Rising Sun, The.
Illuminator of Mind and Matter / A New Spiritual Journal.
All Peoples, Principles and Powers may know Thee, and gain Wisdom at Thy shrine, Immortal Truth Divine
Other titles: Truth, The Rising Sun
1880--1881? Monthly
Portland, OR.
Editor: Lucy L. (Lovinia/Lovina) Browne, "medium editress" or "Medium and Amanuensis".
1/1 July 1880.
$1.00 a year (or 50 cents for six months, or 25 cents for three months); five cents a copy.

Brown later said the journal lasted one year. The second issue of the journal has a "Celestial Greeting" and proclaims that "We come with a Living Inspiration Suited to the Wants of this Age." Despite the optimistic grandness the journal seems not to have prospered and Browne wrote most of the content of the surviving issues. This included a novelized "Narrative by a Spirit" describing entrance into the spirit world, "Confession of a Spirit From the Dismal Abysses of Hell," wordy communications from the spirit of Zach Chandler, a deceased senator, and articles excerpted from the Banner of Light. The advertisements in the journal are almost exclusively from the exchanges of other journals, with the notable exception of James A. Bliss' "Bliss' Magnetized Planchette" and his"Blackfoot's Magnetized Paper," vouched for by Red Cloud, "the great Medicine Chief from happy hunting grounds."

Several of Browne's visions and spirit communications, many of which had appeared in this journal, were published in Prophetic Visions of Natural Events and Spirit Communications, published in Oakland, California, in 1882, in which she said that she became a clairvoyant in 1850 and began to have visions and communications from the likes of George Washington. A notice of the book calls her "a remarkable woman gifted with great spiritual power." The Bridgeport, Connecticut, Telegram in 1955 reported, on some unknown basis, that Browne was one of Lincoln's closest friends and would "glibly speak of World War III, which she said would take place in 1981," although it was then only 1841. "She said that American respect would decline internationally after 1947, that Russia would be purified by World War II, and that all forms of false political theories will fade after the new President in 1953! Miss Browne also foretold ‘beckoning hands in the sky and a broader horizon' before 1961." American Antiquarian Society.

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