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Periodical: The Spiritual Scientist

Summary: From Pat Deveney's database:

Spiritual Scientist.
A Weekly Journal Devoted to the Science, History, Philosophy and Teachings of Spiritualism / A Monthly, Scientific Record of Important Current Events Connected with Modern Spiritualism, Together with Original and Selected Articles on its Philosophy.
1874--1878 Weekly, then monthly beginning January 1878
Boston, MA. Publisher: Scientist Publishing Co.. Editor: E. Gerry Brown.
1/1, September 10, 1874-7/6, July 1878. 8 1/2 x 13. 12 pp., $2.00 a year as a weekly (until June 21, 1877), 36 pp., $1.50 a year as a monthly.

Brown discontinued the journal in June 1877, pleading the need for a rest (he occasionally set the type himself) and urging his friends to raise a fund for the journal,. The journal was revived from January to July 1878 as a monthly with a decidedly more "occult" tone. Brown then formally declared bankruptcy, leaving liabilities of $3,000 and assets of only $120. The journal initially positioned itself as the counterweight to the Banner of Light, also published in Boston, and opposed the older journal’s silence in the face of the free-love/social-freedom trends of the time and its reluctance to address the waves of fraudulent mediums and their exposures that were practically universal at the time. Its importance comes from the fact that H.P. Blavatsky and H.S. Olcott for a time took the journal under their protection (even lending Brown money--a debt wiped out in his bankruptcy) and used it to announce the revolution effected in spiritualism by occultism, and the coming of the Brotherhood of Luxor and, to a lesser extent, Theosophy. It would not be unfair to conclude that the journal was the first devoted to occultism in the modern acceptance of the term. Boston Athenaeum Library; Boston Public Library, microfilm.

Issues:Spiritual Scientist V1 N1 Sep 10 1874
Spiritual Scientist V1 N2 Sep 17 1874
Spiritual Scientist V1 N3 Sep 24 1874
Spiritual Scientist V1 N4 Oct 1 1874
Spiritual Scientist V1 N5 Oct 8 1874
Spiritual Scientist V1 N6 Oct 15 1874
Spiritual Scientist V1 N7 Oct 22 1874
Spiritual Scientist V1 N8 Oct 29 1874
Spiritual Scientist V1 N9 Nov 5 1874
Spiritual Scientist V1 N10 Nov 12 1874
Spiritual Scientist V1 N11 Nov 19 1874
Spiritual Scientist V1 N12 Nov 26 1874
Spiritual Scientist V1 N13 Dec 3 1874
Spiritual Scientist V1 N14 Dec 10 1874
Spiritual Scientist V1 N15 Dec 17 1874
Spiritual Scientist V1 N16 Dec 24 1874
Spiritual Scientist V1 N17 Dec 31 1874
Spiritual Scientist V1 N18 Jan 7 1875
Spiritual Scientist V1 N19 Jan 14 1875
Spiritual Scientist V1 N20 Jan 21 1875
Spiritual Scientist V1 N21 Jan 28 1875
Spiritual Scientist V1 N22 Feb 4 1875
Spiritual Scientist V1 N23 Feb 11 1875
Spiritual Scientist V1 N24 Feb 18 1875
Spiritual Scientist V1 N25 Feb 25 1875
Spiritual Scientist V1 N26 Mar 4 1875
Spiritual Scientist V2 N1 Mar 11 1875
Spiritual Scientist V2 N2 Mar 18 1875
Spiritual Scientist V2 N3 Mar 25 1875
Spiritual Scientist V2 N4 Apr 1 1875
Spiritual Scientist V2 N5 Apr 8 1875
Spiritual Scientist V2 N6 Apr 15 1875
Spiritual Scientist V2 N7 Apr 22 1875
Spiritual Scientist V2 N8 Apr 29 1875
Spiritual Scientist V2 N9 May 6 1875
Spiritual Scientist V2 N10 May 13 1875
Spiritual Scientist V2 N11 May 20 1875
Spiritual Scientist V2 N12 May 27 1875
Spiritual Scientist V2 N13 Jun 3 1875
Spiritual Scientist V2 N14 Jun 10 1875
Spiritual Scientist V2 N15 Jun 17 1875
Spiritual Scientist V2 N16 Jun 24 1875
Spiritual Scientist V2 N17 Jul 1 1875
Spiritual Scientist V2 N18 Jul 8 1875
Spiritual Scientist V2 N19 Jul 15 1875
Spiritual Scientist V2 N20 Jul 22 1875
Spiritual Scientist V2 N21 Jul 29 1875
Spiritual Scientist V2 N22 Aug 5 1875
Spiritual Scientist V2 N23 Aug 12 1875
Spiritual Scientist V2 N24 Aug 19 1875
Spiritual Scientist V2 N25 Aug 26 1875
Spiritual Scientist V2 N26 Sep 2 1875
Spiritual Scientist V3 N1 Sep 9 1875
Spiritual Scientist V3 N2 Sep 16 1875
Spiritual Scientist V3 N3 Sep 23 1875
Spiritual Scientist V3 N4 Sep 30 1875
Spiritual Scientist V3 N5 Oct 7 1875
Spiritual Scientist V3 N6 Oct 14 1875
Spiritual Scientist V3 N7 Oct 21 1875
Spiritual Scientist V3 N8 Oct 28 1875
Spiritual Scientist V3 N9 Nov 4 1875
Spiritual Scientist V3 N10 Nov 11 1875
Spiritual Scientist V3 N11 Nov 18 1875
Spiritual Scientist V3 N12 Nov 25 1875
Spiritual Scientist V3 N13 Dec 2 1875
Spiritual Scientist V3 N14 Dec 9 1875
Spiritual Scientist V3 N15 Dec 16 1875
Spiritual Scientist V3 N16 Dec 23 1875
Spiritual Scientist V3 N17 Dec 30 1875
Spiritual Scientist V3 N18 Jan 6 1876
Spiritual Scientist V3 N19 Jan 13 1876
Spiritual Scientist V3 N20 Jan 20 1876
Spiritual Scientist V3 N21 Jan 27 1876
Spiritual Scientist V3 N22 Feb 3 1876
Spiritual Scientist V3 N23 Feb 10 1876
Spiritual Scientist V3 N24 Feb 17 1876
Spiritual Scientist V3 N25 Feb 24 1876
Spiritual Scientist V3 N26 Mar 2 1876
Spiritual Scientist V4 N1 Mar 9 1876
Spiritual Scientist V4 N2 Mar 16 1876
Spiritual Scientist V4 N3 Mar 23 1876
Spiritual Scientist V4 N4 Mar 30 1876
Spiritual Scientist V4 N5 Apr 6 1876
Spiritual Scientist V4 N6 Apr 13 1876
Spiritual Scientist V4 N7 Apr 20 1876
Spiritual Scientist V4 N8 Apr 27 1876
Spiritual Scientist V4 N9 May 4 1876
Spiritual Scientist V4 N10 May 11 1876
Spiritual Scientist V4 N11 May 18 1876
Spiritual Scientist V4 N12 May 25 1876
Spiritual Scientist V4 N13 Jun 1 1876
Spiritual Scientist V4 N14 Jun 8 1876
Spiritual Scientist V4 N15 Jun 15 1876
Spiritual Scientist V4 N16 Jun 22 1876
Spiritual Scientist V4 N17 Jun 29 1876
Spiritual Scientist V4 N18 Jul 6 1876
Spiritual Scientist V4 N19 Jul 13 1876
Spiritual Scientist V4 N20 Jul 20 1876
Spiritual Scientist V4 N21 Jul 27 1876
Spiritual Scientist V4 N22 Aug 3 1876
Spiritual Scientist V4 N23 Aug 10 1876
Spiritual Scientist V4 N24 Aug 17 1876
Spiritual Scientist V4 N25 Aug 24 1876
Spiritual Scientist V4 N26 Aug 31 1876
Spiritual Scientist V5 N1 Sep 6 1876
Spiritual Scientist V5 N2 Sep 13 1876
Spiritual Scientist V5 N3 Sep 21 1876
Spiritual Scientist V5 N4 Sep 28 1876
Spiritual Scientist V5 N5 Oct 5 1876
Spiritual Scientist V5 N6 Oct 12 1876
Spiritual Scientist V5 N7 Oct 19 1876
Spiritual Scientist V5 N8 Oct 26 1876
Spiritual Scientist V5 N9 Nov 2 1876
Spiritual Scientist V5 N10 Nov 9 1876
Spiritual Scientist V5 N11 Nov 16 1876
Spiritual Scientist V5 N12 Nov 23 1876
Spiritual Scientist V5 N13 Nov 30 1876
Spiritual Scientist V5 N14 Dec 7 1876
Spiritual Scientist V5 N15 Dec 14 1876
Spiritual Scientist V5 N16 Dec 21 1876
Spiritual Scientist V5 N17 Dec 28 1876
Spiritual Scientist V5 N18 Jan 4 1877
Spiritual Scientist V5 N19 Jan 11 1877
Spiritual Scientist V5 N20 Jan 18 1877
Spiritual Scientist V5 N21 Jan 25 1877
Spiritual Scientist V5 N22 Feb 1 1877
Spiritual Scientist V5 N23 Feb 8 1877
Spiritual Scientist V5 N24 Feb 15 1877
Spiritual Scientist V5 N25 Feb 22 1877
Spiritual Scientist V5 N26 Mar 1 1877
Spiritual Scientist V6 N1 Mar 8 1877
Spiritual Scientist V6 N2 Mar 15 1877
Spiritual Scientist V6 N3 Mar 22 1877
Spiritual Scientist V6 N4 Mar 29 1877
Spiritual Scientist V6 N5 Apr 5 1877
Spiritual Scientist V6 N6 Apr 12 1877
Spiritual Scientist V6 N7 Apr 19 1877
Spiritual Scientist V6 N8 Apr 26 1877
Spiritual Scientist V6 N9 May 3 1877
Spiritual Scientist V6 N10 May 10 1877
Spiritual Scientist V6 N11 May 17 1877
Spiritual Scientist V6 N12 May 24 1877
Spiritual Scientist V6 N13 May 31 1877
Spiritual Scientist V6 N14 Jun 7 1877
Spiritual Scientist V6 N15 Jun 14 1877
Spiritual Scientist V6 N16 Jun 21 1877
Spiritual Scientist V7 N1 Feb 1878
Spiritual Scientist V7 N2 Mar 1878
Spiritual Scientist V7 N3 Apr 1878
Spiritual Scientist V7 N4 May 1878
Spiritual Scientist V7 N5 Jun 1878
Spiritual Scientist V7 N6 Jul 1878

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