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From Pat Deveney's database:
Supernatural Magazine, for This was a product of the time and of the Ascendency in Ireland. With occasional nods to the current Animal Magnetism, the journal created a garland of the curious and antiquarian: old stories of
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| Supernatural Magazine V1 Jun 1809 | |
| Supernatural Magazine V1 Jul 1809 | |
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The Supernatural Magazine, published in 1809, is an early nineteenth-century miscellany of the marvellous, compiled for a public that wanted wonders and had begun to want them documented. Much of its material is older than the magazine: it serialises a seventeenth-century narrative of apparitions, visions and unusual things seen in a family in 1649, and expounds what its author calls the Mundus Luminosus, the Light World, as a second and internal world with objects of its own. It reprints what reads as a witchcraft deposition, in which the accused declines to confess to any apparition in particular until it should be proved, since such things were being brought in as a crime against him. It records the moment in 1630 when Peter Mormius offered to reveal his grand secret to the States General of Holland and was refused — one of the documented episodes of the Rosicrucian claim. And it carries, in small quantity, the newest marvel of its own decade, animal magnetism and its somnambules, which had reached England only shortly before. This is the Gothic-occult press at the opening of the century: not a doctrine, but an anthology of everything strange that could be gathered. Generated by Claude from the periodical's digitized text; a thematic reading, not a bibliographic description. |
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| Occult Science and Esoteric Philosophy | Popular Occultism | Rosicrucianism | Survival After Death and Immortality |
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