There are some posts going around about Lucifer’s love, or lack thereof. I’m not necessarily looking to debate with them. But I do feel like there’s something… missing. 

People like to say “Lucifer won’t hold your hand” and often that’s true. He’s definitely not a coddler. Then again, he did literally hold me in the night when I was at my lowest. I think he did this because there was no one else to hold me, and if he hadn’t done it, I would have died. And I think he has reasons for not wanting me to die yet. He has tasked me with certain things, after all. Compassion and self-interest aren’t always as far apart as Nietzsche or LaVey might want you to believe. Pay attention and Lucifer may teach you this. 

People say “Lucifer won’t save you” and yet I know multiple devotees of his, myself included, who he has pulled back from suicide, self-harm, addiction and overdose, including one person who literally met him during a near death experience, and was returned to life by him. This is often how we get on the path in the first place. He’s not afraid to rally the fallen and help us to our feet, the same way he did for his fallen legions. Afterwards, though, he expects us to fight. 

Does he love us? Yes, I believe and even feel like I know that he does. His love is tough love. It’s unconditional in a way– he’s a patron to sinners and fuck-ups after all– but that doesn’t mean he won’t have high expectations, and that doesn’t mean he will always be nice. 

Is he who you want him to be? Not necessarily, he is himself. No one is who you want them to be. However, this doesn’t mean he’s completely ineffable and unknowable. Dare to know Lucifer. Dare to make statements about who you think he is. Dare, even if you are wrong. Because I don’t fucking think he wants us demurring and hemming and hawing and going “oh well, Lucifer is sooo far above us, we can’t possibly know what he is like or what he wants.” Hubris is a Satanic virtue. Go have some gnosis. Use discernment, sure, but you can stand by what you believe, what you have come to know. Dare!