I am ahead of the game, so, time to get into alternate questions again.
How do you feel about the religious texts of the Abrahamic faiths? Do you use it as part of your path?
“The devil can cite scripture for his purpose.” – Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice
I love reading the Bible. I love Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha even more. The Bible is like the Hollywood release, Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha are like deleted scenes and blooper reels that didn’t make the cut.
OK, that’s not a perfect metaphor, and I am being quite facetious.
My point is, Abrahamic scripture can be fun!
So far, I mostly stick to the Hebrew and Christian Bible, and to Hebrew and Christian Apocrypha, because I am a Luciferian. The passages that inspired the creation of the Lucifer myth can be found in the Bible and in Jewish and Chrstian apocrypha.
The Quran, however, is post-Lucifer. I view Iblis as a very different entity. I respect him, but I also don’t fuck with him, because I am pretty sure he doesn’t like humans at all. I want to read the Quran eventually, because I live in an Islamophobic society and I feel it is my duty to get educated. However, I don’t think the Quran will be able to contribute to my understanding of Lucifer, because he just isn’t in it.
Reading Jewish and Christian sacred texts from a Luciferian perspective is like a treasure hunt for me, like a puzzle or a game. I dig through these dense texts, which are fundamentally hostile to my beliefs and sometimes feel fundamentally hostile to my very being, and I find passages that I can interpret heretically. So far I have engaged with, and written in some detail, about:
The Temptation of Christ in Matthew and Luke
I want to produce a lot more writing in this vein! A lot of Luciferians are understandably squicked by engaging with these texts, especially those of us who survived a damaging Christian upbringing. So I see my engagement with them, and analysis of them, as a gift that I can give back to my community– as long as people understand, of course, that these interpretations are my own, are super heretical, and are absolutely up for debate.
My goal is to make these texts more accessible to Luciferians by opening them up to detailed Luciferian interpretation. I want to do this because, like it or not, the origins of Lucifer are to be found in the Bible. We don’t have to all base our view of Lucifer on the Bible, of course, but I think it’s good to know our origins.
We are spiritual and intellectual descendants of heretics who engaged deeply with these scriptures. And, real talk– a lot of people burned for daring to interpret the Bible differently than the Church did. I am grateful that, in this day and age, nobody is stopping me from reading the Bible myself, and coming to my own conclusions.
Church of the Morningstar 