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Periodical: Orion Magazine

Summary: From Pat Deveney's database:

Orion Magazine
A Metaphysical Publication Devoted to Genuine Spiritual Knowledge.
Light & Truth
1955?--1983? Monthly except January and July
Charlotte, NC, and then Lakemont, GA.
Language: English.
Editor: Ural R. Murphy; H. Edwin O’Neal.
Publisher: Orion Magazine (published at Ord, Nebraska, for Orion Magazine, Charlotte, ), C.S.A.
1/1, 1955 (?)
$3.00 a year; 32 pp. and then 16 pp., 8 1/2 x 11 inches

This was a catch-all occult-spiritualistic-religious-New Thought journal of the period, with notes on "What Actually Happens at Death"by A.J. Davis and "Sure Guidance from the Inner Voice"by Joseph Sadony (on whom see the notes on The Great Work in America, The Whisperer, and Timber) and articles on "New Thought,""Edgar Cayce,"and "Christ Power,"etc. A cast of unknown authors contributed to the journal. The journal was taken over in the 1960s by the Church of the Christial Spiritual Alliance (C.S.A.) an organization with connections with Swami Yogananda that had been founded in 1962 by H. Edwin O’Neal, who assumed the editorship from Murphy.

Other Sources:
Issues:Orion Magazine Aug 1955
Claude-Generated Themes:   Orion Magazine is an eclectic mid-twentieth-century American metaphysical monthly built on a New Thought core — affirmation, prosperity, demonstration and 'positive thinking' — with columns of absent-healing ads offering prayer treatment for health, harmony and success. Around that mind-cure center it weaves psychic and Spiritualist debate over the genuineness of mediumship and an occult layer of karma, reincarnation and the akashic records; the Virginia Beach healing address and Cayce-flavored ethics hint at the Edgar Cayce penumbra. It is best read as a metaphysical marketplace magazine catering to the whole postwar New Thought–psychic public rather than any single school.

Generated by Claude from the periodical's digitized text; a thematic reading, not a bibliographic description.
Topics:New Thought | Spiritualism | Yoga and Vedanta