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Periodical: The Spiritualist (London)

Summary:  From Pat Deveney's database:

Spiritualist, The.
The Organ of the Spiritualist Community.
1930 Monthly
London, England. Language: English.
Publisher: Golden Vista Press.
1/1, November 1930. 32 pp., 3d. an issue, 4s. a year.

The journal contained contributions by Arthur Ford, musings on idealism, brotherhood, the spiritualizing of spiritualism, spiritual awakening, congregational singing, and book reviews, and the first (and possibly the last) issue contained a supplement with "Li-La, A Romance of the East." It was published from Grotrian Hall in London and devoted extensive space to musical performances and lectures given there.

Other Sources:University of Texas, Austin.
Issues:Spiritualist V1 N1 Nov 1930
Claude-Generated Themes:   This is a British Spiritualist paper simply titled 'The Spiritualist,' and its content is the ordinary business of the movement: mediumship, seances, spirit controls, clairvoyance, and the demonstration that the dead survive. A lead essay by Marjorie Livingston debates how to 'spiritualise Spiritualism,' a popular dialogue defends the faith as ancient rather than 'new-fangled,' and society columns advertise clairvoyants and fund-raising bazaars. Survival of death is the doctrinal heart, giving it a strong secondary edge to survival-and-immortality alongside the physical phenomena of mediumship. Occasional occult, healing, and 'demonstration' vocabulary is incidental -- the last being Spiritualist proof-of-survival rather than New Thought. It belongs with the mainstream Spiritualist weeklies.

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