Its relationship with other special journals
We have frequently heard the desire that people have to see the Spiritist Review published bi-weekly or weekly even to the price of an increase in the subscription. We are very much touched by such testimony of sympathy however for us it is impossible to change the frequency of publication at least for the time being. The first reason is the multiplicity of work that is the consequence of our position whose extension is difficult to imagine. We tell the most absolute truth when say that we do not have a single day of absolute rest and that despite our whole activity it is physically impossible to take care of everything. By doubling or quadrupling our monthly publication we understand that the majority of the subscribers would have time to read but for us this would harm more important work that we still have to do.
The second reason is in the very nature of our Spiritist Review that is less of a journal than the complement and development of our own doctrinaire work. The periodical style allows us to introduce more variety than in a book and to register current affairs. It receives the most interesting facts and refutations according to the opportunities and circumstances; the instructions of the Spirits; it registers the different phases of the progress of the Spiritist science; finally, it brings new arguable theories that can only be accepted after receiving the sanction of the universal control.
In a word, the Spiritist Review is not a personal work whose responsibility we assume entirely and that we cannot and must not see precluded by a strange will. It is conceived according to a determined plan to concur with the objective that we must reach. It would lose its essential character if turned into a bi-weekly brochure. The very nature of our works oppose to our involvement in the details and difficulties of journalism. That is why the Spiritist Review must continue to be what it s. We shall continue as is while its existence is necessary in the present format. As a matter of fact by changing the periodicity it would seem that we want to compete with new journals that are published about the subject, something out of question.
Those journals fulfil the blank space with their more frequent periodicity. Given the diversity of the subject matter that they can handle and that are part of their editorial program; by the number of enlightened and skillful Spiritists that can give contribution to them; finally by the diffusion of the idea in several formats they can do great services to the cause. They are many other champions that work for the Doctrine whose institutions we have the pleasure to see multiplying. We will always support those that frankly march on a useful path; that do not become instruments of little groups or personal ambitions; and those that finally are guided by the great principles of the Spiritist moral. We shall be happy to encourage and help them with our advices if needed. But our cooperation stops there.
We declare not to have any material commitment with any of them, without exception. Therefore none of them is published by us or with our effective sponsorship. We leave each one with the responsibility of their publications. When requests for subscription to those journals come to the Spiritist Review we make sure that they get to their true recipients in the name of good comradery without seeing any interest in that, not even the normal commission attributed to intermediaries, something that we will not accept even if offered.
We believe that we must explain the real situation of things for the enlightenment of those that believe that certain Spiritist journals have links of economic interest with our Spiritist Review. There is no doubt that all have common interest because they tend to the same objective as we do. From that point of view all owe mutual benevolence to each other for otherwise they would belie their qualification of Spiritist journals, but each one within their circle of activity, means and own responsibility. The Doctrine can only gain in credit and with their intendance. At the same time the agreement of views and principles that exist between them and the Spiritist Review would have nothing of extraordinary from the part of those that come from the same source. If another periodical were produced out of our initiative and with our effective support we would have that openly declared.
