Luciferianism

The word Lucifer is Latin: lux, light, and ferre, to bear — the Light-Bearer. Long before it named a fallen angel, it was the Roman name for the morning star, the planet Venus shining before dawn. In the Vulgate translation of the Book of Isaiah (14:12), the word lucifer appears in a taunt addressed not to a devil, but to the king of Babylon: 'How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning.'

Centuries of sermon and art fused that fallen star with the rebel angel. But when John Milton published Paradise Lost in 1667, something irreversible happened: his Satan — proud, wounded, defiant — became the most magnetic figure in English literature. The poet William Blake observed that Milton was 'of the Devil's party without knowing it.'

The Romantics followed. To them, the Light-Bearer was no monster but a symbol of the human will that refuses tyranny and demands knowledge. This reading crossed into esotericism when Helena Blavatsky founded a magazine in London in 1887 and named it, deliberately, Lucifer — 'to bring to light the hidden things of darkness.'

Even the demonologists fed the current. The Dictionnaire Infernal of Jacques Collin de Plancy (first edition 1818, expanded 1863 with the famous engravings) catalogued Lucifer among the great princes of the hierarchy — a figure of command and intelligence rather than of bestial evil.

Modern Luciferianism gathers these threads into a philosophy rather than a church: the adversary as the challenger of dogma, the serpent as the offerer of the fruit of knowledge, the fall as the beginning of consciousness. It venerates no devil; it studies light — the dangerous, liberating kind.

The sources are free for all. The Vulgate, Paradise Lost, Blavatsky's The Secret Doctrine (1888) and the Dictionnaire Infernal are centuries past copyright and available in the great digital libraries of the internet. Read them first-hand, as the adepts did — by candlelight if you can.

This is the first current of The Dark Side Rises: knowledge as liberation. Every transmission on the channel carries it — the refusal of blindness, the discipline of study, the courage to carry one's own light into the dark.