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Periodical: Theosophical News

Summary:  From Pat Deveney's database:

Theosophical News.
A Weekly Report of Activities.
1896—1897 Weekly

Boston, Mount Vernon, MA. Language: English.
Publisher: Boston Theosophical News Publication. Succeeds: New England Notes Succeeded by: New Century (1897-1903); Merged with Universal Brotherhood Path to form New Century Path (1903-1911)—>Theosophical Path (1911-1935)
1/1, June 22, 1896-2/14, September 20, 1897. 4 pp., 11 x 14, $1.00 a year.

Noted in Pacific Theosophist, 1896. The journal adhered to the Katherine Tingley branch of Theosophy and regularly carried news of her her crusades and speeches. Plates of Tingley, E.T. Hargrove, E. August Neresheimer, Robert Crosbie, Constance Hargrove, Alice L. Cleather, Herbert Crooke, D.N. Dunlop, et al. Rowell’s American Newspaper Directory for 1900 says the journal’s circulation was less than 1,000.

Other Sources:ATLA microfilm; Boston University; United Library (Illinois).
Issues:Theosophical News V1 1896
Claude-Generated Themes:   Theosophical News was an 1896 American news-sheet of the Theosophical movement, appearing in the turbulent period after H. P. Blavatsky's death and around the schism led by William Q. Judge. Its columns are given over to lodge meetings, officers and inter-lodge travel — Brooklyn and New York societies, reports telegraphed from Europe — the working administrative face of Theosophy rather than its speculative frontier. The familiar doctrinal vocabulary of brotherhood, karma and reincarnation runs throughout, and the sheet also relays the era's interest in hypnotic and psychic phenomena. It is best read as a record of how the American Theosophical community organized and communicated with itself at the close of the nineteenth century.

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