Editing Lucifer (section)

==Other occurrences==
===Satanism===
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[[Luciferianism]] is a belief structure that venerates the fundamental traits that are attributed to Lucifer. The custom, inspired by the teachings of [[Gnosticism]], usually reveres Lucifer not as the Devil, but as a savior, a guardian or instructing spirit<ref>{{cite book |title=Vampires in Their Own Words: An Anthology of Vampire Voices |author=Michelle Belanger |publisher=[[Llewellyn Worldwide]] |date=2007 |page=175 |isbn=978-0-7387-1220-8|author-link=Michelle Belanger}}</ref> or even the true god as opposed to [[Jehovah]].<ref>{{cite book |title=An Encyclopedia of Occultism |author=Spence, L. |publisher=Carol Publishing |date=1993}}</ref>

In [[LaVeyan Satanism]], Lucifer is described by ''[[The Satanic Bible]]'' as one of the [[The Book of Abramelin|four crown princes of hell]], particularly that of the East, the 'lord of the [[Air (classical element)|air]]', and is called the bringer of light, the morning star, intellectualism, and enlightenment.<ref name="LaVey">{{cite book|last=LaVey|first=Anton Szandor|title=The Satanic Bible|date=1969|publisher=Avon|location=New York|isbn=978-0-380-01539-9|chapter=The Book of Lucifer: The Enlightenment|chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/satanicbible00lave|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/satanicbible00lave}}</ref>

===Anthroposophy===
[[Rudolf Steiner]]'s writings, which formed the basis for [[Anthroposophy]], characterised Lucifer as a spiritual opposite to [[Ahriman]], with [[Christ]] between the two forces, mediating a balanced path for humanity. Lucifer represents an intellectual, imaginative, delusional, otherworldly force which might be associated with visions, subjectivity, psychosis and fantasy. He associated Lucifer with the religious/philosophical cultures of Egypt, Rome and Greece. Steiner believed that Lucifer, as a supersensible Being, had incarnated in China about 3000 years before the birth of Christ.

===Freemasonry===
[[Léo Taxil]] (1854–1907) claimed that [[Freemasonry]] is associated with worshipping Lucifer. In what is known as the [[Taxil hoax]], he alleged that leading Freemason [[Albert Pike]] had addressed "The 23 Supreme Confederated Councils of the World" (an invention of Taxil), instructing them that Lucifer was God, and was in opposition to the evil god [[Adonai]]. Taxil promoted a book by Diana Vaughan (actually written by himself, as he later confessed publicly)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://freemasonry.bcy.ca/texts/taxil_confessed.html |title=Leo Taxil's confession |publisher=Grand Lodge of British Columbia and Yukon |date=2 April 2001 |access-date=23 December 2012 |archive-date=2 May 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150502135719/http://www.freemasonry.bcy.ca/texts/taxil_confessed.html |url-status=live }}</ref> that purported to reveal a highly secret ruling body called the [[Palladists|Palladium]], which controlled the organization and had a satanic agenda. As described by ''Freemasonry Disclosed'' in 1897:
{{blockquote|With frightening cynicism, the miserable person we shall not name here [Taxil] declared before an assembly especially convened for him that for twelve years he had prepared and carried out to the end the most sacrilegious of hoaxes. We have always been careful to publish special articles concerning Palladism and Diana Vaughan. We are now giving in this issue a complete list of these articles, which can now be considered as not having existed.<ref>''Freemasonry Disclosed'' April 1897</ref>}}

Supporters of Freemasonry assert that, when Albert Pike and other Masonic scholars spoke about the "Luciferian path," or the "energies of Lucifer," they were referring to the Morning Star, the light bearer, the search for light; the very antithesis of dark. Pike says in Morals and Dogma, "Lucifer, the Son of the Morning! Is it {{em|he}} who bears the Light, and with its splendors intolerable blinds feeble, sensual, or selfish Souls? Doubt it not!"<ref>(Albert Pike, ''Morals and Dogma'', p. 321).</ref> Much has been made of this quote.<ref>([http://www.masonicinfo.com/lucifer.htm Masonic information: Lucifer] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220127132513/http://www.masonicinfo.com/lucifer.htm |date=2022-01-27 }}).</ref>

Taxil's work and Pike's address continue to be quoted by anti-masonic groups.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.masonicinfo.com/taxil.htm |title=Leo Taxil: The tale of the Pope and the Pornographer |access-date=14 September 2006 |archive-date=17 April 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220417034641/http://www.masonicinfo.com/taxil.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref>

In ''Devil-Worship in France'', [[Arthur Edward Waite]] compared Taxil's work to today's [[tabloid journalism]], replete with logical and factual inconsistencies.

===Charles Godfrey Leland===
In a collection of folklore and magical practices supposedly collected in Italy by [[Charles Godfrey Leland]] and published in his ''[[Aradia, or the Gospel of the Witches]]'', the figure of Lucifer is featured prominently as both the brother and consort of the goddess [[Diana (mythology)|Diana]], and father of [[Aradia]], at the center of an alleged Italian witch-cult.<ref name="aradia_sardinia">Magliocco, Sabina. (2009). Aradia in Sardinia: The Archaeology of a Folk Character. Pp. 40–60 in ''Ten Years of Triumph of the Moon''. Hidden Publishing.</ref> In Leland's mythology, Diana pursued her brother Lucifer across the sky as a cat pursues a mouse. According to Leland, after dividing herself into light and darkness:

{{blockquote|[...] Diana saw that the light was so beautiful, the light which was her other half, her brother Lucifer, she yearned for it with exceeding great desire. Wishing to receive the light again into her darkness, to swallow it up in rapture, in delight, she trembled with desire. This desire was the Dawn. But Lucifer, the light, fled from her, and would not yield to her wishes; he was the light which flies into the most distant parts of heaven, the mouse which flies before the cat.<ref name="aradia">Charles G. Leland, ''Aradia: The Gospel of Witches'', Theophania Publishing, US, 2010.</ref>}}

Here, the motions of Diana and Lucifer once again mirror the celestial motions of the moon and Venus, respectively.<ref name="stregheria">Magliocco, Sabina. (2006). [https://www.academia.edu/584607/Italian_American_Stregheria_and_Wicca_Ethnic_ambivalence_in_American_Neopaganism Italian American Stregheria and Wicca: Ethnic Ambivalence in American Neopaganism] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190809160310/https://www.academia.edu/584607/Italian_American_Stregheria_and_Wicca_Ethnic_ambivalence_in_American_Neopaganism |date=2019-08-09 }}. Pp. 55–86 in Michael Strmiska, ed., ''Modern Paganism in World Cultures: Comparative Perspectives''. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-Clio.</ref> Though Leland's Lucifer is based on the classical personification of the planet Venus, he also incorporates elements from Christian tradition, as in the following passage:

{{blockquote|Diana greatly loved her brother Lucifer, the god of the Sun and of the Moon, the god of Light (Splendor), who was so proud of his beauty, and who for his pride was driven from Paradise.<ref name=aradia/>}}

In the several modern [[Wiccan]] traditions based in part on Leland's work, the figure of Lucifer is usually either omitted or replaced as Diana's consort with either the Etruscan god [[Tagni]], or Dianus ([[Janus]], following the work of folklorist [[James Frazer]] in ''The Golden Bough'').<ref name=aradia_sardinia/>