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Periodical: Ruusu-Risti

Summary:  From Pat Deveney's database:

Ruusu-Risti [Rose-Cross].
Okkultinen Aikakauskirja [Occult Magazine].
1920 Monthly
Helsinki, Finland. Language: Finnish.
Editor: Pekka Ervast; Eino Krohn.
Succeeds: Omatuntu—>Tietaja
17/1, January 1921.
Smk. 50 ($4.00 U.S.) a year.

The first volume is called 17th year because the journal continues the numbering of Ervast’s Omatunto—>Tietaja. Pekka Ervast, the editor, was a prominent Theosophist and had started Ruusu-Risti as a Theosophical association within the Theosophical Society, part of the then current Besant/Leadbeater effort to bring Rosicrucianism under the aegis of the Society. The journal was Theosophical and carried in its early issues frequent contributions by Annie Besant and C.W. Leadbeater, but was devoted to occultism generally. It written largely by Finnish authors, although it carried excerpts from the writings of H.P. Blavatsky, Bo Yin Ra, Dion Fortune, P.G. Bowen, and H. Spencer Lewis.

Other Sources:
Issues:Ruusu-risti 1921-1925
Ruusu-risti 1926-1930
Ruusu-risti 1931-1935
Ruusu-risti 1936-1939
Claude-Generated Themes:   Ruusu-Risti ('Rose-Cross') was the journal of the independent Finnish esoteric school that Pekka Ervast established in 1920 after parting from the Adyar Theosophical Society. Its pages are Theosophy at the core — karma, the adept ideal, Blavatsky's Secret Doctrine, the higher Self rising from the Anima Mundi — but colored throughout by Ervast's esoteric-Christian 'Christosophy,' which read the Johannine gospel and the figure of Christ as the inner meaning of the Western mysteries. The 'Rose-Cross' of the title names that Christian-Rosicrucian aspiration (the rose blooming on the cross of matter) rather than any Masonic degree. Comparative religion, a strand of Western hermetic vocabulary, and a light astrological interest complete the profile. It stands as one of the principal documents of early-twentieth-century Finnish Theosophy in its distinctively Christian, national key.

Generated by Claude from the periodical's digitized text; a thematic reading, not a bibliographic description.
Topics:Ceremonial Magic and Thelema | Rosicrucianism | Theosophy