Spiritual Science Digest.
Safe and Sane / Harmony Builds Health and Happiness
1960 Quarterly
St. Petersburg, FL.
Editor: Rev. Helene Gerling, D.D., and Rev. J. Bertran Greling [sic], D.D.
Publisher: Universal Harmony Society.
1/1, First-Second Quarter 1960.
$1.00 a year, 32 pp.

Helene Gerling (1925-2018) and her husband Jay Bertram Gerling founded the Universal Harmony Foundation in 1942 as the Universal Psychic Science Association. Both had been practicing mediums at Lily Dale, New York, before moving to Florida, and she led the group until 1988 when she was succeeded by Rev. Nancy Castillo. This journal appears to continue publication today.

The Universal Harmony Foundation, with its Mother Church in St. Petersburg, Florida, was an accreditation institution designed to recognize churches following its teachings and to regularize the ordained ministers of the Church who were graduated from the Church's seminary. This was a mail-order institution that offered students discounted tuition under a "Free-Will-Offering Policy" that led to Doctor of Divinity, Doctor of Spiritual Secience, Missionary-at-Large, Religious Teacher, Metaphysical Counselor, Spiritual Healer, Psychic Science Practitioner, etc., all leading to "Beautiful and Conservatively designed Certificates and Diplomas" after completion of the reading courses -- although that onerous work might be dispensed with: "In worthy instances grants of Ministerial Certifications may be processed at once"

The journal aimed to be a "specialized Reader's Digest" focused on the Spiritual Sciences. Under the umbrella of "harmony," the Church subsumed, besides spiritualism, the by-then current amalgam of New Thought and New Age beliefs in a Universal Fan of the Spiritual Sciences: Religion, Scriptures, Metaphysics, Spiritual Healing, Psychic Research, Occultism, Yoga, Prophecy, Mysticism, Prayer Power, Soul Realization, Inspiration and Revelation. It featured advertisements for the foundation's courses and products (Hindu incense, American Indian pine needle baskets, home altars, etc.) and publications, a directory of accredited practitioners, and articles by Louis S. Vosburg (on danger signals in occultism), Pundit Bhekpati Sinha (on your preciousness), Guruananda (on the spiritual path), Linda Lynn Love (on spiritual healing) and others, excerpts from Max Muller and Professor Hyslop, et al. Claremont College; University of California at Santa Barbara; NYU; San Diego State University, etc.

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