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Periodical: The Theosophical Ray

Summary:  From Pat Deveney's database:

Theosophical Ray.
Designed to give Simple Statements Concerning the Divine Truths of Theosophy.
Monthly
Boston, MA. Language: English.
Publisher: Boston Theosophical Publishing Company. Editor: W.W. Harmon.
1/1, October 1892-July 1893. 16 pp., 50 cents a year.

The journal explicitly rejected the notion that it formally spoke for the Theosophical Society and seems to have been intended as a notice for TS meetings in and around Boston and as propaganda to spread word of the society. Mentioned in the Path and in Lucifer, December 1893, as distributed gratis, so perhaps the journal lasted until then. Harmon was also the printer of Dom Pernety's Treatise on the Great Art, edited by Edouard Blitz and published by the Occult Publishing Company of Boston in 1898.

Other Sources:
Issues:The Theosophical Ray October 1892
Claude-Generated Themes:   The Theosophical Ray is a movement periodical of the Blavatskyan Theosophical current, built around the person and legacy of Helena Petrovna Blavatsky. Its pages run to biography and apologetic — tracing HPB's aristocratic Hahn ancestry, recounting the near-legendary episodes of her career, and rebutting the perennial charge that she profited from credulous followers. Around that devotional core sit the standard furnishings of Theosophy: universal brotherhood, karma and reincarnation, and an occult 'magic' understood as esoteric philosophy rather than conjuring. Passing references to spiritualist rapping reflect the movement's origins in and against nineteenth-century spiritualism rather than any endorsement of the seance room. It is, in short, a Theosophical house-organ speaking to the already-converted.

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