Occult Periodicals and Rare Journals
The movement’s conversation, issue by issue.
The occult revival lived in its periodicals. Journals like The Theosophist, Crowley’s The Equinox and the French esoteric revues were where doctrines were announced, quarrels conducted and new translations first published.
This archive room gathers the bound volumes and single issues that survive, many digitised through IAPSOP and similar projects. They are rich, uneven and irreplaceable sources for how these movements actually thought and argued.
Periodicals are best approached with a question in mind: a controversy, a person, a new translation, a society’s early years. Tables of contents and indexes, where they survive, are the quickest way in. Remember that journals were partisan: The Theosophist spoke for Adyar, The Equinox for Crowley, the French revues for their own circles, and correspondents often wrote under pseudonyms. Many volumes here come to the archive through IAPSOP and similar digitisation projects; a few have gaps or missing issues, and the record notes where a source is incomplete. For historians, this room is often where the most revealing evidence lies.
On This Shelf (26)
The Theosophist — Volume-V. 1896-97 No 1-12
The Theosophical Society
Le Temple Mystique Revue De La Franc Maconnerie 1855 09 12
Anonymous
Le Temple Mystique Revue De La Franc Maconnerie Oct 1854 01
Anonymous
Le Temple Mystique Revue De La Franc Maconnerie Oct 1854 01
Anonymous
1854 · French · Secret Societies
Le Temple Mystique Revue De La Franc Maconnerie Oct 1854 02
Anonymous
Le Temple Mystique Revue De La Franc Maconnerie Oct 1854 02
Anonymous
1854 · French · Secret Societies
Le Temple Mystique Revue De La Franc Maconnerie Oct 1854 03
Anonymous
Le Temple Mystique Revue De La Franc Maconnerie Oct 1854 03
Anonymous
1854 · French · Secret Societies
Le Temple Mystique Revue De La Franc Maconnerie Oct 1854 04
Anonymous
Le Temple Mystique Revue De La Franc Maconnerie Oct 1854 04
Anonymous
1854 · French · Secret Societies
[Psychic Force and Modern Spiritualism:] A Reply to the "Quarterly Review" and Other Critics
William Crookes
[Psychic Force and Modern Spiritualism:] A Reply to the "Quarterly Review" and Other Critics
William Crookes
English · Spiritualism & Psychical Research
