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Periodical: Seeker Magazine [London]

Summary: From Pat Deveney's database:

Seeker Magazine, The.
Official Organ of the Seekers and the Harmony Praayer Circles / Mysticism, Occultism, Christian Healing, Health.
Seek and ye shall find
Other titles: The Seeker
1937--1942 Quarterly
London, England.
Language: English.
Editor: B.A. Simpson [perhaps C.A. Simpson?].
Publisher: Seekers P.C., Ltd.
Succeeds: Beyond-->The Seeker (November 1934-June 1937)
1/1, October 1937-2/6, March 1942, 40 pp. One shilling a year.

This was the organ of The Seekers, a Christian spiritualist healing association under the direction of Charles Adam Simpson (1882-1958) and his spirit control, "Dr. Lascelles." On the group and Simpson, see the note under Beyond. The journal carried a list of the various Seeker branches and visiting and District Healers throughout the Empire.

Other Sources:NYPL; BL.
Issues:Seeker Magazine V1 N4 Jul 1938
Seeker Magazine V1 N7 Apr 1939
Seeker Magazine V1 N9 Oct 1939
Seeker Magazine V1 N10 Jan 1940
Seeker Magazine V1 N11 Apr 1940 Partial
Seeker Magazine V1 N12 Jul-sep 1940
Seeker Magazine V2 N1 Oct-dec 1940
Seeker Magazine V2 N1 Dec 1940 Supplement
Seeker Magazine V2 N2 Jan-mar 1941
Seeker Magazine V2 N2 Mar 1941 Supplement
Seeker Magazine V2 N3 Apr-jun 1941
Seeker Magazine V2 N4 Sep-nov 1941
Seeker Magazine V2 N5 Dec 1941
Claude-Generated Themes:   The Seeker was a late-1930s London esoteric monthly for the spiritually searching, blending occult philosophy with karma-and-reincarnation doctrine and a mystical, ritual-critical Christianity. Its pages weigh interior devotion against High-Church ceremony and meditate on Gethsemane and the crucifixion while teaching esotericism, initiation, and survival of death. A spiritualist strand — spirit-control, the dead, séance, mediumship — runs beneath the occult frame, with a light astrology department at the margin. It reads as a Theosophically-inflected 'seeker' magazine rather than the organ of any single confession or lodge.

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