The name Lucifer comes from the Latin word for "light-bearer." Generally, this means that members of this faith could be called "Followers of the Light-bearer" or themselves "Light-bearers."

Luciferism is a philosophical and religious movement which started in pre-Christian times. Lucifer is said to be the leader of the angels in heaven and the heavenly messenger from G-d to the people. Generally, the Christian identities of Gabriel, Michael and Satan are combined in the single identity of Lucifer in this faith. Lucifer, with a role as a punisher for humanity, with a task to tempt humans and punish them for disobeying G-d, is often claimed to be the Satan of Christianity in disguise by more conservative and traditional Christians. This has resulted in the misclassification of Luciferism as a cult, or a Satanic religion. [2] Luciferism later became one of the multiple early Christian sects and among its many views were:

* When G-d created Adam, he ordered all the Angels to bow down to Adam, placing Humanity above everything except G-d. Lucifer refused to bow down before anyone other than G-d. To punish Lucifer for his disobedience, G-d cast him down to Earth and never to return to Heaven. To reward Lucifer for his loyalty, Lucifer was given the position of Judge, Jury, and Punisher for all Humanity. [3, 4, 5]

* The true story of the Fall of Mankind according to the followers is very similar to the Book of Job. Lucifer was to tempt Adam and Eve into disobeying G-d, it was a wager between G-d and Lucifer. Humanity failed the the test and was thrown out of the Garden of Eden. Lucifer also played a key role in the Flood and the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah. [6, 7, 8]

* The true evil on earth is Cain and his descendants. Cain lives on, and because Humanity was placed by G-d above everything else he is able to exert large amounts of power over things. Many of the ills in history, such as the enslavement of the Hebrews, were caused by Cain. As a twisted parallel to the Tribes of Israel, Cain's descendants are said to have founded twelve Tribes of their own. [9, 10, 11]

The movement and its literature were essentially wiped out by the end of the 5th century CE by heresy hunters from mainline Christianity. Its beliefs are currently experiencing a minor rebirth throughout the world because of the discovery and translation of the Al Fashir library discovered in Libya.

History

Luciferism consisted of many syncretistic belief systems which combined elements taken from Asian, Babylonian, Egyptian, Greek and Syrian pagan religions, from astrology, and from Judaism and Christianity. By the second century CE, many very different Christian-Lucifer sects had formed within the Roman Empire in North Africa and the Middle East. Some Lucifers worked within Jewish Christian and mainline Christian groups, and greatly influenced their beliefs from within. Others formed separate communities. It is generally believed that the Al Fashir library was a group of Christian-Luficers.

As mainline Christianity grew in strength and organization, Lucifer sects came under increasing pressure and persecution. They almost disappeared by the 6th century. The only group to have survived into modern times is the Gabrielite sect of Libya and Chad. This group has about 10,000 members (one source says 100), and can trace their history continuously back to the original Lucifer movement. [12]

Many new emerging religions in the West have adopted ancient Lucifer beliefs and practices. The belief by some Muslim sects that Satan was thrown out of heaven by not bowing to Adam may have been borrowed from Luciferism.

Sources of Ancient Lucifer Information
Until after WWII, only a few pieces of Lucifer literature were known about. Most Lucifers used the Hebrew Scriptures, and also included the Testimony of Adam, the Hymn of the Executioner, and the Gospel of James. Much of the knowledge about this movement also comes from the attacks on Luciferism by early Christian writers. These included Irenaeus (130? - 200? CE), Clement of Alexandria (145? - 213?), Tertullian (160? - 225?) and Hippolytus (170? - 236). [13] Unfortunately, these 'witch hunters' were not particularly accurate or objective in their analysis of Luciferism.

In 1936, an Italian Construction Crew stumbled onto a small library of Luciferist literature when digging a new well in the Al Fashir oasis in Libya. This library was quickly sent back to Italy, where it was soon forgotten during World War Two. It was not until the surrender of Italy that the library was finally known about to the rest of the world. A team of French and Italian archaeologists managed to translate the writing, and found over 43 different works of Luciferism. [14] It included the Gospel of Judas, a slightly different version of Job, the Book of the Law, many Prayer Books, Aristotle's Ethics, several versions of the Luciferist Genesis, the Book of Cain (also called A History of the Enemy) and several Revelation like Books, predicting the fall of Rome and the rebirth of the Theocracy.

Of these, the Gospel of Judas is considered the most important. The Gospel starts off with a genealogy of Jesus different from the other Gospels, but still presents a line from King David. It continues, focusing on previously unknown parts of Jesus's life. It describes a trip to Persia, and perhaps beyond, where he is said to have first battled with Cain. According to the Gospel of Judas, Jesus and his followers had joined together in a plot to assassinate Pontius Pilate. Peter betrayed Jesus and turned him into the Romans, who then attempted to crucify him. Judas took the place of Jesus instead, allowing Jesus to live on and continue to preach to the Lucifers. [15, 16, 17]

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Wow, what an interesting piece of fiction.

I've heard all this garbage before. Now, here's what really happened: Yes, Lucifer means "Light-bearer". That was his good angel name because he is very bright, brighter and made more beautiful than all the other angels. Lucifer, being beautiful, got full of himself, said he wanted to be God and created war in heaven. God cast him out, so he became Satan, which typically means "advesary".

God never told the angels to bow down to man. The bible even says that God made man..."a little lower than the angels."

You're obviously fond of garbage. Else you wouldn't subject yourself to reading it....again! And since your clearly a fan of fiction, else you wouldn't reference the bible in your contention, one would think you would know more about that particular tome of falacy than to reference what is clearly out of your depth with regard to real history, as you imagine Lucifer to have come into existance through that text alone! How funny!

Bowing to mankind
This hypothesis deals with God's mandate to the angels to bow before men. It is said that when God created man, He wanted to have His angels acknowledge him by bowing down to him, but the angels didn't obey the mandate. This origin of this idea is most likely the Book of Adam and Eve, an apocryphal text which most scholars agree was written somewhere near the end of the first century A.D.


XIII
The devil replied, 'Adam, what dost thou tell me? It is for thy sake that I have been hurled from that place. When thou wast formed, I was hurled out of the presence of God and banished from the company of the angels. When God blew into thee the breath of life and thy face and likeness was made in the image of God, Michael also brought thee and made (us) worship thee in the sight of God; and God the Lord spake: Here is Adam. I have made thee in our image and likeness.'

XIV
: And Michael went out and called all the angels saying: 'Worship the image of God as the Lord God hath commanded.' And Michael himself worshipped first; then he called me and said: 'Worship the image of God the Lord.' And I answered, 'I have no (need) to worship Adam.' And since Michael kept urging me to worship, I said to him, 'Why dost thou urge me? I will not worship an inferior and younger being (than I). I am his senior in the Creation, before he was made was I already made. It is his duty to worship me.'

XV
: When the angels who were under me heard this, they refused to worship him. And Michael saith, 'Worship the image of God, but if thou wilt not worship him, the Lord God will be wrath with thee.' And I said, 'If He be wrath with me, I will set my seat above the stars of heaven and will be like the Highest.'
: Author Unknown: Book of Adam and Eve, 13–15.[1]
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Admitting that I really did not take the time to read through all of your post, so aside from the Luciferian/satanic assumptions. I wish to address:
There is no basis for a Lucifer in the OT except in the machinations of the Apocrypha. These extra-Biblical tales are either accepted as testament/scripture or they are not.

Truth is a verifiable fact. This is not. There is no evidence that the book of Job was even speaking of the Hebrew god. Further, this Lucifer character as represented in Job was nothing more than an arbitor.

This along with most everthing Biblical is unfounded. Biblical reference to Cain has him disappear after his exile from Eden. Further, if Cain was banished from Eden as was said, then anyone who wrote about him in this drama which if it is to be cosidered fact, was totally biased against Cain and claimed without any substantiation whatsoever to have knowledge of his whereabouts or descendents after his expulsion.

There is no connection between the Old Testament and anything in the New Testament for a prortrayal of Lucifer as Cain, much less Lucifer as that Christian nemesis of evil so commonly refered to as ---the devil.

Of course this view on Lucifer does have a certain "fan fiction" aura to it but the bible never fully states the origins and history of him ( or so i think).

And therein lies the problem. Context! I've suddenly started channeling PA! Quick! Someone wash my mouth out with a Krispy Kreme!

So as not to belabour the point, as I realize if you really cared to learn about Luciferianism you would have read the IP. (initial post), allow me to provide you my reply, in a condensed excerpt:

Luciferianism is a philosophical and religious movement which started in pre-Christian times.

Therefore, your citations regarding Apocrypha, etc... are not the history of the Lucifer. They are the history of the Apocrypha, etc...

You'd know more if you cared to look further than what you imagine you know. Bypassing what you don't know, as in the first article of this thread, is the way to learn that you really don't know anything about Lucifer at all.

In your response I find: Tell me, where in my statements that it was not in the OT do I suggest this devil concept was not pre-Christian? Surely you are not suggesting that the moment the NT authors started to write their screed, the OT authors ceased theirs?


And your connundrum is, where in pre-Christian documents is Lucifer mentioned? I want teh exact recitations to a Lucifer. and or how any such connection you would make differs to what I have stated?

I'll keep your comment in mind, now will you do the same? How far back in history are you willing to teach me about what you think you know about this entity, Roman texts, Grecian texts, Aristotle? Plato? A scribe in 400BCE Judah? ----16th century BCE Egypt?

I always find it quite funny when people talk of the ultimate demon, a demon who existed during the time of adam, and then they give him a LATIN name thats right LUCIFER is a latin name, There is only one mention of Lucifer in the bible and that is in Isaiah 14:12

"How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! How art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!"

Anyway a good source of information for this is below, I am not sure where the original of it is however sicnce it has been deceminated around the Net a fair bit.

Lucifer -- the Truth

There's so much conjecture about Lucifer and who or what he really was, that it almost makes me want to proclaim the comic book series, Lucifer, as the divine truth.

Considering the various literary forms of Lucifer that have permeated the Christian religion, I wonder what his legend will look like a few hundred years from now.

The Lost Keys of Freemasonry or The Secret of Hiram Abiff

By Manly P. Hall

"The day has come when Fellow Craftsmen must know and apply their knowledge. The lost key to their grade is the mastery of emotion, which places the energy of the universe at their disposal. Man can only expect to be entrusted with great power by proving his ability to use it constructively and selflessly. When the Mason learns that the key to the warrior on the block is the proper application of the dynamo of living power, he has learned the mystery of his Craft. The seething energies of Lucifer are in his hands and before he may step onward and upward, he must prove his ability to properly apply energy. He must follow in the footsteps of his forefather, Tubal-Cain, who with the mighty strength of the war god hammered his sword into a plowshare. Incessant vigilance over thought, action, and desire is indispensable to those who wish to make progress in the unfolding of their own being, and the Fellow Craft's degree is the degree of transmutation. The hand that slays must lift the fallen, while the lips given to cursing must be taught to pray. The heart that hates must learn the mystery of compassion, as the result of a deeper and more perfect understanding of man's relation to his brother. The firm, kind hand of spirit must curb the flaming powers of emotion with an iron grip. In the realization and application of these principles lies the key of the Fellow Craft."

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The Threefold Revelation of the Book of the Law

Liber AL vel Legis opens the eye of the soul to the mysteries of immortal life. In so doing, the book brings new meaning and possibilities to the earth life, including the freeing of the soul from all that which confines and enslaves her to sorrow and death. The book speaks of an eternity that rests on relationship: individual existence defining itself by contrast with another by which it can know itself. "One" can only know itself by comparison with "minus one", its opposite, that which it is not.

The infinite possibilities begotten by relationship are the key of the doorway to eternity. Ankh-af-na-khonsu, the Theban priest mentioned in the book, assumed the symbol of the Egyptian ankh or key of life as his magical identity, his name. The book has summarised the spiritual path in seven words: "Love is the law, love under will."

The three chapters of the book each reveal a level of Initiation. From the point of view of practical magick the book begins with chapter three, not one. Wisdom has to be followed back to her source. The work thus begins in chapter three with Ra Hoor Khuit, the Solar-Hermetic Lucifer whose action upon the soul prepares her for Initiation. His instructions largely concern works of sorcery aimed at overcoming all obstacles encountered on the path. For the soul, such preparations are war. They require an intelligent use of all her resources in order to deal effectively with enemies that are driven by the blind forces of the material universe.

The establishment of Ra Hoor Khuit at the heart or centre of the soul leads to her encounter with Hadit, the giver of Life who speaks through chapter two of the book. The encounter confers upon the Initiate the keys of the knowledge of life that can only be known through the knowledge of death. Through her union with Hadit the soul contracts; she withdraws from the volatility of sensory perceptions to be stabilised or Alchemically "fixed" as a star in the body of Nuit.

Thus, the way is open for the soul to partake of the joys of Nuit, infinitely expanding in her divine ecstasy and love. Chapter one, the voice of Nuit, reveals to the Adept the secret means of enjoying without restriction the ultimate relationship of opposites: that of individual consciousness and infinity.

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"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(opposites attract - HH)." - Eliphas Levi


"Lucifer represents.. Life.. Thought.. Progress.. Civilization.. Liberty.. Independence.. Lucifer is the Logos.. the Serpent, the Savior." - Helena Blavatsky

Why do you choose not to type out the full work God. But then capitalize it. Just wondering not scrutinizing


Luciferism is a philosophical and religious movement which started in pre-Christian times. Lucifer is said to be the leader of the angels in heaven and the heavenly messenger from G-d

I know many Orthodox Jews don't write out the full name of god, because there is a danger that someone with malicious intent or who doesn't know better might erase or defame the name of god. Which is prohibited in Judaism since a name is not just letters on a page, but the essence of a being. Therefore the name itself holds the power of god.

The funny part is that 'God' isn't God's name, so writing G-d is rather pointless in my opinion but as you said that is where the reasoning comes from, which also includes speaking God's name(s).