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Periodical: Revue du Monde Invisible

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Revue du Monde Invisible.
1898--1908 Monthly
Paris, France. Language: French. Editor: Msgr. Elie Meric and "un comite de Pretres et de Laiques"; Dr. Surbled.
1/1, June 1898-1908.

Meric (1838-1905) was a Catholic priest and lecturer at the Sorbonne who early on became fascinated by the power of hypnotism. He moved from there into a lifelong study of the marvelous and the occult, focusing on "les forces naturelles inconnues," all the while remaining faithful to the Church. He was president of the Societe des Recherches Psychiques and on his resignation founded the Academie des Sciences Psychiques. The journal published theological inquiries into the dangers of Satanic deception in occultism and into the nature of angels and their role in spiritualism, and also discussions of general occult and spiritualist topics such as graphology, the Keeley Motor, haunted houses, Mollie Fancher, the astral plane, multiple personalities, the Yellow Peril, etc. Contributions by A. de Rochas, E. Bozzano, Princess Karadja, Paul Gibier, and others. Louis; Universite Laval; Seminary of Saint-Hyacinthe in Quebec, Canada.

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Issues: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
Claude-Generated Themes:   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.

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Topics:Hypnotism and Suggestion | Psychical Research and Parapsychology | Spiritualism