Lucifer: A Theosophical Magazine. Volume I. September 1887-February 1888.
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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.
London:
Various
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CONTENTS.
COMMENTS ON “LIGHT ON THE PATH.”
THE HISTORY OF A PLANET.
THE BLOSSOM AND THE FRUIT:
A LAW OF LIFE: KARMA.
THE MYSTERY OF ALL TIME.
THE FOUR NOBLE TRUTHS OF BUDDHISM.
THE BIRTH OF LIGHT.
A TRUE THEOSOPHIST.
A GHOST’S REVENGE
Literary Jottings
“THE LATEST ROMANCE OF SCIENCE,” Summarized by a Frenchman.
Correspondence
From the Note Book of an Unpopular Philosopher
THE LADY OF LIGHT.
THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES.
SELF-KNOWLEDGE.
COMMENTS ON “LIGHT ON THE PATH.”
WILL AND DESIRE.
A LAW OF LIFE: KARMA.
A GHOST’S REVENGE.
THE ORIGIN OF EVIL.
THE GREAT PARADOX.
THE BLOSSOM AND THE FRUIT:
Desire Made Pure.
THOUGHTS ON THEOSOPHY.
Correspondence
Reviews.
Correspondence
From the Note Book of an Unpopular Philosopher
THE DEMAND OF THE NEOPHYTE.
THE ESOTERIC CHARACTER OF THE GOSPELS.
THE “SQUARE” IN THE HAND.
FREEDOM.
THE INVISIBLE WORLD.
THE MYSTIC THOUGHT.
THE BLOSSOM AND THE FRUIT:
CHAPTER V.
CHAPTER VI.
THE SCIENCE OF LIFE.
SIN AGAINST LIFE.
BROTHERHOOD.
PYTHAGORIC SENTENCES OF DEMOPHILUS.
Correspondence.
Reviews.
From the Note Book of an Unpopular Philosopher
“EMERSON AND OCCULTISM.”
THE BLOSSOM AND THE FRUIT:
TWILIGHT.
THE SPIRIT OF HEALING.
THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY’S CONVENTION OF 1887.
A REMARKABLE CHRISTMAS EVE.
A HALF CONVERT.
THEOSOPHY AND MODERN SOCIALISM.
THE GREAT QUEST.
An Interpretation of the Vision, by Serjeant.
AN INFANT GENIUS.
FEAR.
THE ESOTERIC CHARACTER OF THE GOSPELS.
SIMILITUDES OF DEMOPHILUS.
GOLDEN SENTENCES OF DEMOCRITUS.
Correspondence.
A LAW OF LIFE: KARMA.
Literary Jottings
TO THE MORNING STAR.
“TO THE READERS OF ‘LUCIFER.’”
ADAPTATIONS.
SOME WORDS ON DAILY LIFE.
THE BLOSSOM AND THE FRUIT:
SPECULATION.
REVOLUTION.
TWILIGHT VISIONS.
ESOTERICISM OF THE CHRISTIAN DOGMA.
THE GREAT QUEST.
THE SECLUSION OF THE ADEPT.
THE WHITE MONK.
LOVE WITH AN OBJECT.
SELF MASTERY.
Reviews.
EDITORS’ NOTES.
Correspondence.
THE CHURCH AND THE DOCTRINE OF ATONEMENT.
SOCIALISM AND THEOSOPHY.
Correspondence
“WHAT IS TRUTH?”
THE SOLDIER’S DAUGHTER.
LUNIOLATRY.
THE BLOSSOM AND THE FRUIT:
CHAPTER XIII.
CHAPTER XIV.
CHAPTER XV.
TWILIGHT VISIONS.
THE WHITE MONK.
GOLDEN SENTENCES OF DEMOCRITUS.
QUESTIONS.
A THEORY OF HAUNTINGS.
THE ESOTERIC CHARACTER OF THE GOSPELS.
Reviews.
NEW YEAR’S EVE.
Correspondence.
CORRESPONDENCE
INTERESTING TO ASTROLOGERS.
