(Collection of Four Original Issues) The Sacred Science Magazine, Volume I, Nos. 1-4, January-April 1924

(Collection of Four Original Issues) The Sacred Science Magazine, Volume I, Nos. 1–4, January–April 1924, published by The School of the Sacred Science, Los Angeles, California, under the editorship of Ralph M. de Bit. The first four consecutive issues of this scarce Los Angeles occult and metaphysical periodical, presenting the teachings of de Bit’s School of the Sacred Science and its distinctive “Sixth Cycle” system of occult philosophy. Contents range across reincarnation, psychic development and its dangers, psychoanalysis, the Bible and occult interpretation, the Tao-Teh King, Vivekananda, Gandhi, the Higher Pantheism, the Akashic tradition, spiritual allegory, metaphysical healing, world events interpreted through occult principles, and the nature and training of the ego and personality. An unusual surviving run from the flourishing metaphysical and occult culture of 1920s Los Angeles. Four original issues in illustrated wrappers, showing age-toning, edgewear, and chipping and losses to the covers, particularly the first issue.…