This is what I believe: Lucifer the Knowledge-Bringer
I believe Lucifer was the one who brought knowledge to mankind. I believe he went against God because God probably would have wanted us to live an ignorant life. Lucifer didn’t want that. Lucifer tempted Eve into eating the fruit so that humans would have knowledge, thus, Lucifer gave us knowledge. Lucifer means Light-Bringer, and it fits rightfully so. Without Lucifer, we probably would not have been here today, nor would our intellect increase. Without Lucifer, we would not be able to create, reason, explore, change or even question. There would be no diversity.
Lucifer is the driving force that makes us question our beliefs, which may strengthen our faith or may make us go out of that faith and find/desire something more suitable. Symbolically, Lucifer tells us to find that resonates with us, and what doesn’t. Lucifer tells us to believe what we want and not adhere to others beliefs and follow suit with them.
Lucifer offers us enlightenment, and knowledge, and if we take that offering, we find Lucifer. Lucifer’s influence on us is there, but we don’t normally see it unless we look deep enough and spot the Luciferian traits we have.
This is why I believe Lucifer is a very free-thinker-like god, a god of liberation as well as a god of enlightenment and knowledge. We only have to look and see him in us, because in the end, we are most like Lucifer.
I feel much the same about Him — I actually looked into Satanism for a bit, but that path wasn’t for me.
And whenever I’m told I’m a devil-worshiper (not that often, these days, thankfully) I bring out the whole “Well, the name Lucifer means light-bringer and light is synonymous with knowledge…so, thank you, because I’d rather live with knowledge than in darkness and ignorance.” It’s fun to watch them try to puzzle it out. ^_^
-Morag from TC
It’s nice to see someone feeling the same about Him. :3
I was pondering a lot about Lucifer being, technically, a god of light. If he is, would he be connected to the Sun as well? If he was connected to the sun and thus a sun god, would he have links to Helios and Apollo? But I might be looking for connections that aren’t there.
The funny thing is about my study on Him is that after saying (I didn’t phrase it exactly like this) “I want to know more about the true Lucifer” I ended up finding a bit more stuff I didn’t come across before. P: (and managed to track down Aradia: the Gospel of the Witches via the interwebs, which..I haven’t finished reading yet.)
You’re all falling for the trap of Satan and Lucifer.
Like you I’m not of conventional religious person, simply a pantheist universalist among other stuff. But I get the Lucifers trap, altough like you, I felt for the “Light Bringer” thing that is sold trough subtle but in reality large mass culture.
I guess your belief is that humans were boring being unfree of thinking and accomplishing great things, but thanks to Lucifer (that you mistake with Prometheus) who brought the light to human to free them along with knowledge or creativity.
That wrong. To take the greek mythology, Lucifer is more like Zeus and Prometheus is more like Jesus.
Lucifer was the prefered son of God, but he was jealous of His creations, man, and his arrogance wanted man to be more than what they were created for, not considering the suffering that he would done to them by trying to “free” them.
Disguised as a serpent, the only thing he did, is suggest Eve to bite into the Apple of the Tree of Knowlegde, thus giving “freedom” of choise & thinking to them.
The unprecised story is that, God knew that by giving the knowledge to his creation he knew very well (HE created man), man would eventually become corrupted, capable of evil even if also capable of good, to the point he would to auto-destruct himself.
That’s why, angry, he casted man first out of Eden, afraid they would eventually destroy it. Angry at Lucifer who didn’t even want to recognize (didn’t do anything but INFLUENCE them) its wrong and rebelled against God, he casted him to the newly created but imperfect and capricious earth by saying: “fine, you wan’t to play the creator, well I cast you to the earth with my creation you have corrupted. You can try to influence them, try eventually to rule over them, and you’ll see how far you’ll fail.”
Lucifer did not bring knowledge, humans had it. Well sure its thanks to Lucifer that they have whole kingdom on which to live, create and innovate, but they had the curious nature
before. In fact that’s the only thing Lucifer did, poking on this curious nature to make them eat from what really brought them the knowledge.
But Lucifer is not the only one who can influence humans, all angels, muses, djins, valkyries can. But he’s particularly powerful and as I said before, now he’s goal is to reclaim the throne of the earth kingdom to prove God wrong.
But the story doesn’t end with the beginning of the life, it has also a lot more twist to it. Not only does the “demons” or “evil djins” or “daemons” influence humans to serve Lucifer agenda, but God also has chess pieces to play.
And the light is very important thing to distinguish: There’s two lights, the “blinding truth”
aka the charming light of power that is nothing but a trick to trump humans who mistakes Lucifer for a knowledge or good bearer, it’s light faced toward you. And the enlightement light, brought by people like Jesus, which shines trough you and by you to show you a clear vision of truth. Does that make sense ?
I am not saying humans were boring; they were simply like children who did not know what the world fully contained. Adam and Eve did not know they were naked until they had eaten from the Tree.
Humans, however, were slightly unfree until they had gained the knowledge of good and evil. That was when freedom truly started for humanity.
I see God as a very tyrannic deity. I don’t see God as a deity of love and justice, because he doesn’t feel that way to me. He’s not like that in the Old Testament. He’s malicious and tyrannical and somehow, in the New Testament, he is suddenly a loving father. I don’t really believe that idea of God, but if others do, so be it. I’m not going to change their beliefs.
Daemons, by the way, differ from demons. Daemons are “good or malevolent “supernatural beings between mortals and gods, such as inferior divinities and ghosts of dead heroes” ”
And we both know what demons are, so I’m not going to go deep into that.
I, however, do not see Lucifer and Satan as the same being. Lucifer is more of the guy you would find in a small, locally-owned bookstore or cafe. Satan would probably be the guy who is part of a biker gang or goes to clubs. Neither are the same being, neither are bad.