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Periodical: The Pacific Theosophist

Summary:  From Pat Deveney's database:

Pacific Theosophist.
1891-1898 Monthly
Seattle, WA, then San Francisco, CA. Language: English.
Publisher: Lotus Publishing Company. Editor: Jerome A. Anderson.
1/1, November 1891-1898. $1.00 a year, 16 pp.

Anderson also edited and was a founder of the New Californian and seems to have taken this journal over, moving it to San Francisco, when the New Californian was relocated to Los Angeles. The two journals combined were said to have had a circulation of 30,000, but this journal notes that it was printing only 1000 copies and distributing half of those gratis. In the internecine squabbles within the Theosophical Society after the deaths of H.P. Blavatsky and W.Q. Judge, the journal followed Judge and then Katherine A. Tingley. Contributions by Countess Wachtmeister, Judge, Tingley, et al., regular comments on the events of the upheaval in the Theosophical Society, and brief lodge notes on the activities of the society on the West Coast. The table of contents for this, prepared by the Australian Theosophical Society, is now online at http://www.austheos.org.

Other Sources:
Issues::Pacific Theosophist V4-6 1893-1896 Index
Pacific Theosophist V4 N1 1893 Aug
Pacific Theosophist V4 N2 1893 Sep
Pacific Theosophist V4 N3 1893 Oct
Pacific Theosophist V4 N4 1893 Nov
Pacific Theosophist V4 N5 1893 Dec
Pacific Theosophist V4 N6 1894 Jan
Pacific Theosophist V4 N7 1894 Feb
Pacific Theosophist V4 N8 1894 Mar
Pacific Theosophist V4 N9 1894 Apr
Pacific Theosophist V4 N10 1894 May
Pacific Theosophist V4 N11 1894 Jun
Pacific Theosophist V4 N12 1894 Jul
Pacific Theosophist V5 N1 1894 Aug
Pacific Theosophist V5 N2 1894 Sep
Pacific Theosophist V5 N3 1894 Oct
Pacific Theosophist V5 N4 1894 Nov
Pacific Theosophist V5 N5 1894 Dec
Pacific Theosophist V5 N6 1895 Jan
Pacific Theosophist V5 N7 1895 Feb
Pacific Theosophist V5 N8 1895 Mar
Pacific Theosophist V5 N9 1895 Apr
Pacific Theosophist V5 N10 1895 May-jun
Pacific Theosophist V5 N11 1895 Jul
Pacific Theosophist V6 N1 1895 Aug
Pacific Theosophist V6 N2 1895 Sep
Pacific Theosophist V6 N3 1895 Oct
Pacific Theosophist V6 N4 1895 Nov
Pacific Theosophist V6 N5-6 1895 Dec 1896 Jan
Pacific Theosophist V6 N7 1896 Feb
Pacific Theosophist V6 N8 1896 Mar
Pacific Theosophist V6 N9 1896 Apr
Pacific Theosophist V6 N10 1897 Jan
Pacific Theosophist V6 N11 1897 Feb
Pacific Theosophist V6 N12 1897 Mar
Pacific Theosophist V7 N1 1897 Apr
Pacific Theosophist V7 N2 1897 May
Pacific Theosophist V7 N3 1897 Jun
Pacific Theosophist V7 N4 1897 Jul
Pacific Theosophist V7 N5 1897 Aug
Pacific Theosophist V7 N6 1897 Sep
Pacific Theosophist V7 N7 1897 Oct
Pacific Theosophist V7 N8 1897 Nov
Pacific Theosophist V7 N9 1897 Dec
Pacific Theosophist V8 N1 1898 May
Pacific Theosophist V7 N10 1898 Jan
Pacific Theosophist V7 N11 1898 Feb
Pacific Theosophist V7 N12 1898 Apr
Claude-Generated Themes:   The Pacific Theosophist was a Theosophical Society organ on the western coast of the United States, and it reads as a bulletin for members rather than a review for the public. Its business is instruction in the Society's doctrine: universal brotherhood as its first object, the sevenfold constitution of the human being, the adepts behind the movement, and above all karma and reincarnation, expounded patiently and at length. One of its lessons argues that many incarnations are needed before perfection is reached and that conscience must serve as the guide meanwhile; another sets out a law that karmic debts are paid in kind unless a creditor chooses to forgive, so that a cycle may begin with a clean account. Alongside the teaching runs the ordinary life of a regional society — conventions, lectures, the occasional embarrassment reported with relish. Its language of the silence and of concentration belongs to Theosophical meditation, drawn from Blavatsky's Voice of the Silence, and its references to mediumship are comparative and critical rather than practical.

Generated by Claude from the periodical's digitized text; a thematic reading, not a bibliographic description.
Topics:Reincarnation and Karma | Theosophy