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Periodical: Revue Belge du Espiritismo

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Revue Belge du Spiritisme, Le.
1878--1881? Monthly
Liege, Belgium.
Language: French.
Editor: Oscar Henrion, Charles Marcq.
Succeeds: Le Chercheur (Liege) and Le Galileen (Ostende) merged to form this
Succeeded by: Revue Belge des Sciences Psychologiques (?)
1/1, 1878-1881.
32 pp., 6 francs in Belgium and 7 beyond.

To be entitled to the journal's premium offer of a free copy of Mme. Krell's Rayonnements de la Vie Spirituelle, the subscriber had to add one franc to that price. When Dr. Clovis Alexandre Dupuis, the young military physician who founded Le Galileen of Ostende died at 30 years old, Galileen was merged with Henrion's and Marcq's Le Chercheur of Liege to form this journal. See the note by G.L. Ditson in Banner of Light, March 30, 1878. Henrion was an indefatigable worker for spiritualism and magnetism and went on to be involved in Revue Belge des Sciences Psychologiques and Le Phare, and to head the Federation Spirite Belge. This journal proclaimed that "it is open to the free discussion of spiritualism, magnetism and philosophy in general and of all related sciences," which brought it into conflict with its more rigidly spiritualist contemporary Moniteur Spirite. The journal carried short articles on world funeral customs, various heresies in Christianity, magnetism, corporal mortifications, etc., and excerpts from Camille Flammarion, P.G. Leymarie, Baron Dupotet, et al., as well as the typical Kardecist expositions on charity, virtues, love, etc. It also printed an unpublished novel by Leon Denis.

Other Sources:
Issues:Revue Belge Du Spiritisme V1 N1 Jan 1878
Revue Belge Du Spiritisme V1 N2 Feb 1878
Revue Belge Du Spiritisme V1 N3 Mar 1878
Revue Belge Du Spiritisme V1 N4 Apr 1878
Revue Belge Du Spiritisme V1 N6 Jun 1878
Revue Belge Du Spiritisme V1 N7 Jul 1878
Revue Belge Du Spiritisme V1 N8 Augn 1878
Claude-Generated Themes:   Revue Belge du Spiritisme was a Belgian francophone spiritist review launched in 1878, belonging to the Kardecist tradition that dominated continental spiritism. Its columns turn on communication with spirits through mediums and séances, resting on the Kardecist premises of the perispirit and reincarnational progress. Distinctively, the review is combatively anticlerical, foretelling the humbling of a wealthy clerical power, and it reaches for idealist and patriotic imagery — Joan of Arc, the soul's aspiration toward the infinite that the 'modern spirit' had failed to satisfy. Beneath the mediumship runs a residual current of animal magnetism, the fluidic substrate from which the movement had grown. It is a representative organ of late-nineteenth-century Belgian spiritism in its progressive, anticlerical key.

Generated by Claude from the periodical's digitized text; a thematic reading, not a bibliographic description.
Topics:Spiritism (Kardecist) | Spiritualism