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Lucifer
From the Latin
meaning 'light-bearer' or 'light-giver', the name was first applied logically to
Jesus (as
'day star', 2 Peter 1, 19) as well as to Venus,
the morning star. In demonology Lucifer
is the celestial being wrongly equated with Satan,
probably due to a misreading of Isaiah, 14, 12 (applied to Nebuchadnezzar, king of
Babylon, who in his pomp and glory aspired to exalt himself to the level of God):
"How art thou fallen
from Heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning."
St. Jerome also applies
the name Lucifer to Satan when writing his comments about Luke, 10, 18:
"I beheld Satan as
lightning fall from Heaven."
The general view, adopted
in the literary tradition, is that Satan was called Lucifer before the Fall from Heaven.
According to the legends of the rebellion, Lucifer was the chief in the hierarchy of
Heaven, and as preeminent among all created beings in beauty, power, and wisdom. To him
God allotted dominion and power over the earth; and even after his fall from grace, he
seemed to still retain, if not all, some of this power and status. Lucifer's sin was
pride, an act of pure egoism and malice; he loved himself, above anything else and to the
exclusion of everything, without the excuse of ignorance. As governor of Heaven, he was
seated next to the Lord; but as soon as God left His seat, Lucifer, swelling with pride,
would sit himself on the heavenly throne. A indignant Michael (the archangel) battles with him, and after a
angelical war, succeeds in banishing Lucifer and his followers from Heaven, casting all
down to the infernal dwelling reserved for them for all eternity. The one once called
Lucifer in Heaven, was now named Satan on earth; the angels
that joined with him became the demons, of
whom he was lord.
John Milton, in 'Paradise Lost',
applies the name Lucifer to the demon of sinful pride; in
Dante's 'The Divine
Comedy' and in the play 'Doctor Faustus'
(Christopher
Marlowe),
Lucifer is depicted as the king of Hell.
At all events, the name
Lucifer has been adopted in esoteric circles to represent the modern equivalent of the
being of the Sun (originally named Ormuzd in the Zoroastrian dualism) opposed by the
darkness, the Prince of Lies, who was called Angra Mainyu, in occultism called Ahriman.
Lucifer is also one of the demonic sins.
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