We have to notice—it would not be quite sincere to
say that we welcome—the commencement of a new theosophical magazine, under the title of Lucifer. It is published by Mr. George Redway, and edited by Mr. (?) H. P. Blavateky and Miss Mabel Collins. If there must be expositions of "occultism," which seems to be a bundle of nega- tives, since it "is not magic, though magiz is one of its tools," and "is not the acquirement of powers whether psychic or intellectual, though both are its servants," it is well that its exponents should, ae in Lucifer, express themselves freely to the public, and with the aids supplied by good type and paper. To judge from an introductory and explanatory article, the editors are not uneneceptible to the criticism of an unbelieving (or ignorant) world, and therefore they will not object to their articles being looked at from the purely literary point of view. Undoubtedly there is not only learning--of a kind—but literary taste displayed in more than one of the papers in the first number of Lucifer; and scattered over it are sound ethical maxims disguised in theosophy. Of the fiction that is here associated with occultism, it is perhaps too soon to speak. There is a promise, however, not only of eeriness, but of skill in plot-conetruation, in "The Blossom and the Fruit," by Miss Mabel Collins.
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