Lucifer No. 3 - 2014

Symposium issue on:

How our consciousness changes our brain
Do we have a brain? Or are we our brain?

The lectures that were given during this symposium are transformed into the following articles:

• Introduction

Day 1

• Do we have consciousness, or are we consciousness?
• Brain, thinking and consciousness
• States of consciousness - Which pair of glasses do we use when looking at life?
• Workshop results: Are we in control of our own brain?
• Examples of changes of the brain

Day 2

• Expanding consciousness through resonance - Never too late to resonate
• Consciousness before and after dying
• Three levels of remembering: instinct, conscience and intuition
• Workshop results: Expanding consciousness by practice - Man, know thyself

Lucifer No. 2 - 2014

Articles in this issue:

• Theosophy’s rightful place
• Spiritual progress in Kali-Yuga
• Repentance works?
• Brotherhood and sisterhood?
• From Higgs-particle to Theosophia
• The role of the poles

Lucifer No. 1 - 2014

Symposium issue on:

Practical spirituality - beyond matter, in society

The lectures that were given during this symposium are transformed into the following articles:

• Introduction

Day 1

• Wonderment ... there must be more behind this
• Man a spiritual explorer
• Thinking like Socrates – recognizing spirituality
• More light on spirituality
• How does spirituality or compassion affect our lives?
  • Views on spirituality
  • Where spirituality manifests itself in man
  • What is the next step?
  • Practical spirituality
• Spiritual impulses before the foundation of The Theosophical Society in 1875

Day 2

• On our way – is compassion a choice?
• Developing spirituality for a harmonious society
• No initiation without trial
• The spiritual society ... a matter of practice

Lucifer No. 2 - 2013

In this issue of Lucifer – the Messenger of Light we briefly present the three Fundamental Propositions and seven Jewels of Wisdom.

Theosophy stretches over all fields of human thought. However, it is based on only three fundamental propositions, given by H.P. Blavatsky in The Secret Doctrine. These propositions can be elaborated in seven principal ideas, called the seven Jewels of Wisdom. You can find traces of these teachings in the books of the world religions and great philosophical systems, as is shown in the last article of this issue.

Articles in this issue:

• The three key thoughts of Theosophy
• The seven Jewels of Wisdom and their inspiring value:
  • 1. Reincarnation
  • 2. Karma
  • 3. Hierarchies
  • 4. Self-becoming
  • 5. Progressive evolution
  • 6. The two paths
  • 7. Knowledge of the Self
• Recognizing the seven Jewels in world religions

Lucifer No. 1 - 2013

In 1979 some members of the Dutch section of The Theosophical Society Point Loma took the initiative to start a theosophical magazine.

Here we present our first edition of Lucifer, the messenger of Light in English. It is composed of translations of some articles that were published in our Dutch magazine (‘Rāja and Hatha Yoga’ and ‘Like a stream from its source’). But you will find also an article that is a direct result of a lecture given in one of the theosophical congresses (‘Addiction and attachments’) as well as a lecture on the Bodhisattva vow. To get to know us better, in this issue we have also published an article about the Point Loma tradition.

Articles in this issue:

• Lucifer — The Messenger of Light
• The Point Loma tradition
• Vow to benefit mankind
• How we emanate from our source
• Rāja and Hatha Yoga
• Addictions and attachments