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Periodical: The Public Circle

Summary:   From Pat Deveney's database:

Public Circle, The.
A Record of Facts in Spiritual Intercourse.
1855-1856 Monthly
New York, NY. Language: English.
Publisher: R.W. Heurtley. Editor: Michael A. Curran. Succeeded by: The Principle (?)
1/1, March 1855-February 1856(?) $1.00 a year.

This probably lasted into the fall of 1856, and is variously described as a journal or a pamphlet. The Spiritual Telegraph for December 20, 1856, in noticing the new The Principle, says: “We suppose it is designed to take the place of the Public Circle . . . ." The advertisement for the journal in the Christian Spiritualist in September 1855 says it was to contain “a record of facts in Spiritual Intercourse, chiefly derived from Circles held by J.B. Conklin, Medium.” The journal’s purpose was stated to be to bring in sufficient income “to provide means whereby [Conklin] may give the greater part of his time to FREE PUBLIC CIRCLES for the benefit of the needy and afflicted.” Stanford University.

Other Sources:
Issues:The Public Circle V1 N1 Mar 15 1855
Claude-Generated Themes:   The Public Circle is a Spiritualist paper named for the seance-room practice at its heart. Its columns are filled with mediumship — 'the medium's hand wrote' spirit messages, spirit guides and controls — and its purpose is consolation: a representative excerpt carries a message from a deceased brother to a grieving enquirer, promising that to the believer the grave holds no terrors. An older mesmeric physics underlies the phenomena, with talk of Reichenbach's odic force and magnetic passes beside trance mediumship. Its natural home is spiritualism, with strong secondary weight in automatic writing and a survival-and-immortality consolation register.

Generated by Claude from the periodical's digitized text; a thematic reading, not a bibliographic description.
Topics:Spiritualism