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Periodical: Reason

Summary:  From Pat Deveney's database:

Reason.
Science, Education, Healing, Success and Social reform. Formerly The Sermon. An Advocate of Social Reform / A Monthly Publication of New Thought, Psychic Research and Progress.
From the Actual to the Ideal
Other titles: Reason Quarterly
1905—1932? Monthly, and then quarterly, May 1919-Mar.-April 1925.
Rochester, NY, and then 1915- in Los Angeles, CA. Language: English.
Publisher: Austin Publishing Company. Editor: B.F. Austin, A.M., D.D., Spiritualistic Editor.
Succeeds: The Sermon
1/1, December 1905-1932(?) 42-48 pp. (varies), 4x6. Fifty cents a year.

The Occult Digest, January 1925, notes an article by a New York detective on criminals who use ghosts in their activities. (1850-1932) see the note under The Sermon. In 1905-1906, the journal regularly ran full-page illustrated advertisements for the Bangs Sisters’ spirit paintings. Noted in Hartmann’s Who’s Who, 1925.

Other Sources:University of Waterloo; LOC; California State Library; Skidmore, Lily Dale (bound first volume)
Issues:Reason V7 N10 Aug 1910
Reason V19 N3 Aug-Sep-Oct 1922
Reason V22 N10 Mar-Apr 1925
Reason V24 N2 May-Jul 1927 Partial
Reason V28 N5 Feb-Mar-Apr 1932
Claude-Generated Themes:   'Reason,' B. F. Austin's Los Angeles monthly, was a Spiritualist paper of the early twentieth century in which mediumship and spirit-return sit at the center — seances, materializations, spirit-world messages, and survival narratives such as the widely circulated Stead 'Blue Island' account. What sets it apart is the thickness of its New Thought overlay: alongside the spirits run steady columns on success, prosperity, demonstration, and the subconscious, reflecting Austin's characteristic fusion of Spiritualism with mind-cure metaphysics. Popular astrology and a general occult vocabulary of magic and the esoteric round out the mix, together with occasional reincarnation and magnetic-healing material. The result is a Spiritualist journal that reads as a crossroads of turn-of-the-century American metaphysical religion.

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