International Association for the Preservation of Spiritualist and Occult Periodicals

   

Periodical: Vrede

Summary:  From Pat Deveney's database:

Vrede.
Halfmaandel. blad tot bespreking van de Praktijk der Liefde / Orgaan van de Internationale Broederschap.
1897-1909 Semimonthly
Den Haag, Netherlands.
Language: Dutch.
Editor: Felix Ortt.
Publisher: Vereniging Vrede.
1/1, 1897-1909.

This was the work of the quintessential reformer Felix Ortt (1866-1959). He denominated his ideas Christian Anarchism and lumped therein elements of Tolstoy, Christianity, pacifism, vegetarianism, socialism, spiritualism, "free love," etc. Ortt translated Paul Carus’s The Gospel of Buddhism in 1905, and the journal contained contributions by the likes of C.W. Leadbeater.

Other Sources:
Issues:Vrede V4 N1 Sep 1 1901
Claude-Generated Themes:   Vrede ('Peace') was a Dutch Tolstoyan and Christian-anarchist weekly, edited by Felix Ortt within the Rein Leven ('pure life') circle of the late 1890s, and it sits outside the occult field this catalogue otherwise maps. Its concerns are ethical and political: pilgrimages to Tolstoy, the argument between passive non-resistance and an active love held up as first principle, antimilitarism, and reviews of 'world-reforming' books. The automated topic panel finds nothing real to say about it — a stray 'dero' and a single 'theosoph' on a very small sample — so the paper is placed only where it belongs, with Christian socialism and Tolstoyanism, and adjacently with radical / anarchist thought. The movement's vegetarian and communal commitments are historically likely but go unseen in this sample. It is included here for completeness, flagged as beyond the taxonomy's occult remit.

Generated by Claude from the periodical's digitized text; a thematic reading, not a bibliographic description.
Topics:Anarchism and Radical Individualism | Buddhism | Christian Socialism and Tolstoyanism | Socialism and Labor Reform | Spiritualism | Theosophy | Vegetarianism and Diet Reform