Lucifer The Light Bearer    Isaiah 45:7  "I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things. " Test. Sol 6:1-4 "I bring destruction by means of tyrants; I cause the demons to be worshiped alongside men; and I arouse desire in holy men and select priests. I bring about jealousies and murders in a country, and I instigate wars."   Share   Tweet Beelzebub . Mammon . Lucifer . Asmodeus Belphegor . Seven Princes of Hell . Watchers & Grigori The Sons of Anak . The Rephaim . The Nephilim

Etymology of Lucifer Lucifer originated as a Latin term, not a name. Comprised of two words, lux (light; genitive lucis) and ferre (to bear, to bring), meaning light-bearer.   Luxiferre or Lucifer Lucifer was not originally the actual name of the devil, but only denoted only the status from which he had fallen   Celestial Origins of the Lucifer Legend Venus /Lucifer- the brightest object in the heavens after the Sun and the Moon. However, primitive sky watchers  couldn't comprehend why it couldn't be seen at midnight like other planets, or during midday, like the Sun and Moon. Some believe they invented myths about Lucifer being cast out from Heaven to explain this. Venus orbit lies between that of the Earth and the Sun, it can't  rise high in the sky at night from an Earthbound vantage point.  It can be seen briefly in the eastern morning sky before the Sun rises, and in the western evening sky briefly after the Sun sets, It can never be seen during the full darkness of night. The primitive myths about Lucifer being cast from Heaven apparently arose from the belief that Lucifer shined so intensely because it wanted to conquer the status of Saturn and Jupiter, the most important of the planets.  As per post-primitive Legend,  Lucifer  rebelled against God , and became the leader of the Fallen Angels.  This resulted in a mighty war in Heaven. Lucifer, along with one third of the angelic host, was defeated by the Archangel Michael, and was cast down from Heaven to the earth where he became equated with "Satan", {ln Hebrew "Saw-tawn"  or "Har saw-tawn"  which means; "Adversary" as well as "Devil", which means, "Accuser of the brethren".  Shaytan (Shaitan) in Islam. }

During the early Christian era versions of the fallen angels legend arose stating that Lucifer was upset because God the Father made Lucifer second to his brother, Jesual. When lucifer attempted to seize the throne after his brother Jesual is proclaimed Son of God over him. This fable is obviously derived from from Christian Mythology and the simile of Jesus and Jesual are no coincidence.

In Isaiah 14:12-14,
¹² How you have fallen from heaven, O morning star, son of the dawn! You have been cast down to the earth, you who once laid low the nations! ¹³ You said in your heart, "I will ascend to heaven; I will raise my throne above the stars of God;   I will sit enthroned on the mount of assembly, on the utmost heights of the sacred mountain. ¹⁴ I will ascend above the tops of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High."

The Bible never names the devil as Lucifer a misinterpretation of a passage in Isaiah that does not speak of a fallen angel but of the defeat of a  Babylonian King, to whom it gives a title that refers to the Morning Star, Venus , which in Latin is Lucifer

In 2 Peter 1:19 and elsewhere, the same Latin word lucifer is used to refer to the Morning Star, with no relation to the devil. It is only in post-New Testament times that the Latin word Lucifer was often used as a name for the devil, both in religious writing and in fiction, especially when referring to him prior to his fall from Heaven.

 

Another version states that when God created Adam he called upon all the angelic forces to bow before this new creation. Satan being one of the highest archangels before his rebellion found this too humbling and refused to degrade himself in this manner -he asked if  "a son of fire should be forced to bow before a son of clay?"

"And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day" (Jude 6).

"Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels" (Matt. 25:41).

The Archangel Michael assumed Lucifer's role as the Morningstar , after the great Battle.

 ⁷And there was war in heaven. Michael and his angels fought against the dragon, and the dragon and his angels fought back. ⁸But he was not strong enough, and they lost their place in heaven. ⁹The great dragon was hurled down—that ancient serpent called the devil, or Satan, who leads the whole world astray. He was hurled to the earth, and his angels with him (Rev. 12:7–9)

Similes in Other Cultures

Canaanite manuscripts contain the story of a deity Shahar,  Shahar was thrown out of heaven due to ego and pride, the same faults attributed to Lucifer.  In addition  Shahar  aloso is "dawn" in Hebrew, which draws a simile to the "Morningstar" accolade of Lucifer. Helel, the son of the god Shahar.   Helel sought the throne of the chief god and was cast down into the abyss because of this. Further reading of Isaiah demonstrates that in context of Isaiah ,it is used as a parable against the Babylonian King (Nebuchadrezzar.)  A man so full of self-idolizing power and vanity that he becomes consumed with a desire to become like God and ascend into heaven to exalt his throne above the stars of God. This man is blinded by his own light, his vision clouded by an insatiable hunger for power.

 Lucifer Emperor of The Unholy Trinity

Johannes Wier {Johann Weyer } a respected 16th Century 'Demonologist' and Physician who wrote On the Illusions of the Demons and on Spells and Poisons,  And Pseudomonarchia Daemonum (1563) states that Beelzebub led a successful revolt against Satan and is second only to Lucifer, Lucifer being Emperor of Hell .  Several 18th Century texts describe an unholy trinity consisting of Beelzebub, Lucifer, and Astaroth - similar to Obama, Biden and Clinton or Larry Mo, and Curly. With the later example we all know Mo is the guy in charge , with the earlier two there is an uncertainty. "Beelzebub was Prince of the Seraphim, the next unto Lucifer. For all the princes, that is to say all the chief of the nine choirs of angels, are fallen; and of the choir of Seraphim there fell the three first, to wit, Lucifer, Beelzebub, and Leviathan, who did all revolt."  (Possessed Catholic nun Sister Madeleine of Aix-en-Provence) Other scenarios such as the Seven Princes of Hell place lucifer in the Hierarchy of Hell although at a different level.

The leader of the Golden Dawn, S. L. MacGregor Mathers, put Beelzebub in the second demonic order in the sphere of Chokmah, below Satan and Moloch but above Lucifer According to a 16th Century German Jesuit priest and demonologist Peter Binsfield , the 7 princes of Hell equate to the 7 deadly sins.   Binsfield was also involved in the inquisition era witch hunts and wrote "The Confession of Warlocks and Witches", which advocated torture as a means of extracting confessions from suspected Witches.  Binsfields Hierarchy runs as follows... Lucifer  Mammon   Asmodeus  Satan   Beelzebub   Leviathan   Belphegor