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Theosophical Society Seal

In the late 1800s, the Theosophical Society had a publishing house which they named Lucifer Trust.
They put out a magazine named Lucifer.

Madame Blavatsky and the Magazine Lucifer

In the 1920s Horace and Alice Bailey, both admirers of Blavatsky and of the teachings of Theosophy,
began their own publishing house named Lucifer Publishing Company. After a few years the name
was changed to Lucis Publishing Company. The following explanation for the name is provided at
the official website of the Lucis Trust, the parent company.

Both “Lucifer” and “Lucis” come from the same word root, lucis being the Latin generative case
meaning of light. The Baileys' reasons for choosing the original name are not known to us, but we
can only surmise that they, like the great teacher H.P. Blavatsky, for whom they had enormous
respect, sought to elicit a deeper understanding of the sacrifice made by Lucifer. Alice and Foster
Bailey were serious students and teachers of Theosophy, a spiritual tradition which views Lucifer
as one of the solar Angels, those advanced Beings Who Theosophy says descended (thus “the fall”)
from Venus to our planet eons ago to bring the principle of mind to what was then animal-man. In
the theosophical perspective, the descent of these solar Angels was not a fall into sin or disgrace but
rather an act of great sacrifice, as is suggested in the name “Lucifer” which means light-bearer.
[ S o u r c e :
http://www.lucistrust.org/en/arcane_school/talks_and_articles/the_esoteric_meaning_of_lucifer]

Alchemy, Kabbalah, Freemasonry, Theosophy and numerous other esoteric streams of thought all
share in common their worship of Lucifer. This fallen angel is viewed as having made a great
sacrifice for mankind, bringing to man the knowledge necessary for his advancement. Madame