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Periodical: Weekly Studies in Soulcraft

Summary: From Pat Deveney's database:

Weekly Studies in Soulcraft.
The Upper Room Discourses, Psychics, Economics, Ethics.
1942—1942
Indianopolis, IN. Language: English.
Editor: William Dudley Pelley (1890-1965). Succeeded by: Valor; Over Here
1/1-11, January to November 1942. 24 pp., 6 1/2 x 9.

Sometimes referred to as the "Upper Room Discourses." Pelley called this a “program of spiritual enlightenment.” It marked a return by Pelley to his more spiritual (and less political) side after the entry of the United States into World War II. He was arrested in April 1942 for sedition, and ultimately sentenced to 15 years in prison. Weekly Studies in Soulcraft issues were produced while Pelley was free on bail. On his release in 1950 he was prohibited from directly political publishing and continued the spiritual side of his work under the name Soulcraft through new journals called Valor and Over Here.

Other Sources:NYPL.
Issues:Weekly Studies in Soulcraft N2 1942
Weekly Studies in Soulcraft N3 1942
Claude-Generated Themes:   Weekly Studies in Soulcraft is a lesson serial of William Dudley Pelley's Soulcraft — the channeled metaphysical system he elaborated after disbanding the Silver Legion — teaching that a governing Council and selfless 'Celestial agents' guide earthly affairs and that the soul is celestial spirit encased in the atomic body. Its material is presented as clairvoyantly received rather than argued, aligning it with channeling and inspirational writing more than with seance spiritualism, which it explicitly distances itself from. Soul-survival doctrine and a lost-continent (Atlantis/Lemuria) backdrop round out the cosmology. The vocabulary of 'demonstration' and mind-power belongs to Pelley's own idiom, so the periodical is best read squarely within the Pelley Soulcraft tradition rather than as generic New Thought or mediumistic spiritualism.

Generated by Claude from the periodical's digitized text; a thematic reading, not a bibliographic description.
Topics:Pelley, Soulcraft, and the Silver Legion