Virya.
Estudios de Teosofia, Hermetismo, Orientalismo y Psicologia, etc. / Organo de las Logias de Costa Rica /Organo Oficial de la Sociedad Teosofica Centroamericana.
No Hay Religion Mas Elevada Que La Verdad
1908—1933? Monthly, then quarterly
San José, Costa Rica.
Language: Spanish.
Editor: Leon Fernandez Guardia (1871-1942), Tomas Povedano de Arcos (1847-1943), director.
Publisher: Sociedad Teosofica.
1/1, January 1908-1933 (?)
48-24 pp.

This was a standard regional Theosophical journal, with excerpts from other such journals and contributions by Annie Besant, C.W. Leadbeater, C. Jinarajadasa, G.S. Arundale, et al., combined with lodge notes and news of the movement thoughout Central America. It had regular contributions by Mario Roso de Luna and other more literary figures. Unusually, it carried a notice of the arrival in New York of Sri Agamya Guru Paramahamsa, one of the purported teachers of Carl Kellner. Guardia was an historian and the author of a pioneering Spanish horror fiction story (”El Número 13,013”), in which a man hypnotizes a friend who had the winning lottery ticket to make him cash the ticket, hand the money over, and then die) and other fantasy tales. He achieved minor fame with his opposition to the domination of the United Fruit Company in Costa Rico, and by the 1930s he was the editor of Defensa Nacional, the organ of the Anti-Communist League. Archivo General de la Guerra Civil Espana; Bibliotecas Costa Rica; BNF; BNE.