LUCIFEREVOLUTION

Abstract

Lucifer is a poetic Latin descriptive noun used in place of various words

associated with the Morning Star in mythology. The Latin word 'Lucifer

may translate to "light-bearer", however, the earliest association with the

word Lucifer is with the Morning/Evening Star, Phosphorus/Hesperus.

The Morning/Evening star was a poetic device used by ancient

Mesopotamians and Greeks to describe a bright but lesser deity that

attempts to usurp a greater deity but ultimately fails to do so.

LUCIFER the MORNING STAR

There remains much confusion as to what Lucifer is and is not. Most of

this confusion comes from the Abrahamic world which has

misinterpreted several words and jumbled their meanings into a negative

light. First, Lucifer is not and has never been a proper noun (name) it is a

descriptive noun used throughout the ancient world for various reasons.

The main verses in question here are from the Christian bible and I will

explain how the word Lucifer is not the Christian devil, Satan, or much of

anything to do with the Abrahamic faiths.

Isaiah 14:12

“How you are fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning!

How you are cut down to the ground, You who weakened the nations!"

Hebrew

!איך נפלת מהשמיים, הו לוציפר, בן הבוקר"

" !כמה אתה נכרת עד האדמה, אתה שהחלישת את האומות

הלל בן שחר

Hêlêl ben Šāḥar

son of the morning star

Revelation 22:16

"I, Jesus, have sent my angel to testify to you about these things for the

churches. I am the root and the descendant of David, the bright morning

star.”

Greek

"Εγώ, ο Ιησούς, έστειλα τον άγγελο μου να σας μαρτυρήσει για αυτά τα

πράγματα για τις εκκλησίες. Είμαι η ρίζα και ο απόγονος του Δαβίδ, του

λαμπρού πρωινού αστέρα."

πρωϊνός λαμπρός ἀστὴρ

lampros prōinos astēr

bright morning star

Isaiah 14:12 was written in Hebrew, the original text uses the words

Helel ben Shahar which means 'son of the morning star', it was translated

into Latin and used the Latin noun 'lucifer' which means the same thing

'morning star'. However, this verse is in reference to the King of Babylon,

not a fallen angel or Satan.

Revelation 22:16 was written in Greek, the original text uses the words

"lampros prōinos astēr" which means 'bright morning star' and is in

reference to the planet Venus. The Morning Star is a poetic device used

throughout ancient history to symbolize the bright star (planet), Venus,

during the dawn which brings the light of the new day.

The words Morning Star in both instances, and in reference to the many

ancient myths that also use the term 'morning star', symbolize something

brilliant, majestic, royal, and kingly. In Isaiah, it references a once-great

king (Nebuchadnezzar) that has fallen from power, and in Revelation, it

references Jesus simply as a great king.

In 382 AD, Pope Damasus I commissioned St. Jerome to write a revision

of the old Latin translation of the Bible. This task was completed

sometime during the 5th century AD, and eventually, it was considered

the official and definite Latin version of the Bible according to the Roman

Catholic church. By the 13th century, it was considered the versio vulgate

– the common translation.

St. Jerome misunderstood the meaning of the Hebrew word 'heylel', and

translated it into "Lucifer", the Latin word meaning "light-bearer" (from

the Latin lux "light" and ferre "to bear or bring"). The word Lucifer at the

time of the Vulgate and even at the time of the KJV translation, meant

"morning star" or "day star" in reference to Venus. Jerome thought the

passage was referring to Satan in addition to the king of Babylon, and

because of this, the use of the word "Lucifer" made the transition from a

term referring to Venus and the Morning Star to also referring to the

Abrahamic Satan.

MORNING STAR in ANCIENT MYTHOLOGY

The earliest use of the Morning Star mythology is the Mesopotamian

myths of the Sumerian King Etana, the Canaanite myth from Phonecia

called the "Fall of the day star", and the Ugaritic myth called the Baal

Cycle.

Each of these myths describes the attempt of a lesser deity to usurp a

greater deity to which the Morning Star always fails to do so. This

allegory can be seen in the way that Venus (both Morning and Evening

Star) attempts to overtake the Sun or the Moon but always loses the

battle.

It wasn't until thousands of years later that the Gnostics elevated Lucifer

to the Principle of Compassion for Life and Creation, the Defiance of

Corrupt Authority, the Current of Spiritual Evolution. Luciferianism has

personified the idea of Lucifer as the Principle of Self-development, the

model of individuality, individuation, and independence.

GNOSTIC LUCIFER

The idea of Lucifer as a fallen angel comes from the Enochian myth of

fallen angels combined with Dante Alighieri (Dante's Inferno) and John

Milton's (Paradise Lost) epic works that solidified Satan with the name

Lucifer.

The Gnostics never explicitly used the names “Lucifer” or “Eosphoros”

(or Phosphoros) in the age in which they lived. The association of the

Serpent in the Garden of Eden with Lucifer in Gnosticism came later

when Gnostic scholars associated the name Lucifer with planetary

archons. Their new identity of the Lucifer/Serpent became that of

spiritual enlightenment, the principle of compassion for life and creation,

and the defiance of corrupt authority. In this respect, Lucifer becomes a

Current/Energy/Thoughtform.

The Gnostic Christians believed in the Light of Lucifer which they viewed

as the enlightenment which he, as the Serpent, (an Egyptian phallic form

as the serpent Ami‑Hemf "Dweller in the Flame,"), who enlightened the

first parents, Adam and Eve, against God's Will. Here Lucifer is likened to

Prometheus who stole fire from heaven to give civilization to humanity.

God denied the first two people the fruit of the tree of knowledge, but

Lucifer gave them the Light of Wisdom.

These Gnostic sentiments and beliefs for Lucifer were held by the

Persians as well. Unlike Orthodox Christians, they did not hold Jehovah as

the good‑God of mankind, but the Demiurge who created man for his

own selfish interest. Lucifer was regarded as the hero, savior, and friend

of man, who revealed the sacred mysteries which the Heavenly Father

jealously withheld. Some, such as the Gnostic Luciferians, held that

Lucifer was the brother of God.

These Gnostic beliefs persisted throughout the first half of the Christian

era and well into the second half. German theologian Meister Eckhart

said, "Lucifer, the angel, who is in hell, has the perfect intellect and to this

day knows much."

The name Lucifer also appears in Aradia, or the Gospel of the Witches

made famous by Charles Godfrey Leland. The work is based on myths

and legends of ancient Italian witchcraft (La Vecchia Religione /

Stregheria). Lucifer was the son and consort of Diana, goddess of the

night. Their daughter is Aradia, the witch‑messiah in the myth.

Gnostic Gospels of Nag Hammadi

‑from the Gospels of Nag Hammadi: Testimonial of Truth (TOT)

"the God whom most Christians worship, the God of the Hebrew Bible, is

'himself' one of the fallen angels, from whose tyranny Christ came to set

human beings free.

TOT (3:4‑5)

it reveals truth only when one reads it in reverse, recognizing that God is

actually the villain, and the Serpent the holy one

Reality of Rulers (Nag Hammadi)

"It is Samael and his fellow 'rulers' of the Darkness (Eph.6:12), not the

true God, who formed Adam's physical body, set him to work in Paradise,

"to till and cultivate it" then put him to sleep and fashioned his female

partner out of his rib.

God commanded Adam not to eat of the Tree of Knowledge, which could

open his eyes to the Truth. However, Eve became enlightened by the

feminine spiritual principle who appeared to her in the form of the

Serpent and deified them both . . . against God's Will.

God threw mankind into great distraction and into a life of toil, so that

humankind might be occupied with worldly affairs, and might not have

the opportunity of being devoted to the Holy Spirit / Higher‑Self

Platonic Ideologies/First Form Ideals/Authentic Thoughtforms. Meaning,

just as the etymology of a word can usually provide you with the

authentic, first reality of that word, so does there exist the original,

authentic ideal of a thoughtform.

He is the Mercury of the Gauls, He is the Serpent of the Ophites, the

Kundalini and Budha of the Vedic, the Uræus of the Pharaoh! Lucifer is

the Principle of Compassion for Life and Creation, the Light born in the

Womb of Darkness . . . defiance of corrupt authority and the Current of

Spiritual Evolution. As Prometheus, unlike the Abrahamic savior, He dies

every day in order to bring us the Flame.

"What is more absurd and more impious than to attribute the name of

Lucifer to the devil, that is, to personified evil. The intellectual Lucifer is

the spirit of intelligence and love; it is the paraclete, it is the Holy Spirit,

while the physical Lucifer is the great agent of universal magnetism.”

- Eliphas Levi

ROMAN-GRECO LUCIFER

Publius Ovidius Naso

Publius Ovidius Naso's "Metamorphoses" was written 8 B.C.E.

The planet Venus, the second in the solar system, is called Lucifer when it

precedes the sun in the morning, and Hesperus when it follows the sun in

the evening.

Nunlius Noctis. modo lotus, undis Hesperus, pulsis iterum tenebris

Lucifer idem.— Senec. in Hippol. Statione codi: from his station in

heaven. When the morning star, Lucifer is the last to disappear.

The stars which lay obscured under Chaos, now begin to shine forth.

Hesiod, in like manner, speaks of the stars as last formed. Last Lucifer

Sprang radiant from the dawn-appearing morn, And all the glittering

stars that gird the heaven.

Publius Vergilius Maro 29 B.C.E.

Eclogue VIII: Damon and Alphesiboeus Compete

"Lucifer, arise, precursor of kindly day, while I, shamefully cheated of my

lover Nysa’s affection, complain, and call, still, to the gods, in the hour of

my death, though their witnessing these things has been no help to me."

Timaeus by Plato in 360 B.C.E.

"First, there was the moon in the orbit nearest the earth, and next the

sun, in the second orbit above the earth; then came the morning star and

the star sacred to Hermes, moving in orbits which have an equal

swiftness with the sun, but in an opposite direction; and this is the

reason why the sun and Hermes and Lucifer overtake and are overtaken

by each other."

*This Lucifer is also portrayed as a Lunar deity unlike his usual association with Venus.

Transliteration:

"Hermes and Lucifer overtake and are overtaken by each other"

"Ο Ερμής και ο Εωσφόρος προσπερνούν και προσπερνούν ο ένας τον

άλλον" "O Ermís kai o Eosfóros prospernoún kai prospernoún o énas ton

állon"

ATTAR

The ancient Semitic deity of Attar sometimes appearing as a rain and

water god is cited as a possible identification for Helel. Attar, it’s worth

mentioning, is etymologically and mythologically related to the Goddess

Ishtar. Likewise, Attar in his various forms might have been related either

to the morning or evening stars or the planet Venus more generally.

Lucifer is the Morning Star announcing daily birth of the sun. The

Canaanites called him Shaher, the Hebrews Shaharit, “Morning Service”

commemorating him. His twin brother, Shalem, the Evening Star,

announced the daily death of the sun. These two may be identified as the

heavenly twins of the Greeks, Castor and Pollux, born of Leda's World

Egg. They also played a prominent role in Persian sun worship as two

torch‑bearers, one with an ascendant torch, the other pointing

downward. The image of Baphomet should come to mind.

In Canaanite legend, Shaher and Shalem were born of the great mother

Asherah, in her world‑womb aspect as Helel, "the Pit." Shaher coveted

the superior glory of the sun god and attempted to usurp his throne, but

was defeated and cast from heaven like a lightening bolt. There is a 7th

Century B.C. scriptural account of this story of the Morning Star, which

eventually becomes the biblical Isaiah 14:12‑15. Lucifer is told, "Thou

shall be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit." The pit, here, is

symbolizing, or the same as, Helel (Asherah), the Mother‑bride's womb.

The Morning Star was the god, at times referred to as a bird, Benu to the

Egyptians. He was the dying‑and‑reborn Phoenix, called the "Soul of

Ram" who died on the World Tree in order to renew himself so to "shine

on the world." It is said his spirit dwelled in the phallic obelisk, called

Benu or the Benhen Stone, representing the god's sexual union with the

Mother. One finds Plato knew the morning star as Aster which appeared

as the Evening Star (the planet Venus). He saw Aster as a

dying‑and‑reborn deity, "Aster, once, as Morning‑Star, light on the living

you shed. Now, dying, as Evening‑Star, you shine among the dead."

HORUS MORNINGSTAR

Egyptian god Horus the Elder has typically been identified with the sun.

Other scholars have advanced arguments that the god is to be identified

with the planet Venus, with the star Sirius, and with the amorphous sky.

The cult of Horus was prominent already in pre-dynastic times (Writing

itself is first attested in Egypt during the pre-dynastic Period, ca. 3200

B.C.E. Rulers at Nekhen, for example, worshiped the falcon‑god prior to

the unification of Egypt. In the Early Dynastic Period (ca. 3000‑2600

B.C.E.), Horus is explicitly identified as "a star." This much is evident from

the fact that royal domains were named after the astral god. The domain

established by Anedjib (the Horus name of an early Egyptian king who

ruled during the 1st Dynasty), was called (Órsbåt), “Horus, star of the

corporation (of gods).”

The Pharaoh Hotepsekhemwy established a domain called (Óroesbå),

“Horus risen as a star.” While Pharaoh Khasekhemwy founded a new

domain called Órsbåbåw, “Horus, the star of souls.” Both during the 2nd

Dynasty. Most informative, perhaps, is the domain established at the

beginning of the Third Dynasty by Djoser, named Órsbåntipt, “Horus, star

at the front of the sky”.

Additional information regarding the star‑god Horus is to be found in the

Pyramid Texts dating from roughly a half millennium later (2300 B.C.E.).

That Horus was not the sun, as often maintained, is suggested by various

hymns wherein the god is clearly distinguished from the ancient sun god

Ra. In the following passage, for example, Horus (as the deceased king) is

implored to ascend to heaven and join Re: “Rêoe summons you into the

zenith of the sky as the Jackal, the Governor of the Two Enneads, and as

Horus Ônty‑mnit.f; may he set you as the Morning Star in the midst of the

Field of Rushes.”

Egyptologist Raymond Faulkner, considered it a foregone conclusion that

Venus must be the stellar body referenced by the phrase “Morning Star.”

Thus, in a comprehensive survey of Egyptian star‑lore Faulkner wrote as

follows: “As regards the identification of the Morning Star and the Lone

Star with actual celestial bodies, there can be little doubt that, as

elsewhere, the Morning Star is Phosphorus, Venus as seen at dawn.”

The most detailed study of Egyptian star religion to date is that by Rolf

Krauss. He, too, would identify Horus with the planet Venus, citing as

evidence various passages in the Pyramid Texts that describe the star as

shining in the “eastern” portion of the morning sky while moving with

respect to other stars, a characteristic of planets rather than stars. Krauss

summarized his findings as follows: “As early as the beginning of dynastic

times Horus seems to be identified with the planet Venus. The names of

the so‑called royal vineyards describe Horus as a star. The name of

Djoser’s vineyard reveals that Horus is a particular star ‘at the front of

the sky’. The identification of Horus with Venus as known from the

Pyramid Texts suggests itself…Royal ideology and ideas about the

Hereafter seem to have had cosmological and stellar foundations which

may well go back to pre-dynastic times."

An analysis of Horus’s early epithets offers additional insight into his

astral origins. A recurring name of the god is Duat, traditionally

translated as “Netherworld.” The word Duat, in turn, is derived from the

root dwå, “morning,” whence comes Horus’s epithet Neter Dua “Morning

Star (or God).” The etymology of Duat suggests that Horus’s identity as

the Morning Star is permanently connected to his role as Lord of the

“Netherworld.” In a passage from the Pyramid Texts the association

between the “Morning Star” and the Duat is made explicit: “O Morning

Star, Horus of the Netherworld, divine Falcon, wådåd‑bird whom the sky

bore"

So, What's the Problem?

So why is this a problem to Christians? Christians now generally believe

that Satan (or the Devil or Lucifer who they equate with Satan) is a being

who has always existed (or who was created at or near the "beginning").

Therefore, they also think that the 'prophets' of the Old Testament

believed in this creature. The Isaiah scripture is used as proof (and has

been used as such for hundreds of years now). As Elaine Pagels explains

though, the concept of Satan has evolved over the years and the early

Bible writers didn't believe in or teach such a doctrine. The irony for

those who believe that "Lucifer" refers to Satan is that the same title

('morning star' or 'light‑bearer') is used to refer to Jesus, in 2 Peter 1:19,

where the Greek text has exactly the same term: 'phos‑phoros'

'light‑bearer.' This is also the term used for Jesus in Revelation 22:16.

So why is Lucifer a far bigger problem to Mormons? Mormons claim that

an ancient record (the Book of Mormon) was written beginning in about

600 BC, and the author in 600 BC supposedly copied Isaiah in Isaiah's

original words. When Joseph Smith pretended to translate the supposed

'ancient record', he included the Lucifer verse in the Book of Mormon.

Obviously, he wasn't copying what Isaiah actually wrote.

He was copying the King James Version of the Bible. Another book of LDS

scripture, the Doctrine & Covenants, furthers this problem in 76:26 when

it affirms the false Christian doctrine that "Lucifer" means Satan. This

incorrect doctrine also spread into a third set of Mormon scriptures, the

Pearl of Great Price, which describes a war in heaven based, in part, on

Joseph Smith's incorrect interpretation of the word "Lucifer" which only

appears in Isaiah.

CONCLUSION

Lucifer is not an Adversary as the word Satan (Shaitan) describes, Lucifer

is the 'Bringer of Light' in other words Lux Lucis (Lucifer) is gnosis,

truth, and Divine knowledge. Lucifer brought us the Truth and Freedom

from the Will of Another, and showed us the way to either be One with

God / Nature / Objective Universe or to become a god ourselves. Lucifer

is the principle of progress and intellectual inquiry, the divine inspiration

behind spiritual enlightenment. Through Lucifer's spirit humanity first

climbed down from the trees and The Luciferian Principle has

represented the flow of progress ever since.

But Lucifer may be more than a metaphor for rebellion, enlightenment,

and advancement - as the purely creative and motive light, Lucifer may

actually be the key to life itself . . . the DNA within the nuclei of all cells of

living creatures contains biophotons or ultra-weak photon emissions - in

other words, light! A dynamic web of light constantly released and

absorbed by the DNA connects cells, tissues, and organs and serves as the

organism's main communication network.

"Lucifer is on the move inside you and me, chattering between cell and

cell, rousing the cohorts of the life-force, keeping us alive and wonderful.

Every man and woman is a star - and now we know we have our own

inner light." - Lynn Picknett (The Secret History of Lucifer)