The Sphinx [Boston] [IAPSOP]

Periodical:	*The Sphinx (Boston)*

Summary:	From Pat Deveney's database: Sphinx, The. An Astrological Magazine. 1899-1908? Monthly Boston, MA; Chillocothe, MO. Language: English. Publisher: Sphinx Publishing Co.. Editor: Catherine H. Thompson. 1/1, July 1899-1908(?). $2.00/$3.00 a year. 72 pp. The advertisements for the journal in The Metaphysical Magazine, 1907, and in The Life, 1908, describe it as "the leading Astrological journal of the world, supported by the best writers. It is entirely devoted to the Science of Astrology as taught by the Egyptians." Contributions by Kymry, Sephariel, Astor, Merlin, Raphael, Aphorel, Cheiro, John Hazelrigg, Pallas, Ely Star, Asmothiel, Desbarolles, Heinrich Daath, et al. Noted in "Astrological Serial Publications in the United States" in S.C. Gould's Notes and Queries and Historic Magazine 18, no. 2 (February 1900): 58-59.
Other Sources:	LOC.
Issues:	Sphinx Boston V1 N1 Jul 1899
	Sphinx Boston V1 N2 Aug 1899
	Sphinx Boston V1 N3 Sep 1899
	Sphinx Boston V1 N4 Oct 1899
	Sphinx Boston V1 N5 Nov 1899
	Sphinx Boston V1 N6 Dec 1899
	Sphinx Boston V2-3 Feb-Jul 1900
	Sphinx Boston V4 Jan-Jun 1901
Claude-Generated Themes:	The Sphinx was a Boston astrological monthly whose pages run thick with the working vocabulary of the art — horoscopes and nativities, conjunctions, zodiacal signs, ascendants and planetary influence, including character-typologies built on planets like Mars. A thin esoteric shell of occult, magical and occasional tarot references surrounds the astrology, and a recurring language of 'success' and prosperity gives it the practical, advice-giving tone of turn-of-the-century commercial astrology rather than a mind-cure creed. It reads as a straightforward astrology magazine of the late-Victorian revival, lightly colored by the occult milieu it moved in. Generated by Claude from the periodical's digitized text; a thematic reading, not a bibliographic description.
Topics:	Astrology