“LUCIFER:”
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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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