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From Pat Deveney's database:
Zum Licht!.
Ein Bruderschafts-Schrift ur Entwicklung Korperlicher und geistiger Harmonie / Wege nach Asgard ein Kampfblatt fur die Gotter der Heimat / Esoterische Nachrichten. Eine Schrift zur Forderung der Bestrebungen der neuen Bruderschaft Zum Heiligen Gral / Monatsschrift fur geistgemaise Weltanschauung und Lebensgestaltung.
Wahrheit! Klarheit! Gottes Kraft!
1908-1928 Semimonthly, monthly
Bad Schmiedeberg and Leipzig, then Hannover, Germany. Language: German. Publisher: F.E. Baumann; Georg Lomer. Editor: P. Braun, P.Ch. Martens, R. Wefers, "und anderer Freunde der Wahrheit und des Fortschritts," M.W. Ullrich, Dr. Andreas Klein, Georg Lomer, et al.:
Unter Mitwirkung einer Anzahl Esoteriker; Friedrich Edouard Baumann.
Succeeds: Christliche Theosophie (1895-1900) -> Immanuel! (Gott mit uns)(1900-1901) -> Gott mit uns! (1901-1907) Succeeded by: Asgard (1928-1944)
7/37, 1908-31/3, 1928. Illustrated, 32-48 pp. M. 2.50 for six issues. Contributions by or selections from Wilhelm Fliess, William Walker Atkinson, Ralph Waldo Trine, Houston Stewart Chamberlain, Franz Hartmann, Georg Lomer (who was to take the journal over and later rename it Asgard), P. Ch. Martens, M.W. Ullrich, Alfred Russel Wallace, Guido von List, et al. On P. Braun and P. Ch. Martens, see the notes under Christliche Theosophie and The New Man. This was the organ of P. Braun’s Gral-Orden and then of the Neuer Gral-Orden, led in the 1920s by Martens and then by Karl Heise. The N.G.O. also published a series of Mitteilungen des N.G.O. and Der Gral as a supplement to the journal, addressed specifically to the activities of the N.G.O./G.O. The issue for June 1922 announced the formation of a "Gnostic School" without mentioning the name of its founder, E.C.H. Peithmann, who was a member of the N.G.O. and had a history of his own. See the notes under Hain der Isis and Zentralblatt fur Okkultismus.
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Zum Licht ('To the Light') is a German popular occult miscellany that ranges freely across the movement's interests rather than settling on one. Its sampled pages carry a theosophical vocabulary — Theosophy, karma, kabbalah — alongside spiritist séance reports with materializing mediums and a strand of hypnotism, suggestion and animal magnetism. A bookseller's advertising column, offering titles on white and black magic, Bulwer-Lytton's Rosicrucian romance Zanoni and a hollow-earth tract, accounts for the paper's stray magical and fringe flickers. It reads as a general German occult review in which theosophy leads and spiritualism and mesmeric healing follow, with no single governing doctrine.
Generated by Claude from the periodical's digitized text; a thematic reading, not a bibliographic description.
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