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From Pat Deveney's database:
Valoa Kohti ("Toward the Light"). The journal was intended as a link between Finnish-speaking Theosophists in America and as a way of spreading word of Theosophy there. Kaarna had earlier edited Teosofian Valo in Finland.
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| Valoa Kohti V2 Ns 6-7 Jun-jul 1918 | |
| Valoa Kohti V3 Ns 1-2 Jan-feb 1919 | |
| Valoa Kohti V3 Ns 11-12 Nov Dec 1919 | |
| Valoa Kohti V3 N4 Apr 1919 | |
| Valoa Kohti V4 N2 Feb 1920 | |
| Valoa Kohti V4 N3 Mar 1920 | |
| Valoa Kohti V4 Ns 5-6 May-jun 1920 | |
| Valoa Kohti V5 N3 Mar 1921 | |
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Valoa Kohti ('Toward the Light') was a Finnish periodical that braided Theosophy and Spiritualism together, giving roughly equal weight to karma, the adept ideal and Leadbeater's theosophy on one hand and to mediumship, spirit communication and the proof of survival on the other. Its recurring conviction is that life after bodily death can be demonstrated even to committed materialists, and its self-cultivation strand teaches mastery over the emotions and the states of consciousness rather than any mind-cure technique. A modest astrological interest sits alongside. The paper illustrates how, in early-twentieth-century Finland, the theosophical and spiritualist movements shared readers, vocabulary, and a common preoccupation with immortality. Generated by Claude from the periodical's digitized text; a thematic reading, not a bibliographic description. |
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