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From Pat Deveney's database:
Spiritual Science Digest. 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
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| Spiritual Science Digest 1Q-2Q 1960 | |
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The 'Spiritual Science Digest' is a mid-twentieth-century American metaphysical digest (the holding includes a 1960 number) in the Spiritualist 'spiritual science' orbit, and it reads as an eclectic anthology rather than a single-doctrine organ. Its backbone is spiritual healing -- a Healing Mission with prayer lists and appointed Spiritual Healers -- braided together with evidential survival (the claim that consciousness persists without the brain), a hypnotism-and-suggestion department, and New-Thought mind-power on success and prosperity. A scatter of 'occult' vocabulary, with stray tarot and reincarnation, gives it a light esoteric seasoning but no Theosophical program. It is best filed under Spiritualism, with a strong secondary edge to spiritual healing and moderate ties to survival, hypnotism, and New Thought. The panel's 'occult' headline is a generic-word artifact and is downgraded accordingly. Generated by Claude from the periodical's digitized text; a thematic reading, not a bibliographic description. |
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