Word, The.
A Monthly Magazine Devoted to Philosophy, Science, Religion, Eastern Thought, Occultism, Theosophy and the Brotherhood of Humanity.
1904-1917
New York, NY. Publisher: H.W. Percival. Editor: Harold Waldwin Percival.
1/1, October 21, 1904-25/6, September 1917. 64 pp. $4.00 a year.

The journal also lists Kegan, Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. of London as its English publisher. Percival (1868-1953) was an astrologer and independent Theosophist, author of the well-regarded Thinking and Destiny, with a Brief Account of the Descent of Man into this Human World, and, How He Will Return to the Eternal Order of Progression (New York: The Word Foundation). The journal eschewed the flashier aspects of the current New Thought and occultism, and instead presented lengthy, thoughtful articles (of a generally Platonic cast) on subjects from the world occult tradition. Its purpose was set out on the inside of its front cover: "This magazine is designed to bring all who may read its pages the message of the soul. The message is, man is more than an animal in drapings of cloth-he is divine, though his divinity be masked by, and hidden in, the coils of flesh." The Word notably published a partial translation of the Zohar, excerpts from Eliphas Levi, and articles by Alexander Wilder (on the story of his life and his relationship with H.P. Blavatsky), Laura C. Halloway Langford, Paul F. Case, C.H.A. Bjerregaard, and many others. The Word Foundation continued Percival's work and published a journal under this name in Dallas, Texas in the 1980s. A large selection of Percival's editorials from The Word is now online, including his thoughts on Adepts, Masters and Mahatmas, Cycles, Desire, Glamour, Individuality, Karma, Mirrors, Sex, the Zodiac, etc. "The Early Writings of Harold W. Percival," online at http://www.tandd.org/earlyhwparticles.html. (The URL "tandd" stands for Thinking and Destiny.) NYPL microfilm; LOC; ZDB: Regensburg UB; Berlin SBB Haus Potsdamer Str; Dresden SLUB, ZB; UMI microfilm.

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