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Periodical: Teosofia en Lob-Nor

Summary:  From Pat Deveney's database:

Teosofia en Lob-Nor.
Revista Mensual, Organo de la Logia Lob-Nor.
1918 Monthly
Valparaiso, Chile.
Language: Spanish.
Editor: Armando Zanelli M.
1/1, October 1918.

This was a standard lodge bulletin of the Adyar Theosophical society, with excerpts from C.W. Leadbeater, copy of the lodge bylaws, news of the doings of the Order of the Star in the East, etc. The name of the lodge refers to the dried salt lake in the Tarim Basin in China that some Theosophists of the time saw as "our Aryan Cradle," the home of the Fifth Root Race -- and later, in the 1960s, the site of Chinese nuclear testing.

Other Sources:
Issues:Teosofia En Lob-Nor V2 N2 Jan 1920
Claude-Generated Themes:   Teosofía en Lob-Nor was a Spanish-language Theosophical review tied to the Chilean Section of the Theosophical Society, whose administrative by-laws it reproduced alongside its doctrinal matter. Its teaching is squarely Adyar Theosophy: the impersonal higher Self that persists, untouched, across 'hundreds of incarnations', the workings of karma, and a contemplative sensibility that hears the 'soul' of things through poets and meditatives. A minor ethical-diet strand reflects the Theosophical embrace of vegetarianism. The title's evocation of Lob-Nor — the Central Asian lake bound up with Theosophy's imagined geography of the Masters — signals its self-conscious place in the movement's mythos. It stands among the Latin-American Theosophical periodicals that carried Blavatsky's synthesis into the Spanish-speaking world.

Generated by Claude from the periodical's digitized text; a thematic reading, not a bibliographic description.
Topics:Atlantis and Lost Continents | Order of the Star in the East and Krishnamurti | Theosophy