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

Referenced in: Revue du Monde Invisible

Referenced in: The Dissector

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

Referenced in: 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.

Referenced in: 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.

Referenced in: Adiramled

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 Dr. Alexander James McIvor-Tyndall.

Referenced in: Advanced Thought

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.

Referenced in: Adyar Library Bulletin

The Società Teosofica Italiana was the Italian section of the Adyar-based international Theosophical Society, established formally in 1902. It has published the periodical Il Loto and other Italian-language Theosophical works from Genoa, Milan, and other centers.

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.

Referenced in: Gnostic Forum

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.

Referenced in: APRO Bulletin

The Aetherius Press is the publishing arm of the Aetherius Society, founded in London in 1954 by George King, issuing King's writings on cosmic contact, the Cosmic Masters, and the practice of directing spiritual energy for planetary healing. It has published from the Society's London and Los Angeles centers.

Referenced in: 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.

Referenced in: 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.

Referenced in: Initiates | Nautilus

Referenced in: Nautilus

Referenced in: Journal of the Alchemical Society | Rose Alchemica

Aldebaran Press published the periodical Shaver Mystery Magazine from 1947-1949.

Referenced in: Shaver Mystery Magazine

The Aletheian Society was a small New Thought and spiritualist body active in the 1910s, publishing the periodical The Aletheian (from 1915) as its organ. 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."

Referenced in: The Aletheian

Referenced in: The Platonist

Referenced in: The Aletheian

Referenced in: 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.

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

Referenced in: Mind

Referenced in: The Golden Dawn

Referenced in: Watchman

The American Antiquarian Society, founded in Worcester, Massachusetts in 1812 by the printer and publisher Isaiah Thomas, is a research library and learned society devoted to the study of American history and material culture through 1876. It holds one of the most extensive collections of pre-twentieth-century American periodicals, pamphlets, and ephemera, including substantial holdings of nineteenth-century spiritualist, reform, and freethought journals.

Referenced in: The Agitator | Angel Drummer | The Camp-Meeting Guide | Hacker's Pleasure Boat | Heat and Light for the Nineteenth Century | The Kingdom of Heaven | Little Bouquet | The Metaphysician (Brown) | The Millenial Messenger | New Age (Boston) | The Present Era | The Principle | Rhode-Island Banner | The Rising Sun | Science of Health | The Spirit World | The Spiritual Age (new York) | The Spiritual Clarion | The Sunbeam | The White Banner (Lippard)

The American Astrological Society was among the earliest attempts to form a 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."

Referenced in: The Adept

Referenced in: The Platonist

Referenced in: The Whisper

Referenced in: Psychic Digest and Occult Review of Reviews

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

Referenced in: Christian Yoga Monthly

Referenced in: 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."

Referenced in: 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.

Referenced in: The Index

Referenced in: Attainment | The Segnogram

Referenced in: Occult Research Gladiator | Research Gladiator

Referenced in: The Character Builder | Occult Science Library

Referenced in: New York Echo

Referenced in: Initiates | 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.

Referenced in: Advanced Thought | Nature's Path | Physico-Clinical Medicine | Spectro-Chrome

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.

Referenced in: Nature's Path

Referenced in: Celestial Life

American Occultist Publishing Company published the periodical The American Occultist from Chicago, IL (1930-1930).

Referenced in: The American Occultist

Referenced in: American Phrenological Journal

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

Referenced in: The Psychical Review

Referenced in: 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.

Referenced in: 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.

Referenced in: 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.

Referenced in: Nature's Path

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.

Referenced in: 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 reorganized in New York in 1906 under James H. Hyslop, and has published the Journal and Proceedings of the American Society for Psychical Research.

Referenced in: Journal and Proceedings of the American Society for Psychical Research | Journal and Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research | Survival

Referenced in: 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."

Referenced in: 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.

Referenced in: Weltmer's Magazine

American Spiritualist Publishing Company published the periodical The American Spiritualist from 1869-1872.

Referenced in: The American Spiritualist

Referenced in: To-Morrow

The American Temple of Astrology was one of the affiliated enterprises of the McIntyre-Prather-Knowles 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.

Referenced in: American Rosae Crucis | The Future | The Future Home Journal | Modern Miracles

Referenced in: The Harbinger

Amherst College is a private liberal arts college in Amherst, Massachusetts, founded in 1821. Chartered as an outgrowth of Amherst Academy, it was originally an orthodox Congregationalist institution and became one of the leading nineteenth-century New England liberal arts colleges.

Referenced in: Dr. Foote's Health Monthly | Herald of Light | The Philomathean [Chaney] | Progressive Age | Religious Evolutionist | The Sower | Spiritual Analyst | The Spiritual Monthly and Lyceum Record | Spiritual Reporter | Spiritual Rostrum

Referenced in: 20th Century Times

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.

Referenced in: 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."

Referenced in: 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.

Referenced in: Atlantis Quarterly

Referenced in: 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.

Referenced in: New York Echo

Referenced in: 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.

Referenced in: Texas Spiritualist

Referenced in: New York Echo

Ancient Wisdom Press published the periodical Ancient Wisdom from St. Louis, MO (1935-1966).

Referenced in: Ancient Wisdom

Referenced in: Anthropological Review [LAS]

Referenced in: Virya

The Antient and Primitive Rite of Masonry was the English form of the combined Rite of Memphis and Misraïm as worked under John Yarker from the 1870s. It was regarded as irregular by the United Grand Lodge of England but was influential internationally as a vehicle of esoteric high-degree Masonry.

Referenced in: New Biblee

Referenced in: Aquarian Path

Referenced in: New Theology | New Age | 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.

Referenced in: The Glass Hive

Aquarian Lodge published the periodical Aquarian Path from 1947-1953.

Referenced in: 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.

Referenced in: 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.

Referenced in: 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.

Referenced in: The Beacon (Bailey) | Illumination | Loto Blanco | Teosofia | Theosophia (Madrid/Barcelona)

Arena Publishing Company published the periodical The Arena from Boston, MA (1889-1909).

Referenced in: The Arena

Referenced in: La Verdaed (Theosophical, Buenos Aires)

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

Referenced in: Aries Quarterly

Referenced in: Teosofia | Theosophia (Madrid/Barcelona) | Zanoni

Referenced in: The Sun-Worshiper

Referenced in: The Bridge | The Brifge to Freedom

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.

Referenced in: The Bridge | The Brifge to Freedom | Spiritual Caravan | Thomas Printz' Private Bulletin (Bridge to Freedom Activity)

Referenced in: Herald of Light (Merrell-Wolffs)

Association Antimaconnique de France published the periodical La Franc-Maconnerie Demasquee from 1884-1905.

Referenced in: La Franc-Maconnerie Demasquee

The Association of Suggestive Therapeutics was one of the national professional bodies of American practitioners of suggestion and mental healing in the early twentieth century.

Referenced in: Weltmer's Magazine

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.

Referenced in: Voice of Astara

Referenced in: The Astrologers' Magazine [Williams]

Referenced in: Russkii Frank-Mason

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

Referenced in: Astrology Guide (Lee)

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

Referenced in: The Stellar Ray

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

Referenced in: Astro-Digest

Referenced in: Roback's Astrological Almanac

Referenced in: L'Astrosophie | The Seer

Referenced in: The Psychological Herald (Atlanta)

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

Referenced in: MacDonald's Farmer's Almanac and Dream Book

Referenced in: The Mountain Cove Journal

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.

Referenced in: Austin Pulpit | Radium | Reason

Australian Centre for UFO Studies published the periodical Journal of the Australian Centre for UFO Studies (ACUFOS) from 1980-1985.

Referenced in: Journal of the Australian Centre for UFO Studies (ACUFOS)

Referenced in: Panorama

Referenced in: The New Californian | Theosophical Siftings

Azoth Publishing Company published the periodical Azoth from New York, NY (1917-1921).

Referenced in: Azoth

Referenced in: The Equitist

The "Back to Blavatsky" movement was 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.

Referenced in: Australian Theosophist | The Beacon (Bailey) | Dawn (Sydney) | Fohat | Theosophy in Australasia | Theosophy in Australia

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

Referenced in: Back to Nature

Referenced in: TNT

Referenced in: The Balance

Referenced in: Pure Spiritualism

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.

Referenced in: The Battle Creek Idea

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

Referenced in: The Beacon (Bailey)

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

Referenced in: The Beacon Light

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.

Referenced in: The Unseen Universe | The Western Star

Referenced in: The Better Way

Referenced in: Light on the Path | Weekly Truth Sheet (Brotherhood of the White Temple) | Mothers' Occult Digest | Parents' Theosophical Research Group Notes

Referenced in: Lumen de Lumine

Referenced in: The Stellar Ray | Suggestion

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.

Referenced in: 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.

Referenced in: Theosophic Gleaner | Theosophical Outlook | Transactions of the Blavatsky Lodge

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

Referenced in: The Uplifting Veil

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.

Referenced in: The Journal of Borderland Research | The Round Robin | Voice from the Gallery

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

Referenced in: Boston Christian Scientist

Referenced in: Practical Psychology

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.

Referenced in: The Bridge | The Brifge to Freedom | The Father's House | Golden Dawn (Wayne Taylor) | Hope (Bridge to Freedom Activity) | Mentor (Myneta | Taylor) | Ruby Focus | Solograph | Spiritual Caravan | Thomas Printz' Private Bulletin (Bridge to Freedom Activity) | Voice of the I AM

Referenced in: Flyinmg Saucer News (Great Britain)

Referenced in: The Seer and Celestial Reformer

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.

Referenced in: (Quarterly Transactions of the British College of) Psychic Science

Referenced in: Flying Saucer News Bulletin | Flyinmg Saucer News (Great Britain)

Referenced in: Know Thyself

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.

Referenced in: Light | The Spiritualist

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."

Referenced in: BUFOA Journal | Probe Report

Referenced in: Psychometric Circular

Brotherhood of Divine Humanity published the periodical Atmos from 1902-1903.

Referenced in: Atmos

Referenced in: The Sunna Dagor Message

Referenced in: Voice of the Magi

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.

Referenced in: Aquarian Age | Joy | Today's Astrology | True Mystic Science | World Astrology Magazine

Referenced in: The Spiritual Scientist

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.

Referenced in: The Aletheian | La Courriere/The Messenger | Lemurian Ambassador | Mercury (San Francisco) | The Nationalist [Boston] | The Vanguard [Wisconsin]

Referenced in: Clarion Call

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.

Referenced in: Spiritual Philosopher | Spiritual Philosopher | The White Banner (Lippard)

Referenced in: Guiding Light

Referenced in: The Light of Reason

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.

Referenced in: Brotherhood (Los Angeles)

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

Referenced in: The Little Brown Book

Referenced in: Flying Saucer News (US)

Referenced in: The Buddhist Ray

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

Referenced in: Annales Initiatiques

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

Referenced in: Plowshare and Pruning Hook

Referenced in: The Sunna Dagor Message

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

Referenced in: Uriel

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.

Referenced in: Psychic Observer

Referenced in: Adyar Library Bulletin

Referenced in: Journal du Magnetisme [Durville]

Referenced in: National Astrological Journal

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.

Referenced in: The Chapala Round Table | Nautilus | The Psychological Review of Reviews

Referenced in: The Occultist (Los Angeles) | The Occultist (Los Angeles)

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.

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

Referenced in: Immortality and Survival

Referenced in: Faro Oriental

Referenced in: Light

Referenced in: Weltmer's Magazine

Referenced in: The Pilgrim

Referenced in: Central NY Spiritual Association Leaflet

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.

Referenced in: Celestial Life

Referenced in: Alborea

Referenced in: L'Affranchi

Referenced in: L'Affranchi | Le Message Theosophique et Social

Referenced in: Demain

Referenced in: Spiritisme Christique

Referenced in: Opiniao

Referenced in: Luz Astral (Chile) | Revista de Estudios Psiquicos (Chile)

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

Referenced in: The Channel

Referenced in: Chapel of Truth Messenger

Referenced in: The Character Builder

Referenced in: The Character Builder

Referenced in: Human Faculty

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

Referenced in: Theosophic Gleaner

Referenced in: Chirothesian Magazine

Referenced in: Reality

Referenced in: Orion Magazine

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.

Referenced in: Leaves of Healing

The Christian Catholic Church (Zion) was a later designation of the Christian Catholic Apostolic Church, the theocratic community founded in Zion City, Illinois in 1901 by John Alexander Dowie. The community continued as a religious body after Dowie's deposition in 1906, though on a much smaller scale than during Dowie's leadership.

Referenced in: Immortality

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.

Referenced in: Boston Christian Scientist

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.

Referenced in: Christian Science Journal | Christian Science Sentinel | Herold der Christian Science

Referenced in: Modern Thought

Referenced in: Christian Spiritualist Quarterly

Referenced in: Christian Spiritualist Quarterly

Referenced in: The World's Advance Thought

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.

Referenced in: Christian Yoga Monthly

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

Referenced in: Training for Self-Conquest

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

Referenced in: Freemason's Chronicle

"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.

Referenced in: and Occult | The Sword of Truth

Referenced in: Higher Thought

Referenced in: New Ideas (Comprehensionism)

Referenced in: The Balance

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.

Referenced in: Divine Science Weekly

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

Referenced in: Astro-Digest

The Church of England is the established Christian church of England, formally separated from the papacy under Henry VIII by the Acts of Supremacy of 1534 and reorganized during the reigns of Edward VI and Elizabeth I. It is the mother church of the worldwide Anglican Communion.

Referenced in: New Ideas (Comprehensionism)

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.

Referenced in: Initiates

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.

Referenced in: Light of Messiah | Lucifer's Lantern | Prophetic Almanac (Pratt) | The Seer (Orson Pratt-- LDS)

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

Referenced in: Christian Spiritualist Quarterly

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.

Referenced in: Current Astrology

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.

Referenced in: Auditor (Scientology)

Referenced in: The Mystic Messenger

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.

Referenced in: Keeler's Comments | The Truth

The Church of Truth was founded in Spokane, Washington in 1913 by Albert C. Grier, a former Universalist minister, and became one of the principal New Thought congregations of the Pacific Northwest. It affiliated with the International New Thought Alliance and provided the model for the wider Church of Truth denomination.

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.

Referenced in: The Bridge | The Brifge to Freedom | Mentor (Myneta | Taylor)

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

Referenced in: Golden Dawn (Wayne Taylor)

Referenced in: Spiritual Science Digest | Voice of Astara

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.

Referenced in: Fate

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.

Referenced in: La Cruz Astral

Referenced in: Joy

Referenced in: New Ideas (Comprehensionism)

Referenced in: New Ideas (Comprehensionism)

Referenced in: The Word (Princeton)

Referenced in: Herald of Health (T. L. Nichols)

Referenced in: Voice of the Magi

Referenced in: The Adept | Astrological Bulletina

Referenced in: The Culturist

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.

Referenced in: Celestial Life | Flying Saucer News (US) | Guiding Light

The College of Divine Metaphysics, Incorporated, of Indianapolis was a mail-order diploma mill of the twentieth century, offering Ps.D., Ms.D., and D.D. degrees widely by correspondence and figuring prominently in the advertising of spiritualist, occult, and New Thought periodicals of the 1930s to 1950s.

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.

Referenced in: Immortality | Wings of Truth

Referenced in: Lichstrahlen

Referenced in: The Guiding Star

Referenced in: Revue Spiritualiste

Referenced in: The Culturist | Fountain of Light

Referenced in: Aquarian Path | Light

Referenced in: The Hypnotic Magazine

Referenced in: Immortality

Referenced in: Wings of Truth

Referenced in: The Uplifting Veil

Referenced in: The Temple of Health

Referenced in: Mystic Magazine (Palmer)

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."

Referenced in: College of Universal Wisdom

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.

Referenced in: Daily Studies in Divine Science | Divine Science Monthly | Divine Science News | Divine Science Weekly | First Divine Science Church Weekly Bulletin

Referenced in: The Segnogram

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

Referenced in: The Column

Referenced in: Modern Astrology (Rose Dawn)

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

Referenced in: Comforter

Referenced in: The Coming Light

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.

Referenced in: Bulletin de l'Union Spirite Francaise

Referenced in: Ouranos

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

Referenced in: Essence of Common Sense

Referenced in: New Ideas (Comprehensionism)

Referenced in: Comsep

Referenced in: Conable's Path-Finder

Referenced in: The Philomathian

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.

Referenced in: Independent Thinker

Referenced in: Fraternidad Universal

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.

Referenced in: El Criterio Espiritista

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

Referenced in: New Atlantean Journal

Referenced in: Aegyptus (The Coptic Fellowship of America)

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

Referenced in: Aegyptus (The Coptic Fellowship of America)

Referenced in: Aegyptus (The Coptic Fellowship of America)

Cornell University Press was established in 1869 at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, and is the oldest university press in the United States. It operated intermittently through the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and was refounded on a continuous basis in 1930.

Referenced in: Izida | Mentalizm | Okkultizm i Ioga | Russkii Frank-Mason | The Spiritualist (Moscow) | Teosoficheskoye Obozreniye | Vestnik Teosofii | Voprosy Psikhizma

Referenced in: Mouvement Cosmique

Referenced in: The Balance

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

Referenced in: Mind In Nature

Referenced in: Cosmon

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.

Referenced in: Mental Science Magazine

Referenced in: Twentieth Century Astrology

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

Referenced in: Bulletin and Proceedings of the National Laboratory of Psychical Research

Referenced in: Mind and Matter

Referenced in: Reality

Referenced in: College of Universal Wisdom

Referenced in: Tomorrow (UK)

Referenced in: La Rose Croix

Referenced in: Catalogue du Salon de la Rose+Croix | La Rose Croix

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

Referenced in: Forum of Psychic and Scientific Research | Spiritualist Monthly

Referenced in: The Mountain Pine

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

Referenced in: The Mountain Pine

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

Referenced in: American Rosae Crucis

Referenced in: The Culturist

Referenced in: The Culturist

Referenced in: Herold

Dallas Theological Seminary was founded in 1924 by Lewis Sperry Chafer as the Evangelical Theological College, adopting its current name in 1936. It became a leading center of dispensationalist Protestant theology in the tradition of the Scofield Reference Bible.

Referenced in: Nouveaux Horizons

Referenced in: Harmony Life Wave

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.

Referenced in: The Astrologer (Lewi) | Horoscope (Dell)

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

Referenced in: Dawn (San Francisco)

Referenced in: Vision

Referenced in: The Gnostic

The Detroit Free Press is a daily newspaper published in Detroit, Michigan, founded in 1831. It is the oldest continuously published newspaper in the city and became one of the leading daily newspapers of the Midwest.

Referenced in: Illustracion Espirita (Mexico) | New Ideas (Comprehensionism)

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

Referenced in: The Divine Life

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.

Referenced in: Divine Life (Rikhikesh)

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.

Referenced in: Power

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.

Referenced in: Divine Science Monthly

The Divine Science College and the First Divine Science Church of Denver together constituted the flagship complex of the Divine Science movement in New Thought, established in Denver by Nona L. Brooks and her sisters in the 1890s. The two institutions shared premises and staff at the First Divine Science Church building dedicated in 1922.

Referenced in: Divine Science News

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.

Referenced in: Daily Studies in Divine Science

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.

Referenced in: New Thought (London)

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.

Referenced in: The Gnostic

The Divine Science Home School of San Francisco was the original teaching arm of Malinda Cramer's Divine Science work, established in San Francisco in the 1880s and 1890s and continued after the 1906 earthquake by her successors.

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.

Referenced in: The Gleaner

Referenced in: The Irish Theosophist

Duke University Press is the academic press of Duke University, founded in 1921 as Trinity College Press and renamed following the university's rechartering in 1924. It is based in Durham, North Carolina.

Referenced in: Journal of Parapsychology

Referenced in: Toekomistig Leven

Referenced in: The Metaphysician

Referenced in: The Sunbeam

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 combining botanical remedies with regular pharmacology. 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.

Referenced in: The Alpha | Eclectic Medical Journal | Hesperian Bard

Referenced in: Hesperian Bard

Referenced in: Light

Referenced in: True Life

Referenced in: Theosophy

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.

Referenced in: Annales Initiatiques | Le Reveil des Albigeois | Mysteria

Referenced in: Mystic Magazine (Palmer)

Referenced in: Annales Initiatiques

Eloist Ministry published the periodical The Living Word from 1912.

Referenced in: The Living Word | Religion

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.

Referenced in: The Center

Referenced in: The Psychological Herald (Atlanta)

Referenced in: The Equitist

Referenced in: The Equitist

Referenced in: Immortality and Survival

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

Referenced in: The Mystic Key

Referenced in: El Heraldo del Espiritismo

Referenced in: Luz Sideral

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

Referenced in: Occult Press Review | The Oriental Esoteric Society Bulletin

Referenced in: The New Man

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.

Referenced in: Bible Review | Mystic World | Occult and Biological Journal

Referenced in: The Essene

Referenced in: Anthropological Review [LAS]

Referenced in: Eudia | Forces Spirituelles

Referenced in: Clothed With The Sun | The Life [Kansas City]

Referenced in: The Exodus

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.

Referenced in: The Exodus

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.

Referenced in: The Exodus

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

Referenced in: Facts

The Federal Radio Commission was a United States government agency established by the Radio Act of 1927 to regulate the licensing of radio stations and the allocation of the broadcast spectrum. It was superseded by the Federal Communications Commission under the Communications Act of 1934.

Referenced in: TNT

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is a United States government agency established by the Federal Trade Commission Act of 1914. It was created to prevent unfair methods of competition, and its jurisdiction has since been extended to include consumer protection against deceptive advertising and unfair practices.

Referenced in: True Mystic Science

Referenced in: La Vie Future

Referenced in: Bulletin Spirite de Liege

Referenced in: Christian Spiritualist (Erlestoke)

Referenced in: Theosophy in Action

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

Referenced in: The Practical Psychologist (London)

"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.

Referenced in: Bulletin Spirite de Liege | Tribune Psychique

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.

Referenced in: Bulletin Spirite de Liege | Revue Belge du Espiritismo

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.

Referenced in: Bulletin Spirite de Liege

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.

Referenced in: Your Personality

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.

Referenced in: Progres Spirite | Tribune Psychique

Referenced in: La Vie (Douai)

Referenced in: F. U. D. O. S. I.

Referenced in: Churches Fellowship for Psychical Studies

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

Referenced in: The Galilean

The Fenian Brotherhood was founded in New York City in 1858 by John O'Mahony as the American counterpart to the Irish Republican Brotherhood, dedicated to armed resistance against British rule in Ireland. It sponsored several unsuccessful raids into British-controlled Canada between 1866 and 1871 as pressure operations against British authority.

Referenced in: New York Echo

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

Referenced in: Teosofian Valo

Referenced in: Spiritisti

Referenced in: Jasenlehti | Tietaja

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.

Referenced in: The Christian (Shelton)

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.

Referenced in: Christian Science Journal

Referenced in: Das Wort (St. Louis) | First Divine Science Church Weekly Bulletin

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.

Referenced in: First Divine Science Church Weekly Bulletin

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.

Referenced in: Planets and People | The Weekly Discourse

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.

Referenced in: Spirit Voices | The Temple Messenger

Referenced in: Twin City Spiritualist News

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.

Referenced in: National Astrological Journal

Referenced in: Fred Burry's Journal | Nautilus

Referenced in: Nautilus

Referenced in: Flying Saucer News Bulletin | Flyinmg Saucer News (Great Britain)

Referenced in: Flying Saucer News (US)

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

Referenced in: Flying Saucer News (US)

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.

Referenced in: Fortean Society Magazine | Doubt | The Round Robin

Referenced in: The Yogi

Referenced in: Journal of Parapsychology

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

Referenced in: The Fountain (Spokane)n

Referenced in: The Phrenological Magazine (A. T. Story)

Referenced in: American Phrenological Journal | The Popular Phrenologist

Referenced in: The Sunflower

Franklin Press published the periodical Canadian Theosophist from 1920.

Referenced in: Canadian Theosophist

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.

Referenced in: Rosa-Cruz

Referenced in: Voice of the Magi

Referenced in: Initiates

Referenced in: Christian Spiritualist (UK)

Referenced in: Der Gral

Referenced in: L'Affranchi

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

Referenced in: Facts (Friendship Centre UK)

Referenced in: The Future | The Future Home Journal

Referenced in: The Future | The Future Home Journal

Referenced in: The Future | The Future Home Journal

Referenced in: Liberation | The New Liberator

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

Referenced in: The Galilean

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."

Referenced in: Immortality

Referenced in: Radiant Life

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.

Referenced in: UFO Contact (IGAP)

The Georgia Institute of Technology is a public research university in Atlanta, Georgia, founded in 1885 as the Georgia School of Technology to promote industrial development in the postbellum South. It was renamed the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1948.

Referenced in: The Banner of Light

Referenced in: Saturn Gnosis

Referenced in: Zeitschrift fur Phrenologie

Referenced in: Immortality

Referenced in: Neue Lotusbluten

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.

Referenced in: The Exodus

Referenced in: Spiritual Record

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."

Referenced in: Magickal Link | Rosa-Cruz (Berlin)

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.

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

Referenced in: The Gnostic

Referenced in: Mitteilungen des Neuen Gral-Ordens | Zum Licht

Referenced in: The Gnostic

Referenced in: The Gnostic

Referenced in: Mysteria

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

Referenced in: The Golden Gate

Referenced in: Solograph

Referenced in: Solograph

Referenced in: Prince Immanuel's Journal

Referenced in: Prince Immanuel's Journal

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

Referenced in: The Spiritualist (London)

Referenced in: The Battle Creek Idea

Referenced in: Hesperian Bard

Referenced in: The Beacon (Bailey)

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.

Referenced in: Christliche Theosophie | Das Wort (Dresden) | Der Gral | Mitteilungen des Gral-Ordens | The New Man

Referenced in: Zeitschrift fur Spiritismus

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

Referenced in: The Grail (NY)

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.

Referenced in: Ariel

Referenced in: Lemurian Ambassador

Grand Lodge published the periodical Rosicrucian Forum from 1930.

Referenced in: F. U. D. O. S. I. | Freemaon's Quarterly Review (UK) | The Freemason (UK) | Prince Immanuel's Journal | Rosicrucian Forum | The Sphinx | Symbolisme | Universal Masonry

The Grand Lodge of England, established in London in 1717, was the first Masonic Grand Lodge and is regarded as the origin of speculative Freemasonry as a formal institution. It was known as the Moderns after the founding of a rival Antients Grand Lodge in 1751, and the two bodies were merged in 1813 as the United Grand Lodge of England.

The Grand Lodge of France (Grande Loge de France, GLDF) is one of France's principal Masonic obediences, tracing its formal continuity from the eighteenth century. In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries it worked most notably in the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite. It is one of several Grand Lodges recognized under variants of the name, of which the largest is the Grand Orient de France.

Referenced in: Universal Free Mason

Referenced in: Day

Referenced in: The Aletheian

Referenced in: Spiritualistic Free Press and General Record

Referenced in: BUFOA Journal | International Theosophical Year Book | New York Echo | Spiritualistic Free Press and General Record | The Sword of Truth

Referenced in: The Great Work in America | To You

Referenced in: The Community's Journal

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."

Referenced in: Greeting Messenger | Light on the Path | Weekly Truth Sheet (Brotherhood of the White Temple) | Rosicrucian Forum | Starcraft | Voice of the I AM

Referenced in: The Bridge | The Brifge to Freedom

Referenced in: F. U. D. O. S. I.

Referenced in: The Temple Artisan

Referenced in: Ariel

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

Referenced in: The Greater World

Referenced in: The Greater World

Referenced in: The Chapala Round Table

Referenced in: The Column

Referenced in: Ur | Krur

Referenced in: Reformador (Rio de Janeiro)

Referenced in: Iniciacion [Montevideo]

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

Referenced in: The Flaming Sword | The Guiding Star

Referenced in: New Zealand Lotus Buds

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

Referenced in: Beyond

Referenced in: The Character Builder

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.

Referenced in: Laws of Health (Robert Walters)

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

Referenced in: All-Seeing Eye

Referenced in: The Sunflower (NY)

Hamilton College is a private liberal arts college in Clinton, New York, chartered in 1812. It grew out of the Hamilton-Oneida Academy established by Samuel Kirkland in 1793.

Referenced in: The Bridge | The Brifge to Freedom | The Chapala Round Table | The Flaming Sword | The Glass Hive | The Guiding Star | Hacker's Pleasure Boat | Light and Life | Manifesto | The Psychological Review of Reviews | Twin City Spiritualist News

Referenced in: New Thought (London) | Self-Culture

Referenced in: Universal Truth

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

Referenced in: The Age of Progress | The Journal of Progress

Referenced in: The Open Road

Referenced in: Archiv fur Magnetismus und Somnambulismus

Referenced in: Universal Harmony

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

Referenced in: The Center

Referenced in: Harmony Life Wave

Referenced in: Harmony Life Wave

Referenced in: Seeker Magazine [London]

Referenced in: Harraden's Herald of Hypnotism and Healing

Harvard College Library is the main library of Harvard College, dating to a 1638 bequest of about 400 books from John Harvard. It is the oldest library in the United States and is now part of the Harvard Library system, the largest academic library in the world.

Referenced in: Sesamums

Harvard Divinity School was founded in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1816 as the theological department of Harvard University. It has been nondenominational since its founding, though it grew from and long served the Unitarian tradition of the Massachusetts churches.

Referenced in: The American Occultist

Referenced in: Transactions of the Phrenological Society of Edinburgh

"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.

Referenced in: Advanced Thought and Divine Science | Beyond | Wisdom of the Spirit

Referenced in: The Higher Law

Referenced in: Harmony Life Wave

Referenced in: Dawning Light | The Hermetist

Referenced in: The Hermetist | The Hermetist | Initiates

Referenced in: The Gnostic | Historical Magazine and Notes and Queries | The Lucis Magazine

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.

Referenced in: The Gnostic | L'Affranchi | The Occult Magazine

Referenced in: The Column

Referenced in: The Gnostic

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.

Referenced in: Hazelrigg's Astrological Almanac | The Hermetist

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

Referenced in: Shrine of Wisdom

Referenced in: Keeler's Comments

Referenced in: Star of the East (Seattle, Sydney)

Referenced in: Human Culture | Human Nature (San Francisco)

Referenced in: Die Ubersinnliche Welt | Oriflamme

Referenced in: The Culturist | Modern Miracles

Referenced in: Spirit Mothers | Astraea

Referenced in: The Life [Kansas City]

Referenced in: The San Juan Record

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

Referenced in: Christ Mind

Referenced in: Occult Science Library

Referenced in: Eltka

Referenced in: The Future | The Future Home Journal

Referenced in: The Business Philosopher

Referenced in: Freedom

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.

Referenced in: The Radical Spiritualist

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.

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

Referenced in: Horev [Prague]

Referenced in: The Two Worlds (Dixon)

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.

Referenced in: The Aberree | Ability (Scientology)

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.

Referenced in: Auditor (Scientology)

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.

Referenced in: Ability (Scientology) | Dianetic Auditors Bulletin [Scientology]

Referenced in: The Character Builder

Referenced in: Human Faculty

Referenced in: Human Culture

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

Referenced in: Growth

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.

Referenced in: Laws of Health (Robert Walters)

Referenced in: Mind the Builder

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.

Referenced in: The American Occultist

Referenced in: The Hypnotic Magazine

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.

Referenced in: The Column | The Occultist (Los Angeles) | The Occultist (Los Angeles)

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

Referenced in: The Phrenological Review (Bernard Hollander)

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

Referenced in: Independent Thinker

Referenced in: Spiritual Herald (Detroit)

Referenced in: Ultra

Referenced in: The Pilgrim | Ultra

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.

Referenced in: Australian Theosophist | Dawn (Sydney) | The Divine Life

The Sydney Independent Theosophical Society was the successor body of the Sydney Lodge after its expulsion from the Adyar-based Theosophical Society in 1923, under T. H. Martyn. It continued the "Back to Blavatsky" programme in Sydney for several decades.

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

Referenced in: The Index

Referenced in: and Occult | Self-Culture

Referenced in: The Indian Naturopath

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

Referenced in: East and West

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.

Referenced in: L'Etoile D'Orient | The 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.

Referenced in: The Bridge | The Brifge to Freedom | The Inner Circle | The New Man | The Round Robin

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

Referenced in: Inner Light (Fortune)

Referenced in: The Mansion Builder

Referenced in: Eudia

Referenced in: Fraterniste

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

Referenced in: L'Astrosophie

Referenced in: (Quarterly Transactions of the British College of) Psychic Science

Referenced in: Zeitschrift fur Metapsychische Forschung

Referenced in: Probe (Rhode Island)

Referenced in: Occult Press Review

Referenced in: (Quarterly Transactions of the British College of) Psychic Science

Referenced in: New York Spiritualist Leader

Referenced in: New York Spiritualist Leader

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.

Referenced in: The Mansion Builder

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.

Referenced in: Religious Science | Science of Mind

Referenced in: Revista Magnetismo Experimental y Terapeutico

Referenced in: The Culturist

Referenced in: Shrine of Wisdom

Referenced in: The Culturist

Referenced in: The New Century | The New Century Path | The Century Path

Referenced in: Bulletin Officiel du Bureau International du Spiritisme

Referenced in: The Business Philosopher

Referenced in: Illumination

Referenced in: International Psychic Gazette

Referenced in: Divine Science Weekly

Referenced in: Saucerian | Saucerian Bulletin

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.

Referenced in: Fortean Society Magazine | Doubt

Referenced in: Oriflamme

Referenced in: The International Standard

Referenced in: (Quarterly Transactions of the British College of) Psychic Science

The International Institute for Psychical Research was founded in London in 1934 as a body for research into paranormal phenomena. Its members included the medium and researcher Nandor Fodor and other figures from the interwar British psychical research community.

Referenced in: (Quarterly Transactions of the British College of) Psychic Science

Referenced in: Modern Miracles | Voice of the Magi

Referenced in: Practical Ideals

Referenced in: Universal Free Mason

Referenced in: Universal Free Mason

The International Metaphysical League was formed in Boston in 1899 as an early federation of New Thought and metaphysical organizations. It was succeeded by later coordinating bodies that eventually became the International New Thought Alliance (INTA), formally organized in 1914.

Referenced in: International Metaphysical League Annual Proceedings

The International New Thought Alliance (INTA) was formed in 1914 in St. Louis as a federation of New Thought organizations, tracing its lineage back through the International Metaphysical League (1899) and the National New Thought Alliance. It brought together Divine Science, Unity, Religious Science, and other New Thought bodies around a shared declaration of principles.

Referenced in: The Essene | The Fountain (Spokane)n | International Metaphysical League Annual Proceedings | New Thought (London) | New Thought Bulletin | The Psychological Review of Reviews

Referenced in: International Metaphysical League Annual Proceedings

International Psychological Press published the periodical The Psychological Review of Reviews from San Francisco, CA (1923).

Referenced in: The Psychological Review of Reviews

Referenced in: Psychical Research Review

Referenced in: The Psychological Review of Reviews

Referenced in: Harmony Life Wave

Referenced in: El Criterio Espiritista

Referenced in: Your Personality

Referenced in: Archives du Spiritisme Mondial

Referenced in: International Journal of the Tantrick Order

Referenced in: The New Way

International Theosophical Press published the periodical The International Theosophist from Dublin, Ireland (1898-1904).

Referenced in: The International Theosophist

Referenced in: Occult Science Library

Referenced in: The Phrenological Magazine (A. T. Story)

Referenced in: Christian Spiritualist (UK)

Referenced in: Twentieth Century Astrology

Jersey Publishing Company published the periodical Twentieth Century Astrology from 1934.

Referenced in: Twentieth Century Astrology

The Jewish Theological Seminary of America was founded in New York City in 1886 by Sabato Morais and other traditionalist rabbis. Under Solomon Schechter, president from 1902, it became the intellectual center of the Conservative movement in American Judaism.

Referenced in: Uriel

Referenced in: El Siglo Espirita

Referenced in: Kabbaliste

Referenced in: Nautilus

Referenced in: La Idea (Buenos Aires)

Referenced in: Reincarnation

Kenilworth Bureau published the periodical Psychic (Atlantic City) from 1909-1910.

Referenced in: Psychic (Atlantic City)

Kenyon College is a private liberal arts college in Gambier, Ohio, founded in 1824 by the Episcopal bishop Philander Chase as an Episcopal seminary and college. It is the oldest private college in Ohio.

Referenced in: Yours Fraternally

Kondor Publishing House published the periodical Celestial Life from Chicago, IL (1946).

Referenced in: Celestial Life

Referenced in: Celestial Life

Referenced in: Teozofski Glasnik

Referenced in: Occult Research Gladiator

Referenced in: Nautilus

Referenced in: Luz del Porvenir | Luz Union y Verdad (Barcelona) | Luz y Union (Barcelona)

Referenced in: La Lumiere Pour Tous | Union Spirite Bordelaise

Landone Foundation published the periodical The Sunna Dagor Message from 1923.

Referenced in: The Sunna Dagor Message

Referenced in: The Sunna Dagor Message

Referenced in: The Inner Life

The League of Nations was established by the Treaty of Versailles at the end of the First World War and came into being in January 1920, headquartered in Geneva. It was the first permanent intergovernmental organization aimed at maintaining collective security. It was formally dissolved in 1946, its functions assumed by the United Nations.

Referenced in: Christian Spiritualist (Erlestoke) | Dharma (All-World Gandhi Fellowship) | Divine Science Weekly

Referenced in: The Aletheian

Referenced in: Exploring the Unknown | Lemurian Ambassador | True Mystic Science

Referenced in: Lemurian Ambassador

Referenced in: Lemurian Ambassador

Referenced in: Lemurian Ambassador

Liberal Association (Paris) published the periodical The Truthseeker from 1818-1882.

Referenced in: The Truthseeker

The Liberal Catholic Church was organized in London in 1916 by James Ingall Wedgwood and Charles W. Leadbeater as a reorganization of the Old Catholic Church in Great Britain. It combined Old Catholic sacramental practice and apostolic succession with Theosophical doctrine and freedom of belief for clergy and laity, and it spread internationally through Wedgwood and Leadbeater's connections in the Theosophical Society (Adyar).

Referenced in: Arohn | Australian Theosophist | Dawn (Sydney) | Gnostic Forum | The Lucis Magazine | The Metaphysician | Theosophy in Australasia | Theosophy in Australia

The Australian branch of the Liberal Catholic Church operated within the international body founded in England in 1916 by James Ingall Wedgwood and Charles W. Leadbeater. It combined Old Catholic sacramental practice and apostolic succession with Theosophical theology, allowing broad freedom of belief to clergy and laity. Leadbeater himself was Presiding Bishop from 1923 and resided in Sydney for extended periods, from which the Australian branch developed with unusual prominence within the international body.

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

Referenced in: Lucifer the Lightbearer

Referenced in: Nueva Idea (Bogata)

The Librairie du Merveilleux was a Parisian occult bookseller and publisher active from the 1890s into the 1910s, run by P. Dujols and A. Thomas from an address on the rue de Trévise. It served as the principal French-language distributor of occult literature during the belle époque, published editions of the Kabbalistic and Hermetic classics, and issued the periodical La Gnose (1909–1912) under René Guénon's editorship as the organ of the neo-Gnostic Ordre du Temple Rénové.

Referenced in: Bibliotheque des Sciences Esoteriques | L'Initiation | La Gnose | Veritable Almanach Astrologique

Referenced in: O.E. Library Critic

Referenced in: Attainment

Life Understanding Foundation published the periodical Pyramid Guide from Elsinore, CA (1972-1981).

Referenced in: Pyramid Guide

Light of India Publishing Company published the periodical Light of India from Los Angeles, CA (1906-1908).

Referenced in: Light of India

Referenced in: The Light of Truth | The Light of Truth (School of Liveable Christianity)

The Lily Dale Assembly is a Spiritualist camp meeting community established in 1879 at Cassadaga Lake in western New York State. It has functioned continuously as a summer gathering place for mediums, lecturers, and Spiritualists, and hosts the National Spiritualist Association of Churches summer sessions and the Lily Dale Museum.

Referenced in: Psychic Observer

Referenced in: Mind the Builder

Referenced in: Light on the Path | Weekly Truth Sheet (Brotherhood of the White Temple)

Referenced in: The Balance

Referenced in: The Uplifting Veil

The Llewellyn College of Astrology was founded in 1901 in Portland, Oregon by Llewellyn George (1876–1954) and later moved to Los Angeles, becoming one of the earliest formal astrological schools in the United States. Its publishing arm, Llewellyn Publications, became the leading American publisher of occult and astrological books through the twentieth century.

Referenced in: Astrological Bulletina | The Little Brown Book

Llewellyn Publications was founded in 1901 in Portland, Oregon by Llewellyn George (1876–1954) as the publishing arm of his Llewellyn College of Astrology, and was later moved to Los Angeles and eventually to St. Paul, Minnesota. It became the leading American publisher of astrology, magic, and occult books through the twentieth century.

Referenced in: Aquarian Age | Astrological Bulletina

Referenced in: New Ideas (Comprehensionism)

London Astrological Society published the periodical Spirit of Partridge from 1824.

Referenced in: Spirit of Partridge

The London Spiritualist Alliance (LSA) was founded in 1884 as a successor to the British National Association of Spiritualists. Its presidents included Arthur Conan Doyle in the mid-1920s. It became the College of Psychic Studies in 1955 and continues to operate in London.

Referenced in: BUFOA Journal

Lookout Institute published the periodical Light of Ages from Lookout Mountain, TN (1892).

Referenced in: Light of Ages

Referenced in: Thy Kingdom Come | AFSCA World Report | AFSCA UFO International

Referenced in: The Character Builder

Referenced in: Mercury (San Francisco)

Referenced in: Australian Theosophist | Dawn (Sydney)

The Lucifer Publishing Company was the original name of Lucis Publishing Company, established in New York in 1922 by Alice A. Bailey and Foster Bailey to publish Bailey's writings. Its name was changed to Lucis Publishing Company in 1924 to avoid the confusion arising from Blavatsky's use of Lucifer as the title of her London periodical.

Referenced in: The Beacon (Bailey)

Lucis Publishing Company is the publishing arm of the Lucis Trust, established in New York in 1922 by Alice A. Bailey and Foster Bailey (originally as Lucifer Publishing Company, renamed in 1924). It publishes the twenty-four volumes of Bailey's writings and the periodical The Beacon.

Referenced in: The Beacon (Bailey)

Lucis Trust was established in New York in 1922 by Alice A. Bailey and Foster Bailey as the corporate body responsible for publishing Bailey's writings and administering the Arcane School and related activities. It was originally incorporated as the Lucifer Publishing Company but was renamed Lucis Publishing Company in 1924. The Trust continues to operate offices in New York, London, and Geneva.

Referenced in: The Beacon (Bailey)

Referenced in: Das Wort (Dresden) | Oriflamme

Referenced in: Die Ubersinnliche Welt

Referenced in: Chapel of Truth Messenger

Referenced in: Lyceum Banner [Liverpool]

Referenced in: New Theology | New Age | Aquarian New Age

Referenced in: New York Magazine of Mysteries

Referenced in: Voice of the Magi

Referenced in: Communication

Referenced in: Le Spiritualiste de la Nouvelle Orleans

Referenced in: The Occult Digest | The Telepathic Magazine (Chicago)

Referenced in: The Gnostic | The Interpreter

Referenced in: Historical Magazine and Notes and Queries

The Mariavite Church was a Polish Catholic reform movement that emerged in the 1890s around the visions of Feliksa Kozłowska. Its clergy sought recognition from Rome but were excommunicated in 1906, whereupon they received Old Catholic episcopal consecration through the See of Utrecht. Under Jan M. Kowalski it later divided into two branches based in Płock and Felicjanów.

Referenced in: The Lucis Magazine

The Market Place Publishing Company was one of several successor publishers of Ursula N. Gestefeld's Exodus magazine in the early 1900s, following Gestefeld's own imprint and preceding Exodus Publishing Company.

Referenced in: The Exodus

The Martinist Order (Ordre Martiniste) was formally established in Paris in 1891 by Gérard Encausse (Papus) as a revival of the mystical Christian teaching of Louis-Claude de Saint-Martin. It operated as an initiatic order with lodges across France and internationally, and gave rise after Papus's death in 1916 to a number of successor bodies.

Referenced in: Annales de l'OUNE | Annales Initiatiques | Eon (Athens) | Historical Magazine and Notes and Queries | Le Reveil des Albigeois | Luz Astral (Buenos Aires) | The Star of the Magi

Referenced in: Annales de l'OUNE

Referenced in: El Heraldo de Ultratumba

Master Mind Magazine Company published the periodical The Master Mind from 1911-1925.

Referenced in: The Master Mind

Referenced in: The Sun-Worshiper

Mayan Order published the periodical Daily Meditation from 1937-1990.

Referenced in: Daily Meditation | Modern Astrology (Rose Dawn)

Mayan Press published the periodical Daily Meditation from 1937-1990.

Referenced in: Daily Meditation

Referenced in: Modern Astrology (Rose Dawn)

The Mazdaznan Association was established in the early twentieth century by Otoman Zar-Adusht Ha'nish, born Otto Hanisch, as a religious and health movement claiming descent from the Zoroastrian tradition. It taught a system of breathing exercises, diet, and Zoroastrian-inflected doctrine, and was headquartered in Chicago and later Los Angeles.

Referenced in: British Mazdaznan Magazine | The Sun Worshiper | Mazdaznan

Referenced in: The Sun Worshiper | Mazdaznan

The Mazdaznan Publishing Company was the publishing arm of the Mazdaznan movement founded by Otoman Zar-Adusht Ha'nish, issuing his books, correspondence lessons, and the Mazdaznan magazine from Chicago and later Los Angeles.

Referenced in: The Sun Worshiper | Mazdaznan

Referenced in: Our Home Rights

The Rites of Memphis and Misraïm are two high-degree Masonic systems, drawing on Egyptian and hermetic symbolism, that were combined in the late nineteenth century by John Yarker. The combined rite worked ninety-five or ninety-seven degrees and was one of the channels by which esoteric Masonic material passed to the early Ordo Templi Orientis.

Referenced in: Annales Initiatiques | Diable Au XIXe Siecle | Ignis | Ocultista (Buenos Aires) | Pansophic Intellectualizer

Referenced in: The Business Philosopher

Referenced in: Nautilus

Referenced in: Mind Cure and Science of Life | Mind Cure Journal

Mercury Publishing Company published the periodical Mercury from 1916-1933.

Referenced in: Mercury

Referenced in: Fountain of Light

Referenced in: Mind

Referenced in: Light on the Path | Weekly Truth Sheet (Brotherhood of the White Temple)

Referenced in: The Journal of Practical Metaphysics | Practical Ideals

Referenced in: Freedom | The Problem of Life

Referenced in: The Vanguard [Wisconsin]

The Metaphysical Publishing Company of New York was a New Thought publishing house active from 1895, issuing the Metaphysical Magazine (also known at various times as Intelligence, Ideal Review, and Man) under the editorship of Leander Edmund Whipple and John Emory McLean. It was one of the earlier substantial New Thought publishing enterprises in the United States.

Referenced in: Hazelrigg's Astrological Almanac | The Ideal Review | The Metaphysical Magazine | Pearls | The Wise Man

Referenced in: Mercury

The Metropolitan Institute of Science was one of the principal mail-order enterprises of F. T. McIntyre and Elmer E. Prather in New York in the mid-1900s, selling correspondence lessons on hypnotism, personal influence, and "Hindoo Methods of Hypnotism." It was prohibited from the mails by a Post Office fraud order in November 1907 and continued to figure in subsequent fraud proceedings against its affiliated ventures, including the American Temple of Astrology and the Psycho-Success Club.

Referenced in: American Rosae Crucis | The Future | The Future Home Journal | Modern Miracles

Referenced in: Urania (Merlinus AnglicusJr.)

Referenced in: Helios

Referenced in: The Present Age

Microcosm Publishing Company published the periodical Wilford's Microcosm from New York, NY (1881-1893).

Referenced in: Wilford's Microcosm

Midland Publishing Company published the periodical Coming Age from St. Louis, MO (1899-1900).

Referenced in: Coming Age

Referenced in: Skylook | MUFON UFO Journal

Referenced in: The Psychological Review of Reviews

Referenced in: Mastery | The Psychological Review of Reviews

Milwaukee Social-Democratic Publishing Company published the periodical The Vanguard [Wisconsin] from 1902-1905.

Referenced in: The Vanguard [Wisconsin]

Referenced in: Mind Cure and Science of Life | Mind Cure Journal

Referenced in: Spiritual Digest [New York]

Referenced in: College of Universal Wisdom

Referenced in: Free Man (Bangor)

Referenced in: Humildade

Referenced in: Signs of the Times

Referenced in: New Thought (Moses Hull)

Referenced in: The Spiritual Offering | Twin City Spiritualist News

Referenced in: Das Wort (St. Louis)

Referenced in: The Column

Referenced in: Modern Miracles

Modern Thought Publishing Company published the periodical Modern Thought from 1889-1890.

Referenced in: Modern Thought

Referenced in: The Seraph's Advocate

Moral Education Society (Washington) published the periodical The Alpha from 1875-1888.

Referenced in: The Alpha

Referenced in: The Center

Referenced in: The Millenial Messenger

The Morris Pratt Institute was founded in Whitewater, Wisconsin in 1902 through a bequest from the Spiritualist Morris Pratt. It served as a training school for Spiritualist mediums and ministers, and was long associated with the National Spiritualist Association of Churches; it moved to Wauwatosa, Wisconsin in the 1940s.

Referenced in: The Crucible

Mother Kilwinning, or Lodge Kilwinning No. 0 on the roll of the Grand Lodge of Scotland, is the oldest documented Masonic lodge in Scotland, with records reaching back into the seventeenth century and traditions of much earlier operative masonic activity at Kilwinning Abbey. It is a foundational lodge in the history of Scottish Freemasonry.

Referenced in: Universal Free Mason

Referenced in: Nautilus

Mystic Brotherhood published the periodical The Mystic Messenger from Tampa, FL (1934).

Referenced in: The Mystic Messenger

Referenced in: The Mystic Messenger

Mystic Light Library Association published the periodical Mystic Light Library Bulletin from New York, NY (1910-1912).

Referenced in: Mystic Light Library Bulletin

Referenced in: New York Magazine of Mysteries | Voice of the I AM

Referenced in: Chirothesian Magazine

Referenced in: Psychic Truth

Referenced in: The Guiding Star

Referenced in: Journal of the National Astrological Association

Referenced in: Journal of the National Astrological Association

Referenced in: Prophecy [Manchester]

Referenced in: Christian Cynosure

National Developing Circle published the periodical Spirit Voices from Boston, MA (1885-1885).

Referenced in: The Sower | Spirit Voices

The National Education Association (NEA), originally the National Educational Association, was founded in Philadelphia in 1857 as a professional body for American public schoolteachers and administrators. Its later merger with the National Teachers Association and other bodies made it the largest teachers' organization in the United States.

Referenced in: The Nationalist [Boston]

Referenced in: Spiritual Science

Referenced in: The Balance

Referenced in: Modern Miracles | Twentieth Century Astrology

The National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena (NICAP) was founded in Washington, D.C. in 1956 by Thomas Townsend Brown and reorganized soon afterward under Donald E. Keyhoe, a retired Marine Corps major. It became the largest civilian UFO organization in the United States during the late 1950s and 1960s, publishing the U.F.O. Investigator and lobbying Congress for open hearings on the UFO subject. It ceased effective operation in the late 1970s.

Referenced in: The Little Listening Post | NICAP Reporter | UFO Research Newsletter

The National Laboratory of Psychical Research was founded in London in 1925 by Harry Price as a facility for the experimental investigation of mediumship and physical phenomena. It maintained a research library that Price later transferred to the University of London, forming the nucleus of the Harry Price Library at Senate House.

Referenced in: British Journal of Psychical Research | Bulletin and Proceedings of the National Laboratory of Psychical Research

Referenced in: Our Home Rights

The National Liberal League was founded in Philadelphia in 1876 by Francis Ellingwood Abbot, Robert G. Ingersoll, and others to promote the strict separation of church and state in the United States. It was renamed the American Secular Union in 1885.

Referenced in: Freethought | The Gnostic | Pacific Liberal

Referenced in: The Sunna Dagor Message

National Spiritual Assembly (America) published the periodical Star of the West (Bahai) from 1911.

Referenced in: Star of the West (Bahai)

The National Spiritualist Association was founded in Chicago in 1893 as the first national organizational body of American Spiritualism. It was renamed the National Spiritualist Association of Churches in 1934.

Referenced in: The California Spiritual Messenger | The National Messenger | The National Spiritualist | NSAC National Spiritualist | NSAC Summit of Spiritual Understanding | NSAC Summit | The Progressive Thinker | Radiant Life

The National Spiritualist Association of Churches (NSAC) originated in the National Spiritualist Association founded in Chicago in 1893 and adopted its present name in 1934. It has been the largest Spiritualist denominational body in the United States and has published the periodical The National Spiritualist Summit.

Referenced in: The National Messenger | The National Spiritualist | NSAC National Spiritualist | NSAC Summit of Spiritual Understanding | NSAC Summit

Referenced in: Flying Saucer Review (Seattle) | NICAP Reporter

Referenced in: The Nationalist [Boston]

Naturopathic Publishing Company published the periodical Brain and Brawn from Los Angeles, CA (1912-1917).

Referenced in: Brain and Brawn

Nazarene College is a designation used by several educational institutions affiliated with the Church of the Nazarene, a Wesleyan-holiness denomination organized in 1908 by the merger of several holiness bodies including Phineas F. Bresee's Church of the Nazarene of Los Angeles.

Referenced in: The Metaphysician

New Age Press published the periodical New Age Interpreter from 1940-1976.

Referenced in: New Age Interpreter

New Atlanean Research Society published the periodical New Atlantean Journal from St. Petersburg, FL (1973-1984).

Referenced in: New Atlantean Journal

New Century Corporation published the periodical The Theosophical Path from Point Loma, CA (1911-1935).

Referenced in: The Theosophical Path

New Century Foundation published the periodical Outlook from Los Angeles, CA (1948-1964).

Referenced in: Outlook

New Church Publishing Association published the periodical Herald of Light from New York, NY (1857-1861).

Referenced in: Herald of Light

Referenced in: Mastery

New Era Press published the periodical Occult Press Review from 1922-1923.

Referenced in: Occult Press Review

Referenced in: Mitteilungen des Neuen Gral-Ordens

Referenced in: Heat and Light for the Nineteenth Century

Referenced in: Mastery

New Literature Publishing Company published the periodical The Cosmic World from 1908-1912.

Referenced in: The Cosmic World | Eternal Progress

Referenced in: The New Man

Referenced in: Mystic World

New Thought Alliance published the periodical New Thought Bulletin from 1916-1950.

Referenced in: New Thought Bulletin

Referenced in: Life Culture

Referenced in: Modern Miracles

Referenced in: The Column

Referenced in: The World's Advance Thought

The New Union Publishing Company of Union City, Michigan was the publisher of The Philomathian (c. 1901–1903), a monthly journal of religion, science, and philosophy edited by Henry J. Barton, Jessie R. Barton, Dr. M. Rogers, and (briefly) R. Swinburne Clymer.

Referenced in: The Philomathian

Referenced in: Anthropological Review [LAS] | Dr. Foote's Health Monthly

Referenced in: The Primitive Occult Journal

The New York Institute of Science was a New Thought correspondence diploma mill established in Rochester, New York by Xenophon LaMotte Sage (E. Victor Neal) around 1902. It advertised its lessons and degrees widely in the New Thought press and, in the words of Marc Demarest's research, was one of a set of institutions designed to provide credentials to those in the New Thought business.

Referenced in: Psychic Digest and Occult Review of Reviews | The Segnogram

Referenced in: Das Wort (St. Louis)

Referenced in: Independent Thinker

Referenced in: Theosophical Quarterly

Referenced in: The Friend of Progress

Referenced in: UFo Newsletter (Munsick)

Referenced in: Wings of Truth

Referenced in: Spiritualistic Free Press and General Record

Oberlin College is a private liberal arts college in Oberlin, Ohio, founded in 1833 by Presbyterian ministers John Jay Shipherd and Philo Stewart. It was the first coeducational college in the United States to award bachelor's degrees to women, and from 1835 it admitted students without regard to race, becoming a major center of abolitionist activity in the antebellum period.

Referenced in: The Agitator

Referenced in: and Occult

Referenced in: The Talisman

The Occult Digest Company of Chicago published the New Thought monthly Occult Digest under Effa Danelson's editorship from 1925 through the 1930s; it later reorganized under other names before ceasing.

Referenced in: The Occult Digest

The Occult Press of Jamaica, New York was the publisher of Hartmann's Who's Who in Occultism, New Thought, Psychism, and Spiritualism (1927), a standard biographical directory of the American occult and metaphysical scene during the interwar period.

Referenced in: Archives du Spiritisme Mondial | Bulletin de la Societe Lorraine de Psychologie Appliquee

The Occult Press Review was a review-and-abstract periodical devoted to the American occult, spiritualist, and New Thought press of the early twentieth century, one of several such directory publications aimed at the readers and correspondents of the small periodicals it surveyed.

Referenced in: Occult Press Review

The Occult Publishing Company of Chicago was the publisher of the New Thought monthly Occult Digest from 1925 onward, edited by Effa Danelson. It was among the more successful American New Thought periodical publishers of the interwar period.

Referenced in: and Occult | The Occult Review (Boston) | The Theosophical Ray

Referenced in: Occult Research Gladiator

Referenced in: The Inner Circle

Referenced in: The San Juan Record

Referenced in: Phrenological Era

Ojai Publishing Company published the periodical Server (Krishnamurti) from Hollywood, Los (1916-1927).

Referenced in: Server (Krishnamurti)

The Old Catholic Church emerged in the early 1870s as a communion of Catholic churches in the Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland, and Austria that rejected the definitions of papal infallibility and universal jurisdiction adopted by the First Vatican Council in 1870. Its bishops trace episcopal succession from the See of Utrecht, which had been in schism from Rome since 1724, and Old Catholic orders have been influential in a number of small independent episcopal churches internationally.

Referenced in: The Divine Life

Referenced in: The Metaphysician

Old Moore Publishing Company published the periodical British Journal of Astrology from London, England (1914-1939).

Referenced in: British Journal of Astrology

The Ommen Camp was held annually from 1924 to 1929 on the estate of Baron Philip van Pallandt at Eerde, near Ommen in the Netherlands, as the international gathering of the Order of the Star in the East. Jiddu Krishnamurti addressed the participants each summer, culminating in his dissolution of the Order at Ommen in August 1929.

Referenced in: Star Bulletin

The Oneida Community was a religious utopian community founded in 1848 in Oneida, New York by John Humphrey Noyes on the basis of his Perfectionist theology. It practiced complex marriage, mutual criticism, and communal economy for a generation before dissolving in 1881 into the Oneida Community, Limited, a joint-stock company that continued as a major manufacturer of silverware.

Referenced in: Brain and Brawn

The Open Court Publishing Company was founded in La Salle, Illinois in 1887 by Edward C. Hegeler and initially edited by Paul Carus. It published the periodical The Open Court and The Monist, and issued books on comparative religion, philosophy, and science aimed at a general educated audience; it was influential in the introduction of Buddhist and other Asian religious texts to English-speaking readers.

Referenced in: The Open Court

Open Door Publishing Company published the periodical Voices from the Open Door from Cleveland, OH (1912).

Referenced in: Voices from the Open Door

Referenced in: Bulletin Des Polaires

Referenced in: New York Echo

Referenced in: Shrine of Wisdom

Referenced in: Life Culture | Occult Press Review

Referenced in: Star of the East (Seattle, Sydney)

Referenced in: Common Sense

Referenced in: Initiates | Oriflamme

Referenced in: Historical Magazine and Notes and Queries

Referenced in: The Kalpaka

Referenced in: Esoteric

Referenced in: Light of Messiah

Referenced in: Daily Meditation

Referenced in: The Star of the Magi

Referenced in: Betiero's Oriental Mysteries

Referenced in: The Star of the Magi

Referenced in: Light of Messiah

Order of the Golden Age published the periodical The Herald of the Golden Age from 1896-1918.

Referenced in: Herald of the Cross | The Herald of the Golden Age | Wings of Truth

Referenced in: Das Wort (Dresden) | New York Magazine of Mysteries

Referenced in: The Uplifting Veil

Referenced in: The Divine Life

Ordo Templi Orientis (O.T.O.) was established in the early twentieth century in Germany by Carl Kellner and Theodor Reuss, drawing on irregular Masonic and Rosicrucian sources. Under Reuss's successor Aleister Crowley, who assumed leadership in the early 1920s, the order was reorganized around Crowley's religious philosophy of Thelema. After Crowley's death in 1947, competing lineages emerged internationally.

Referenced in: American Rosae Crucis | Annales Initiatiques | Das Wort (Dresden) | Die Ubersinnliche Welt | F. U. D. O. S. I. | L'Initiation | Le Reveil des Albigeois | LotusBluten | Magickal Link | The Occult Review | Oriflamme | The Prophet

Referenced in: Bibliotheque des Sciences Esoteriques | La Gnose

Referenced in: College of Universal Wisdom

Referenced in: College of Universal Wisdom

Orient Magazine Publishing Company published the periodical The Orient Magazine from New York, NY (1907-1907).

Referenced in: The Orient Magazine

Referenced in: L'Etoile D'Orient

The Oriental Esoteric Center was founded in Washington, D.C. in 1902 by Agnes E. Marsland as the local branch of the Order of the Initiates of Thibet of Alberto de Sarak (Conde de Das), the international confidence man who briefly captivated her in Peru and again in Washington. After Sarak's disappearance the Center continued under Marsland with a genuine devotion to Eastern esoteric study, publishing the Bulletin of the Oriental Esoteric Center and, from 1911 under Henry Newlin Stokes, the O.E. Library Critic.

Referenced in: L'Etoile D'Orient | La Cruz Astral | La Verdaed (Theosophical, Buenos Aires) | O.E. Library Critic | The Oriental Esoteric Society Bulletin | The Radiant Centre | The Radiant Truth

Referenced in: The New Man | O.E. Library Critic | The Oriental Esoteric Society Bulletin | The Radiant Truth

Referenced in: Oriental University Bulletin

Referenced in: Betiero's Oriental Mysteries

Referenced in: Star of the East (Seattle, Sydney)

Referenced in: The Radiant Truth

The Oriental University of Washington, D.C. was a diploma mill operated from about 1904 by Helmuth P. Holler, a German-born former Lutheran missionary who promoted the doctrine of "Universal Theomonism" through his Holy Theomonistic Church. Under Holler it issued Lit.D., M.B., M.D., and Ph.D. degrees widely by mail order, and its Oriental University Bulletin served as its principal promotional organ.

Referenced in: The Kalpaka | Official Theomonistic Record | Oriental University Bulletin | Prince Immanuel's Journal | Progress (Chicago) | Psychical Research Review | The Spiritualist (US)

Referenced in: Atmos

The Orpheus Publishing Company was one of the several small occult publishers of the early twentieth-century American New Thought and Theosophical milieu.

Referenced in: Vision

Referenced in: Psyche (London)

Our Home Rights Publishing Company published the periodical Our Home Rights from Boston, MA (1901-1904).

Referenced in: Our Home Rights

Our Race Publishing Company published the periodical Our Race from 1890-1900.

Referenced in: Our Race

Referenced in: Self-Culture (Braun)

The Oxford Group was a Protestant evangelical movement founded by the American Lutheran minister Frank N. D. Buchman, drawing its name from the Oxford University undergraduates who took it up after 1921. It emphasized personal moral inventory, restitution, guidance, and small-group sharing, and was renamed Moral Re-Armament in 1938. Its personal-inventory practices influenced the Twelve Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous.

Referenced in: Mensch en Cosmos

Referenced in: The Sunflower

Referenced in: The Metaphysician

Referenced in: Memoires d'une Ex-Palladiste

Palmer College of Chiropractic was founded in Davenport, Iowa in 1897 by Daniel David Palmer as the Palmer School of Cure, following Palmer's development of the practice he named chiropractic in 1895. It became the principal training institution of the chiropractic profession under his son B. J. Palmer and remains its oldest continuing school.

Referenced in: Human Culture

Pansophic Publishers published the periodical Pansophic Intellectualizer from 1935.

Referenced in: Pansophic Intellectualizer

Referenced in: Saturn Gnosis

Referenced in: Buchanan's Journal of Man (First and Second Series)

Referenced in: Paragon Monthly

The Parapsychology Foundation was established in New York City in 1951 by the medium and researcher Eileen J. Garrett and Frances Bolton, a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Ohio. It funded parapsychological research internationally, published the International Journal of Parapsychology, and organized professional conferences.

Referenced in: Christian Spiritualist (UK) | Tomorrow (UK)

Referenced in: Tijdschrift voor Parapsychologie

Referenced in: Journal of Parapsychology

Referenced in: Occult Research Gladiator

Referenced in: Spirit Mothers | Astraea

The World's Parliament of Religions was held in Chicago from September 11 to 27, 1893 as part of the World's Columbian Exposition. It was the first large international gathering of representatives of world religious traditions and gave a major public platform in the West to Hindu, Buddhist, Jain, and Baha'i speakers, most notably Swami Vivekananda, whose addresses launched the Vedanta mission in America.

Referenced in: Light of India | The Master Mind | Progress (Chicago) | Shrine of Wisdom

Path-Finder Publishing Company published the periodical Conable's Path-Finder from 1901-1906.

Referenced in: Conable's Path-Finder

Patience Worth Company published the periodical Patience Worth's Magazine from St. Louis, MO (1917-1918).

Referenced in: Patience Worth's Magazine

Referenced in: The Seer (Orson Pratt-- LDS)

Referenced in: Approach

Referenced in: Self-Culture

Pelley Publishers was the publishing arm of William Dudley Pelley's organizational activities, issuing his magazine Liberation and books setting out his esoteric and political teachings from Asheville, North Carolina and later Noblesville, Indiana. Pelley's later postwar organization Soulcraft continued the publishing operation under the Soulcraft Press imprint.

Referenced in: Liberation | Reality [Pelley]

Referenced in: The Phalanx

Phanes Press was an American scholarly occult publisher founded in Grand Rapids, Michigan in 1985 by David R. Fideler and later relocated. It specialized in Neoplatonism, Pythagorean philosophy, Sufism, and other topics in the Western esoteric tradition; its list was later absorbed by Red Wheel/Weiser.

Referenced in: Bulletin Des Polaires

Referenced in: Philergos

Philosophic Company published the periodical The Wise Man from 1903-1913.

Referenced in: The Wise Man

The Philosophical Publishing Company was R. Swinburne Clymer's principal publishing arm at Beverly Hall, Quakertown, Pennsylvania. It issued Clymer's own extensive Rosicrucian and hermetic writings and the periodicals The Initiates, The Initiates and the People, and the collected reprints of Clymer's various journals. It also published the Journal of Practical Metaphysics for the Metaphysical Club of Boston in 1896–1898.

Referenced in: Initiates | Initiates and the People | The Journal of Practical Metaphysics | Occult Research Gladiator | The Philomathian

Referenced in: and Occult

Phoenix Press was one of several small occult and metaphysical publishers of the twentieth-century American New Thought milieu; distinct organizations bore this name in different periods and locations.

Referenced in: A Monthly Letter (Manly Hall)

Referenced in: American Phrenological Journal

Referenced in: Annals of Phrenology | Transactions of the Phrenological Society of Edinburgh

Physico-Clinical Company published the periodical Physico-Clinical Medicine from San Francisco, CA (1916-1922).

Referenced in: Physico-Clinical Medicine

Referenced in: Everyday Astrology

Referenced in: The Platonist

The Point Loma Theosophical Society was the community and headquarters established by Katherine Tingley in 1900 on Point Loma, San Diego, California as the seat of the Theosophical Society (America) after the 1895 schism. It included the Raja-Yoga School, a printing house, an open-air Greek theater, and residential facilities, and became a notable experiment in Theosophical communal living. The community was dissolved and the property sold in 1942.

Referenced in: Universal Free Mason

The Portland School of Astrology was Llewellyn George's original astrological school, founded in Portland, Oregon in 1901 and later restructured as the Llewellyn College of Astrology.

Referenced in: Astrological Bulletina | The Column

Poseidon Press published the periodical Atlantis Quarterly from Edinburgh, Scotland (1932-1933).

Referenced in: Atlantis Quarterly

Power Publishing Company published the periodical Power from Denver, CO (1907-1925).

Referenced in: Power

Referenced in: Power

Referenced in: Power

Practical Psychology Club (London) published the periodical The Practical Psychologist (London) from London, England (1925-1926).

Referenced in: The Practical Psychologist (London)

Referenced in: The Metaphysician

Referenced in: Chimes | Mystic Magazine (Palmer)

The Primitive Rite of Masonry, better known as the Ancient and Primitive Rite of Memphis-Misraïm, is an irregular high-degree Masonic rite formed by the merger of the Rite of Memphis and the Rite of Misraïm in the late nineteenth century under John Yarker. It has worked ninety or more degrees, drawing on Egyptian, hermetic, and Rosicrucian symbolism.

Referenced in: The Kneph | Oriflamme

Princeton Theological Seminary is a Presbyterian seminary founded in 1812 in Princeton, New Jersey. Separately incorporated from Princeton University, it was the first Presbyterian seminary in the United States and, through the nineteenth-century tenure of Charles Hodge, a major center of confessional Reformed theology.

Progress Company published the periodical The Cosmic World from 1908-1912.

Referenced in: The Cosmic World | Progress Magazine

Referenced in: Modern Miracles

The Progressive Literature Agency was a nineteenth-century American distributor of Spiritualist, freethought, and reform literature, functioning as a wholesaler between the small radical publishing houses and the network of provincial Spiritualist lecturers and camp meetings.

Referenced in: Lyceum Banner [Liverpool] | Spiritual Review

"Progressive Publishing Company" is a designation used by several American radical, spiritualist, and reform publishing houses of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, generally in Chicago, New York, or California, issuing periodicals of the freethought, spiritualist, and populist reform milieus.

Referenced in: The World's Advance Thought

Referenced in: Spirit Mothers | Astraea

The Progressive Thinker Publishing House of Chicago was the publisher of the leading American Spiritualist weekly newspaper The Progressive Thinker (1889–1941), founded and long edited by John R. Francis. The paper was the principal news and lecture organ of the National Spiritualist Association and its successor bodies.

Referenced in: The Progressive Thinker

Referenced in: Spiritual Rostrum

Protestant Church is a broad designation used, in the context of American Spiritualist and metaphysical periodicals of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, to refer generically to the various Protestant Christian denominations descended from the sixteenth-century Reformation. Specific bodies within this designation include Lutheran, Reformed, Anglican, Methodist, Baptist, Congregational, and later Pentecostal denominations.

Referenced in: Chapel of Truth Messenger

Psychic Century Publishing Company published the periodical Psychic Century from Topeka, KS (1901).

Referenced in: Psychic Century

Psychic Digest Company published the periodical Psychic Digest and Occult Review of Reviews from 1899-1902.

Referenced in: Psychic Digest and Occult Review of Reviews

Referenced in: Psychic Power

Psychic Press Ltd. was the publisher of the Psychic News, the leading twentieth-century British Spiritualist newspaper, founded in 1932 by Maurice Barbanell and Hannen Swaffer. It also issued books by Arthur Findlay and other British Spiritualist authors from its London offices.

Referenced in: Psychic News

Psychic Publishing Company published the periodical The Hypnotic Magazine from 1896-1897.

Referenced in: The Hypnotic Magazine | Suggestive Therapeutics

The Psychic Research Company of Chicago was one of Sydney B. Flower's several publishing and mail-order enterprises around the turn of the twentieth century. Together with Flower's Magnetic Publishing Company, it issued the well-known "Series" correspondence lessons (Series C on clairvoyance, personal magnetism, and auto-suggestion; Series D on psychometry, phrenology, palmistry, and astrology), and it also translated and sold French mesmeric works.

Referenced in: Communication | Eudia | Independent Thinker | The Kalpaka | Suggestive Therapeutics

Referenced in: The Balance

Psychic Science Publishing Company published the periodical Psychic Science Monthly from Detroit, MI (1919).

Referenced in: Psychic Science Monthly

Referenced in: The Balance

Referenced in: Independent Thinker

Referenced in: Immortality

Referenced in: Neue Gedanken

Referenced in: Psychical Research Review | The Spiritualist (US) | Star of the East (Seattle, Sydney)

Referenced in: Eleanor Kirk's Idea

Referenced in: Psychic Science Monthly

The Psycho-Success Club was one of the mail-order enterprises operated in the 1900s by Elmer E. Prather (E. E. Knowles) in association with F. T. McIntyre and the Metropolitan Institute of Science. Along with its affiliated American Temple of Astrology, the club sold correspondence lessons on hypnotism, telepathy, personal influence, and "salesmanship," and was among the enterprises that drew a Post Office fraud order to show cause in January 1909.

Referenced in: American Rosae Crucis | The Future | The Future Home Journal | Modern Miracles | Twentieth Century Astrology

Psychological Publishing and Distributing Corporation published the periodical Psychical Research Review from New York, NY (1917-1918).

Referenced in: Psychical Research Review

Psychological Research Publishing and Distributing Company published the periodical The Spiritualist (US) from New York, NY (1917-1918).

Referenced in: The Spiritualist (US)

Referenced in: The Spiritualist (US)

Referenced in: Freethought (Australia)

Purdy Publishing published the periodical Purdy's Monthly from Chicago, IL (1894).

Referenced in: Purdy's Monthly

Referenced in: The Social Revolutionist

Pyramid Publishing Company published the periodical Immortality from Chicago, IL (1898-1901).

Referenced in: Immortality

Quaint Publishing Company published the periodical Ye Quaint Magazine from Boston, MA (1900).

Referenced in: Ye Quaint Magazine

Referenced in: Das Wort (Dresden)

Referenced in: The Business Philosopher

The Radiant Centre was an early Washington-area New Thought group headed by Kate Atkinson Boehme from about 1900. Its journal The Radiant Centre (1900–1904) initially followed conventional New Thought and Theosophical themes but became briefly notorious for Boehme's uncritical enthusiasm for Alberto de Sarak's Order of the Initiates of Thibet before Boehme's suspicions of Sarak's fraudulent phenomena caused a break.

Referenced in: Faro Oriental | La Verdaed (Theosophical, Buenos Aires) | Luz Astral (Chile) | The Radiant Centre | Teosophia en el Plata

Radiant Healing Centre published the periodical Progression from 1932.

Referenced in: Progression

Radix Publishing Company published the periodical The Radix from 1897-1901.

Referenced in: The Radix

Referenced in: The Temple Artisan

Rajput Press published the periodical Universal Masonry from Chicago, IL (1910-1911).

Referenced in: Universal Masonry

The Ramakrishna Order was formally established in 1897 by Swami Vivekananda as a Hindu monastic order dedicated to the ideals of Vivekananda's teacher Sri Ramakrishna. It comprises the monastic Ramakrishna Math and the philanthropic Ramakrishna Mission, headquartered at Belur Math near Kolkata, and it has been the source of the Vedanta Societies in the West.

Referenced in: Message of the East

The Ramakrishna Vedanta Society is a designation used by branches of the Ramakrishna Order's mission to the West, teaching Advaita Vedanta as interpreted through Sri Ramakrishna and Swami Vivekananda.

Referenced in: Star of the East (Seattle, Sydney)

Referenced in: The Open Road

The "Real and True Rosicrucian Order" was one of the polemical designations adopted in the disputes among early twentieth-century American Rosicrucian bodies, particularly in R. Swinburne Clymer's decades-long polemic against H. Spencer Lewis's AMORC. Each side used variations of the phrase to claim legitimate descent from the historical Rosicrucian tradition.

Referenced in: Azoth

Reality Publishing Company published the periodical Reality from New York, NY (1919-1929).

Referenced in: Reality

Red Rose Press published the periodical Joy from Santa Barbara, CA (1930-1933).

Referenced in: Joy