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<journal-id>1659-4223</journal-id>
<journal-title><![CDATA[Revista de Estudios Históricos de la Masonería Latinoamericana y Caribeña]]></journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title><![CDATA[REHMLAC]]></abbrev-journal-title>
<issn>1659-4223</issn>
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<publisher-name><![CDATA[Universidad de Costa Rica]]></publisher-name>
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<article-id>S1659-42232024000100094</article-id>
<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.15517/rehmlac.v16i1.57933</article-id>
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<article-title xml:lang="es"><![CDATA[La superación de la polaridad: Devachan de Franz Spunda y el nacimiento de la "nueva raza"]]></article-title>
<article-title xml:lang="en"><![CDATA[Overcoming Polarity: Franz Spunda`s Devachanand the Birth of the "New Race"]]></article-title>
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<contrib-group>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Domínguez Márquez]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Guadalupe Antonia]]></given-names>
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<aff id="Af1">
<institution><![CDATA[,Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México  ]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[ ]]></addr-line>
<country>México</country>
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<pub-date pub-type="pub">
<day>00</day>
<month>06</month>
<year>2024</year>
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<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>00</day>
<month>06</month>
<year>2024</year>
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<volume>16</volume>
<numero>1</numero>
<fpage>94</fpage>
<lpage>119</lpage>
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<self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.sa.cr/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&amp;pid=S1659-42232024000100094&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.sa.cr/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&amp;pid=S1659-42232024000100094&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.sa.cr/scielo.php?script=sci_pdf&amp;pid=S1659-42232024000100094&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="es"><p><![CDATA[Resumen El escritor austriaco Franz Spunda publicó una serie de novelas ocultistas durante la década de los años veinte, que han recibido muy poca atención académica. A partir de la aplicación de herramientas metodológicas provenientes del campo de los estudios de Esoterismo Occidental, este artículo presenta un análisis crítico de su primera novela, Devachan, en cuyos contenidos temáticos se observa un alineamiento, pero también una desviación, con respecto al eje doctrinal de la teosofía moderna. El deseo spundiano de superar toda polaridad y la justificación de mecanismos transgresores para lograrlo, constituye el punto de quiebre con la misma y el comienzo de la adopción de una forma extrema de alquimia.]]></p></abstract>
<abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="en"><p><![CDATA[Abstract The Austrian writer Franz Spunda published a series of occult novels during the decade of the twenties, which have received very little academic attention. Through the application of methodological tools from the field of Western Esotericism Studies, this paper presents a critical analysis of his first novel, Devachan, in whose thematic contents, an alignment with, but also a deviation from modern Theosophy&#8217;s doctrinal axis, becomes noticeable. The Spundian desire to overcome all polarity and the justification of transgressive means to achieve this end, constitutes the breaking point with Theosophy and the embracing of an extreme form of alchemy.]]></p></abstract>
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