OpenSIUC (Southern Illinois University), The Open Court archive, 2026-10-08

Found via Google query site:opensiuc.lib.siu.edu "Larkin" "Open Court" Lowe Observatory. Scripted download returned an HTML bot-check page (deleted); in Chrome the PDF opened in the viewer but has no text layer reachable by the extension, so only page 1-2 images were viewed (zoom). Result: partial.

Items

• "Electricity and the Body of Resurrection" (The Open Court, c. Dec 1906 or early 1907 [date inferred from Hallock's November article; not confirmed]) [web: https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1742&context=ocj]: correspondence on Charles Hallock's November article "The Body of the Future: Is It Electrical?": a letter from a college professor (H. L. Stetson, Kalamazoo) citing Sir Oliver Lodge and Professor Fison that "the fundamental ingredient of which ... the whole of matter is made up, is nothing more nor less than electricity"; then "A Letter from an Astronomer" by Larkin (text read from the reprint in Hallock 1906: research/2026-10-08-iapsop.md); comments by Hallock and the editor Paul Carus.
• Book Reviews and Notes (article=1693) and "The Udana" (1692): a review containing "Professor Larkin is perhaps given to a love of the occult" (snippet only).
• Open Court issue, 1906 (article=2040): a Larkin article dated "Lowe Observatory, August, 1906" beginning "IMAGINE all these things ..." (snippet only).
• "A Retrospect and a Prospect" (article=2064): Larkin, 1906, mentions astrology (snippet only).
• Not found this run: Larkin's July 1906 Open Court article "The Great San Francisco Earthquake" (criticised in Science 1906).

Bearing

Claim 1 (all radiant energy and matter are corpuscles = electricity): these 1906 exchanges show Larkin, Stetson (citing Lodge) and Hallock extending the electron theory of matter to the "spiritual body". Priority 1 (inventor's own later statements) and priority 3 (contemporaries using the same principle).