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From Pat Deveney's database:
Swastika, De. This was primarily a Masonic journal of a slightly irregular sort (it was the organ of the Supreme Couseil Universel Mixte in the Netherlands) but contained a great deal of material on general occult subjects. Van Ginkel, the editor, wrote on the Rosicrucians (as "Fr. Syntheticus") for Licht en Waarheid and later edited the Theosophical journal Ster in het Oosten. The first issue proclaimed the journal's goal to make known to the Dutch public the first steps in the Royal Art, independently of the constraints of Church and Lodge, and to cover the Tarot, Co-Masonry, the Book of the Dead, the Kabalah, etc. It published material from
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| Swastika V1 N1 Jan 1911 | |
| Swastika V4 N2 Apr 1914 | |
| Swastika V5 N4 Sep 1915 | |
| Swastika V6 N2 Apr 1916 | |
| Swastika V7 N4 Oct 1917 | |
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Swastika was a Dutch Theosophical review — its very title the Society's seal-emblem — moving between Blavatskyan doctrine, the 'adept' and karma, a little Kabbalah, and the root-race prehistory of Atlantis. That Atlantis material, not any Shaver mythos, accounts for its lost-continent signal. A distinctive feature is its esoteric survey of Freemasonry, tracing the craft from the 1717 Grand Lodge through the higher degrees and its schisms — handled from the outside, as Theosophical history rather than lodge business. In sum, a general Dutch Theosophical-occult miscellany with pronounced Atlantean and Masonic-historical interests. Generated by Claude from the periodical's digitized text; a thematic reading, not a bibliographic description. |
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| Divination (Tarot, Cartomancy, and Numerology) | Freemasonry and Masonic Orders | Rosicrucianism | Theosophy |
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