Verdad, La.
Revista de Altos Estudios, Ciencia, Filosofia, Religion Comparada y Ocultismo.
1905--1911 Monthly
Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Succeeds: Luz (1893)-->Philadelphia (1897)
1/1, May 1905-1911.
20-32 pp.

This was the final iteration of the occult and Theosophical stream that had begun with the appearance of Alberto Sarak, Conde de Das and his wife/mistress Antonia Martinez Royo (1866-1897) in Argetina in 1892, one step ahead of the police in Spain and Belgium. On January 7, 1893, they had started the La Luz branch of the Theosophical Society, from which Sarak had already been expelled in Spain, under a charter Sarak had obtained under the name "Dr. Martinez." The branch managed to start a semimonthly journal, Luz, before Sarak in June 1893 was again expelled from the Theosophical Society and, after defrauding the branch's members of $15,000, fled to Brazil, abandoning the fair Antonia. She and Alejandro Sorondo (the secretary of the Argentine senate), Federico W. (Washington) Fernandez ("Lob Nor,"d. 1923, a naval captain and head of the Argentine Geographical Institute) and others then re-founded the La Luz branch and in 1897 began publishing Philadelphia along more orthodox Theosophical lines. This journal, the second published by those around Fernandez, was started in May 1905. Contributions by Sorondo, who continued to be a disciple of Sarak's, Mario Roso de Luna, Fernandez ("Lob Nor"), Frank D. Hines, the bi-lingual publisher of the Occidental Mystic and Occult (on "Cataclysms in South America"), et al., and excerpts from S.M. Ragon, Pierre Loti and others and translations of the usual Theosophical authors (Blavatsky's "Isis Unveiled"), A.P. Sinnett, Jean Delville, Annie Besant, C.W. Leadbeater, Arthur Arnould, Isabel Cooper Oakley, et al.). The journal offered as premiums for subscriptions Luz en el Sendero (Mabel Collins) and Ramacharaka's La Sciencia Hindu-Yogi de la Respiracion. On Sarak and his adventures, see the notes under Sofia, Echo du Merveilleux, Philadelphia, Radiant Centre, Revue Cosmique, Radiant Truth, Bulletin of the Oriental Esoteric Center. Archivo General de la Guerra Civil España; Biblioteca Nacional de Argentina.

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