#satanic lore

[amateursatanologist]

Genetically Modified Skeptic's review and discussion of The Revolt of the Angels by Anatole France...

[amateursatanologist]

⛧ Who is Satan? ⛧

The character of Satan is a being who:

is rebellious against arbitrary authority

protests and fights against tyranny

believes in autonomy and personal sovereignty

fights for freedom

is curious and questioning

values and advocates for critical thinking and the ongoing pursuit of knowledge

believes that everyone has personal responsibility

[amateursatanologist]

⛧ Notes: A Timeline of Lucifer & Luciferianism ⛧

c. Late 300s – The Latin Vulgate (a version of the Bible) translated the Hebrew הֵילֵל (transliterated as hêlêl or heylel) in Isaiah 14 as 'Lucifer'. [It seems to me that this passage of Isaiah was talking about the morning star – Venus – and using it as a metaphor while condemning Nebuchadnezzar II.]

Sometime between 5th and 13th centuries – Christian tradition begins to use the name Lucifer for the devil and it develops into being synonymous with Satan.

1234 – Pope Gregory IX and the Catholic Church accuse a group (or a few groups) in Germany of Luciferianism which they believe is heavily ritualized devil-worship, and they launch the Stedinger Crusade (1233-1234). Modern historians believe the devil-worship was completely fictitious and these people were likely Cathars/Albigensians.

1300s – Several times across this century, various groups of Waldensians in Germany and Poland are accused of being Luciferians.

c. 1321 – Dante Alighieri uses Lucifer as a name for the devil character in 'Inferno' ('The Divine Comedy').

1654 – Joost van den Vondel uses Lucifer as a name for the devil character in his play 'Lucifer'.

1667 – John Milton uses Lucifer as a name for the Satan/devil character in 'Paradise Lost'. Lucifer is portrayed as curious, questioning, ambitious, clever, independent, and itching to create.

1883-1906 – 'Lucifer the Lightbearer', an anarchist journal was published in the United States by Moses Harman. Harman chose to use the name of Lucifer because it was the name of the morning star (a symbol of ushering in a new day) and for the symbolism of the character of Lucifer as a freethinking rebel seeking knowledge. (The journal's name was changed to 'The American Journal of Eugenics' in 1906.)

1887-1897 – 'Lucifer' was the name of a theosophical journal published by Helena Blavatsky. (The journal's name was changed to The Theosophical Review in September 1897.)

1890s – Léo Taxil accused Freemasons to be worshippers of Lucifer, saying that the senior members were in a theistic Satanist cult within Freemasonry. In 1897, he admitted it had all been a hoax.

c. 1919 – Rudolf Steiner asserted that Lucifer had actually incarnated on Earth; in China, approximately 3000 years before Jesus.

1956 – Madeline Montalban and Nicholas Heron founded the Order of the Morning Star (OSM), their own brand of Luciferianism which exalted Lucifer (or Lumiel as they called him), who they believed was a benevolent angel-deity.

1969 – Anton LaVey listed Lucifer as one of the four crown princes of hell in "The Satanic Bible', and named the second book after him as the "lord of the air", associating him with the cardinal direction of East. LaVey describes Lucifer as the "personification of enlightenment". He also (rightly or wrongly) associates Lucifer with Dionysus and Pan.

1971 – In 'Rules for Radicals', activist community organizer Saul Alinsky gave a nod to Lucifer as "the first radical known to man who rebelled against the establishment and did it so effectively that he at least won his own kingdom".

[amateursatanologist]

"[Yahweh] felt he was incapable of winning the allegiance of free men and of cultivated minds, and he employed cunning. To seduce their souls he invented a fable which ... could, nevertheless, influence those feebler intellects which are to be found everywhere in great masses. He declared that men having committed a crime against him, an hereditary crime, should pay the penalty for it in their present life and in the life to come (for mortals vainly imagine that their existence is prolonged in hell); and the astute [Yahweh] gave out that he had sent his own son to earth to redeem with his blood the debt of mankind. It is not credible that a penalty should redress a fault, and it is still less credible that the innocent should pay for the guilty. The sufferings of the innocent atone for nothing, and do but add one evil to another. Nevertheless, unhappy creatures were found to adore [Yahweh] and his son, the expiator, and to announce their mysteries as good tidings. We should not be surprised at this folly. Have we not seen many times indeed human beings who, poor and naked, prostrate themselves before all the phantoms of fear, and rather than follow the teaching of well-disposed demons, obey the commandments of cruel demiurges? [Yahweh], by his cunning, took souls as in a net. But he did not gain therefrom, for his glorification, all that he expected. It was not he, but his son, who received the homage of mankind, and who gave his name to the new cult. He himself remained almost unknown upon earth." – Revolt of the Angels, Anatole France