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The Fallen Archangel
Lucifer
The name
"Lucifer" means "Light Giver" or "Light Bearer".
Light giver referring to the morning or evening star, Venus. Actually the
name meant to mean the "Brightest Star".
 That later was translated to
"Eosphorus" (Greek word for Morning Star) and finally to Lucifer. In
mythology he is the son of Aurora (the Roman personification of dawn) and
the father Ceyx (Greek). Contrary to popular belief, Satan and Lucifer
are two separate fallen angels. His banishment was because of his complete
egotism and pure malice -- his sin, pride. This then indicates that Lucifer,
not Satan was indeed the first angel to have sinned. Lucifer has been
equated to Satan due to the misreading of the passage Isaiah 14:12 that was
applied to the King of Babylon --
..."How you are
fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! How you are cut down to
the ground, You who weakened the nations! ...
First concept of
this passage is that is was a mention to a man, a king who ruled the city of
Babylon on that time.
The second concept is that it was also a reference to Samael, a cosmic being
and the Seraphim of Purity, who descended from Heaven to oversee Hell.
The Isaiah's passage, as far as it is related to Lucifer (and in this case
it is originally to Samael) is actually a lament when the "Son of the Dawn",
the brightest Light from Heaven descend from his former position of Seraphim
of Purity to rule also over the Underworld (Sheol) and Hell and
oversee the punishment of the iniquitous.
The fact is that Samael descended, **he did not fall**. The lament is
that when a being of his height and light had to descend from his original
place in Heaven to work for God in Hell, shook the nations! Samael is also
the sovereign of the 5th, 6th and 7th Heavens.
The actual name
"Devil" was applied to Lucifer when early theologians identified him with
the falling star in the passage from Isaiah, hence how Satan and Lucifer
started to become interchangeable. We must point out here that writers of
that time, did not know of fallen angels yet, through some passages point to
the behavior of angels as less than "holly" from time to time throughout the
Old Testament.
Lucifer was a
"great" Archangel, Prince, and the anointed Cherub (7th Dimension -
Cherubim). Ever after his fall he still seems to retain some of his power
and ancient title. There are many different variations of stories and
legends on Lucifer.
WHO IS HE?
Is Lucifer the opposite of God?
Lucifer cannot be God's opposite because he was created by God.
Lucifer is the opposite of Michael. (the Head Archangel)
Satan
Satan's name is
believed to originate from the term satan which connotes the idea of
opposition and adversary.
Before his fall, it's believed that he was one of the Ruling Prince's of the
Celestial Orders (specifically Seraphim, Cherubim, Powers, and Archangels),
chief of the Seraphim and Head of the Order of Virtues.
St. Thomas Aquinas had a different important point on this matter, he
believed that Satan was a Cherubim more than anything else... More about
this subject read in the chapter:
Why they Chose to Fall?
Instead of being
depicted as a six winged Seraphim, he was shown as having twelve wings. It
has also been written by theologians that Satan was created on the 6th day
of Creation. Representing more of an abstract entity than an evil one. He
was in charge of testing "humans integrity", though God had the power to set
limits on what Satan could and could not do.
 The traditional
theory is that Satan was the angel that betrayed and then led the revolt
against God. It boils down to Satan that he was very jealous of the love
that God felt towards Adam. Either by transforming into a snake or just
using the snake as a tool, Satan tempted Eve with the fruit of the Tree of
Knowledge. By 3rd century A.D. it was fully established by the Christian
philosopher Origenis the association between the snake and Satan. In
following centuries, the snake has been believed to be the incarnation of
Satan. God then banished Satan from the Heavens... or did he? He banished
him to Earth, but the working theory is that Hell is actually located within
the Northern boundaries of the 3rd Heaven. Within the 2nd Heaven the fallen
angels are imprisoned awaiting final judgment in complete darkness.
So it's here that
Satan walks between Heaven and Earth. Primary staying here on Earth, seeking
to destroy the lives of human beings and to keep them separated from God.
Here is when Satan is now known by his other name, the Devil.
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