The Unseen Universe [IAPSOP]

Periodical:	*The Unseen Universe*

Summary:	From Pat Deveney's database: Unseen Universe, The. A Monthly Magazine Devoted to Spiritism, Occultism, Ancient Magic, Modern Mediumship, and Every Subject that Pertains to the Whence, What, and Whitherward of Humanity. 1892--1893 Monthly Manchester, England. Language: English. Publisher: John Heywood. Editor: Emma Hardinge Britten. 1/1, April 1892. Started by Emma Hardinge Britten after she severed her relationship with the Two Worlds (a split described in the first number's "Introductory"). Emma published, "by permission of the author," the continuing adventures of "Louis," the author of Ghost Land, including further experiences with the Berlin Brotherhood and Louis Gray's travels to New York City to meet John Cavendish Dudley.
Other Sources:	NYPL; Cambridge University.
Issues:	Unseen Universe V1 N1 Apr 1892
	Unseen Universe V1 N2 May 1892
	Unseen Universe V1 N3 Jun 1892
	Unseen Universe V1 N4 Jul 1892
	Unseen Universe V1 N5 Aug 1892
	Unseen Universe V1 N6 Sep 1892
	Unseen Universe V1 N7 Oct 1892
	Unseen Universe V1 N8 Nov 1892
	Unseen Universe V1 N9 Dec 1892
	Unseen Universe V1 N10 Jan 1893
	Unseen Universe V1 N11 Feb 1893
	Unseen Universe V1 N12 Mar 1893
Claude-Generated Themes:	The Unseen Universe was an early-1890s British Spiritualist monthly built around mediumship, the seance, and evidence for survival after death. Its reports take pains to answer charges of fraud, citing sitters of social standing and scientific reputation — Cesare Lombroso is named among them — and it carries lectures from London venues such as the Portman Rooms. Surrounding the spiritualist core are a substantial occult and Theosophical strand, a mesmeric-clairvoyant vocabulary of odic force, trance, and magnetic passes, and occasional excursions into out-of-body experience and reincarnation. It reads as a serious, quasi-evidential organ of the London spiritualist scene, closer to psychical inquiry than to sensational entertainment. Generated by Claude from the periodical's digitized text; a thematic reading, not a bibliographic description.
Topics:	Spiritism (Kardecist) \| Spiritualism