Early Era Magazines
These Magazines of the early ear contain most of the original articles written by HPB and WQJ. We only recommend those volumes which were edited by the founders and caution against those published posthumously. However, we include some posthumous volumes here to reference certain articles by the founders which were originally published in them.
The Theosophist was founded by H. P. Blavatsky1 to be the organ through which the sublimity of Aryan, Buddhist, Parsi, and other systems of thought from the East may be communicated to the Western world and to act as a repository for the facts gathered by the Society's Fellows as relate to Occultism.
Only those volumes (1–9) that were conducted by HPB are made available here for reference and ease of access, courtesy of IAPSOP. Furthermore, certain One-off sections from subsequent volumes are also included, only where they contain important reference material.
1 Articles contributed by HPB either signed or unsigned as the editor have been collated into three separate volumes.
The Path was founded by Willam Q Judge1 to fulfill the need for "a literature, not solely for highly intellectual persons, but of a more simple character, which attempts to appeal to ordinary common-sense minds who are really fainting for such moral and mental assistance as is not reached by the more pretentious works."
Volumes run from April to March. The 11th and 12th (1896-97) volumes were renamed "Theosophy". In 1912, Robert Crosbie started a new magazine with the same name.
Note: Volumes 11 and 12, renamed "Theosophy" are made available here for completeness, courtesy of IAPSOP. From November 1897, this magazine's name was changed to "Universal Brotherhood."
1 Articles contributed by WQJ under various pseudonyms have been collated into two separate volumes.
Lucifer was founded by H. P. Blavatsky1 "to bring light to 'the hidden things of darkness,' to show in their true aspect and their original real meaning things and names, men and their doings and customs; it is finally to fight prejudice, hypocrisy and shams in every nation, in every class of Society, as in every department of life."
All volumes made available here for reference and ease of access, courtesy of IAPSOP.
1 Articles contributed by HPB either signed or unsigned as the editor have been collated into three separate volumes.