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Periodical: The Supernatural Magazine

Summary:  From Pat Deveney's database:

Supernatural Magazine, for 1809, The.
Containing ancient & modern supernatural experience, in testimony to the truth of revelation, respecting the immortality of the soul, a future state of rewards and punishments: together with various wonders of the invisible worlds.
1809-1809
Dublin, Ireland. Language: English.
Publisher: Wilkinson & Courtney.
1/1-4, June to September 1809. 32 pp, 4 x 8.

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 Dr. Pordage and Benvenuto Cellini, more current apparitions (the Laird of Cool, and Duncan Campbell),and Count Gabalis's conversion. In an article on “The Rosicrucian Brotherhood" in the August issue, the author opines that the the Rosicrucians had disappeared only to arise in a new guise: “politics took the place of metaphysics, and produced the secret societies of the revolutionists."

Other Sources:NYPL; BL; Harvard University.
Issues:Supernatural Magazine V1 Jun 1809
Supernatural Magazine V1 Jul 1809
Supernatural Magazine V1 Aug 1809
Supernatural Magazine V1 Sep 1809
Claude-Generated Themes:   Read from 1809, The Supernatural Magazine is an early nineteenth-century miscellany of the marvellous — the supernatural and the occult gathered for a curious readership, with genuine Hermetic and magical matter among the wonder-tales (the excerpt echoes the Hermetic 'sleep of the body, watchfulness of the mind'). It belongs to the Gothic-occult press at the dawn of the century, not to mesmerism.

Generated by Claude from the periodical's digitized text; a thematic reading, not a bibliographic description.
Topics:Occult Science and Esoteric Philosophy | Popular Occultism | Rosicrucianism | Survival After Death and Immortality