International Association for the Preservation of Spiritualist and Occult Periodicals
Periodical:New Thought Journal and Occult Review
New Thought Journal and Occult Review: cover of an issue
Summary:
Summary by:
Pat Deveney
Title:
New Thought Journal and Occult Review, The.
Other Titles:
New Thought Journal; New Thought
Published:
1904-1924
Frequency:
Monthly, then quarterly, and monthly again
Location:
Harrogate, England.
Language:
English.
Editor(s):
George H. Bratley, F.T.S.; Albert Osborne Eaves (editor of New Thought Journal and New Thought).
Publisher(s):
Albert Osborne Eaves.
Succession:
Succeeds: The Talisman (and Occult Review)
Succeeded by: New Thought Journal --> New Thought --> Applied Psychology
Description:

2/20, December 1904-3/31, November 1905; then 1911-October 1918 (as New Thought Journal), and again April 1918-July-August 1924 (as New Thought). 16 pp., 3s. 6d. a year. Continues page numbering of Talisman.

The journal in its final incarnation advertised itself as "The Oldest English New Thought Magazine." It proclaimed that it was an "exponent of Practical Idealism. Its aims are to bring to every reader perfect and permanent health, mental expansion, without which there can be no true growth; success in whatever is attempted, and as a necessary consequence, happiness. In fine, it contends that the object of life is to be happy ; that the place to be happy is HERE ; the time to be happy is NOW; and the way to be happy is by making others happy. The New Thought Journal is not the organ of any school of thought, holding up the best in all lines of thought for emulation." The last phrase properly indicates that the journal was primarily composed of selections from other, mainly American New Thought authors like Harry Gaze, Helen Wilmans, Eleanor Kirk, and Prentice Mulford, with articles by Bratley on astrology and by Eaves on the color cure, "Thought the Builder," etc. Bratley was primarily an astrologer (author of Lunar Tables and Guide (1917) and Bratley's Daily Guide (1920-1921)), and author of The Art of Fascination, A Popular Exposition of the Sun's Etheric Force, which, When Transmuted, is Personal Magnetism (Talisman Pocket Library, no. 1, 1903), who easily made the transition to Practical Idealism. A. (Albert) Osborne Eaves was a proponent of fonetic spelling and esperantist and a practitioner of palmistry who became an enterprising mage in the American pattern. He started Talisman Publishing Company in Harrogate to sell shilling booklets on the prevalence and dangers of vampires, together with typical New Thought offerings like "The Dominant Mentality," "The Color Cure" (red accelerates the nervous system and blue relaxes it), "How to Reach the Cosmic Mind," "First Steps in New Thought," "The Inner Path to Success," "Your Powers and How to Use Them," "Thought the Builder," "The Mastery of Death," etc., etc. Many of Eaves's books, in turn, were translated into German by Harry Bondegger and republished in the Talisman-Bucherei series in Germany, at least one with appendixes of texts by W.W. Atkinson. He was also the distributor in England for Parzival Braun's The Mastery of Fate, and may have been, as Moller and Howe opine, the author of one of the works that Theodor Reuss listed in his "Bausteine zum O.T.O.-Tempel" in 1914. Eaves, in typical New Thought mage fashion offered in conjunction with this journal a "Success Circle" (with definite times set aside daily for members to think together on the desired New Thought goals), and a "Talisman League" and "Correspondence Club," as well as various talismans and a "Hypnotic and Mesmeric Course" and "Home Course of Lessons in Mental Science."

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Issues:New Thought Journal And Occult Review V2 N20 Dec 1904
New Thought Journal And Occult Review V2 N21 Jan 1905
New Thought Journal And Occult Review V2 N22 Feb 1905
New Thought Journal And Occult Review V2 N23 Mar 1905
New Thought Journal And Occult Review V2 N24 Apr 1905
New Thought Journal And Occult Review V2 N25 May 1905
New Thought Journal And Occult Review V3 N26 Jun 1905
New Thought Journal And Occult Review V3 N27 Jul 1905
New Thought Journal And Occult Review V3 N28 Aug 1905
New Thought Journal And Occult Review V3 N29 Sep 1905
New Thought Journal And Occult Review V3 N30 Oct 1905
New Thought Journal And Occult Review V3 N31 Nov 1905
New Thought Journal N48 Jan-Feb 1911
New Thought Journal N49 Apr 1911
New Thought Journal N50 Jul 1911
New Thought Journal N51 Oct 1911
New Thought Journal N52 Jan 1912
New Thought Journal N53 Apr 1912
New Thought Journal N54 Jul 1912
New Thought Journal N55 Oct 1912
New Thought Journal N56 Jan 1913
New Thought Journal N57 Apr 1913
New Thought Journal N58 Jul 1913
New Thought Journal N59 Oct 1913
New Thought Journal N60 Jan 1914
New Thought Journal N61 Apr 1914
New Thought Journal N62 Jul 1914
New Thought Journal N63 Oct 1914
New Thought Journal N64 Jan 1915
New Thought Journal N65 Apr 1915
New Thought Journal N66 Jul 1915
New Thought Journal N67 Oct 1915
New Thought Journal N68 Jan 1916
New Thought Journal N69 Apr 1916
New Thought Journal N70 Jul 1916
New Thought Journal N71 Oct 1916
New Thought Journal N72 Jan 1917
New Thought Journal N73 Apr 1917
New Thought Journal N74 Jul 1917
New Thought Journal N75 Oct 1917
New Thought Journal N76 Jan 1918
New Thought N77 Apr 1918
New Thought N78 Jul 1918
New Thought N79 Oct 1918
New Thought N80 Apr 1919
New Thought N81 Jul 1919
New Thought N81 Sep 1919
New Thought N83 Nov 1919
New Thought N84 Jan 1920
New Thought N85 Mar 1920
New Thought N86 May 1920
New Thought N87 Jul 1920
New Thought N88 Sep 1920
New Thought N89 Jan 1921
New Thought N90 Mar 1921
New Thought N91 May 1921
New Thought N92 Jul 1921
New Thought N93 Sep 1921
New Thought N94 Nov 1921