Lucifer (magazine)

This article is about the theosophical publication. For the anarchist journal, see Lucifer the Lightbearer.

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]

In 1979, the Theosophical Society in the Netherlands began publishing a Dutch Lucifer. In 2013, the English version of the magazine was resurrected.^[7][8]

See also

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

References

1. An Index to Lucifer.
2. Ferguson 2020.
3. Union Index Of Theosophical Periodicals.
4. Morrisson 2007.
5. Beauchesne 2021.
6. An Index to The Theosophical Review.
7. Vermeulen, Herman C. "Editorial: Lucifer - The Messenger of Light" (PDF). Lucifer, No. 1. February, 2013. p. 2–3.
8. "Magazine (current digital edition)". ISIS English. Retrieved 28 April 2024.

Sources

• "An Index to Lucifer, London". The Campbell Theosophical Research Library. The Theosophical Society in Australia. 2012-02-09. Archived from the original on 11 October 2017. Retrieved 20 November 2017.
• "An Index to The Theosophical Review, London". The Campbell Theosophical Research Library. The Theosophical Society in Australia. 2012-03-09. Archived from the original on 18 February 2017. Retrieved 20 November 2017.
• "Union Index Of Theosophical Periodicals". The Campbell Theosophical Research Library. The Theosophical Society in Australia. 2017-11-13. Archived from the original on 4 November 2017. Retrieved 20 November 2017.
• 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.
• 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. JSTOR 30053265. S2CID 144189230.
• Beauchesne, Nicholas L. (Spring 2021). "Adepts of Modernism: Magical Magazine Culture, 1887-1922". ERA. doi:10.7939/r3-6q13-d562. Retrieved 2024-01-07.

External links

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