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From Pat Deveney's database:
Tiffany's Monthly. Tiffany (
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| LOC; NYPL; WHi; Boston Athenaeum. | |
| Tiffanys Monthly V1 1856 | |
| Tiffanys Monthly V2 1856 | |
| Tiffanys Monthly V3 1857 | |
| Tiffanys Monthly V4 N2 Jun 1858 | |
| Tiffanys Monthly V4 N3 Jul 1858 | |
| Tiffanys Monthly V4 N4 Aug 1858 | |
| Tiffanys Monthly V4 N5 Sep 1858 | |
| Tiffanys Monthly V4 N6 Oct 1858 | |
| Tiffanys Monthly V4 N8 Feb 1859 | |
| Tiffanys Monthly V4 N9 Mar 1859 | |
| Tiffanys Monthly V4 N10 Apr 1859 | |
| Tiffanys Monthly V5 N1 May 1859 | |
| Tiffanys Monthly V5 N2 Jun 1859 | |
| Tiffanys Monthly V5 N3 Jul 1859 | |
| Tiffanys Monthly V5 N4 Aug 1859 | |
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Tiffany's Monthly was published in New York by Joel Tiffany from 1856 to 1859, in the first decade of American Spiritualism, and it belongs to the movement's philosophical rather than its phenomenal wing. Mediumship and spirit communion appear throughout, but as the empirical ground of an argument rather than as spectacle: Tiffany's purpose was to build from them a systematic harmonial religious philosophy that could stand against the orthodoxy of the churches. His characteristic moves are philosophical — that faith is an exercise of will of the same kind God exercises, that the mind can demand no truth which does not somewhere exist to satisfy it, that the religion to come will differ from its predecessors in the catholicity of its spirit and will value forms only for what they suggest. Beneath that argument lies the antebellum reform substratum from which the movement grew, including the clairvoyance of the mesmerists and a substantial presence of Karl von Reichenbach's odic force. It reads less as a record of seances than as a reasoned case for Spiritualism as a rival religious science. Generated by Claude from the periodical's digitized text; a thematic reading, not a bibliographic description. |
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