A Magazine devoted to the Brotherhood of Humanity, Theosophy in
America, and the Study of Occult Science, Philosophy, and Aryan
Literature. Edited by WILLIAM Q. JUDGE. Published under the auspices of
The Aryan Theosophical Society of New York.
_Price 1s. monthly._
“LUCIFER:”
A Theosophical Monthly, designed to bring light “to the hidden things
of darkness” on both the physical and psychic planes of life. Edited by
H. P. BLAVATSKY and MABEL COLLINS.
This Magazine is published with a dual purpose. The first is to
direct the searching light of impartial truth on the dark problems of
human life, chiefly on the present psychic and spiritual state of our
cultured classes throughout Europe and America. The second is to apply
it fearlessly as a dissecting knife to every prejudice, whether social
or religious, and as a microscope by which to reveal the hidden essence
underlying external appearances, the accepted routine of life, forms
of accustomed thought, existing institutions, sciences, and creeds.
The true light-bearer is at war with no man; but it is his duty to
serve humanity by opposing and denouncing everything which tends to
hypocrisy, egotism, and the hurt of the many for the gain of the few.
“LUCIFER” will endeavour to carry out this duty to the full. This is
the secondary task which falls to the lot of all who oppose the dark
serried mass of materialists. But the primary one, and that which in
this Magazine will always take the first place, is that of applying
theosophic thought to the problems of life. There are things which can
only be scrutinized to any effectual purpose by the application of a
higher knowledge than that which is sufficient to deal with external
facts. The Editors have the courage to undertake so great an effort
as the launching of this Magazine because they have promise and good
earnest of help, from those who possess that higher knowledge, and
who consider the time is ripe for truths, which have existed from all
ages, to be born again in the minds of men. The best known students
of mysticism and occult philosophy will contribute to its pages,
while fiction, the mirror of life, will be used to reveal some of the
marvellous phases of existence. The attempt will be not merely to
promote the comprehension of inner truths and mysteries connected with
the spiritual progress of humanity, but to show that occult philosophy
may shed a new light on the practical conduct of our destinies in their
relation with the physical world.
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