HOW THE "MORNING STAR" BECAME "LUCIFER."

Throughout the lifetime of the Master Jesus the Christ, there was nothing in existence as our present Judeo-Christian Bible. Indeed, the Christian Bible came into existence some 400 years after the death of Jesus Christ. This post-Jesus first Christian Bible was a compendium of carefully selected texts that Bishop Eusebius Pampilius cobbled together for the use of the new religion of the Roman Empire under the strict supervision of the sun worshipping emperor Constantine the Great at the Nicaean Council of 325 CE. About six decades later, in 382 CE to be precise, Pope Damasus deemed it expedient to have St. Jerome do a "complete restructuring" and revision so as to correct the litany of errors and grave contradictions found in the Constantinian/Nicaean Bible. That early 5th century version of Jerome's Roman Catholic Bible is called the "Vulgate Bible."

For the work at hand, St. Jerome heavily relied on the old Greek Septuagint. In translating the text in Isaiah 14 : 12 - 14, Jerome translated the Greek word "Phosphorus" [Φωσφόρος Phōsphoros], which literally means the "Light-Bringer" — "the Morning Star," or "the planet Venus in its morning appearance" -- to its Latin correspondent, "lucem ferre" or "Lucifer," which equally means "light bringer" or "bringer of dawn" or Venus.

It is pertinent to note here that it is only in the Vulgate and the King James Version of the Judeo-Christian Bible do we have the "morning star" in Isaiah 14: 12-14 being translated as Lucifer. It is also important to further note that in all versions of our modern and revised Bibles, including the KJV, the authorised revisioners have found it useful and more appropriate to translate the Vulgate Lucifer to mean the "morning star," "the light of day," "mazzaroth" or "the signs of the Zodiac," "the dawn" and "the morning star" as per 2 Peter 1:19; Job 11:17; Job 38:32 and Psalms 110:3 and Revelation 2: 28 respectively. Very interestingly, we observe that in Revelation 22: 16 where the Vulgate refers to Jesus Christ as "Lucifer," the current Bibles translate this as "the bright morning star."

Everything considered, there is nowhere in the above texts where "Lucifer" is remotely referred to as "a fallen angel" or Satan. One, therefore, finds it rather baffling the attempt to contort and distort the entry in Isaiah 14: 12-14 of the Bible, which is essentially a reworked, judaised, and christianised version of the older Egyptian, Babylonian and Canaanitish mythos woven around the planet Venus, all so that "Lucifer, son of the morning," as per old King James Version, or "Day Star" and "Morning Star" "son of dawn," may be justifiably satanised and diabolised.

LUCIFER [VENUS] IS NEITHER SATAN NOR EVIL

When one dares to do a little bit of critical thinking, one cannot fail to see how ludicrous and twisted we Christians have been in accepting and believing the obviously unfounded religious dogma that the planet Venus that appears to us every morning as the "morning star" and which the revisioners have translated as Lucifer in the Vulgate and old KJV Bibles, is the Lord of Evil and an equal and opposing counter force to Good and God on earth. As we noted earlier, the Latin term "lucem ferre" or "Lucifer," which means "light bringer" or "bringer of dawn" was first introduced by St. Jerome in his translation of the old Greek Septuagint into the Vulgate Bible.

The majority of people who believe the crooked superstition that Lucifer is Satan are Christians who are ignorant of the eclectic and syncretic mix and the pagan astromythological origins of some of the cardinal tenets of the Christian religion. As such, they have inveighed with indignation against the Roman Catholic liturgy which promotes Jesus Christ as a "son of Lucifer;" and the reason they see this liturgy as highly blasphemous is because, according to them, Lucifer is the "dragon," "old serpent," "Devil" and "Satan" referred to in Revelation 12: 7 - 9. The said passage reads:

"And there was war in Heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels, and prevailed not; neither was their place found anymore in heaven. And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him."

I dare to state most emphatically that it is a grave and unpardonable error of judgment for anyone, regardless of his or her sacerdotal pretensions, to equate or hold Lucifer, or the planet Venus, up as the epitome of evil and the personification of Satan or think of it as representing the "old serpent," called the "Devil," referred to in the above text. This error and misrepresentation arises, in part, as a result of the of the unwillingness to accept the fact that our monumental Christianity borrowed vastly from the mythicism and astromythological lores of annihilated paganism. It is just about time we Christians are made to understand that it is the recondite materials from the womb of the pagan mysteries that were used to flesh up, strengthen and cloth many of the ritualisms, religious ceremonies, precepts and doctrines of Christianity. Indeed, fact of the matter is that Christianity owes much to arcane paganism and it is only in the womb of the Mystery Traditions and the astromythology of ancient pagandom can we discover the true meanings of myriad of the religious symbols that populate the Old and New Testaments of our Bible.

Now, John the Divine may have authored the apocryphal tale of a "war in heaven" in which a serpentine Satan and the "dragon" battled the angels of light led by angel Michael. He may have had the trance where he "saw" the "great dragon," that "old serpent" been "cast from heaven." But there is nothing new nor original about this vision which John supposedly wrote down "toward the end of the reign of the emperor Dominican [81 - 96 CE]" because the mythic story of the perennial war in the theatre of heaven between the Sun-God and his angels of Light versus the Lord of Darkness and his legion of devils, an imagined "war" that eventually culminating in the defeat of the latter, was in vogue for more than five thousand years before John had his vision at Patmos.

In ancient Egyptian mythology, for example, there is related the story of "Sata," the evil and destructive Great Serpent God called Seth-Apophis. He was said to be the twin brother of the Sun-God, Osiris-Horus or Amen-Ra, representing Light. According to this mythos, these two brothers were daily and perpetually at war in heaven. When the Glorious Sun rises in the morning and darkness disappears, it was mythicised that the Sun-king, Osiris - Horus, and his luminous angels of Light have triumphed over and cast out of heaven the Great Serpent called Sata or Seth-Apophis. However, when the sun sets on the western horizon in the evening, this happening was mythologically interpreted as the Lord of Darkness and his legion of evil overcoming and devouring the Sun-God and his messengers, an event reasoned to be the cause darkness overtakes the earth.

Furthermore, the Egyptian mythos equally related how Seth-Apophis chased the pregnant Goddess Isis-Meri in order to devour her son, the Sun-God Osiris-Horus, who was to bring illumination to the world. There cannot be any doubt that it is this Egyptian mythos, which was in circulation for more than five thousand years before the advent of Christianity, that got ingeniously Christianised by whoever wrote the Book of Revelation. The christianisation process had the Egyptian "Sata" mutating into the Christian "Satan" and the Egyptian evil Serpent God, "Seth-Apophis," got presented as the Christian "old serpent" and "Devil."

The apparently perennial struggle between the forces of Good/Light and Evil/Darkness runs a common theme in the major religions of the world. In the Zoroastrian religion which is some six hundred years older than Christianity, this mythic war between the Persian God of Light, Ahura-Mazda, and his twin brother, the Great Serpent Ahriman, is again dramatised. In this version, Ahura-Mazda or Ormuzd battles the evil and serpentine creature and triumphs, having the rebellious devil expelled from heaven in the form of a lightning bolt.

At this point, we want to authoritatively assert that there is nowhere in all the older renditions of this mythos of a "war in heaven," which Christianity borrowed wholesale from both Egyptian and Persian religions, is Lucifer or the planet Venus mentioned as representing Satan or the Lord of Darkness. There cannot have been any such mention or linkage, in any event, as Lucifer, the "light bringer" or "light bearer," has absolutely nought to do with evil and its darkness; but has everything to do with illumination - physical, intellectual and spiritual. It is important we seriously note that Church Fathers such as Origen, Tertullian, Ambrose, Jerome and Augustine of Hippo were intimately familiar with the above Revelation 12: 7-9 passage and despite the fact that they wrote profusely on the subject of evil and Satan, I am not aware of any of their writings where they either directly or obliquely linked Lucifer or the morning star with the great serpent, dragon, devil, evil or Satan. They could not and did not because they knew Lucifer, Venus, was not Satan or the devil!

nice write up

So what exactly is your point?

The Devil ain't Lucifer?



#teamlanicky!

IcePrincezzz:
So what exactly is your point?

The Devil ain't Lucifer?



#teamlanicky!

Yes. No force is opposing God. That is a belief in paganism.