Philadelphia.
Revista Mensual de Estudios Teosoficos / Organo de la Rama Luz de la Sociedad Teosofica.
1898—1902? Monthly, bi-monthly
Buenos Aires, Argentina. Language: Spanish.
Editor: Alejandro Sorondo.
1/1, July, 1898-1902(?) 32 pp.

This was an occult journal with strong Masonic and Theosophical elements. It was associated with the Luz branch of the Theosophical Society that had been started by Alberto de Sarak, Count de Das, who has a very long history in the annals of occultism. After defrauding the members of $15,000 (and being expelled from the Society for the second time, Sarak fled to Brazil, but the secretary of the original branch, Alejandro Sorondo, reconstituted the branch even though he continued to be a disciple of Sarak's and defended him, notably in Hesperia, 1921-1922, until the latter's death. The journal carried translations of articles by "M.C." (Mabel Collins), Annie Besant, Bulwer Lytton, Franz Hartmann, and others, and publishhed regular translated excerpts from the prominent figures of the French occult revival of the end of the nineteenth century: Alberto de Rochas, Edouard Schure, Louis Dramard, Stanislas de Guaita, Camille Flamarion, Eliphas Levi, Jules Lermina, et al., notably articles by Arthur Arnould from Revue Theosophique which Sarak later printed as his own in his journals in Peru (El Loto) and Mexico (La Luz). See Gonzalo Pena y Troncoso, ed., El Dosamantismo es la Religion Cientifíca: En Oposicion al Ocultismo Semita que es una Liga de Internacional Anarquismo. La Síntesis Cientifico-Religiosa del Maestro Jesus Ceballos Dosamantes (Mexico, D.F.: Editores J.I. Guerrero y Cia., 1904), 136. On Sarak, see the notes under Bulletin of the Oriental Esoteric Center/Society, The Radiant Centre, and L'Etoile d'Orient. The Theosophist for August 1899 says that the journal was being published by the Luz branch of the Theosophical Society. Archivo General de la Guerra Civil Espanola; University of California, Santa Barbara.

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