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From Pat Deveney's database:
Reality Magazine. This, despite its recurring anti-semite rants, was one of Pelley's less political later journals, devoted principally to illustrations (ghost stories, guardian spirits, etc.) of his principle that "We are spirits clad in veils." The journal and Pelley's philosophy "began in |
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| NYPL; University of , Ashville; University of Michigan; University of Washington. | |
| Reality V1 N4 Jan 1938 | |
| Reality V1 N4 Jan 1938 Alt | |
| Reality V1 N9 Jun 1938 | |
| Reality V1 N10 Jul 1938 | |
| Reality V1 N11 Aug 1938 | |
| Reality V1 N12 Sep 1938 | |
| Reality V2 N2 Nov 1938 | |
| Reality V2 N3 Dec 1938 | |
| Reality V2 N5 Feb 1939 | |
| Reality V2 N6 Mar 1939 | |
| Reality V2 N7 Apr 1939 | |
| Reality V2 N8 May 1939 | |
| Reality V2 N9 Jun 1939 | |
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Reality was one of William Dudley Pelley's periodicals from the late 1930s, the years when his Silver Legion (the 'Silver Shirts') and his Soulcraft teaching were fully entangled. Its metaphysics grew out of Pelley's 1928 out-of-body 'Seven Minutes in Eternity' experience: a cosmology of embodied spirit, karma, reincarnation, and clairvoyant survival after death, expressed in a mental-realization idiom borrowed from the New Thought world. But the magazine is inseparable from Pelley's antisemitism and racial-religious mythmaking, which surface directly in its pages. It belongs in the archive as a primary document of American esoteric fascism — Soulcraft doctrine and Silver Legion ideology fused into a single, and deeply troubling, worldview. Generated by Claude from the periodical's digitized text; a thematic reading, not a bibliographic description. |
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| Occult Science and Esoteric Philosophy | Pelley, Soulcraft, and the Silver Legion |
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