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From Pat Deveney's database:
Toekomstig Leven, Het.
Gewijd aan de Studie der proefondervindelijke zielkunde en bovenaardsche / Gewijd aan de Studie van het Spiritisme en aanverwante verschijnselen.
Uw Richting is mij wel -- mits zij naar boven streeft En -- schoon de mijne niet, mij wat te denken geest -- P.A. de Genestet
1897--1951 Semimonthly (1st and 15th of each month), then monthly
Utrecht, Netherlands.
Language: Dutch.
Editor: J.S. Gobel; H.N. de Fremery (from 1902); associate editors Mrs. J. van Rees, Nauta Lemke, Mrs. C.J. van Holthe tot Echten, et al.; A.J.H.M. van Baar
1/1, January 1, 1897-1951. 16 pp., f 2.50- 4. in the Netherlands, and f 3.-5. This was not the first Dutch spiritualist journal, being preceded notably by Elise van Calcar’s Op de grenzen van twee werelden, but it was the largest and longest lived and differed from its predecessors by emphasizing the "scientific" side of spiritualism (psychical research) rather than spiritualism’s Christian elements. Johan Simon Gobel (1847-1916) had founded the Dutch Spiritist Association Harmonia in 1888, of which this journal was the organ, run initially by Gobel and H.N. de Fremery (1868-1940). The journal contained articles on the leading lights of spiritualism and psychical research, with discussions of the current internecine squabbles in the area, letters, and extensive international book reviews. Advertised in Neue Metaphysische Rundschau 1/5-7 (December 1897-February 1898): 98. Complete run through 1941 in delpher.nl/nl (891 issues).
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Het Toekomstig Leven (The Future Life) was a Dutch spiritualist periodical whose title states its brief: what survives death, and how the living may hear from the departed. Its pages are given over to mediums and séances, spirit controls and messages from those who have died, the classic apparatus of nineteenth-century spiritualism. Underneath runs an older magnetic layer that the movement never quite shed — somnambulists, magnetisers, clairvoyance and healing magnetism — shading into a trance-and-suggestion vocabulary at the edge of early hypnotism. Its 'spiritisme' carries a faint continental, possibly Kardecian colour, though in Dutch the word simply means spiritualism. The whole is survival-focused mediumship resting on an animal-magnetism substrate.
Generated by Claude from the periodical's digitized text; a thematic reading, not a bibliographic description.
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