Soulcraft Scripts - Discourse #'s 40-49 (ten issues) William Dudley Pelley 1951 ~ New Age

Title: Soulcraft [Scripts] - Discourse #'s 40-49 (ten issues)

Author: [William Dudley Pelley]

Description: Ten consecutive first edition issues (nos. 40-49) of William Dudley Pelley's Soulcraft Scripts. Bound with a string through punchholes. Issues show very light edge wear. There is a note written on the front cover of the fortieth discourse, else all are clean and unmarked. About 240 pages total. Includes an original order form from the 1950s. Uncommon.

Pelley's New Age weekly newsletter, published in the early 1950s.

William Dudley Pelley (1890-1965) was an American writer, esoteric spiritualist, and fascist political activist. Early in his career, he was the winner of two O. Henry Awards and wrote the scripts for two of Lon Chaney's films. Around the time of the end of the First World War, he joined the Red Cross in Siberia and assisted the White Russians against the Bolsheviks and covered the Russian Civil War for the Saturday Evening Post. From that point, his anti-communist and anti-Jewish sentiments continued to develop. In 1928, he underwent a spiritual transformation, the result of an out-of-body experience. He soon began developing his concept of "Christian Commonwealth," which blended fascism, socialism, and theocracy. In 1933, he founded the Silver Legion of America, an underground fascist organization modeled after Mussolini's blackshirts. He was arrested in 1942 and, after being released in 1952, continued to develop his Soulcraft philosophy.

Binding: Staple bound soft cover
Condition: Very Good

Publisher: Soulcraft
Place: Noblesville, Indiana
Year: 1951