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.
Succeeds: Luz (1893)
Succeeded by: La Verdad (Buenos Aires, 1905-1911)
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 (under the name "Dr. Martines") and his wife Antonia Martinez Royo. Sarak and Antonia arrived in Argentina in late 1892, where Sarak, under the name "Dr. Martinez" applied to Colonel Olcott for a charter for a branch in Buenos Aires. The "Luz" branch of the T.S., the first in South America, was inaugurated on January 7, 1893, with Antonia as president and other notables, like Alejandro Sorondo, the secretary of the Argentine Senate and the poet Leopoldo Lugones, and many other prominent Argentines as members. The branch started a lost semi-monthly journal, Luz. All this came to an end in June 1893 when Olcott received evidence that "Martinez" was Sarak and again expelled him. After defrauding the members of $15,000, Sarak, abandoning Antonia, fled to Brazil,--to start a long, complicated pilgrimage through the Americas, starting Theosophical societies and journals along the way, always one step ahead of his latest exposure. The secretary of the original branch, Alejandro Sorondo, reconstituted the branch in 1894 even though he continued to be a disciple of Sarak's and defended him, notably in Hesperia, 1921-1922, until the latter's death. With him in the effort were Commandant Don Federico W. (Washington) Fernandez ("Lob Nor," d. 1923), who been among the original founders of Rama La Luz, and Antonia Martinez Royo (1866-1897), who died shortly after, abandoned on the lonely Pampas, as Sorondo was later to write. The journal carried translations of articles by "M.C." (Mabel Collins), Annie Besant, Bulwer Lytton, Franz Hartmann, and others, and published 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 Cientifica: En Oposicion al Ocultismo Semita que es una Liga de Internacional Anarquismo. La Sintesis Cientifico-Religiosa del Maestro Jesús 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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