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Luciferianism

February 29, 2024

Luciferianism is a belief system that venerates the essential characteristics that are affixed to Lucifer, the name of various mythological and religious figures associated with the planet Venus. The tradition usually reveres Lucifer not as the Devil, but as a destroyer, a guardian, liberator,[1] light bringer or guiding spirit to darkness,[2] or even the true god.[1] According to Ethan Doyle White of the Britannica, among those who "called themselves Satanists or Luciferians", some insist that Lucifer is an entity separate from Satan, while others maintain "the two names as synonyms for the same being".[3]

William Blake's illustration of Lucifer as presented in John Milton's Paradise Lost

Background edit

Main article: Lucifer

Etymology edit

The word Lucifer is taken from the Latin Vulgate,[4] which translates הֵילֵל as lucifer,[5][6] even though the Biblical Hebrew word הֵילֵל, which occurs only once in the Hebrew Bible,[7] has been transliterated as hêlêl,[7] or heylel. The Septuagint renders הֵילֵל in Greek as ἑωσφόρος[8][9][10] (heōsphoros),[11][12][13] a name, literally "bringer of dawn", for the morning star.[14]

Literary and religious character edit

Later Christian tradition came to use the Latin word for "morning star", lucifer, as a proper name ("Lucifer") for the Devil; as he was before his fall.[15] As a result, Lucifer has become a by-word for Satan or the Devil in the church and in popular literature",[4] as in Dante Alighieri's Inferno, Joost van den Vondel's Lucifer and John Milton's Paradise Lost.[13] However, the Latin word never came to be used almost exclusively, as in English, in this way, and was applied to others also, including Jesus.[16] The image of a morning star fallen from the sky is generally believed among scholars to have a parallel in Canaanite mythology.[17]

According to both Christian[18] and Jewish exegesis, in Chapter 14 of the Book of Isaiah, the King of Babylon (Nebuchadnezzar II), conqueror of Jerusalem, is condemned in a prophetic vision by the prophet Isaiah and is called the "Morning Star" (planet Venus).[19][20] The Hebrew text in this chapter says, הֵילֵל בֶּן-שָׁחַר (Helel ben Shachar, "shining one, son of dawn").[20] Helel ben Shahar may refer to the Morning Star, but the text in Isaiah 14 gives no indication that Helel was a star or planet.[21][22]

History edit

Medieval edit

The Luciferian label—in the sense of Lucifer-worshipper—was first used in the Gesta Treverorum in 1231 for a religious circle led by a woman named Lucardis (Luckhardis). It was said that in private she lamented the fall of Lucifer (Satan) and yearned for his restoration to heavenly rule. The sect was exposed by the Papal Inquisition. In 1234, Pope Gregory IX issued the bull Vox in Rama calling for a crusade against the Stedinger, who were accused of Luciferianism. The bull contains a detailed description of supposed rites and beliefs. This description was repeated and occasionally expanded in the following centuries, but "modern historiography agrees on their entirely fictitious nature".[23] The actual identity of the heretics accused of Luciferianism is often difficult to ascertain.[23] Those of the 13th-century Rhineland appear to have been Cathars (Alexander Patschovsky)[24] or a distinct off-shoot of the Cathars (Piotr Czarnecki).[25]

In the 14th century, the term Luciferians was applied to what appear to have been Waldensians.[23] They were persecuted under the Luciferian label in Schweidnitz in 1315 and in Angermünde in 1336. In 1392–1394, when some four hundred Luciferians from Brandenburg and Pomerania were brought before the inquisitor Peter Zwicker, he exonerated them of devil-worship and correctly identified them as Waldensians. At the same time, the inquisitor Antonio di Settimo in Piedmont believed the local Waldensians to be Luciferians.[26]

Modern edit

 
Lucifer the Lightbearer was an individualist anarchist publication in the United States edited by Moses Harman.

Lucifer the Lightbearer was an individualist anarchist journal published in the United States by Moses Harman in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It has been reported that "the title was selected, stated Harman, because it expressed the paper's mission. Lucifer, the name given to the morning star by the people of the ancient world, served as the symbol of the publication and represented the ushering in of a new day. He declared that freethinkers had sought to redeem and glorify the name Lucifer while theologians cursed him as the prince of the fallen angels. Harman suggested that Lucifer would take on the role of an educator. 'The God of the Bible doomed mankind to perpetual ignorance,' wrote Harman, 'and [people] would never have known Good from Evil if Lucifer had not told them how to become as wise as the gods themselves.'"[27]

Lucifer was a publication edited by the influential occultist Helena Blavatsky. The journal was first published by Blavatsky. From 1889 until Blavatsky's death in May 1891, Annie Besant was a co-editor. Rudolf Steiner's writings, which formed the basis for anthroposophy, characterised Lucifer as a spiritual opposite to Ahriman, with Christ between the two forces, mediating a balanced path for humanity. Lucifer represents an intellectual, imaginative and otherworldly force which might be associated with visions, subjectivity, psychosis and fantasy. He associated Lucifer with the religious and philosophical cultures of Egypt, Rome, and Greece. Steiner believed that Lucifer, as a supersensible Being, had incarnated in China about 3000 years before the birth of Christ.

Léo Taxil (1854–1907) claimed that Freemasonry is associated with worshipping Lucifer. In what is known as the Taxil hoax, he alleged that leading Freemason Albert Pike had addressed "[t]he 23 Supreme Confederated Councils of the world" (an invention of Taxil), instructing them that Lucifer was God, and was in opposition to the evil god Adonai. Supporters of Freemasonry contend that, when Albert Pike and other Masonic scholars spoke about the "Luciferian path" or the "energies of Lucifer", they were referring to the Morning Star, the light bearer,[28] the search for light, the very antithesis of dark, Satanic evil. Taxil promoted a book by Diana Vaughan (actually written by himself, as he later confessed publicly)[29] that purported to reveal a highly secret ruling body called the Palladium, which controlled the organization and had a Satanic agenda. As described by Freemasonry Disclosed in 1897:

With frightening cynicism, the miserable person we shall not name here [Taxil] declared before an assembly especially convened for him that for twelve years he had prepared and carried out to the end the most sacrilegious of hoaxes. We have always been careful to publish special articles concerning Palladism and Diana Vaughan. We are now giving in this issue a complete list of these articles, which can now be considered as not having existed.[30]

Taxil's work and Pike's address continue to be quoted by anti-Masonic groups.[31]

In Devil-Worship in France, Arthur Edward Waite compared Taxil's work to what today would be called a tabloid story, replete with logical and factual inconsistencies.

Madeline Montalban was an English astrologer and witch. She co-founded the esoteric organisation known as the Order of the Morning Star (OMS), through which she propagated her own form of Luciferianism. In 1952, she met Nicholas Heron, with whom she entered into a relationship. An engraver, photographer, and former journalist for the Brighton Argus, he shared her interest in the occult and together they developed a magical system based upon Luciferianism, the veneration of the deity Lucifer, or Lumiel, whom they considered to be a benevolent angelic deity. In 1956, they founded the Order of the Morning Star, or Ordo Stella Matutina (OSM), propagating it through a correspondence course.[32] The couple sent out lessons to those who paid the necessary fees over a series of weeks, eventually leading to the twelfth lesson, which contained The Book of Lumiel, a short work written by Montalban that documented her understanding of Lumiel, or Lucifer, and his involvement with humankind.[33] The couple initially lived together in Torrington Place, London, from where they ran the course; but in 1961 moved to the coastal town of Southsea in Hampshire, where there was greater room for Heron's engraving equipment.[34]

In Rules for Radicals (his final work, published in 1971 one year before his death), the prominent American community organizer and writer Saul Alinsky wrote at the end of his personal acknowledgements:

Lest we forget at least an over-the-shoulder acknowledgment to the very first radical: from all our legends, mythology, and history (and who is to know where mythology leaves off and history begins or which is which), the first radical known to man who rebelled against the establishment and did it so effectively that he at least won his own kingdom – Lucifer.[35]

In Anton LaVey's The Satanic Bible, Lucifer is one of the four crown princes of hell, particularly that of the East, the "lord of the air", and is described as the bringer of light, the morning star, intellectualism, and enlightenment.[36] The title "lord of the air" is based upon Ephesians 2:2, which uses the phrase "prince of the power of the air'" to refer to Satan.

Author Michael W. Ford has written on Lucifer as a "mask" of the adversary, a motivator and illuminating force of the mind and subconscious.[37]

Organizations edit

Church of Lucifer edit

As of early 2024, a one page website with the name, luciferchurch.org mentioned several churches with Lucifer or Luciferian in the name: The Luciferian Church in Denmark, the National Church of Lucifer, The Scandinavian Church of Lucifer, Church of Lucifer, Greater Church of Lucifer, Neo-Luciferian Church, (none of which have websites specifically under their name).

It included a seal of "the Church of Lucifer, Denmark", stated that "The Great Church of Lucifer based in Fanø island Denmark", but also

"Who are we:
We are The Luciferian Church in Denmark or the National Church of Lucifer, The Scandinavian Church of Lucifer sometimes called the Church of Lucifer or Greater Church of Lucifer. We are an established, privately-owned church in Denmark."[38]

It stated that the Neo-Luciferian Church incorporates "elements from Thelema, Gnosticism, Voodoo, traditional occultism, and witchcraft" in its practices, and denounces its rivals at the Church of Satan and The Satanic Temple as partaking in "Cosplaying for Tax Evasion".[38] It lists as its "Danish Luciferian Background: The Neo-Luciferian Church was started in 2005 by Danish occultist Bjarne Sally Pedersen." and that it is a "reawakening and modern interpretation of the Luciferian Gnosticism advocated by Danish occultist and member of the Ordo Templi Orientis Carl William Hansen", aka Ben Kadosh "in the early 1900s".[38]

The Neo-Luciferian Church website is no longer in existence, but the original can be seen on archive.org.[39]

Fraternitas Saturni edit

Main article: Fraternitas Saturni

Stephen Flowers, in his book on the German magical order Fraternitas Saturni (FS), says that "the FS is (or was) the most unabashedly Luciferian organization in the modern Western occult revival".[40]

Greater Church of Lucifer edit

The one known brick and mortar church having some connection to Lucifer, "The Greater Church of Lucifer", located in Old Town Spring, Texas, opened 30 October 2015 and closed less than one year later.[41] In 2014, Luciferians founded a worldwide organization for Luciferians from Houston, Texas, known as the Greater Church of Lucifer (GCoL) under the leadership of church founder Jacob McKelvy, co-presidents Michael W. Ford and Jeremy Crow, founder of the Luciferian Research Society. In 2017 McKelvy converted to Christianity.[42] Michael W. Ford and his wife have described their religion as "Luciferian witchcraft".[43]

In 2015, the GCoL opened a house of worship in Old Town Spring, Texas, with several dozen members. (They had previously contacted online.) Over a hundred local residents, mainly Catholic, protested the opening of the church.[44]

The town of Old Town Spring suffered from a boycott in response to the church, The church itself had windows smashed and its roof damaged after someone sawed off the branch of a 200-year-old pecan tree hanging over the church in the middle of the night.[45][46][47][48] Ford stated that The Greater Church of Lucifer was forced to shut down one year later because their landlord refused to renew their lease after receiving death threats.[49]

As of 2024 a website called the Assembly of Light Bearers stated that it is "the successor guild" for the Greater Church of Lucifer, following the church's "(at least temporarily)" closing, and that "the ALB is drastically different in structure and purpose from the GCOL".[50]

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ a b Spence, L. (1993). An Encyclopedia of Occultism. Carol Publishing.
  2. ^ Michelle Belanger (2007). Vampires in Their Own Words: An Anthology of Vampire Voices. Llewellyn Worldwide. p. 175. ISBN 978-0-7387-1220-8.
  3. ^ White, Ethan Doyle. "History & Society. Satanism, occult practice". Britannica. Retrieved 1 January 2024.
  4. ^ a b Kohler, Dr. Kaufmann (2006). Heaven and Hell in Comparative Religion with Special Reference to Dante's Divine Comedy. New York: The MacMillan Company. pp. 4–5. ISBN 978-0-7661-6608-0. Lucifer, is taken from the Latin version, the Vulgate
  5. ^ "Latin Vulgate Bible: Isaiah 14". DRBO.org. Retrieved 22 December 2012.
  6. ^ "Vulgate: Isaiah Chapter 14" (in Latin). Sacred-texts.com. Retrieved 22 December 2012.
  7. ^ a b "Hebrew Concordance: hê·lêl – 1 Occurrence – Bible Suite". Bible Hub. Leesburg, Florida: Biblos.com. Retrieved 8 September 2013.
  8. ^ "LXX Isaiah 14" (in Greek). Septuagint.org. Retrieved 22 December 2012.
  9. ^ (in Greek). Bibledatabase.net. Archived from the original on 15 January 2020. Retrieved 22 December 2012.
  10. ^ "LXX Isaiah 14" (in Greek). Biblos.com. Retrieved 6 May 2013.
  11. ^ Neil Forsyth (1989). The Old Enemy: Satan and the Combat Myth. Princeton University Press. p. 136. ISBN 978-0-691-01474-6. Retrieved 22 December 2012.
  12. ^ Nwaocha Ogechukwu Friday (2012). The Devil: What Does He Look Like?. American Book Publishing. p. 35. ISBN 978-1-58982-662-5. Retrieved 22 December 2012.
  13. ^ a b Adelman, Rachel (2009). The Return of the Repressed: Pirqe De-Rabbi Eliezer and the Pseudepigrapha. Leiden: BRILL. p. 67. ISBN 978-90-04-17049-0. ISBN 90-04-17049-9 (see: Pseudepigrapha).
  14. ^ Taylor, Bernard A.; with word definitions by J. Lust; Eynikel, E.; Hauspie, K. (2009). Analytical lexicon to the Septuagint (Expanded ed.). Peabody, MA: Hendrickson Publishers, Inc. p. 256. ISBN 978-1-56563-516-6.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  15. ^ "Lucifer". Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved 6 September 2013.
  16. ^ See Latin word lucifer below.
  17. ^ See #Mythology behind Isaiah 14:12
  18. ^ Examples of Christian literal exegesis of Isaiah 14:12
  19. ^ Helel ben Shaḥar "day-star, son of Dawn"; planet Venus is one of the brightest celestial bodies at night, which can be seen in the early morning when no other star can be seen any more, but vanishes when the sun, the real light, rises.
  20. ^ a b "Astronomy – Helel Son of Dawn". The unedited full-text of the 1906 Jewish Encyclopedia. JewishEncyclopedia.com. Retrieved 1 July 2012.
  21. ^ Gunkel, "Schöpfung und Chaos," pp. 132 et seq.
  22. ^ "Isaiah Chapter 14". mechon-mamre.org. The Mamre Institute. Retrieved 29 December 2014.
  23. ^ a b c Ruben van Luijk, Children of Lucifer: The Origins of Modern Religious Satanism (Oxford University Press, 2016), pp. 29–31.
  24. ^ Colin Morris, The Papal Monarchy: The Western Church from 1050 to 1250 (Oxford University Press, 1989), p. 475.
  25. ^ Piotr Czarnecki, "Luciferianism in the 13th Century-a Forgotten Off-shoot of Catharism", Studia Historyczne 1.47 (2004): 3–19.
  26. ^ Kathrin Utz Tremp, "Heresy", in Richard M. Golden, ed., Encyclopedia of Witchcraft: The Western Tradition (ABC-CLIO, 2006), p. 486.
  27. ^ "The Moses Harman Story" by William Lemore West at Kansas Historical Society
  28. ^ "Lucifer, the Son of the Morning! Is it he who bears the Light, and with its splendors intolerable blinds feeble, sensual, or selfish Souls? Doubt it not!" (Albert Pike, Morals and Dogma, p. 321). Much has been made of this quote (Masonic information: Lucifer).
  29. ^ "Leo Taxil's confession". Grand Lodge of British Columbia and Yukon. 2 April 2001. Retrieved 23 December 2012.
  30. ^ Freemasonry Disclosed April 1897
  31. ^ "Leo Taxil: The tale of the Pope and the Pornographer". Retrieved 14 September 2006.
  32. ^ Philips 2012, pp. 81–82.
  33. ^ Philips 2012, pp. 95–97.
  34. ^ Philips 2012, p. 81.
  35. ^ Alinsky, Saul (1989). Rules for Radicals. Knopf Doubleday Publishing. ISBN 9780679721130.
  36. ^ LaVey, Anton Szandor (1969). "The Book of Lucifer: The Enlightenment". The Satanic Bible. New York: Avon. ISBN 978-0-380-01539-9.
  37. ^ "Adversarial Doctrine". Bible of the Adversary. Succubus Productions. 2007. p. 8.
  38. ^ a b c "Church of Lucifer, Denmark". Lucifer Church. Retrieved 4 January 2024.
  39. ^ . NEO-LUCIFERIAN CHURCH -. Archived from the original on 2013-12-28. Retrieved 9 January 2024.
  40. ^ Stephen E. Flowers. Fire & Ice: The history, structure and rituals of Germany's modern magical order. The brotherhood of Saturn. Llewellyn. p. xv. 1994
  41. ^ "Exorcised: Luciferian church looks to start anew after harassment". houston chronicle. 23 April 2017. Retrieved 14 February 2024.
  42. ^ "He Started a Satanic Church on Halloween, but Less Than a Year Later He Was Radically Saved". CBN News. 2017-03-14. Retrieved 2023-02-17.
  43. ^ Laycock, Satanism, 2023: 7 Contemporary Developments in Satanism. Public Satanism
  44. ^ "Greater Church of Lucifer opens doors despite protests in Old Town Spring". 30 October 2015.
  45. ^ Le, Nguyen (2016). "In a small Texas town, a place to follow Lucifer". The Cougar.
  46. ^ "Controversial Church of Lucifer vandalized, grand opening still set for Friday". ABC News. October 30, 2015.
  47. ^ Rice, Harvey (October 31, 2015). "Protests mar first service at Greater Church of Lucifer". Houston Chronicle.
  48. ^ Hanson, Hillary (November 3, 2015). "Christians Protest Church Of Lucifer, End Up Fighting Among Themselves". Huffington Post.
  49. ^ Goransson, Niklas (May 29, 2019). "Black Funeral". Bardo Methodology.
  50. ^ "Assembly of Light Bearers". Retrieved 4 January 2024.

Works cited edit

  • Laycock, Joseph P. (2023). Satanism. Elements in New Religious Movements (online ed.). Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781009057349.
  • Philips, Julia (2012). Madeline Montalban: The Magus of St. Giles. Bloomsbury, London: Neptune Press. ISBN 978-0-9547063-9-5.

External links edit

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separate from Satan while others maintain the two names as synonyms for the same being 3 William Blake s illustration of Lucifer as presented in John Milton s Paradise Lost Contents 1 Background 1 1 Etymology 1 2 Literary and religious character 2 History 2 1 Medieval 2 2 Modern 3 Organizations 3 1 Church of Lucifer 3 2 Fraternitas Saturni 3 3 Greater Church of Lucifer 4 See also 5 References 5 1 Works cited 6 External linksBackground editMain article Lucifer Etymology edit The word Lucifer is taken from the Latin Vulgate 4 which translates ה יל ל as lucifer 5 6 even though the Biblical Hebrew word ה יל ל which occurs only once in the Hebrew Bible 7 has been transliterated as helel 7 or heylel The Septuagint renders ה יל ל in Greek as ἑwsforos 8 9 10 heōsphoros 11 12 13 a name literally bringer of dawn for the morning star 14 Literary and religious character edit Later Christian tradition came to use the Latin word for morning star lucifer as a proper name Lucifer for the Devil as he was before his fall 15 As a result Lucifer has become a by word for Satan or the Devil in the church and in popular literature 4 as in Dante Alighieri s Inferno Joost van den Vondel s Lucifer and John Milton s Paradise Lost 13 However the Latin word never came to be used almost exclusively as in English in this way and was applied to others also including Jesus 16 The image of a morning star fallen from the sky is generally believed among scholars to have a parallel in Canaanite mythology 17 According to both Christian 18 and Jewish exegesis in Chapter 14 of the Book of Isaiah the King of Babylon Nebuchadnezzar II conqueror of Jerusalem is condemned in a prophetic vision by the prophet Isaiah and is called the Morning Star planet Venus 19 20 The Hebrew text in this chapter says ה יל ל ב ן ש ח ר Helel ben Shachar shining one son of dawn 20 Helel ben Shahar may refer to the Morning Star but the text in Isaiah 14 gives no indication that Helel was a star or planet 21 22 History editMedieval edit The Luciferian label in the sense of Lucifer worshipper was first used in the Gesta Treverorum in 1231 for a religious circle led by a woman named Lucardis Luckhardis It was said that in private she lamented the fall of Lucifer Satan and yearned for his restoration to heavenly rule The sect was exposed by the Papal Inquisition In 1234 Pope Gregory IX issued the bull Vox in Rama calling for a crusade against the Stedinger who were accused of Luciferianism The bull contains a detailed description of supposed rites and beliefs This description was repeated and occasionally expanded in the following centuries but modern historiography agrees on their entirely fictitious nature 23 The actual identity of the heretics accused of Luciferianism is often difficult to ascertain 23 Those of the 13th century Rhineland appear to have been Cathars Alexander Patschovsky 24 or a distinct off shoot of the Cathars Piotr Czarnecki 25 In the 14th century the term Luciferians was applied to what appear to have been Waldensians 23 They were persecuted under the Luciferian label in Schweidnitz in 1315 and in Angermunde in 1336 In 1392 1394 when some four hundred Luciferians from Brandenburg and Pomerania were brought before the inquisitor Peter Zwicker he exonerated them of devil worship and correctly identified them as Waldensians At the same time the inquisitor Antonio di Settimo in Piedmont believed the local Waldensians to be Luciferians 26 Modern edit nbsp Lucifer the Lightbearer was an individualist anarchist publication in the United States edited by Moses Harman Lucifer the Lightbearer was an individualist anarchist journal published in the United States by Moses Harman in the late 19th and early 20th centuries It has been reported that the title was selected stated Harman because it expressed the paper s mission Lucifer the name given to the morning star by the people of the ancient world served as the symbol of the publication and represented the ushering in of a new day He declared that freethinkers had sought to redeem and glorify the name Lucifer while theologians cursed him as the prince of the fallen angels Harman suggested that Lucifer would take on the role of an educator The God of the Bible doomed mankind to perpetual ignorance wrote Harman and people would never have known Good from Evil if Lucifer had not told them how to become as wise as the gods themselves 27 Lucifer was a publication edited by the influential occultist Helena Blavatsky The journal was first published by Blavatsky From 1889 until Blavatsky s death in May 1891 Annie Besant was a co editor Rudolf Steiner s writings which formed the basis for anthroposophy characterised Lucifer as a spiritual opposite to Ahriman with Christ between the two forces mediating a balanced path for humanity Lucifer represents an intellectual imaginative and otherworldly force which might be associated with visions subjectivity psychosis and fantasy He associated Lucifer with the religious and philosophical cultures of Egypt Rome and Greece Steiner believed that Lucifer as a supersensible Being had incarnated in China about 3000 years before the birth of Christ Leo Taxil 1854 1907 claimed that Freemasonry is associated with worshipping Lucifer In what is known as the Taxil hoax he alleged that leading Freemason Albert Pike had addressed t he 23 Supreme Confederated Councils of the world an invention of Taxil instructing them that Lucifer was God and was in opposition to the evil god Adonai Supporters of Freemasonry contend that when Albert Pike and other Masonic scholars spoke about the Luciferian path or the energies of Lucifer they were referring to the Morning Star the light bearer 28 the search for light the very antithesis of dark Satanic evil Taxil promoted a book by Diana Vaughan actually written by himself as he later confessed publicly 29 that purported to reveal a highly secret ruling body called the Palladium which controlled the organization and had a Satanic agenda As described by Freemasonry Disclosed in 1897 With frightening cynicism the miserable person we shall not name here Taxil declared before an assembly especially convened for him that for twelve years he had prepared and carried out to the end the most sacrilegious of hoaxes We have always been careful to publish special articles concerning Palladism and Diana Vaughan We are now giving in this issue a complete list of these articles which can now be considered as not having existed 30 Taxil s work and Pike s address continue to be quoted by anti Masonic groups 31 In Devil Worship in France Arthur Edward Waite compared Taxil s work to what today would be called a tabloid story replete with logical and factual inconsistencies Madeline Montalban was an English astrologer and witch She co founded the esoteric organisation known as the Order of the Morning Star OMS through which she propagated her own form of Luciferianism In 1952 she met Nicholas Heron with whom she entered into a relationship An engraver photographer and former journalist for the Brighton Argus he shared her interest in the occult and together they developed a magical system based upon Luciferianism the veneration of the deity Lucifer or Lumiel whom they considered to be a benevolent angelic deity In 1956 they founded the Order of the Morning Star or Ordo Stella Matutina OSM propagating it through a correspondence course 32 The couple sent out lessons to those who paid the necessary fees over a series of weeks eventually leading to the twelfth lesson which contained The Book of Lumiel a short work written by Montalban that documented her understanding of Lumiel or Lucifer and his involvement with humankind 33 The couple initially lived together in Torrington Place London from where they ran the course but in 1961 moved to the coastal town of Southsea in Hampshire where there was greater room for Heron s engraving equipment 34 In Rules for Radicals his final work published in 1971 one year before his death the prominent American community organizer and writer Saul Alinsky wrote at the end of his personal acknowledgements Lest we forget at least an over the shoulder acknowledgment to the very first radical from all our legends mythology and history and who is to know where mythology leaves off and history begins or which is which the first radical known to man who rebelled against the establishment and did it so effectively that he at least won his own kingdom Lucifer 35 In Anton LaVey s The Satanic Bible Lucifer is one of the four crown princes of hell particularly that of the East the lord of the air and is described as the bringer of light the morning star intellectualism and enlightenment 36 The title lord of the air is based upon Ephesians 2 2 which uses the phrase prince of the power of the air to refer to Satan Author Michael W Ford has written on Lucifer as a mask of the adversary a motivator and illuminating force of the mind and subconscious 37 Organizations editChurch of Lucifer edit As of early 2024 a one page website with the name luciferchurch org mentioned several churches with Lucifer or Luciferian in the name The Luciferian Church in Denmark the National Church of Lucifer The Scandinavian Church of Lucifer Church of Lucifer Greater Church of Lucifer Neo Luciferian Church none of which have websites specifically under their name It included a seal of the Church of Lucifer Denmark stated that The Great Church of Lucifer based in Fano island Denmark but also Who are we We are The Luciferian Church in Denmark or the National Church of Lucifer The Scandinavian Church of Lucifer sometimes called the Church of Lucifer or Greater Church of Lucifer We are an established privately owned church in Denmark 38 It stated that the Neo Luciferian Church incorporates elements from Thelema Gnosticism Voodoo traditional occultism and witchcraft in its practices and denounces its rivals at the Church of Satan and The Satanic Temple as partaking in Cosplaying for Tax Evasion 38 It lists as its Danish Luciferian Background The Neo Luciferian Church was started in 2005 by Danish occultist Bjarne Sally Pedersen and that it is a reawakening and modern interpretation of the Luciferian Gnosticism advocated by Danish occultist and member of the Ordo Templi Orientis Carl William Hansen aka Ben Kadosh in the early 1900s 38 The Neo Luciferian Church website is no longer in existence but the original can be seen on archive org 39 Fraternitas Saturni edit Main article Fraternitas Saturni Stephen Flowers in his book on the German magical order Fraternitas Saturni FS says that the FS is or was the most unabashedly Luciferian organization in the modern Western occult revival 40 Greater Church of Lucifer edit The one known brick and mortar church having some connection to Lucifer The Greater Church of Lucifer located in Old Town Spring Texas opened 30 October 2015 and closed less than one year later 41 In 2014 Luciferians founded a worldwide organization for Luciferians from Houston Texas known as the Greater Church of Lucifer GCoL under the leadership of church founder Jacob McKelvy co presidents Michael W Ford and Jeremy Crow founder of the Luciferian Research Society In 2017 McKelvy converted to Christianity 42 Michael W Ford and his wife have described their religion as Luciferian witchcraft 43 In 2015 the GCoL opened a house of worship in Old Town Spring Texas with several dozen members They had previously contacted online Over a hundred local residents mainly Catholic protested the opening of the church 44 The town of Old Town Spring suffered from a boycott in response to the church The church itself had windows smashed and its roof damaged after someone sawed off the branch of a 200 year old pecan tree hanging over the church in the middle of the night 45 46 47 48 Ford stated that The Greater Church of Lucifer was forced to shut down one year later because their landlord refused to renew their lease after receiving death threats 49 As of 2024 a website called the Assembly of Light Bearers stated that it is the successor guild for the Greater Church of Lucifer following the church s at least temporarily closing and that the ALB is drastically different in structure and purpose from the GCOL 50 See also editLucifer and PrometheusReferences edit a b Spence L 1993 An Encyclopedia of Occultism Carol Publishing Michelle Belanger 2007 Vampires in Their Own Words An Anthology of Vampire Voices Llewellyn Worldwide p 175 ISBN 978 0 7387 1220 8 White Ethan Doyle History amp Society Satanism occult practice Britannica Retrieved 1 January 2024 a b Kohler Dr Kaufmann 2006 Heaven and Hell in Comparative Religion with Special Reference to Dante s Divine Comedy New York The MacMillan Company pp 4 5 ISBN 978 0 7661 6608 0 Lucifer is taken from the Latin version the Vulgate Latin Vulgate Bible Isaiah 14 DRBO org Retrieved 22 December 2012 Vulgate Isaiah Chapter 14 in Latin Sacred texts com Retrieved 22 December 2012 a b Hebrew Concordance he lel 1 Occurrence Bible Suite Bible Hub Leesburg Florida Biblos com Retrieved 8 September 2013 LXX Isaiah 14 in Greek Septuagint org Retrieved 22 December 2012 Greek OT Septuagint LXX Isaiah 14 in Greek Bibledatabase net Archived from the original on 15 January 2020 Retrieved 22 December 2012 LXX Isaiah 14 in Greek Biblos com Retrieved 6 May 2013 Neil Forsyth 1989 The Old Enemy Satan and the Combat Myth Princeton University Press p 136 ISBN 978 0 691 01474 6 Retrieved 22 December 2012 Nwaocha Ogechukwu Friday 2012 The Devil What Does He Look Like American Book Publishing p 35 ISBN 978 1 58982 662 5 Retrieved 22 December 2012 a b Adelman Rachel 2009 The Return of the Repressed Pirqe De Rabbi Eliezer and the Pseudepigrapha Leiden BRILL p 67 ISBN 978 90 04 17049 0 ISBN 90 04 17049 9 see Pseudepigrapha Taylor Bernard A with word definitions by J Lust Eynikel E Hauspie K 2009 Analytical lexicon to the Septuagint Expanded ed Peabody MA Hendrickson Publishers Inc p 256 ISBN 978 1 56563 516 6 a href Template Cite book html title Template Cite book cite book a CS1 maint multiple names authors list link Lucifer Encyclopaedia Britannica Retrieved 6 September 2013 See Latin word lucifer below See Mythology behind Isaiah 14 12 Examples of Christian literal exegesis of Isaiah 14 12 Helel ben Shaḥar day star son of Dawn planet Venus is one of the brightest celestial bodies at night which can be seen in the early morning when no other star can be seen any more but vanishes when the sun the real light rises a b Astronomy Helel Son of Dawn The unedited full text of the 1906 Jewish Encyclopedia JewishEncyclopedia com Retrieved 1 July 2012 Gunkel Schopfung und Chaos pp 132 et seq Isaiah Chapter 14 mechon mamre org The Mamre Institute Retrieved 29 December 2014 a b c Ruben van Luijk Children of Lucifer The Origins of Modern Religious Satanism Oxford University Press 2016 pp 29 31 Colin Morris The Papal Monarchy The Western Church from 1050 to 1250 Oxford University Press 1989 p 475 Piotr Czarnecki Luciferianism in the 13th Century a Forgotten Off shoot of Catharism Studia Historyczne 1 47 2004 3 19 Kathrin Utz Tremp Heresy in Richard M Golden ed Encyclopedia of Witchcraft The Western Tradition ABC CLIO 2006 p 486 The Moses Harman Story by William Lemore West at Kansas Historical Society Lucifer the Son of the Morning Is it he who bears the Light and with its splendors intolerable blinds feeble sensual or selfish Souls Doubt it not Albert Pike Morals and Dogma p 321 Much has been made of this quote Masonic information Lucifer Leo Taxil s confession Grand Lodge of British Columbia and Yukon 2 April 2001 Retrieved 23 December 2012 Freemasonry Disclosed April 1897 Leo Taxil The tale of the Pope and the Pornographer Retrieved 14 September 2006 Philips 2012 pp 81 82 Philips 2012 pp 95 97 Philips 2012 p 81 Alinsky Saul 1989 Rules for Radicals Knopf Doubleday Publishing ISBN 9780679721130 LaVey Anton Szandor 1969 The Book of 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Lucifer vandalized grand opening still set for Friday ABC News October 30 2015 Rice Harvey October 31 2015 Protests mar first service at Greater Church of Lucifer Houston Chronicle Hanson Hillary November 3 2015 Christians Protest Church Of Lucifer End Up Fighting Among Themselves Huffington Post Goransson Niklas May 29 2019 Black Funeral Bardo Methodology Assembly of Light Bearers Retrieved 4 January 2024 Works cited edit Laycock Joseph P 2023 Satanism Elements in New Religious Movements online ed Cambridge University Press ISBN 9781009057349 Philips Julia 2012 Madeline Montalban The Magus of St Giles Bloomsbury London Neptune Press ISBN 978 0 9547063 9 5 External links edit nbsp Media related to Luciferianism at Wikimedia Commons Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Luciferianism amp oldid 1210780458, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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