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From Pat Deveney's database:
Temple Messenger. |
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| Temple Messenger V1 N1 Sep 1890 | |
| Temple Messenger V1 N2 Oct 1890 | |
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The Temple Messenger was the organ of a spiritualist temple congregation, its pages reporting from a purpose-built hall whose cornerstone was laid in 1884 and whose platform served the ministry of mediums. Its core matter is spiritualist — mediumship and materialization phenomena, communication with the Summerland, and the consolation that intelligence and love survive death — but it is braided through with the New Thought language of success, demonstration, and prosperity that pervaded turn-of-the-century American metaphysical religion. Trance and suggestion appear as the working vocabulary of mediumistic practice. The result is a hybrid temple magazine, spiritualist at its foundation and mind-cure in its accents. Generated by Claude from the periodical's digitized text; a thematic reading, not a bibliographic description. |
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