The Weekly Discourse [IAPSOP]

Periodical:	*The Weekly Discourse*

Summary:	From Pat Deveney's database: Weekly Discourse, The. Containing Spiritual Sermons by the Guardian/Guides of Mrs. Cora L.V. Richmond. 1886—1891 Weekly Chicago, then Rogers Park, IL. Language: English. Publisher: Spiritual Publishing Co. / William Richmond. Editor: Cora Linn Victoria Richmond; William Richmond. Succeeds: Ouina's Basket (1878); The Spiritual Record (1879) 1/1, 1886-1891. $2.50 a year, 8 pp. Devoted to presenting the the communications received through Cora Richmond (1840-1923) and preached by her weekly before her Church of the Soul / First Society of Spiritualists in Chicago.
Other Sources:	Skidmore Library, Lily Dale.
Issues:	Weekly Discourse V1 N2 Mar 20 1886
	Weekly Discourse V1 N33 Oct 17 1886
	Weekly Discourse V2 N38 Nov 26 1887
	Weekly Discourse V2 N39 Dec 3 1887
	Weekly Discourse V2 N40 Dec 10 1887
	Weekly Discourse V2 N41 Dec 17 1887
	Weekly Discourse V2 N42 Dec 24 1887
	Weekly Discourse V2 N43 Dec 31 1887
	Weekly Discourse V2 N44 Jan 7 1888
	Weekly Discourse V2 N45 Jan 14 1888
	Weekly Discourse V2 N46 Jan 21 1888
	Weekly Discourse V2 N47 Jan 28 1888
	Weekly Discourse V2 N51 Feb 25 1888
	Weekly Discourse V2 N52 Mar 3 1888
	Weekly Discourse V3 N1 Mar 10 1888
	Weekly Discourse V3 N2 Mar 17 1888
	Weekly Discourse V3 N3 Mar 24 1888
	Weekly Discourse V3 N4 Mar 31 1888
	Weekly Discourse V3 N5 Apr 7 1888
	Weekly Discourse V6 N14 Sep 5 1891
Claude-Generated Themes:	The Weekly Discourse published, week by week, the trance sermons delivered 'by the Guides' of Cora L. V. Richmond, one of the most famous Spiritualist inspirational lecturers of the nineteenth century, from Chicago in 1886–87. Each number is a verbatim transcript of oratory Richmond spoke while entranced and controlled by spirit intelligences, opening with grand invocations and moving through moral, metaphysical and consolatory themes. Its heart is the Spiritualist promise of survival — comfort for the bereaved and the counsel to 'let your dead die' into joy rather than grief. Individual discourses reach into esoteric subjects such as initiation, alchemy and brotherhood, but always within a Spiritualist idealist frame. It is both a Spiritualist periodical and a primary archive of American trance-channeled preaching. Generated by Claude from the periodical's digitized text; a thematic reading, not a bibliographic description.
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