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Periodical: Theosophical Siftings

Summary:  From Pat Deveney's database:

Theosophical Siftings.
1888—1895 18 nos. a year
London, England. Language: English.
Publisher: Theosophical Publishing Society. Editor: Countess Wachtmeister.
1/1, February 16, 1888-1895.

A periodically published series of Theosophical and occult essays and translations, each with its own title, with contributions by H.P. Blavatsky, C.C. Massey, A.P. Sinnett, Franz Hartmann, W. Scott Elliott, C. Pfoundes, W.Q. Judge, J.W. Brodie Innes, Mrs. Bloomfield Moore, A.E. Waite, et al., and essays on Swedenborg, the Taro, karma, Keely, Hermetic Philosophy, etc. The table of contents of the journal, prepared by the Australian Theosophical Society, is online at ww.austheos.org.au. Los Angeles Public Library; University of California, San Diego; Yale University; Harvard University; University of Minnesota, and other locations in OCLC. Archivo General de la Guerra Civil Española. Indexed by the Campbell Theosophical Research Library, Sydney, Australia, online at www.austheos.org.

Other Sources:ATLA microfilm.
Issues:Theosophical Siftings V1 1888-1889
Theosophical Siftings V2 1889-1890
Theosophical Siftings V3 1890-1891
Theosophical Siftings V4 1881-1892
Theosophical Siftings V5 1892-1893
Theosophical Siftings V5 N2 1892
Theosophical Siftings V6 1893-1894
Theosophical Siftings V7 1894-1895
Claude-Generated Themes:   Theosophical Siftings was a London tract series issued by the Theosophical Publishing Society in the late 1880s and 1890s, gathering essays by Blavatsky-era writers for the general reader. Its themes are the doctrinal core of first-generation Theosophy: karma and reincarnation, devachan and the after-death states, the Masters and initiation, and the esoteric reading of religion and science set against materialism. The series also reflects Theosophy's roots in the mesmeric tradition, with clairvoyance, magnetic 'passes' and somnambulism treated as evidence of the subtle constitution of man, and it dips occasionally into older Hermetic material such as the eighteenth-century alchemical transmutation trials. It is best read as a popularizing pamphlet-arm of the London Lodge rather than an independent magazine.

Generated by Claude from the periodical's digitized text; a thematic reading, not a bibliographic description.
Topics:Hermeticism and Western Esotericism | Swedenborgian and New Church | Theosophy