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From Pat Deveney's database:
Spiritualist Monthly.
The Searchlight of Occultism: A magazine devoted to the promulgation of the Philosophy and the Laws of the Phenomena of Spiritualism, Psychic Research, and the Moral and Practical Application of Occult Laws, Ever Seeking to Discover the Truth and present it to Humanity that it might be freed from the Bondage of Superstition / Devoted to Universal Spiritualism.
Spreading the Truth to Make Others Free / Know Thyself
1929--1932? Monthly
Los Angeles, CA. Language: English.
Publisher: Crossley Publishing Company / California State Spiritualist Association Auxiliaries / Spiritualist Publishing Company. Editor: Felicie Oneta Crossley, Bernice H. Jacquelin, managing editor. Succeeded by: The Forum of Psychic and Scientific Research Corporate author: Official Organ of the California State Spiritualist Association Auxiliaries
1/1, January 1929. $2.00 a year, 36 pp. Felicie Onetta Crossley (1899-1976), who edited this journal, was a convinced spiritualist (she proclaimed herself "greatest spiritualist in California, if not the entire world") but the spirits' messages had a decided New Thought tone, reflected in "Delta Samadhi's" The Master Key to Psychic Unfoldment: A Physiological, Psychical and Philosophical Analysis, edited by her in 1931. The journal contained "C.S.S.A. News" and notices of churches and societies, contributions by J.C.F. Grumbine, B.D., Delta Samadhi (on the "spiritualization of the physical"), A.T. Piercy, Patricka D'Este, Lida W. Amerige, Numerologist, Moses Hull (presumably his spirit, "through the courtesy of Mrs. J.R. Francis"), D.J. Bussell ("Thoughts for Daily Living"), et al., and the usual current advertisements for free horoscopes, "Name Analysis and Prophecy from the Birthdate," "V.P.O. for Radiant Health," "Psychic Unfoldment," etc. Noted in Astrosophie, May 1932, which emphasizes the "simplicity and practicality" of the journal's articles on the little known occult powers in man.
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Spiritualist Monthly is a mediumship-centered spiritualist magazine of the organized-movement kind, its pages full of mediums, controls, the spirit world, seances and materializations and even a state-association directory of chartered California mediums. Over that spiritualist foundation runs a strong New Thought overlay of success, demonstration, prosperity and the subconscious, plus a moderate occult and astrological layer of esoteric initiation, horoscopes and the zodiac. Its scattered 'Rosicrucian' references belong to the noisy Southern-California occult-society milieu rather than to the historic Rosenkreutz current, and are read as generic occult adjacency. The magazine typifies the eclectic West-Coast spiritualism of its era, where the seance room, the New Thought class and the astrologer's chart shared a single readership.
Generated by Claude from the periodical's digitized text; a thematic reading, not a bibliographic description.
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