International Association for the Preservation of Spiritualist and Occult Periodicals
Periodical:Les Forces Mentales
Les Forces Mentales: cover of an issue
Summary:
Summary by:
Pat Deveney
Title:
Forces Mentales, Les.
Subtitle:
Revue Mensuelle de Sciences Psychiques / Psychologie, Philosopie, Magnétisme, Hypnotisme, Force Pensee, Spiritisme.
Published:
1907
Frequency:
Monthly
Location:
Paris, France.
Language:
French.
Editor(s):
Rene d'Hery.
Publisher(s):
Bureaux d’Etudes Psychiques.
Description:

1/1, January 1907. 32 pp., 8 francs a year.

This is a pure example of the audacious form of magical New Thought that was dominant in the United States at the time -- the journal recommended one of W.W. Atkinson’s works. It seems to have been intended as a forum for the Bureaux d'Etudes Psychiques and its courses on Psychology, Hypnotism and Personal Magnetism. The articles revealed the wonders of personal magnetism, concentration, self-confidence, mental powers, hypnotism, thought transference, and the journal also included longer, didactic articles on the Kabbala (replete with vague hints of its sexual elements) and phrenology, and short New thought novels. Contributions by Hery, C.-R. Sadler, Georges Lange, Alexis Noel, Eugène Eugene Defrance, Theodule Branche, and others outside the mainstream of French occultism and spiritism. The Mercure de France, in reviewing Hery’s and Sadler’s book on L'Education de la Pensee notes the influence on them of the hypnotists and magnetizers and of occultists like Prentice Mulford.

Other Sources:BNF.
Issues:Les Forces Mentales V1 N1 Jan 1907
Les Forces Mentales V1 N2 Feb 1907
Les Forces Mentales V1 N3 Mar 1907
Les Forces Mentales V1 N4 Apr 1907
Les Forces Mentales V1 N5 May 1907
Les Forces Mentales V1 N6 Jun 1907
Les Forces Mentales V1 N7 Jul 1907
Les Forces Mentales V1 N8 Aug 1907
Les Forces Mentales V1 N10 Oct 1907
Les Forces Mentales V1 N11 Nov 1907
Les Forces Mentales V1 N12 Dec 1907