PUBLISHED KOSMON CALENDARS

On the following pages are reprinted, in full, the very first Kosmon calendar, which was prepared by Dr. Newbrough for the 37th year After Kosmon (1885 A.D.), for the colonists at Shalam, near Las Cruces, New Mexico. This is followed by one of the Kosmon Calendars published by Sam Bartolet starting in 1946 for about 30 years.

The photocopy of the Shalem 37 A.K. calendar came from Sam Bartolet in 1961. Sam wrote how he came to receive this first Kosmon calendar: Edward Morill & Son of Boston had written to the Historical Museum of New Mexico that they had the Kosmon 37 A.K. calendar. Sam purchased it for ten dollars (1961 dollars), and published the highlights from it in his A.K. 115 (1963) calendar. Sam was born August 21, 1888; published his first Kosmon Calendar in 1944 for the Essenes of Kosmon colony in Utah.


Occultist Ponders World Calendar

Publishing a world calendar takes a lot of meditation and Sam Bartolet, retired Williamsport carpenter, seeks the solace of his star-studded den as he draws upon his 30 years of astrology and occult study.
SUNDAY PATRIOT-NEWS, Harrisburg, Pa., June 13, 1954__3

Publishes His Own Calendar

WILLIAMSPORT, June 12 --Weeks of intensified fact-gathering ended recently when Sam Bartolet published his "Kosmon Calendar for the World" for 1955-56.

Bartolet, a life long resident of this community, has long been a student of astrology and the occult upon which his universal calendar is based.

The 65-year-old retired carpenter roamed for the past half century during which time he became interested in his strange but fascinating hobby.

Soon after learning his trade, Bartolet left the community and has been back and forth ever since. In pursuit of his studies, he has crossed the continent at least 18 times and has made seven ocean voyages.

Recently he returned from a two-month trip to Mexico where he made studies of the Aztec calendar stone with its periods of 20 weeks, to each of eight gods, 20 days to the month and five unlucky days to the year.

Since 1946 the graying, chunky and rosy-cheeked enthusiast has been publishing his own "calendar reform" bearing out his findings through his serious study of the Kosmon sect's bible, "Oahspe."

Bartolet is well known in the occult field. Letters pour in to him from all over the world. Last year he answered over 600 in longhand. He is listed by the Welfare Society of England and Japanese occultists have invited him to lecture there.

But Sam is a bit weary of all this traveling. Now that he has retired from active carpentry, he is devoting most of his time to his fact-packed den at 9 E. Seventh St.