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Periodical: Verdade (Buenos Aires)

Summary: From Pat Deveney's database:

Verdad, La.
Revista Periodica de la Sociedad Espiritista "Adelante".
1936--1949? Monthly
Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Language: Spanish.
1/1, February 9, 1936. 18 pp., free of charge (with a prominent notice that "therefore absolutely nothing should be paid for it").

This was a Kardecist journal that had progressed far beyond the era when such journals would paraphrase Allan Kardec and the early Revue Spirite. It still carried articles on the law of charity and reincarnation, but it focused on the social consequences of spiritism as the "vanguard and herald of peace: progress, the human family, the needs of children and women ("Woman and her Terrestrial Mission"), "Universal Brotherhood and Universal Justice," Mahatma Gandhi, secular education ("La Escuela argentina debe ser y continuar siendo LIBRE, LAICA, TOLERANTE Y FRATERNA"), etc. The journal published balance sheets of the Sociedad Espiritista "Adelante."

Other Sources:
Issues:La Verdad V1 N1 Feb 9 1936
La Verdad V2 N2 Feb 7 1937
La Verdad V3 N3 Feb 9 1938
La Verdad V4 N4 Feb 4 1939
La Verdad V5 N5 Feb 9 1940
La Verdad V6 N6 Feb 9 1941
La Verdad V7 N7 Feb 9 1942
La Verdad V8 N8 Feb 1943
La Verdad V9 N9 Jan 1944
La Verdad V10 N10 Jan 1945
La Verdad V11 N11 Jan 1946
La Verdad V12 N12 Feb 1947
La Verdad V13 N13 Feb 1948
La Verdad V14 N14 Feb 1949
Claude-Generated Themes:   La Verdad was the periodical review of a Buenos Aires Spiritist society, a representative organ of Argentine Kardecist Spiritism. Its columns rest on mediumship and communication with the society's spirit 'Guides,' framed by the Kardecian doctrine of reincarnation — 'the uninterrupted succession of our existences' — and an ethic of self-knowledge and moral improvement. A distinctive feature is its heavy reliance on od and animal-magnetic 'fluid' language, which links the séance phenomena to a mesmeric physics inherited from the earlier magnetic tradition. Together these make it a doctrinally orthodox but phenomenon-minded voice of Latin American Spiritism.

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