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From Pat Deveney's database:
Revue du Monde Invisible. Meric ( |
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| Harvard University; Cornell University; Saint Louis University, St. | |
| Revue Du Monde Invisible V1 1898-1899 | |
| Revue Du Monde Invisible V2 1899-1900 | |
| Revue Du Monde Invisible V3 1900-1901 | |
| Revue Du Monde Invisible V4 1901-1902 | |
| Revue Du Monde Invisible V5 1902-1903 | |
| Revue Du Monde Invisible V6 1903-1904 | |
| Revue Du Monde Invisible V7 1904-1905 | |
| Revue Du Monde Invisible V8 1905-1906 | |
| Revue Du Monde Invisible V9 1906-1907 | |
| Revue Du Monde Invisible V10 1907-1908 | |
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The Revue du Monde Invisible was founded in Paris in 1898 by the Abbé Élie Méric, a Catholic theologian, to survey the whole terrain of the supernatural from within Catholic orthodoxy. Apparitions and possession, miraculous healings, prophecy, animal magnetism, hypnotism, occultism, and above all the Kardecist Spiritism then flourishing in France are its constant subjects — but its stance is that of an examiner and an adversary rather than a believer. Claims are weighed against theology and against the natural explanations available to a well-read cleric, and the review reaches often for suggestion and hypnotic influence as the sufficient cause of what its opponents attributed to spirits. Behind that lies a theological argument, stated plainly in its pages: that the occult groupings of the ancient and the modern world are one family, and that a Christian should attend to what they are fighting for. The review is best understood as the Catholic counter-literature to the occult periodicals of its day, mapping their claims in order to judge them, and it is a valuable and unusually well-informed record of what those claims were. Generated by Claude from the periodical's digitized text; a thematic reading, not a bibliographic description. |
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| Hypnotism and Suggestion | Psychical Research and Parapsychology | Spiritualism |
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