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Periodical: The World Liberator

Summary:   From Pat Deveney's database:

World Liberator, The.
A journal of Reconciliation between God and Humanity, the Heaven and Earth, Law and Justice, Science and Religion, through the Kingdom of the Undefined. Also Interpretation of the Sacred Books of All Nations into Their One and Universal Meaning / A Monthly Journal of Reconciliation.
1927-1929 Monthly, Semi-monthly (irregular)
Long Beach, CA. Language: English.
Editor: George Chainey, Fredoon C. Birdi, assistant editor.
1/1, May 1927-1929. $1.00 a year, 10 cents a copy. 28 pp. (varies), 8 1/2 x 11 1/2.

Chainey (1851-1935) was one of the last of the universal reformers and spiritualists of the early days. For his long history in spiritualism and free thought, see the The Infidel Pulpit and The Gnostic. Eclectic articles, mainly by Chainey and Birdi, on the Mahabarata, Zoroaster, Gandhi, Dharmapala, Rabindrinath Tagore, Spinoza, etc. Included advertisements (notably for Hudson, Pierce Arrow, and Essex motor cars), and a certain boosterism for Long Beach.

Other Sources:NYPL; LOC.
Issues:World Liberator V1 N1 May 1927
World Liberator V1 N2 Jun 1927
World Liberator V1 N3 Jul 1927
World Liberator V1 N4 Aug 1927
World Liberator V1 N5 Sep-Oct 1927
World Liberator V1 N6 Nov-Dec 1927
World Liberator V1 N7 Jan-Feb 1928
World Liberator V1 N8 Mar-Apr 1928
World Liberator V1 N9 May-Jun 1928
World Liberator V1 N10 Jul-Aug 1928
World Liberator V1 N11 Sep-Oct 1928
World Liberator V1 N12 Nov-dec 1928
World Liberator V2 N1 Jan-Feb 1929
World Liberator V2 N2 Mar-Apr 1929
World Liberator V2 N3 May-Jun 1929
World Liberator V2 N4 Jul-Aug 1929
World Liberator V2 N5 Sep-Oct 1929
Claude-Generated Themes:   The World Liberator was a late-1920s syncretic esoteric magazine organized around the idea of 'World Liberation' — spiritual regeneration offered as the redemptive key to the modern age. Its framework is Theosophical, dense with karma, brotherhood, the Mahatmas and occult law, and its scriptural imagination is esoteric-Christian, reading Israel, the Christ-Child and the symbolism of Egypt as a single initiatic path. Layered over this is a practical New Thought vocabulary of the silence, abundance and divine mind, together with a breath-discipline that points toward yogic self-culture. The result is a characteristic inter-war blend in which Theosophy, esoteric Christianity and mind-power self-development are woven into one program of interior and world transformation.

Generated by Claude from the periodical's digitized text; a thematic reading, not a bibliographic description.
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