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Periodical: Universo [Maracaibo]

Summary: From Pat Deveney's database:

Universo.
Mensuaro Espiritista Racionalista. Publicacion de la Catedra "Amor y Justicia" Provincial del Estago Zulia, Venezuela, perteneciente a la Escuela Magnetico-Espiritual de la Comuna Universal.
Abajo las fronteras: Por una sola Nación Mundial Comunalista: Sin Dinero, Sin Fronteras y Sin Propriedad Privada
1972?--1984? Monthly, bimonthly
Maracaibo, Zulia, Venezuela.
Language: Spanish.
1/1, 1972. (3d ser., vol. 12, nos. 137-138, is January-February 1984.)

The journal boasted of a circulation of 2,500-4,000. This was the journal of a branch of the Escuela Magnetico-Espiritual de la Comuna Universal of Joaquin Trincado, on whom see the note under La Balanza. EMECU archives, University of Texas, Austin.

Other Sources:
Issues:Universo V11 N125-126 Jan-feb 1983
Universo V12 N137-138 Jan-feb 1984
Universo V13 N168-169 Sep-oct 1986
Claude-Generated Themes:   Universo was a Venezuelan Spiritist paper out of Maracaibo, Kardecist at its core but eclectic in the mid-century Latin American manner. Alongside mediumistic communication and the doctrine of the soul it carried a healing and hygiene sideline — electro-therapeutics and dietary reform — and gestured, sometimes confusedly, toward a wider occult inheritance. The surviving text is roughly digitized, so its finer threads are hard to fix. What is clear is a spiritism-first identity with practical healing at the edges and only the faintest trace of the era's flying-saucer enthusiasm.

Generated by Claude from the periodical's digitized text; a thematic reading, not a bibliographic description.
Topics:Spiritism (Kardecist)