner Hubbard, and Thomas Sanders, following Bell's patenting of the telephone in 1876. Through a series of reorganizations it became the American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T) and the parent of the Bell System, which held a near-monopoly on American telephone service until its breakup in 1984.

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The Blavatsky Association was founded in London in 1923 by former members of the Theosophical Society who sought to promote the original teachings of H. P. Blavatsky independently of the successor Theosophical organizations. It was dedicated to the preservation and study of Blavatsky's writings and published a bulletin and various pamphlets.

Related Periodicals: Proceedings of the Blavatsky Association

The Blavatsky Lodge was founded in London in 1887 as a lodge of the Theosophical Society, meeting initially at H. P. Blavatsky's residence at Lansdowne Road. It became the principal English-speaking lodge of the Society during Blavatsky's final years and hosted the discussions that were published as The Secret Doctrine Commentaries and Transactions of the Blavatsky Lodge.

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Bohemian Press published the periodical The Uplifting Veil from 1890-1942.

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Borderland Sciences Research Associates (BSRA) was founded in 1945 in San Diego by N. Meade Layne to investigate psychic phenomena, Fortean anomalies, and, after 1947, unidentified flying objects. It published the Round Robin from 1945 and, under Layne's Ether Ship hypothesis, was one of the earliest civilian UFO research organizations. It continues as Borderland Sciences Research Foundation.

Related People: Probert, Mark, Wright, J. Gilbert E.

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Boston Christian Science Society published the periodical Boston Christian Scientist from Boston, MA (1889).

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The Bridge to Freedom Activity was founded in 1951 by Geraldine Innocente after her split from the I AM Activity. It continued the Ascended Master teaching tradition through dictations she claimed to receive from the Master El Morya, and served as a doctrinal bridge between the I AM Activity and later Ascended Master bodies including the Summit Lighthouse and Church Universal and Triumphant.

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Mail-order dietary school advertising in Psychology (New York). (Source: Pat Deveney's description of Psychology (New York), 2026-08-07; entry pending review.)

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The British College of Psychic Science was founded in London in 1920 by James Hewat McKenzie as a center for the training of mediums, the investigation of psychic phenomena, and public education. Arthur Conan Doyle served as its president in the mid-1920s. It ceased operating in 1947, its work absorbed by the College of Psychic Studies.

Related People: McKean, Samuel H

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The British National Association of Spiritualists (BNAS) was founded in London in 1873 as a national organization of British Spiritualists. It hosted lectures, published a journal, and provided a meeting place for investigation of mediumship; it was reorganized in the 1880s and succeeded by the London Spiritualist Alliance.

Related People: Kislingbury, Emily, Moses, William Stainton, Rogers, Edmund Dawson

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The British UFO Research Association (BUFORA) was originally founded in London in 1959 as the London UFO Research Organization, which issued the monthly mimeographed magazine LUFORO Bulletin. In 1962 LUFORO merged with seven other British UFO groups and incorporated as the British UFO Association, consolidated as BUFORA in 1964. It became legally constituted in 1975 as a non-profit company limited by guarantee, and has been the principal national civilian UFO research body in the United Kingdom.

Source: J. Gordon Melton, Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology, 5th ed. (Detroit: Gale, 2001), s.v. "British UFO Research Association."

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The Brotherhood of Light was the esoteric organization headed by Elbert Benjamine (C. C. Zain) from 1918, presenting itself as a successor to the Hermetic Brotherhood of Luxor of the nineteenth century. In 1932 its public teaching activities were transferred to the newly incorporated Church of Light, headquartered in Los Angeles.

Related People: Williams, Benjamin P.

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The Brotherhood of Man was a slogan and organizational form widely adopted in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Spiritualist, New Thought, and Theosophical circles, generally paired with the "Fatherhood of God" as the summary of a nondenominational religious universalism. Numerous periodicals and small societies took the phrase as their motto or name during the period.

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The Brotherhood of the Union was founded in Philadelphia in 1849 by the novelist and reformer George Lippard (1822–1854) as a secret fraternal society devoted to labor reform, land reform, and social justice, drawing on Rosicrucian and Christian imagery. Its ritual and mythology, elaborated in Lippard's own extravagantly gothic manner, were later absorbed by R. Swinburne Clymer into his Rosicrucian genealogies.

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The Brotherhood Publishing Company of Los Angeles issued the monthly Brotherhood magazine from December 1915, edited by Abraham Ellart Nelson (1868–1940) under the editorial name Ellart Nelson, A.M., Ph.D. Nelson was a former Methodist Episcopal minister who in mid-1915 became a New Thought publisher and teacher.

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Brown Book Publishing Company published the periodical The Little Brown Book from Cincinnati, OH (1913-1914).

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Harmonial Association published the periodical The Age of Progress from Buffalo, NY (1854-1858).

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Bureau des Annales Initiatiques published the periodical Annales Initiatiques from Lyon, France (1920-1939).

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Bureau of Equitable Commerce published the periodical Plowshare and Pruning Hook from 1891-1895.

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Cabbalistic Publishing Company published the periodical Uriel from Boston, MA (1856-1909).

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Camp Chesterfield was established in 1886 in Chesterfield, Indiana by the Indiana Association of Spiritualists as a summer camp meeting for Spiritualist mediums, lecturers, and members. It has operated continuously and has been affiliated at various times with the Indiana Association of Spiritualists and other Spiritualist bodies.

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The Cartilage Company of Rochester, New York was a mail-order enterprise operated by C. S. Clark in the early twentieth century, selling a hammock said to lengthen the bones of the spine and prolong life. It was heavily advertised in New Thought and health-reform periodicals alongside similar quack devices such as Albert Abrams's Concussor and the Ox-O-Na-Ter, and figured in the collapse of Orlando E. Miller's Chapala colonization scheme when a Boston grand jury began investigating the hammock as an inducement offered to prospective colonists.

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The Cassadaga Spiritualist Camp Meeting Association was founded in 1894 at Cassadaga (later Lake Helen), Florida by George P. Colby, a New York medium. It became the principal Southern Spiritualist camp and is one of the oldest continuously operating Spiritualist communities in the United States.

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Cathedral Publishing Company published the periodical Immortality and Survival from London, England (1930-1932).

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The Central Scientific College of Indianapolis was one of the diploma-mill institutions of the interwar and postwar American occult circuit, at which the peripatetic spiritualist and metaphysician Georgios Dokas (1896–1993) served as an instructor. He was also secretary of the American Occult College of Indianapolis, and was an associate of Charles H. Gunsolus, an America First proponent and spiritualist.

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Channel Publishing Society published the periodical The Channel from Hollywood, CA (1915-1917).

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Chirag Press published the periodical Theosophic Gleaner from Bombay, India (1893-1907).

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The Christian Catholic Apostolic Church in Zion was founded in Chicago in 1896 by John Alexander Dowie, a Scottish-born faith healer. In 1901 Dowie established the theocratic community of Zion City, Illinois as the church's headquarters, running it as a Christian utopia with prohibitions on medicine, alcohol, and tobacco. Dowie was deposed in 1906 amid financial and moral scandals, and the church continued under later leadership on a diminished scale.

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The Christian Science Association was an early organizational body established by Mary Baker Eddy in Boston, drawing together her early students. It preceded the formal reorganization of the Christian Science movement into the Church of Christ, Scientist and the Mother Church.

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The Christian Science Publishing Society was established in Boston in 1898 by Mary Baker Eddy as the publishing arm of the Church of Christ, Scientist. It publishes the Christian Science Sentinel, the Christian Science Journal, the Christian Science Quarterly, and the daily newspaper The Christian Science Monitor, which was founded in 1908.

Related Periodicals: Christian Science Journal | Christian Science Sentinel | Herold der Christian Science (Christlichen Wissenschaft)

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Christian Yoga Society was an organization founded in the mid-twentieth century to teach yoga as a discipline compatible with Christian devotional practice. Bodies bearing this or closely related names were established by teachers including Swami Yogananda Ramaiah and, in France, Jean-Marie Déchanet.

Related People: Mozumdar, A.K.

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Christward Ministry published the periodical Training for Self-Conquest from Vista, CA (1946-1951).

Related People: Newhouse, Flower A.

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Chronicle Publishing Company Ltd published the periodical Freemason's Chronicle from London, England (1875-1939).

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"Church of Christ" is a designation used by numerous Christian denominational and congregational bodies, including the Restoration Movement bodies of the American Campbell-Stone tradition (from which the a cappella Churches of Christ and the Christian Church/Disciples of Christ descend), and the First Church of Christ, Scientist of Mary Baker Eddy's Christian Science.

Related Organizations: Congregational Church

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(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.90) The Church of Christ, Scientist is the church of the Christian Science movement, founded by Mary Baker Eddy in Boston in 1879. Its teaching rests on Eddy's Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures (1875) and holds that sickness and sin are addressed through prayer and the understanding of God set out in that book. Its spiritual and administrative center is the Mother Church, the First Church of Christ, Scientist in Boston (1892); branch congregations worldwide take the designation "Church of Christ, Scientist." Its publishing work issues The Christian Science Journal, the Christian Science Sentinel, and The Christian Science Monitor.

Related Organizations: Christian Science Association (Boston), Christian Science Publishing Society

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The Church of Divine Science is the ecclesiastical branch of the Divine Science movement in New Thought, established in the 1890s through the parallel teaching work of Malinda Cramer in San Francisco and Nona L. Brooks in Denver. It teaches divine immanence, the power of positive thought, and spiritual healing.

Related People: Murray, W. John

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Church of Divine Science and Philosophy published the periodical Astro-Digest from 1932.

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The Church of Illumination was the exoteric religious arm of the Fraternitas Rosae Crucis, founded by R. Swinburne Clymer at Beverly Hall, Quakertown, Pennsylvania in the early twentieth century. It taught a system combining Rosicrucian, hermetic, and mystical Christian elements, and Clymer led the organization until his death in 1966.

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The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was organized in western New York in 1830 by Joseph Smith on the basis of the Book of Mormon (1830) and subsequent revelations Smith claimed to receive. After Smith's murder in Illinois in 1844, the main body of the church followed Brigham Young to the Great Basin, where they established Salt Lake City in 1847; the church has since become a global body headquartered there.

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Church of Jesus Christ Our Redeemer published the periodical Christian Spiritualist Quarterly from Kansas City, MO (1935-1943).

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The Church of Light was incorporated in 1932 in Los Angeles by Elbert Benjamine (writing under the name C. C. Zain) as the exoteric religious body of the Brotherhood of Light, which Benjamine had headed since 1918 as successor to Emma Hardinge Britten's Hermetic Brotherhood of Luxor lineage. It taught a system of astrology, alchemy, and magic through a series of correspondence courses.

Related People: Grimke, Sarah Stanley, Litchfield, Beals, Williams, Benjamin P.

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The Church of Scientology was founded in 1954 in Los Angeles by L. Ron Hubbard as the religious organization of the practice he called Scientology, developed from his 1950 book Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health. Its central practice is auditing, delivered through a graded system of courses, and its international administrative structure has been headquartered at Gold Base in Riverside County, California and at other properties.

Related People: Mathison, Volney

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The Church of Truth is a New Thought denomination founded in 1913 in Spokane, Washington by Albert C. Grier, a former Universalist minister. It affiliated with the International New Thought Alliance and spread through several American cities in the interwar period.

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The Church Universal and Triumphant was founded in 1974 by Elizabeth Clare Prophet as the incorporated religious body of the Summit Lighthouse teaching, which her husband Mark L. Prophet had established in 1958. It teaches a version of the Ascended Master tradition derived from the I AM Activity of Guy and Edna Ballard, emphasizing dictations from the Masters and decrees to Saint Germain and others. Its headquarters were relocated to a large ranch near Corwin Springs, Montana in the 1980s.

Related People: Prophet, Elizabeth Clare Wulf

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City-of-the-Sun Foundation published the periodical Golden Dawn (Wayne Taylor) from 1971-1992.

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The Clark Publishing Company was the original publisher of Fate Magazine, which was founded in 1948 by Raymond A. Palmer and Curtis Fuller in Chicago and later Highland Park, Illinois. The company also published Palmer's Amazing Stories and Fantastic Adventures during his editorship, and the magazine passed to Llewellyn Publications after Clark ceased publication.

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The Cleveland School of Suggestive Therapeutics was one of the regional correspondence schools of suggestion-therapy teaching in the early twentieth century, part of the wider Chicago-oriented network of Parkyn, Flower, and their imitators.

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The College of Divine Metaphysics, Incorporated, was a Metaphysics correspondence diploma mill headquartered in Indianapolis (and later also Chicago), active from the early twentieth century through the 1950s. It issued Ps.D., Ms.D., and D.D. degrees widely by mail and was one of the more visible degree-granting institutions among the interwar and postwar American New Thought and spiritualist circuits.

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The College of Divine Science was the teaching arm of the Divine Science movement in New Thought, most notably the Colorado College of Divine Science established by Nona L. Brooks in Denver in the 1890s.

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The College of Universal Wisdom was a flying-saucer organization founded by George W. Van Tassell (1910–1978), a contactee and author whose first book was I Rode in a Flying Saucer (1952). Through the College Van Tassell published a journal, The Proceedings of the College of Universal Wisdom, and promoted his contactee teaching and the Integratron device he built at Giant Rock, California. The organization declined and dissolved soon after Van Tassell's death.

Source: J. Gordon Melton, Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology, 5th ed. (Detroit: Gale, 2001), s.v. "College of Universal Wisdom."

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The Colorado College of Divine Science was founded in Denver in the 1890s by Nona L. Brooks and her sisters as the teaching arm of the Divine Science movement. It offered residential and correspondence courses in Divine Science metaphysics, ordained ministers and healers, and published a succession of periodicals including Fulfillment, Divine Science Quarterly, Power Magazine, Daily Studies in Divine Science, Divine Science Monthly, and Divine Science News.

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Column Publishing Company published the periodical The Column from 1911-1914.

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Comforter League of Light published the periodical Comforter from 1914-1946.

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The Comité de l'Union Spirite Française was the executive body of the Union Spirite Française, publishing the Bulletin de l'Union Spirite Française from 1921 to 1935 under the editorship of Léon Chevreuil and Jean Meyer.

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Common Sense Publishing Company published the periodical Essence of Common Sense from Colorado Springs, CO (1906).

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Congregational Church is a designation used by Protestant churches of the Reformed tradition organized on the principle of the autonomy of the local congregation. Its roots lay in the seventeenth-century English Separatist and Puritan movements, and Congregational churches were dominant in colonial New England. In the United States, most Congregational churches merged into the United Church of Christ in 1957.

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The Congress of Freethinkers was a designation used for a series of international meetings of secularist, rationalist, and freethinking organizations held from the late nineteenth century onward. Related organizations included the International Freethought Federation and the American Secular Union.

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Consumers International Club published the periodical New Atlantean Journal from St. Petersburg, FL (1973-1984).

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Coptic Fellowship (America) published the periodical Aegyptus (The Coptic Fellowship of America) from Hollywood, CA (1939-1942).

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Cosmic Publishing Company published the periodical Mind In Nature from Chicago, IL (1885-1887).

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The Cosmopolitan Society of Christian Science was one of several splinter groups that formed from Mary Baker Eddy's Boston organization in the 1880s and 1890s, at a time when Eddy's control of Christian Science was disputed by rival teachers and former students.

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Council for Psychical Investigation published the periodical Bulletin and Proceedings of the National Laboratory of Psychical Research from 1927-1933.

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Crossley Publishing Company published the periodical Forum of Psychic and Scientific Research from Los Angeles, CA (1933).

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Crystola Publishing Company published the periodical The Mountain Pine from Crystola, CA (1906-1908).

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Culture Publishing Company published the periodical American Rosae Crucis from 1916-1920.

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Dartmouth College is a private university in Hanover, New Hampshire, chartered by King George III in 1769. Founded by Congregationalist minister Eleazar Wheelock, it was one of the nine colonial colleges of North America and is a member of the Ivy League.

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Dawn Publishing Company published the periodical Dawn (San Francisco) from San Francisco, CA (1910-1911).

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Los Angeles appliance company advertising in Psychology (New York). (Source: Pat Deveney's description of Psychology (New York), 2026-08-07; entry pending review.)

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Divine Life Press published the periodical The Divine Life from Chicago, IL (1906-1935).

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The Divine Life Society was founded in 1936 at Rishikesh, in the Himalayan foothills of India, by Swami Sivananda Saraswati. It teaches an integrated yoga combining Vedantic philosophy with practical exercises drawn from hatha, raja, karma, bhakti, and jnana yoga. Sivananda's disciples, including Swami Vishnudevananda, Swami Chinmayananda, and Swami Satchidananda, established related organizations in the West from the 1950s.

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The Divine Science Church emerged in the 1880s and 1890s from the parallel teaching work of Malinda Cramer in San Francisco and Nona L. Brooks and her sisters in Denver. Formally unified in 1898 as the International Divine Science Association, it was among the earliest organized branches of the New Thought movement. Its First Divine Science Church in Denver, dedicated in 1922, was the movement's principal congregation.

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The Divine Science College was the general designation used for the teaching bodies of the Divine Science movement in New Thought, most notably the Colorado College of Divine Science in Denver established by Nona L. Brooks in the 1890s.

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The Divine Science Federation International is the coordinating body of Divine Science churches in North America, tracing its origins to the late nineteenth-century teaching of Malinda Cramer in San Francisco and Nona L. Brooks in Denver. It has been headquartered in Denver, Colorado at the First Divine Science Church.

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The Divine Science Fellowship was an association of Divine Science ministers and congregations within the New Thought movement, coordinating training and ordination across the several Divine Science bodies during the twentieth century.

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The Divine Science Home School was the correspondence-lesson arm of the Divine Science movement, offering home-study courses under the direction successively of Malinda Cramer, Nona L. Brooks, and their successors.

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The Divine Science Publishing Company was the publishing arm of the Divine Science movement, issuing the writings of Malinda Cramer, Nona L. Brooks, and their successors, and the various Divine Science periodicals from Denver and San Francisco.

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The Eclectic Medical College (later the Eclectic Medical Institute) of Cincinnati was the leading American training institution for Eclectic Medicine, a nineteenth-century medical tradition that emerged as a distinct alternative to the then-dominant "heroic" allopathic methods: including aggressive bloodletting, purging, and the heavy use of mercury. The movement was pioneered by Dr. Wooster Beach, who championed a "scientific eclecticism" that sought to synthesize the best practices from various traditions, including conventional medicine, Native American herbalism, and European botanical knowledge. Officially established with the founding of the Reformed Medical College in New York in 1827, the Eclectic Medicine movement gained significant momentum with the creation of the Eclectic Medical Institute in Cincinnati in 1845, which became the intellectual center for the discipline. Founded in 1845, it counted among its alumni the pioneering woman physician Caroline B. Winslow, the Vitapathic teacher Joseph Rodes Buchanan (who served as its president), the Oahspe author John Ballou Newbrough, the physician-reformer Alice B. Stockham, and the pharmacist John Uri Lloyd. Buchanan edited the Eclectic Medical Journal from 1849 as its organ. Related Periodicals: Eclectic Medical Journal | Hesperian Bard | The Alpha | The Sunbeam

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The Église Gnostique Universelle was formed in 1907 when Jean Bricaud, Papus, Louis-Sophrone Fugairon, and others broke from Fabre des Essarts's Église Gnostique to establish a more Catholic-appearing gnostic body. Bricaud was elected Patriarch as Tau Jean II in 1908, and the church took part in the influential 1908 Paris Conférence Maçonnique et Spiritualiste Internationale that laid the ground for the transmission of French occult and irregular Masonic lineages into Theodor Reuss's Ordo Templi Orientis.

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Eloist Ministry published the periodical The Living Word from 1912.

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The Emmanuel Movement was a program of psychotherapeutic and spiritual healing established in 1906 at Emmanuel Church, Boston by the Reverend Elwood Worcester, together with his associates Samuel McComb and the neurologist Isador H. Coriat. It combined Christian pastoral care with psychological methods drawn from suggestion therapy and became widely influential in early twentieth-century American religious approaches to mental and physical illness.

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Erwood Publishing Company published the periodical The Mystic Key from Rochester, NY (1928).

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Esoteric Brotherhood published the periodical The Oriental Esoteric Society Bulletin from 1921-1924.

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The Esoteric Publishing Company of Applegate, California was the publishing arm of Hiram Erastus Butler's Esoteric Fraternity colony, established in the Sierra Nevada foothills in 1890. It issued Butler's series of periodicals — The Esoteric, The Occult and Biological Journal, The Bible Review, and The Christian Esoteric — teaching his system of Solar Biology, sexual continence, and Biblical mysticism, and continued to distribute his lessons and books after his death in 1916.

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The Exodus Publishing Company was the final publisher of Ursula N. Gestefeld's magazine Exodus (1895–1904) after passing through several corporate hands, and served the small following of Gestefeld's Church of the New Thought and Science of Being in Chicago.

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The Exodus Society was the small following of Ursula N. Gestefeld's teaching in Chicago and Pelham, New York, organized around her magazine Exodus and her books on the Science of Being.

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Facts Publishing Company published the periodical Facts from 1882-1887.

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Federation of Practical Psychology Clubs (Great Britain) published the periodical The Practical Psychologist (London) from London, England (1925-1926).

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"Fédération Spirite" is the general French-language designation applied to the various national and international federations of Kardecist spiritist societies established from the 1880s onward, including the Fédération Spirite Belge, the Fédération Spirite de Liège, the Fédération Spirite Internationale, and the Fédération Spirite Universelle.

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The Fédération Spirite Belge was the national federation of Belgian Kardecist spiritist societies, active from the late nineteenth century as the Belgian counterpart of the French Union Spirite. It coordinated the annual gatherings of Belgian spiritists and published periodicals including the Bulletin de la Fédération Spirite Belge.

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The Fédération Spirite de Liège was the regional federation of Kardecist spiritist societies of Liège and the surrounding province of eastern Belgium, tracing its ultimate origins to Oscar Henrion's Union Spiritualiste of the late 1870s.

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The Fédération Spirite Internationale was one of the international coordinating bodies of the Kardecist spiritist movement, organizing periodic international congresses and coordinating cross-national federations of spiritist societies from the interwar period.

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The Fédération Spirite Universelle was one of several international coordinating bodies of the Kardecist spiritist movement, distinct from but related to the Fédération Spirite Internationale, organizing spiritist congresses and coordinating international correspondence.

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Fellowship Press published the periodical The Galilean from 1941-1942.

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Finnish American Theosophical Publishing Company published the periodical Teosofian Valo from Cleveland, Ohio (1913-1915).

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The First Christian Church in Little Rock, Arkansas is a Disciples of Christ congregation, part of the denomination founded in the early nineteenth-century American Restoration Movement led by Thomas and Alexander Campbell and Barton W. Stone.

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The First Church of Christ, Scientist (widely known as the Mother Church) was organized in Boston in 1879 by Mary Baker Eddy as the parent church of the Church of Christ, Scientist. It is the headquarters of Christian Science, a movement teaching spiritual healing based on Eddy's book Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures (first edition 1875). The Church publishes The Christian Science Monitor.

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The First Divine Science Church of Denver was founded by Nona L. Brooks and her sisters in the 1890s and dedicated its permanent building in Denver in 1922. It has served as the flagship congregation of the Divine Science movement in New Thought.

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The First Society of Spiritualists was a designation used by early organized congregations of Spiritualists in various American cities during the late nineteenth century, including New York and Chicago.

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The First Spiritual Temple was founded in Boston in 1885 by Marcellus S. Ayer as the first Spiritualist congregation to build and own a substantial Boston church edifice. It emphasized the compatibility of Spiritualism with liberal Christianity.

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The First Temple and College of Astrology of Los Angeles was one of the astrological institutions of the American Federation of Astrologers milieu, active in the mid-twentieth century.

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Flying Saucer News Company published the periodical Flying Saucer News (US) from New York, NY (1955-1963).

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The Fortean Society was founded in New York City in 1931 by Tiffany Thayer, Theodore Dreiser, Alexander Woollcott, Ben Hecht, and other admirers of the writer Charles Fort to promote Fort's collection of anomalous phenomena and the skeptical spirit of his books. It published the periodical Doubt from 1937 until Thayer's death in 1959, whereupon it ceased operation.

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Fountain Publishers published the periodical The Fountain (Spokane)n from Spokane, WA (1944).

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Franklin Press published the periodical Canadian Theosophist from 1920.

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The Fraternitas Rosicruciana Antiqua (FRA) was established in the early twentieth century by Arnoldo Krumm-Heller, a German-Mexican esotericist. It combined Rosicrucian, gnostic, and Kabbalistic elements with elements drawn from Papus's French occult milieu and from the Ordo Templi Orientis, and spread through Latin America under Krumm-Heller's direction and that of his successors.

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Calgary, Canada occult order advertising in Psychology (New York). (Source: Pat Deveney's description of Psychology (New York), 2026-08-07; entry pending review.)

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In late 1873, Francis George Irwin founded his incarnation of the Fratres Lucis (Brothers of Light, not to be confused with Benjamine's Brotherhood of Light and its later incarnation the Church of Light) —- also referred to in various documents as the Brotherhood of the Cross of Light or the Order of the Swastika. The order's rituals and history were claimed to have been received between October and November 1873 through crystal-gazing (scrying) sessions. Irwin’s son, Herbert Irwin, acted as the scrying medium under the influence of occultist Frederick Hockley's methods. During these sessions, the spirit of Count Cagliostro allegedly communicated with the Irwins, claiming the Brotherhood had originated in 14th-century Florence before spreading to Rome, Paris, and Vienna. Cagliostro claimed legendary esoteric figures like Robert Fludd, Thomas Vaughan, and the Comte de Saint-Germain had been members. The order synthesized Rosicrucian symbolism, Kabbalah, alchemy, and spirit communication, aiming to transmit secret spiritual knowledge outside standard Masonic structures. While small and restricted to a selective inner circle, Irwin’s Fratres Lucis, along with related fringe Masonic groups created by Irwin and Kenneth Mackenzie, laid the structural and ritual groundwork that led directly to the formation of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn in 1888.

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Friendship Centre published the periodical Facts (Friendship Centre UK) from London, England (1934).

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Galilean Fellowship published the periodical The Galilean from 1941-1942.

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The tradition of modern witchcraft founded by Gerald Gardner (c. 1939), which traces a contested lineage back through the Ordo Templi Orientis and the wider Western esoteric-order world.

The General Assembly of Spiritualists originated in 1930 when members withdrew from the National Spiritualist Association of Churches (NSAC) and reorganized independently. The withdrawal followed a period of internal conflict in the NSAC over the doctrine of reincarnation, which the traditional Spiritualist position in North America had rejected but which a growing minority — influenced by Theosophical thought — had come to accept. The General Assembly represented those who wished to include reincarnation within the Spiritualist teaching.

Source: J. Gordon Melton, Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology, 5th ed. (Detroit: Gale, 2001), s.v. "General Assembly of Spiritualists."

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The George Adamski Foundation was established in the mid-1960s to continue the work of the UFO contactee George Adamski, whose 1953 book Flying Saucers Have Landed and its successors described his claimed meetings with visitors from Venus and other planets. Adamski headed the Royal Order of Tibet in Southern California in the 1930s before becoming the best-known American contactee of the 1950s.

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The Gestefeld Publishing Company of Pelham, New York and later Chicago was the publishing arm of Ursula N. Gestefeld's New Thought teaching from the 1890s. It published Gestefeld's Exodus magazine (1895–1904) and her books setting out her Church of the New Thought and Science of Being.

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The Gnostic Catholic Church (Ecclesia Gnostica Catholica) is a contemporary occult church associated with the Ordo Templi Orientis and the Thelemic magical tradition. It descends from the Église Gnostique founded in 1890 by the French occultist Jules-Benoît Doinel (1842–1902), whose lineage was subsequently transmitted through the Nouvelle Église Gnostique Universelle. Its central rite is Aleister Crowley's Gnostic Mass (Liber XV), which is celebrated publicly in OTO bodies internationally.

Source: J. Gordon Melton, Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology, 5th ed. (Detroit: Gale, 2001), s.v. "Gnostic Catholic Church."

Related People: Peithmann, Ernst Christian Heinrich, Plummer, George Winslow

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The Gnostic Church (Église Gnostique) was founded in Paris in 1890 by Jules-Benoît Doinel (1842–1902) as the ecclesiastical body of French neo-Gnosticism, drawing on Cathar and Bogomil precedents. After Doinel's abjuration in 1895 the church continued under Fabre des Essarts (Synesius) and then divided; one branch became the Église Gnostique Universelle under Jean Bricaud, closely allied with the Martinist Order and later with the Ordo Templi Orientis.

Related People: Doinel, Jules, Essarts, L.-E. Fabre des, Lind, Prince Om Cherenzi

Related Periodicals: Annales Initiatiques | Christliche Theosophie | Gnostic Forum | Le Reveil des Albigeois | Revue Internationale des Societes Secretes

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Golden Gate Printing and Publishing Co published the periodical The Golden Gate from 1885-1890.

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Golden Vista Press published the periodical The Spiritualist (London) from London, England (1930).

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The Grail Order (Gral-Orden) was a German esoteric body established in the 1910s by Parsifal Krauss (Braun), teaching an occult Christian and Grail-mysticism doctrine through a graded correspondence course. It published a succession of periodicals — Mitteilungen des Neuen Gral-Ordens, Mitteilungen des Gral-Ordens, and Der Gral — under successive editors including P. Ch. Martens, F. E. Baumann, and Karl Heise, and continued in various forms into the interwar period.

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Grail Press published the periodical The Grail (NY) from 1905.

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La Gran Fraternidad Universal was founded in Caracas, Venezuela in 1948 by the French esotericist Serge Raynaud de la Ferrière with the assistance of the Mexican esotericist José Manuel Estrada. It taught a synthesis of yoga, astrology, esoteric Christianity, and Theosophical elements, spreading through much of Latin America and Europe.

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Grand Lodge published the periodical Rosicrucian Forum from 1930.

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The Great White Brotherhood is the term used in Theosophical and later occult literature for a group of superhuman adepts or Masters believed to guide the development of the human race. In Theosophical usage the Brotherhood was associated with a Great White Lodge situated in astral or subtle realms. The concept was central to the Ascended Master traditions of the twentieth century, including the I AM Activity, the Bridge to Freedom, and the Church Universal and Triumphant, which developed it into their central doctrinal focus.

Source: J. Gordon Melton, Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology, 5th ed. (Detroit: Gale, 2001), s.v. "Great White Brotherhood."

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Greater World Association published the periodical The Greater World from London, England (1928).

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Guiding Star Publishing Company published the periodical The Guiding Star from Chicago, IL (1886-1889).

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Guild of Spiritual Healing published the periodical Beyond from London, England (1930-1934).

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Hahnemann Medical College of Philadelphia was founded in 1848 as the Homeopathic Medical College of Pennsylvania and renamed in 1869 in honor of Samuel Hahnemann, the founder of homeopathy. It became one of the leading homeopathic medical schools in the United States and continued after homeopathy's decline as Hahnemann Medical College and, later, Hahnemann University.

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Hall Publishing Co published the periodical All-Seeing Eye from 1923-1931.

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Harmony Club (America) published the periodical The Center from New York ,NY (1909-1911).

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"Healing Centre" is a designation used by numerous British and American Spiritualist and metaphysical bodies of the twentieth century as an organizational form for combining absent healing, laying-on of hands, and public services under mediumistic direction. Notable examples included the St. George's Healing Centre in Westminster (associated with Dr. Lascelles and the Seekers Trust from 1925), Mrs. G. Ray Richmond's Carrayman's Healing Centre in London (1934), and the Seekers Trust Healing Centre in Kent.

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The Hermetic Brotherhood of Luxor was an occult order active from the mid-1880s in England and the United States, teaching practical occultism, sexual magic, and correspondence lessons in Hermetic philosophy. Its known figures included Peter Davidson, Thomas H. Burgoyne, and (behind the scenes) Max Théon. It claimed a lineage of transmission distinct from that of the Theosophical Society and was influential on later American occult bodies including the Brotherhood of Light.

Related People: Grimke, Sarah Stanley, Phelon, W.P., Pullen-Burry, Henry, Street, John Commodore, Theon, Max, Wagner, Henry, Zain, C.C.

Related Periodicals: The Gnostic | L'Affranchi | The Occult Magazine (Hermetic Brotherhood of Luxor) | The Occultist (Hermetic Brotherhood of Luxor)

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The Hermetic Publishing Company of New York was John Hazelrigg's publishing arm, issuing his Astrosophical Principles (1917), the Yearbooks of the American Academy of Astrologians (1917–1918), and other astrological works of the American esoteric-astrology tradition.

Related People: Wiggs, George W.

Related Periodicals: Hazelrigg's Astrological Almanac | The Hermetist

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Hermetic Truth Society published the periodical Shrine of Wisdom from 1919-1947.

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Home of Truth Publishing Company published the periodical Christ Mind from Los Angeles, CA (1925-1931).

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The Hopedale Community was a Christian socialist utopian community founded in 1841 in what became Hopedale, Massachusetts by the Universalist minister Adin Ballou. It operated as a joint-stock community organized around nonviolence, temperance, and abolitionism until 1856, when its industrial assets were consolidated into the family firm of the Draper brothers.

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The Hopedale Community Press was the publishing operation associated with Adin Ballou's Hopedale Community in Massachusetts in the 1840s and 1850s. It issued Ballou's Christian nonresistance and abolitionist writings and the community's periodical The Practical Christian.

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Horev-Club (Prague) published the periodical Horev [Prague] from Prague, Czechoslovakia (1938).

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The Hubbard Association of Scientologists (HAS) was established by L. Ron Hubbard in Phoenix, Arizona in 1952 as the successor membership body to Hubbard's earlier Dianetics organizations. It preceded the incorporation of the Church of Scientology in 1954.

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The Hubbard College of Scientology was one of L. Ron Hubbard's early Scientology training bodies, established in the early 1950s to deliver courses on Hubbard's system. It preceded the more elaborate ecclesiastical structure of the Church of Scientology and its later training organizations.

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The Hubbard Dianetics Research Foundation was established by L. Ron Hubbard in Elizabeth, New Jersey in 1950 following the publication of Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health. Financial and organizational difficulties led to the foundation's collapse and subsequent replacement by the Hubbard Association of Scientologists in 1952.

Related Periodicals: Ability (Scientology) | Dianetic Auditors Bulletin [Scientology]

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Hundred-Year League published the periodical Growth from Pasadena, CA (1850-1909).

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The Hygieo-Therapeutic College was founded in New York in 1853 by the water-cure and health-reform physician Russell Thacher Trall. It taught a system combining hydrotherapy, dietetics, hygiene, and eclectic medicine and admitted both men and women, becoming one of the earliest coeducational medical schools in the United States.

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The I AM Activity was founded in the early 1930s by Guy Ballard and Edna Ballard in Chicago, following Guy Ballard's reported encounters with the Ascended Master Saint Germain on Mount Shasta. Its teaching drew on Theosophical concepts of Masters and combined them with New Thought elements, presenting a system of decrees and affirmations addressed to the I AM Presence and to Saint Germain. The movement was severely damaged by federal mail-fraud prosecutions of the Ballards in the 1940s but continued under Edna Ballard's leadership from Saint Germain Foundation headquarters in Schaumburg, Illinois.

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The Illuminati School was one of the vehicles for the teaching of Julia Seton (later Julia Seton Sears), an American New Thought writer and teacher who from about 1905 elaborated a system she called the New Civilization. Based first in New York and later in Santa Monica, California, the School was part of her larger complex of organizations that included the Modern Church, the School of Illuminism, and the New Thought Church and School.

Related Periodicals: The Column | Occult Life (LAX) | The Occultist (Los Angeles)

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Incorporated British Phrenological Society published the periodical The Phrenological Review ( Bernard Hollander ) from 1905-1906.

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Independent Literature Association published the periodical Independent Thinker from New York, NY (1900-1905).

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The Independent Theosophical Society was one of several groups established in the wake of Theosophical Society schisms in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries by members who wished to pursue Theosophical study outside the framework of the successor organizations. Similar bodies operated in Sydney, Rome, and other cities under variants of the same name.

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Index Association published the periodical The Index from Toledo, OH (1870-1880).

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Indo-American Publishing Company published the periodical East and West from Los Angeles, CA (1910-1912).

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The Order of the Initiates of Thibet was the international occult body promoted by Alberto de Sarak (also called Conde de Das, Albert de Das, and other aliases; 1844/1868–1919), an international confidence man who established local centers across South America, then in New York, Baltimore, Washington, D.C., Mexico City, and Paris during the first decade of the twentieth century. His departure from each location was typically prompted by criminal charges. The Order left substantial organizational residue including the Oriental Esoteric Center of Washington and various successor journals.

Related Periodicals: L'Etoile D'Orient | Oriental Esoteric Society Bulletin | The Radiant Centre | The Radiant Truth

"Inner Circle" is a designation used by numerous occult and metaphysical bodies of the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries to designate an advanced or restricted teaching within a larger public society. Notable uses include Geraldine Innocente's group of thirteen students who received communications from the Master El Morya in the Bridge to Freedom Activity from 1945, and Parsifal Krauss's advanced membership in the Grail Order.

Related People: Probert, Mark

Related Periodicals: The Bridge to Freedom | The Inner Circle (Wells) | The New Man | Round Robin

Inner Light Publishing Society published the periodical Inner Light (Fortune) from 1927-1940.

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Institute Astrologique de Carthage published the periodical L'Astrosophie from 1949-1950.

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The Institute of Mentalphysics was founded in 1927 in Los Angeles by Edwin John Dingle, an English-born journalist who published under the name Ding Le Mei. Drawing on Dingle's account of study with a Tibetan lama, it taught a system of breathing exercises, meditation, and Eastern-inflected metaphysics. Its retreat center at Joshua Tree, California, dedicated in 1941, was designed in part by Frank Lloyd Wright's son Lloyd Wright.

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The Institute of Religious Science was founded in Los Angeles by Ernest Holmes in 1927 to teach the New Thought system Holmes had set out in The Science of Mind (1926). It developed into the Church of Religious Science and its successor bodies, the United Church of Religious Science and Religious Science International.

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(Source: Gemini) The International Divine Science Association was a prominent organization within the New Thought movement, active primarily from 1892 to 1897. Founded in San Francisco, it served as an umbrella organization to unite the various independent Divine Science centers and teachers who were proliferating across the United States during the late 19th century. The association provided a platform for the dissemination of Divine Science teachings, which emphasized the omnipresence of God, the creative power of thought, and the practical application of spiritual healing. It held significant annual conventions that acted as a focal point for the movement’s leaders to codify their beliefs and coordinate their promotional efforts. Despite its initial rapid growth and ambition to create a unified national framework for Divine Science, the organization faced internal organizational challenges and increasing competition from other burgeoning metaphysical bodies, leading to its dissolution by the end of 1897. Its legacy persisted, however, as many of its constituent local centers continued to operate independently and eventually reorganized into more durable structures, such as the Divine Science Federation, which maintained the movement's influence throughout the early 20th century.

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(Source: Gemini) The International Flying Saucer Bureau (IFSB) was a civilian UFO research organization based in Bridgeport, Connecticut, that operated from 1952 to 1953. Founded by the prominent ufologist Albert K. Bender, the bureau functioned as a centralized clearinghouse for sighting reports, aiming to coordinate the efforts of independent investigators across the United States. During its brief tenure, the IFSB gained significant notoriety within the early ufology movement for its ambitious scope and its publication, Space Review, which reported on alleged extraterrestrial activity. However, the organization is most historically significant for its abrupt dissolution in November 1953, when Bender claimed he had been visited by "three men in black" who compelled him to cease his research, citing national security concerns. This sensational claim essentially birthed the enduring "Men in Black" mythology in popular culture and effectively ended the IFSB’s formal operations. Following the bureau's closure, the organization's influence persisted primarily through the folklore surrounding Bender's mysterious account, which transformed the IFSB from a routine research group into a central pillar of modern UFO conspiracy theory and investigative lore.

Related People: Bender, Albert K.

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The International Fortean Organization (INFO) was founded in 1965 by brothers Ronald J. Willis and Paul J. Willis of Arlington, Virginia, as a successor to the defunct Fortean Society. It has published INFO Journal since 1967 and organized FortFest, a periodic conference on anomalous phenomena.

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