From Pat Deveney's journal database:

Pure Spiritualism, The.
A Spiritualist Family Magazine / Scientific, Logical, Spiritual, No Superstition, No Man-Made Dogma.
There is no Death; there are no Dead
Other titles: Voice of Pure Spiritualism
1933--1946
Tri-Yearly
San Francisco, CA.
Editor: Daisy G. Buettner, editor and publisher.
1/1, October 1933-3/1, July 1946.
$1.00 a year, 48 pp.
Publication suspended between November 1934 and January 1944.

Daisy May Gibson Buettner (1877-1963 ) was a member of Rev. J.J. Dickson's materializing Spiritualist church of Revelation in San Francisco, for which she was the Instrumental Materializing Psychic. She heralded this journal as "truth, not argument" but it functioned more as a come-on for her widely advertised "correspondence courses in pure psychic self-unfoldment since 1922."

"The Band of Pure Spiritualism for Pure Spiritual Psychic Unfoldment at Home. Learn to get your own spirit communications. Enthusiastic Corresponding Units and BANDETTES all over the world. PURE VIBRATION, PURE TEACHING of MATERIALIZED SPIRIT TEACHERS only. Regular rates $5 for year Course, $1 for two months, but no one craving spirit understanding turned away. Here is the OPEN DOOR."

Buettner mediated the materialized spirit of Juanita of Atlantis who had lived on earth 50,000 years ago and advised that "Divine revelation is that only which is received direct from the Spirit Realm. All other statements are second-hand." She expounded, among other things, on "Life on a Distant Planet" called "Twilightland" which boasted of dragonflies that were four feet long and butterflies with a ten-foot wingspan, not to mention 200 foot snakes. Juanita also outlined the history of mankind from entities with sheep-sized brains who learned to look up and see and think about the world by falling into pits. The journal contained a Catechism ("Who made you? No one made me; I have always been myself. Have you always lived on this earth? No; I have lived here only ___ years. Where did you live before? I lived with the angels," etc.), poems ("My Fame Aim"), Meditation Thoughts, articles on "Pure Spiritualism," "Local Materialization," "Applied Spiritualism," the proper incense to attract congenial spirits, etc., and contributions by Joseph G. Lehner, N.D., C. Perry de Boissey, M.D., et al. Buettner contributed regularly to Sunflower, True Light, True Mystic Science, and other journals, and was on the staff of Leon de Aryan's De Aryan University Quarterly. In 1947 she was noted as editor of True Spiritualism. In 1943, she published Manna of Pure Spiritualism: A Calendar of Daily Spirit Guidance for a Happy Normal Worthwhile Life which contained her woodcuts, printed by her husband Charles F. Buettner. The bookseller's catalogue for the work calls her "a neglected outsider artisan: a self-taught printer and artist." Her obituary says she was "founder and head of Purist Temples of World Spiritualism" in Nigeria and India. University of California, Berkeley.

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