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From Pat Deveney's database:
Teosofian Valo (Theosophical Light). The journal featured translations from the American Theosophist (for which Kaarna wrote) and other English-language journals but also regularly offered columns on "Astrological Advice" (Kaarna was a printer and astrologer) and on "Spirit World and Materialistic Science," "The Effect of the Sun," and other more general topics.
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| Teosofian Valo V2 N6 Jun 1914 | |
| Teosofian Valo V2 N7 Jul 1914 | |
| Teosofian Valo V2 N8 Aug 1914 | |
| Teosofian Valo V2 N10 Oct 1914 | |
| Teosofian Valo V2 N11 Nov 1914 | |
| Teosofian Valo V2 N12 Dec 1914 | |
| Teosofian Valo V3 N1 Jan 1915 | |
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Teosofian Valo ('The Light of Theosophy') was a Finnish-language Theosophical monthly of the WWI years that wore its Theosophy — karma, adepts, Blavatsky, the 'first principles' — alongside an unusually heavy diet of practical astrology. Dedicated columns read planetary aspects (Jupiter's benefic aspects to Uranus and the like) and spun them into mundane forecasts, from the fate of the German Kaiser to predictions that the war would not end before 1918. It is a small periodical in which the wisdom-tradition of the Theosophical Society reaches Finnish readers largely through the star-lore of the horoscope, presenting astrology, in Blavatsky's phrase, as one of the oldest of the sciences. Generated by Claude from the periodical's digitized text; a thematic reading, not a bibliographic description. |
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| Astrology | Spiritualism | Theosophy |
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