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Periodical: Reflejo Astral

Summary:  From Pat Deveney's database:

Reflejo Astral.
Revista Espiritualista.
1901--1908? Monthly
Santiago, Chile.
Language: Spanish.
1/1, June 1901.
$2.00 a year, 16 -18 pp.

Although the cover of the first issue of the journal bore the seal of the Theosophical Society, the journal was fundamentally Kardecist spiritist, but with a rather broader interpretation of the scope of spiritism. It carried excerpts from Emil Zola and Franz Hartmann and articles on telepathy, Martinism, Theosophy and H.P. Blavatsky, occultism generally, psychic photographs, "fire tamers," "spiritist phenomena and Catholic mysticism," etc. Under the title "How to Communicate with the Invisibles," the journal printed a plate of a triangular planchette board that it found "convenient" for the purpose. This must be distinguished from the journal of the same name started in Santiago in 1896 by Arnoldo Krumm Heller.

Other Sources:
Issues::Reflejo Astral V1 N1 Jun 1901
Reflejo Astral V1 N2 Jul 1901
Reflejo Astral V1 N3 Aug 1901
Reflejo Astral V1 N4 Sep 1901
Reflejo Astral V1 N5 Oct 1901
Reflejo Astral V1 N6 Nov 1901
Claude-Generated Themes:   Reflejo Astral was a Spanish-American periodical — its 'i'-for-'y' spelling points to Chile — that braided two currents the era often kept apart: Kardecist Spiritism and Theosophy. It offered readers practical séance counsel (treat the spirits courteously, but do not believe everything they tell you) alongside a Blavatskyan, anti-materialist cosmology in which the Sun's force condenses within the Earth as magnetism and all of Nature answers to a threefold, 'Tri-unitary' law. Faint mesmeric vocabulary of odic and imponderable fluids threads through the whole. It reads as a spiritist journal wearing theosophical-occult dress, characteristic of the porous esoteric scene of the Southern Cone.

Generated by Claude from the periodical's digitized text; a thematic reading, not a bibliographic description.
Topics:Automatic Writing and Channeling | Spirit Photography | Spiritism (Kardecist) | Spiritualism | Theosophy