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Periodical: True Mystic Science

Summary:  From Pat Deveney's database:

True Mystic Science.
1938--1939
Monthly (varies slightly)
Minneapolis, MN.
Language: English.
Editor: R.T. Maitland Scott, Jr.; C.A. Randall.
Publisher: Continental News, Inc..
1/1, November 1938-November 1939.
$1.00-$2.50 a year, 76 pp.

This was a somewhat lurid popular pulp journal of the period, with psychic solutions to unsolved crimes, mystic miracles, "Nazidom's Rasputin," "The Third Eye," "Is Roosevelt Psychic?" and the like. Articles by Sylvan Muldoon, Grant Lewi, Otis Adelbert Kline, et al, and regular contributions by Lloyd Kenyon Jones (on whom see the notes under Communication), and Hereward Carrington. Advertisements for aluminum seance trumpets and luminous paint and ouija boards, crystal balls, AMORC, the Brotherhood of Light, the Lemurian Fellowship, etc. The journal featured an article on the spirit artist Willa Susan Ashley, the wife of the editor, Reginald Scott. Scott came by his love of the outré naturally: his father, R.T.M. Scott, Sr., was the author of "The Spider, Master of Men" and creator of Secret Service Smith and other pulp wonders. The table of contents of surviving issues is given in http://www.philsp.com/homeville/FMI/k10/k10821.htm#TOP. The publisher of the journal was the manufacturer of a women's cosmetic sold under the name "Mystic Glow" until it was enjoined by the Federal Trade Commission in 1940 from continuing the deceptive advertising of its products.

Other Sources:University of Texas, Austin; University of Minnesota.
Issues:True Mystic Science V1 N1 Nov 1938
True Mystic Science V1 N1 Nov 1938 Alt
True Mystic Science V1 N2 Dec 1938
True Mystic Science V1 N3 Jan-feb 1939
True Mystic Science V1 N4 Mar 1939
True Mystic Science V2 N1 Apr 1939
True Mystic Science V2 N1 Apr 1939 Alt
True Mystic Science V2 N2 May 1939
True Mystic Science V2 N3 Jun 1939
True Mystic Science V2 N4 Jul 1939
Claude-Generated Themes:   True Mystic Science was a brief American newsstand digest of 1938–39, a popular-occult pulp that sold mystery by the armful. Its backbone is Spiritualism — mediumship, séances, materializations and trance fill its pages — but it wraps that core in astrology, numerology, graphology, yoga, prophetic dreams and stage-magic exposés, with a light dusting of Blavatskyan occult vocabulary for atmosphere. Recurring appeals to 'the mysterious power of the subconscious mind' and to sensational premonitions give it a magazine-psychical-research flavor without any laboratory rigor. It is best understood not as the organ of a movement but as a commercial omnibus of interwar occultism, anchored in Spiritualism and generic esotericism.

Generated by Claude from the periodical's digitized text; a thematic reading, not a bibliographic description.
Topics:Astral Projection and Out-of-Body Experience | Atlantis and Lost Continents | Automatic Writing and Channeling | Rosicrucianism | Spiritualism