Lucifer: A Theosophical Magazine

This text is a compilation of the six numbers of the first Volume of LUCIFER, spanning September 1887 through February 1888.

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LUCIFER =A Theosophical Magazine,=

DESIGNED TO “BRING TO LIGHT THE HIDDEN THINGS OF DARKNESS.”

EDITED BY

H. P. BLAVATSKY AND MABEL COLLINS.

THE LIGHT-BEARER IS THE MORNING STAR OR LUCIFER, AND “LUCIFER IS NO PROFANE OR SATANIC TITLE. IT IS THE LATIN LUCIFERUS. THE LIGHT-BRINGER, THE MORNING STAR, EQUIVALENT TO THE GREEK φωσφορος ... THE NAME OF THE PURE PALE HERALD OF DAYLIGHT.”—YONGE.

VOLUME I.

SEPTEMBER 1887-FEBRUARY 1888.

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=London=:

GEORGE REDWAY, YORK STREET, COVENT GARDEN.

KELLY & CO., PRINTERS 1 & 3, GATE STREET, LINCOLNS INN FIELDS, LONDON, W.C. AND MIDDLE MILL, KINGSTON-ON-THAMES.

CONTENTS.

Astrological Notes 158, 512

Auto-Hypnotic Rhapsody, An 472

Birth of Light, The 52

Blood Covenanting 216

Blossom and the Fruit, The. The True 23, 123, 193, 258, Story of a Magician 347, 443

Brotherhood 212

Buddhism, The Four Noble Truths of 49

Christian Dogma, Esotericism of the 368

Christmas Eve, A Remarkable 274

Correspondence 76, 136, 228, 311, 412, 502

Emerson and Occultism 252

Evil, The Origin of 109

Fear 298

Freedom 185

Ghost’s Revenge, A 63, 102

God Speaks for Law and Order 292

Gospels, The Esoteric Character of the 173, 299, 490

Hand, The “Square” in the 181

Hauntings, A Theory of 486

Healing, The Spirit of 267

Hylo-Idealism and “The Adversary” 507

Infant Genius 296

Interlaced Triangles, The Relation of 481 Colour to the

Invisible World, The 186

Lady of Light, The 81

Lama, The Last of a Good 51

Law of Life, A: Karma 39, 97

Let Every Man Prove His Own Work 161

“Light on the Path,” Comments on 8, 90, 170, 379

Literary Jottings 71, 329

Love with an Object 391

“LUCIFER” To the Archbishop of 340 Canterbury Greeting, 241; To the Readers of

Luniolatry 440

Morning Star, To the 339

Mystery of all Time, The 46

Mystic Thought, The 192

Paradox, The Great 120

Planet, History of a 15

Quest, The Great 288, 375

Reviews 143, 232, 395, 497

Science of Life, The 203

Signs of the Times, The 83

Soldier’s Daughter, The 432

Some Words on Daily Life 344

Theosophical and Mystic Publications 77, 156, 335

Theosophist, A True (Count Tolstoi) 55

Theosophy, Thoughts on, 134; and 282 Socialism

Three Desires, The 476 Twilight Visions 365, 461

Unpopular Philosopher, From the 80, 160, 238 Note-Book of an

What is Truth? 425

What’s in a Name? Why is the Magazine 1 called “LUCIFER”?

White Monk, The 384, 466

1888 337

LUCIFER

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VOL. I. LONDON, SEPTEMBER 15TH, 1887. NO. 1.

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WHAT’S IN A NAME? WHY THE MAGAZINE IS CALLED “LUCIFER.”