The Morning Star, by an Unpopular Philosopher

Helena Petrovna Blavatsky · Blavatsky Speaks Series · 13 pages

Thirteen pages from Lucifer of September 1888, written at the magazine's first anniversary, and the place to go for why she chose that title for it. Lucifer is the bright morning star, and the name had a settled meaning long before it acquired the other one — a point this piece makes at leisure rather than defensively.

The framing is unexpectedly elegiac. Time, she writes, has taken one mighty stride more along the path of eternity, a step of twelve months toward the last day of the present age, and of the lives of many of us. In twelve years the curtain will have dropped, shutting the footlights from the actors and the actors from public view — and only then will many a scene in the sad drama, and many a misunderstood attitude of the chief actors in what she calls the Mystery of the Age, appear in its true light. A section headed The Verdict of Posterity carries the argument, on the principle that in the coming age Solomon shall sit in judgment over David. She died three years later, which gives the whole piece a different weight than she intended.

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