Romancing Lucifer

By: Cressidia

Prologue

Lucifer is a name that is frequently given to Satan in Christian belief. The word Lucifer means “Light Bringer” and is the name of the Morning Star or more appropriately, the planet Venus.

In a later passage of the Bible, the name ‘Morning Star’ is also given to the tyrannous Babylonian King, who a prophet said was destined to fall.

Another name applied to Lucifer is Satan or Sataniel and was said to be one of the archangels. Because Satan wanted to ‘make his throne higher than the clouds over the earth and resemble his power on high’, he was hurled down with his hosts of angels, and since then he has been flying in the air continually above the abyss.

Mythical Persian representation of Lucifer is the most loyal lover of God. God created the angels and he commanded them to pay worship to no one but him, but after he created man, he commanded them to bow in reverence to his greatest creation, but Lucifer refused - they say because of his pride.

However, according to the Muslim reading of his case, it was because he adored and loved God so deeply and intensely that he could not bring himself to bow before anything else that was less superior to him and he was thrown into hell, apart from his love.

In the Quran, Lucifer played a tragic and jealous lover who, unable to perceive the Divine Image in Adam and capable of only seeing the exterior, disobeyed the Divine Mandate to bow down. His refusal was due to a misconceived idea of God’s uniqueness, and because of his refusal to abandon himself to God in love. The Sefi Muslim teacher taught that Luciferian Light is light which has become dislocated from the divine source and is thus associated with the seductive and false light of the lower ego, which lures humankind into self-centered delusion. Liberal Christian Scholars often deny the existence of a being called ‘Satan’ and argue that Satan itself means adversary or accuser, which may be a personification.

Some believe that Lucifer wanted to take over the thrones or status of the gods Jupiter and Saturn, and as a result, Lucifer was cast to hell.

In the occult, Lucifer’s identification as the Morning Star equates him with Lumiel who was the archangel of light among the Satanists; he is the torch of Baphomet and Azazel. In Christian soteriology it is stated that it is Lucifer’s destiny to incarnate in human form at certain key times in world history, as a savior and redeemer of humanity. A symbol for this process is the Tudor Rose. It is red, representing Lucifer or white, representing Lilith.

In the Satanic Bible of 1969, Lucifer is acknowledged as one of the Four Crowned Princes of Hell. He is called the Eastern Lord of the Air.

A dark-skinned girl with short, black hair that curled out on the ends paused in typing her essay.  Brown eyes scanned over the words carefully, to make sure that it was free of typos and met the proper word count. More than anything, she just wanted to get it over with.  It was bad enough that she had stayed up this long trying to complete it.

‘Out of all of the angels, they gave me Lucifer.’ She audibly sighed in exasperation at the thought. ‘I guess someone had to get him, even though I really would have rather done an essay on Uriel. Oh well, I can’t complain. At least I got it done so I can finally get some sleep for school tomorrow.’

She glanced at the stylized clock that sat on her desk.  Lime green numbers illuminated 2:07 a.m. as she clicked on the print icon on her drop down menu.  The printer started up and electronic noises filled her senses as it spit out all of her hard work.

The paper was warm to the touch as she grabbed it and walked down the hall, clad in pink pajama pants and a spaghetti strap shirt that matched.  With a yawn, she retreated to her room to get a good night’s sleep for the upcoming day.

Little did she know, but the report she had completed that very night would come in handy in more ways than she could ever imagine.