1/1 1899-1919 (?). This was, as its subtitle states, a commercial magazine and directory of trade and commerce between the United States and Mexico. It is said to have had a circulation of about 1,400. It is included here because of its connection with Frank D. Hines (on whom see the note under Occidental Mystic and Occult). Hines had begun to advertise that journal in Sister Republics from its first appearance in 1907 and carried large advertisements for Sister Republics in its pages in exchange. The relationship between Frank Brady and Hines is unknown, but by 1910 a section of Sister Republics was set aside monthly for a Metaphysical and Transcendental Department, of which Hines was editor, which devoted a significant number of the journal’s pages to his Mystic Church of Christ and Occidental Temple of Metaphysics and their treachings. Notably, the issue of June 1916, recounted the trip of “five of The Denver ‘Illuminati,’” including Hines, to visit Reuben Swinburne Clymer’s Beverly Hall in Quakertown, Pennsylvania. While there, they “passed thru the Four Beautiful Ceremonial and Ritualistic Mystic and Occult Degrees of ‘The Supreme Exalted Temple of The World, Fraternal Order Sons of Osiris,’ and work connected with ‘the Rosy Cross’ etc. . . . Dr. Hines was made Master Over the jurisdiction West of The Missouri River [of the Sons of Osiris], with full rights and privileges to teach and, also, to organize and give the Degree work in Temples in his jurisdiction. The work is grand, in its concept, beautiful in its Degree Team Work and worthy of any one's search and acceptance. We are preparing ‘Initiates’ for The Inner Temple

Work here in Denver and trust, ere long, to have a fine operative Temple here. We have already a fine ‘Illuminati’ outer Temple, established and in good running order, doing excellent service for its members thru the ‘Soul Science’ work.” Hines had met Clymer, possibly for the first time, at C.H. Carson’s convention of his Convention of the Society for Scientific Revelation in Kansas City in June 1910, and may have been initiated into Clymer’s Illuminati at some time thereafter. On these Illuminati, see the notes under New York Magazine of Mysteries, Ubersinnliche Welt, The Initiates, and Das Wort, and on Clymer’s Sons of Osiris, see the notes under Modern Miracles, The Egyptian, The Initiates. By 1916, Hines’s advertisements for his work in Sister Republics describes him as “Master of ‘The Aeth Process, or ‘Christ Healing,’” which indicates that Hines had continued through the labyrinthian maze of Clymer’s systems.

Category: Occultism, Sexual Elements.