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Periodical: Universal Masonry

Summary:  From Pat Deveney's database:

Universal Masonry.
1910--1911 Monthly
Chicago, IL. Language: English.
Publisher: Rajput Press. Editor: Minnie C. Holbrook.
1/1, July 1910-1911.

This combined light occultism with Neo-Theosophy and the Theosophical Society's then penchant for adoptive Masonry. Minnie C. Holbrook (1859-1911) was a convinced Theosophist (hers is one of the lives included in The Lives of Alcyon) and regular contributor to Theosophic Messenger. The journal is notable because of John Yarker's letter in the October 1910 issue on his dealings (by correspondence and astral communication) with Mme. Blavatsky, with her comments on "the tiger Booboo . . . known to all adepts of the East."

Other Sources:Iowa Grand Lodge Library.
Issues:Universal Masonry Oct 1910
Claude-Generated Themes:   'Universal Masonry' is an esoteric, high-grade Masonic organ from the fringe of the craft -- the world of the Ancient and Primitive Rite of Memphis-Misraim (its 32-degree-to-94-degree titles) and of Co-Masonry -- that reads the lodge through a Theosophical and Hermetic lens. Its pages cite Col. H. S. Olcott and H. P. Blavatsky, trace an Indian (Benares) esoteric lineage, and expound Pythagorean-Platonic number symbolism, treating the Masonic 'building' as an image of the cosmic plan. The paper speaks as an insider, celebrating rather than exposing the craft, and sits at the seam where late-Victorian Freemasonry meets the occult revival. It is best filed under Freemasonry and Masonic orders, with strong Theosophical and Hermetic-esoteric cross-currents. The 'phrenology' and 'mesmerism' signals the panel flags are artifacts of virtue-language and esoteric idiom.

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