Revista Espiritista, La.
Periodico de Estudios Sicologicos.
Other titles: Revista Espiritista de Estudios Psicologicos
1872--1892?
Monthly
Montevideo, Uruguay.
Editor: Justo de Espada.
Publisher: Sociedad Espiritista Montevideana; Impr. del Telegrafo Maritimo.
1/1 June 1872-1892 (?).
8-12pp.

Beginning in January 1877 the journal was distributed free of charge because the unassuming Sociedad Espiritista Montevideana that published it, almost always without attribution, stated that it had "nothing else in view than the propagation of the spiritist doctrine and science." Its goal from the beginning was to make known the "psychological truths contained in spiritism, which constitutes a complete science due to the set of evident principles and rigorous demonstrations that serve as its foundation." The journal was almost apologetic about its role in a small country, and insisted its "sole purpose in the field of periodical press, is to contribute its humble grain of sand toward the construction of the much-needed edifice of human happiness and progress." The journal rarely mentioned where it was published and never mentioned who edited it, though Justo de Espada's name is occasionally given as the contact person. He was a Spanish-born medium who had established the first spiritist "experimental society" in Montevideo in 1869-1870, on the upper floors of a drug store there. The society started a Biblioteca Popular Espiritista in Montevideo and started this journal, a fairly typical Kardecist production, with communications from "Angel Guardian" an articles from Kardec, C. Flammarion, Amelia Domingo y Soler, and others, and expositions of the doctine by local spiritists. Noted as still existing in C. Kiesetwetter, Geschichte des neueren Okkultismus (1891), 1:477, and in the exchanges of El Sol, 1891. The journal also is listed as adhering to the 1892 Spanish-American spiritualist congress convened by Fraternidad Universal in Madrid to honor the discovery of America.

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