LUCIFER
Vol. 1. LONDON, NOVEMBER 15TH, 1887. No. 3.
“LET EVERY MAN PROVE HIS OWN WORK.”
Such is the title of a letter received by the Editors of Lucifer. It is of so serious a nature that it seems well to make it the subject of this month’s editorial. Considering the truths uttered in its few lines, its importance and the bearing it has upon the much obscured subject of Theosophy, and its visible agent or vehicle—the Society of that name—the letter is certainly worthy of the most considerate answer.
“Fiat justitia, ruat cœlum!”
Justice will be done to both sides in the dispute; namely, Theosophists and the members of the Theosophical Society[[31]] on the one hand, and the followers of the Divine Word (or Christos), and the so-called Christians, on the other.
We reproduce the letter:
“To the Editors of Lucifer.
“What a grand chance is now open in this country, to the exponents of a noble and advanced religion (if such this Theosophy be[[32]]) for proving its strength, righteousness and verity to the Western world, by throwing a penetrating and illuminating ray of its declared light upon the terribly harrowing and perplexing practical problems of our age.
“Surely one of the purest and least self-incrusted duties of man, is to alleviate the sufferings of his fellow man?