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Periodical: Spiritual Analyst

Summary:  From Pat Deveney's database:

Spiritual Analyst and Scientific Record, The.
Life—and its Issues.
1871—1871? Monthly, bimonthly
Boston, MA. Language: English.
Publisher: W.F. Brown & Co.. Editor: J.H.W. Toohey.
Succeeds: Spiritual Monthly and Lyceum Record
1/6, June 1871-1871(?) 48 pp. See the note under Spiritual Monthly.
This appears to have been the ill-conceived attempt to fill out the subscriptions of the Spiritual Monthly. Although Toohey had a long history in spiritualism, beginning with the Christian Spiritualist in the 1850s, the journal had little in it explicitly devoted to spiritualism and consisted almost exclusively of articles and notes reprinted from other, secular, journals, padded out with a chapter from "Heinrich Zockokke's" [Heinrich Zschokke’s] Illumination; or, The Sleep-walker. Amherst College and NSAC Lily Dale have 1/9, September 1871.

Other Sources:
Issues:Spiritual Analyst V1 N9 Sep 1871
Claude-Generated Themes:   The Spiritual Analyst is a nineteenth-century American Spiritualist periodical of the investigative cast, built around mediumship, spirit-control, and the documentary testing of communications from the dead. Its sampled pages carry set-pieces characteristic of the movement's evidential wing — a contested Grave Creek inscription-stone message argued before a learned society, sworn Boston courtroom testimony from June 1871, and a rapt first-person seance narrative. Beneath the spiritualist surface runs the usual period substratum of clairvoyance, odic force, and mesmeric passes, with a light phrenological seasoning, marking it as a title firmly within the mid-Victorian Anglo-American spiritualist current.

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