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Periodical: Spiritual Herald (Detroit)

Summary: From Pat Deveney's database:

Language: English.
Spiritual Herald, The.
A Monthly Magazine of Spiritual Truth.
1936? Monthly, irregular (9 issues a year)
Detroit, MI.
1/1, 1936 (?)
16 pp., 50 cents a year, 5 cents a copy.

The journal represented the Independent Spiritualists Association and carried lengthy directories of mediums and healers, both locally and nationally and advertisements for spirit trumpets, "Tantrik Teachings of the Mystic East" from Latent Light Culture in Tinnevelly, South India, mail-order directions," "Astral Body Traveling," "Forbidden Knowledge," etc. It was advertised in Occult Digest, March 1937, Christian Spiritualist Quarterly, January-March 1937, and in Aries Quarterly, March 1938.

Other Sources:
Issues:Spiritual Herald V4 N9-10 Jun 1939
Claude-Generated Themes:   The Spiritual Herald was a Detroit spiritualist paper centered on mediumship and seance practice, its pages carrying the familiar vocabulary of mediums, controls, the spirit world and 'harmonial' spiritualism. Its distinctive note is an organized spiritual-healing ministry: the magazine advertised membership in a healers' association, complete with a framed Certificate of Membership for the walls of one's Healing Room, under figures such as Rev. Ann Furlow of Detroit. A devotional Christ-centered register and a light New Thought vocabulary of success and abundance run alongside the spiritualist content. It reads as a spiritualist-healing house organ of the American mid-century movement rather than a doctrinal or psychical-research journal.

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