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Periodical: Radiant Life

Summary:  From Pat Deveney's database:

Radiant Life, The.
Exponent of Radio-Centric Power.
The Magazine with a Purpose / Ye are masters of your own drstiny. In the realm of souls ye are kings; For God in His wisdom has made you free That ye reach unto nobler things--Ella Wheeler Wilcox
1911--1927? Monthly
Baltimore, MD, then Rochester, NY.
Language: English.
Editor: Will J. (William Joseph) Erwood, editor and publisher, Florence Russell, business manager, Deane Erwood, publication manager.
Publisher: W.J. Erwood.
Succeeds: Radiant ?
Succeeded by: Super-Psychology-->The Mystic Key
1/1, January 1911-1927(?)
$2.00 a year, 30-38 pp.

An earlier series of this appeared in 1911 from Baltimore, Maryland, and the journal seems to have been restarted in 1919. Nautilus, June 1911 announced the appearance of vol. 1, no. 2 of the journal. "A Word to You. Do You Believe in The Life Worth While -- The Real, Vital, Rational Life? If You Do, This is YOUR KIND of MAGAZINE." The journal proclaimed that it was "a magazine with a purpose," and that purpose was the development of "mind power." This seems to have been accomplished by following the instructions given by the likes of "an Intelligence" mediated at the regular Psychic Classes. Erwood (1874-1948) later edited The Mystic Key and Super-Psychology. He was a lifelong spiritualist (he channeled "The Teacher"), minister of the National Spiritualist Association, and active in the General Association of Spiritualists of New York, but early on he began to publish on the likes of Essentials of Psychic Development, Man’s Spiritual Powers: A Revelation of the Superior Man. Unfolding the Finer Forces, etc., and finally turned his attention to "practical psychology." Erwood sold lessons on "Radio-Centric Power," "Clairvoyance," "Clairoaudience," "Clairsentience," and other undeveloped powers in man. He wrote for the Aletheian, the National Spiritualist, and other journals.

Other Sources:University of Illinois; Wisconsin Historical Society; Skidmore Library, Lily Dale (2 copies, 1926 and 1927).
Issues:Radiant Life V8 N1 Apr 1925
Radiant Life V8 N2 May 1925
Radiant Life V8 N3 Jun 1925
Radiant Life V8 N4 Jul 1925
Radiant Life V8 N5 Aug 1925
Radiant Life V8 N6 Sep 1925
Radiant Life V8 N7 Oct 1925
Radiant Life V8 N8 Nov 1925
Radiant Life V8 N9 Dec 1925
Radiant Life V8 N10 Jan 1926
Radiant Life V8 N11 1926 Feb
Radiant Life V8 N12 Mar 1926
Radiant Life V9 N1 Apr 1926
Radiant Life V9 N2 May 1926
Radiant Life V9 N3 Jun 1926
Radiant Life V9 N4 Jul 1926
Radiant Life V9 N5 Aug 1926
Radiant Life V9 N6 Sep 1926
Radiant Life V9 N7 Oct 1926
Radiant Life V9 N8 Nov 1926
Radiant Life V9 N9 Dec 1926
Radiant Life V9 N10 Jan 1927
Radiant Life V9 N11 Feb 1927
Radiant Life V9 N12 Mar 1927
Claude-Generated Themes:   The Radiant Life was a New Thought monthly (holdings roughly 1926–1940) whose core is mind-cure and prosperity — success, affirmation, concentration, the subconscious — set inside an immanent-God theology that reads the 'greater works' of the Gospel as the birthright of the awakened mind. But it is a hybrid paper: its editor filed reports from the Lily Dale spiritualist camp, and its pages carry genuine séance-room vocabulary of mediums, spirit world and materialization alongside a mesmeric healing layer of magnetic 'passes,' odic emanation and laying on of hands. It belongs to the camp-circuit crossover where New Thought affirmation and spiritualist phenomena shared a platform. It is best filed as New Thought with a strong spiritualist secondary residence.

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