Lucifer (Magazine)

Cover of the magazine Lucifer

Lucifer was a journal published by Helena Blavatsky. The first edition was issued in September 1887 in London. The journal published articles on philosophical, theosophical, scientific and religious topics. It also contained book reviews, for example of Friedrich Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra.^[1]

History

The journal was first published by Blavatsky.^[2] The first issues were co-edited with Mabel Collins. From 1889 until Blavatsky's death in May 1891 Annie Besant was a co-editor. Besant then published the journal until September 1895, when George Robert Stowe Mead became a co-editor. The journal appeared twelve times a year and was 80 to 90 pages long.^[1] The last of twenty volumes was published in August 1897. More than 2800 articles were published in this journal between 1887 and 1897.^[3] Contributing authors included W.B.Yeats.^[4] Blavatsky’s "Luciferian" editorials provided inspiration to generations of adept esoteric writers that were to follow.^[5]

In September 1897 the journal was renamed to :de:The Theosophical Review.^[6]

See also

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• [[Biography:Helena BlavatHelena Blavatsky · William Quan Judge
• Henry Steel Olcott

Theosophists

• Annie Besant · Robert Crosbie
• Abner Doubleday · Geoffrey Hodson
• Wassily Kandinsky · Archibald Keightley
• C. W. Leadbeater · G. R. S. Mead
• Arthur E. Powell · Isabel Cooper-Oakley · Subba Row · William Scott-Elliot
• Alfred Percy Sinnett · Rudolf Steiner · Brian Stonehouse
• Katherine Tingley · Ernest Wood

Theosophical philosophical concepts

• Root races · Round · Seven rays · Theosophical mysticism

Theosophical organizations

• Theosophical Society · Theosophical Society Adyar
• Theosophical Society in America (Hargrove) · Theosophical Society Pasadena
• Theosophical Society Point Loma - Blavatskyhouse · United Lodge of Theosophists

Theosophical texts

• Esoteric Buddhism · Isis Unveiled · The Key to Theosophy · The Secret Doctrine · Theosophical Glossary

Theosophical publications

• Lucifer magazine · The Theosophist

Theosophical Masters

• Kuthumi · Master Hilarion
• Master Jesus · Maitreya · Morya
• Paul the Venetian · Sanat Kumara
• Serapis Bey · St. Germain

Comparative Theosophy

• Buddhism and Theosophy
• Christianity and Theosophy
• Hinduism and Theosophy
• Theosophy and literature
• Theosophy and visual arts
• Theosophy and Western philosophy

Related

• Agni Yoga · Alice Bailey · Anthroposophy
• Ascended Master Teachings
• Esotericism · Hermeticism · Initiation
• Jiddu Krishnamurti · Liberal Catholic Church
• Masters of the Ancient Wisdom · Mysticism
• New Age · Neo-Theosophy · Neoplatonism
• Occultism · Order of the Star in the East

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• "Is Theosophy a Religion?"
• "Philosophers and Philosophicules"
• "The Esoteric Character of the Gospels"
• The Theosophist

References

Sources

• "An Index to Lucifer, London". The Theosophical Society in Australia. 2012-02-09. http://www.austheos.org.au/indices/LUCIFR.HTM. 
• "An Index to The Theosophical Review, London". The Theosophical Society in Australia. 2012-03-09. http://www.austheos.org.au/indices/TH_REV.HTM. 
• "Union Index Of Theosophical Periodicals". The Theosophical Society in Australia. 2017-11-13. http://www.austheos.org.au/indices/pindex.htm. 
• Ferguson, Christine (2020). "The Luciferian Public Sphere: Theosophy and Editorial Seekership in the 1880s". Victorian Periodicals Review 53 (1): 76–101. doi:10.1353/vpr.2020.0012. ISSN 1712-526X. https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/753558. 
• Morrisson, Mark S. (2007). "The Periodical Culture of the Occult Revival: Esoteric Wisdom, Modernity and Counter-Public Spheres". Journal of Modern Literature 31 (2): 1–22. doi:10.2979/JML.2008.31.2.1. ISSN 0022-281X. https://www.jstor.org/stable/30053265. 
• Beauchesne, Nicholas L. (Spring 2021) (in en). Adepts of Modernism: Magical Magazine Culture, 1887-1922. doi:10.7939/r3-6q13-d562. https://era.library.ualberta.ca/items/052277da-8002-4c1f-85a0-b1fedd8be05f. Retrieved 2024-01-07. 

External links

• Lucifer reprints
• Overview
• Articles from the Lucifer
• Lucifer archive at HathiTrust

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