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The Dirge for the Dead in Life

Note(s)/ by H. P. Blavatsky, Lucifer Magazine, December, 1888 & February, 1889 [Incl. Follow-up(s)]

Selection of “automatic writing” by “Sepher” & Reply Article by J. H. Mitalmier | Introduction & Notes by H.P.B. The… Read More »The Dirge for the Dead in Life

Echoes of Theosophy

Editorial/ by H. P. Blavatsky, Lucifer Magazine, December, 1888

The following paragraph in a Boston weekly, Wade’s Fibre and Fabric, October 27, 1888, No. 191, speaks for itself: “As… Read More »Echoes of Theosophy

The Year is Dead, Long Live the Year!

Editorial/ by H. P. Blavatsky, Lucifer Magazine, January, 1889

December, 1888, and January, 1889 Lucifer sends the best compliments of the season to his friends and subscribers, and wishes… Read More »The Year is Dead, Long Live the Year!

[On Rushing in to Occultism]

Note(s)/ by H. P. Blavatsky, Lucifer Magazine, April, 1889

Story selection by Franz Hartmann | Note by H.P.B. “O, great Krashibashi! Have I then at last found favour in… Read More »[On Rushing in to Occultism]

[Review:] Lays of Romance and Chivalry

Review/ by H. P. Blavatsky, Lucifer Magazine, December, 1887

“LAYS OF ROMANCE AND CHIVALRY,” by Mr. W. Stewart Ross. (Stewart and Co., Farringdon Street.) In this neat little volume… Read More »[Review:] Lays of Romance and Chivalry

From the Note Book of an Unpopular Philosopher (3)

Editorial/ by H. P. Blavatsky, Lucifer Magazine, September, 1888

THOUGHTSON THE BIRTHDAY OF LUCIFER Ever Onward. In its ceaseless, and also too rapid, flight along the path of Eternity,… Read More »From the Note Book of an Unpopular Philosopher (3)

[On Abhiñña]

Note(s)/ by H. P. Blavatsky, Lucifer Magazine, July, 1888

Article selection by A.J.C. | Note by H.P.B. The five, so-called, supernatural powers of the Buddhists—the Abhidagna,1 are 1st, Clairvoyance;… Read More »[On Abhiñña]

The Esoteric Section of the Theosophical Society

Editorial/ by H. S. Olcott with H. P. Blavatsky, , Lucifer Magazine, October, 1888

Owing to the fact that a large number of Fellows of the Society have felt the necessity for the formation… Read More »The Esoteric Section of the Theosophical Society

[The Bride Sophia vs. Succubi & Incubi]

Note(s)/ by H. P. Blavatsky, Lucifer Magazine, October, 1888

[The following was an Editorial Note by H.P.B. in reply to an article titled “A Sufi’s Mystical Apologue” by A.J.C.]… Read More »[The Bride Sophia vs. Succubi & Incubi]

[On “Christian Science”]

Note(s)/ by H. P. Blavatsky, Lucifer Magazine, October, 1888

Article selections by Ursula N. Gestefeld | Notes by H.P.B. Lucifer’s criticism of the statements of “Christian Science,” as contained… Read More »[On “Christian Science”]

Children Allowed to Train Themselves for Murder

Note(s)/ by Admin, Lucifer Magazine, December, 1888

Correspondence by “Ariadna” | Reply by H.P.B. “Ariadna” writes:— English folk are fond of maintaining the superiority of their national… Read More »Children Allowed to Train Themselves for Murder

[On the “Accursed”]

Note(s)/ by H. P. Blavatsky, Lucifer Magazine, January, 1889

Kindly condescending to notice, and even to review (!!), our December number of Lucifer, the Saturday Review, in its issue… Read More »[On the “Accursed”]

What Theosophy and its Society Should Be

Article/ by Camille Lemaitre, Lucifer Magazine, January, 1889

The letter from which the following pages are translated—and which was never meant for publication—was recently addressed to one of… Read More »What Theosophy and its Society Should Be

[On Chinese History and Biblical Chronology]

Note(s)/ by H. P. Blavatsky, Lucifer Magazine, February, 1889

Article selections by Andrew T. Sibbald | Notes by H.P.B. About two thousand years before our Christian era, the Chinese… Read More »[On Chinese History and Biblical Chronology]

[Christianity in Japan]

Editorial/ by H. P. Blavatsky, Lucifer Magazine, March, 1889

History repeats itself. The rise and triumph of Christianity and its general spread in the West were due originally to… Read More »[Christianity in Japan]

The Sacred Mission of the S.P.R.

Editorial/ by H. P. Blavatsky, Lucifer Magazine, April, 1889

All our friends remember the astounding story, born and elaborated in the head of a too zealous “Researcher” sent to… Read More »The Sacred Mission of the S.P.R.

[On Atoms and the Sun]

Note(s)/ by H. P. Blavatsky, Lucifer Magazine, April, 1889

Article selections by Clara J. Bloomfield-Moore | Notes by H.P.B. . . . Ether in its high tenuous condition is… Read More »[On Atoms and the Sun]

[On Dr. Elliott Coues]

Note(s)/ by H. P. Blavatsky, Lucifer Magazine, April, 1889

Strange things occur in this sublunary world; but the strangest of all is, that a recognized American scientist of great… Read More »[On Dr. Elliott Coues]

A Danger Signal

Article/ by H. P. Blavatsky, Lucifer Magazine, April, 1889 [Translated from the original French]

“Initiates are sure to come into the company of the Gods.”—Socrates, in the Phaedo. In the first number of the… Read More »A Danger Signal

Our Cycle and the Next

Editorial/ by H. P. Blavatsky, Lucifer Magazine, May, 1889

“The world’s great age begins anew,The golden days return,The earth doth like a snake renewHer winter weeds outworn.”—Shelley “My friend,… Read More »Our Cycle and the Next

Buddhism Through Christian Spectacles

Editorial/ by H. P. Blavatsky, Lucifer Magazine, May, 1889

On the occasion of a new pseudo-Oriental dirge1 by “Sir Monier Monier Williams, K.C.I.E.,” the very Christian Orientalist, a daily… Read More »Buddhism Through Christian Spectacles

[On Zagovarivayt]

Note(s)/ by H. P. Blavatsky, Lucifer Magazine, May, 1889

Article selection by N. A. Fadeeff | Note by H.P.B. In Astrachan, on the Caspian Sea, there was, during our… Read More »[On Zagovarivayt]

Christian or Mental Science

Note(s)/ by H. P. Blavatsky, Lucifer Magazine, September, 1888

Article selections by Reginald Birney | Notes by H.P.B. I heard once of a distinguished physician who told his class… Read More »Christian or Mental Science

[On Tukaram Tatya]

Note(s)/ by H. P. Blavatsky, Lucifer Magazine, November, 1888

[Tukaram Tatya Padval (1836–1896) is] the most active and indefatigable of all our Bombay Theosophists in the spread of Sanskrit… Read More »[On Tukaram Tatya]

“The Empty Vessel Makes the Greatest Sound.”

Note(s)/Q & A/ by H. P. Blavatsky, Lucifer Magazine, January, 1889

Miss Susie C. Clark, of Cambridgeport, Mass., says in substance: “I am a mental healer … Of late rumours reach… Read More »“The Empty Vessel Makes the Greatest Sound.”

[Definitions of Adept and Initiate]

Note(s)/ by H. P. Blavatsky, Lucifer Magazine, April, 1889

Article selection by Josef B. Widen | Note by H.P.B. . . . It has been stated that it requires… Read More »[Definitions of Adept and Initiate]

Our Society’s “Agapæ.”

Editorial/ by H. P. Blavatsky, Lucifer Magazine, May, 1889

Our Brothers in France had a happy idea in establishing what we might call theosophical agapæ, minus the mystic and… Read More »Our Society’s “Agapæ.”

Our Christian 19th Century Ethics

Editorial/ by H. P. Blavatsky, Lucifer Magazine, August, 1888

As civilization progresses, moral darkness pervades the alleged light of Christianity. The chosen symbol of our boasted civilization ought to… Read More »Our Christian 19th Century Ethics

Butler Exposed

Editorial/ by H. P. Blavatsky, Lucifer Magazine, April, 1889

The New York World of Feb. 1st. exposes the whole scheme in the following up-and-up manner: Members of the Boston… Read More »Butler Exposed

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