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Periodical: Theosophic Gleaner

Summary: From Pat Deveney's database:

Theosophic Gleaner, The.
A Popular Journal of Theosophy / Devoted to Theosophy and Oriental Literature and the Unfoldment of the Good in Humanity.
There is no religion higher than truth
1893--1907 Monthly
Bombay, India. Language: English.
Publisher: Blavatsky Lodge, Theosophical Society / Chirag Press. Editor: Mr. Bilimoria; B.P. Wadia; G.E. Sutcliffe.
Succeeds: Pauses (1891-1893) Succeeded by: Theosophy and New Thought
3/1, September 1893-1907. 28 pp., Rs. 2-6 a year.

This was the journal of the Bombay Lodge of the Theosophical Society in Bombay, founded in 1880. The journal regarded itself as the direct offshoot of the Theosophist, started by H.P. Blavatsky in the same city in 1879, and is notable among Theosophical journals in featuring original articles on Theosophy and Indian philosophy. The lodge’s membership included Tookaram Tatya (d. 1898) and also Bahman Pestonji Wadia (1881-1958 ), who later edited the journal and its successor Theosophy and New Thought and other journals and went on to join the United Lodge of Theosophists. The title of the journal was changed to Theosophy and New Thought in 1907 because it was thought that "Gleaner" no longer reflected the journal’s interests and purposes. Noted in Lotus Bleu, 1898, and listed in Notes and Queries, January 1900.

Other Sources:National Library of Australia; University of London; University of Chicago.
Issues:Theosophic Gleaner V7 N1 Sep 1897
Theosophic Gleaner V7 N2 Oct 1897
Theosophic Gleaner V7 N3 Nov 1897
Theosophic Gleaner V7 N4 Dec 1897
Theosophic Gleaner V7 N5 Jan 1898
Theosophic Gleaner V7 N6 Feb 1898.
Theosophic Gleaner V7 N7 Mar 1898.
Theosophic Gleaner V7 N8 Apr 1898
Theosophic Gleaner V7 N9 May 1898
Theosophic Gleaner V7 N10 Jun 1898
Theosophic Gleaner V7 N11 Jul 1898
Theosophic Gleaner V7 N12 Aug 1898
Claude-Generated Themes:   The Theosophic Gleaner was a Bombay Theosophical monthly, sampled here from its seventh volume (1897–98). As its title suggests, it gleaned and digested Theosophical doctrine for Indian and Anglo-Indian students: karma and reincarnation, the writings of Blavatsky, universal brotherhood, and long serialized essays on Yoga philosophy, including the treatise of Dr. N. C. Paul. A graded lending-library study course structured the reader's year of instruction. Genuine Hindu and yoga material and a comparative-religion outlook give it real doctrinal substance beyond generic occultism. Its scattered 'medium' and 'reincarnation' vocabulary reflects Theosophy's own teaching — not spiritualism, which the movement pointedly criticized.

Generated by Claude from the periodical's digitized text; a thematic reading, not a bibliographic description.
Topics:New Thought | Theosophy