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Lucifer’s Love

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! 

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head of a woman with the horns of a ram (gérôme), mexican model andrea carrazco

The angels of the Lord are not pure.

They are stained with the blood of the first born.

They are filthy with the ashes of Sodom and Gommorrah.

They are dutiful soldiers, “just following orders,” in service of the filthy, bloodstained king of kings.

In Response to the Ahistorical and Inaccurate

havencraft:

I recently went to see a forum where a Pagan speaker was representing Paganism in an interfaith context. Before that, I attended Pagan Pride earlier in the month.

In response to the ahistorical and inaccurate statements I’ve now witnessed repeatedly, let me just say:

1. Not all Pagans are witches and certainly not all witches are Pagan. Seriously, there are secular, atheist, agnostic, humanist, Christian, Jewish, etc witches. They do not identify as Pagan. 

2. Not all Pagans worship a God and Goddess. Certainly, they do not all believe that all gods and goddesses are faces for such. 

3. Not all Pagans believe in or worship “Mother Earth.”

4. Not all Pagans believe in a strict duality of “masculine energy” and “feminine energy.” In fact, historically speaking, most of them didn’t. Gender essentialism is not found in every path. It’s transphobic and erasing, non-binary phobic and erasing, and really damaging even to those who do identify with the gender they were designated at birth. 

5. Many Pagans do not all follow “Harm None” or the “Rule of Three”. That’s a Wiccan thing and even then, not an “All Wiccans” thing. 

6. Some of us practice cursing. Stop “No True Scotsmanning” the practice. Stop calling it “black magick”, that’s racist.  

7. No, cursing is not the same thing as hexing. Hex is just the German and Pennsylvania Dutch word for spell. Hence hexenmeister meaning spell master. Saying a hex is always a curse is like saying a spell is always a curse. 

8. There was no great period of a grand unified Witch Cult that all got along and worshiped the same before the evil Christian men came along. Pagans killed each other over whose gods were better. Gods were used in propaganda machines – many of our myths boil down to, “My god can beat up your god.” Also, Rome burned witches long before it was Catholic. 

9. Flying ointment is not applied via the vagina using a broom handle. Don’t do that. That is a fantastic way to absorb poisons through a mucous membrane and get splinters. Seriously, that’s how you get splinters in your vagina. Or die. Or both.

10. I am less concerned about the persecution of affluent, white, ciscentric, heteronormative, gender essentialist, psuedo-liberal Paganism than I am about the ongoing oppression, exclusion, erasure, and appropriation of other cultures by modern Paganism and the ongoing problems with sexual misconduct by Pagan leaders. No, your persecution complex really, really doesn’t override any of those concerns. 

11. There is no Witch Pope. No one can excommunicate a witch for not witching the way they want them to witch. Please stop saying there is only one way to witch and that you speak for it. 

deputyrook:

depthsreturn:

does anyone got any luciferian resources? i found a post that i was gonna look into but then all the links there were old

A link to my google drive collection of Lucifer/Satan related books. 

I can’t recommend them all yes there is some michael ford there, be cautious with those ones but there’s a variety of both historical/mythological and magical information 

If you have suggestions/pdfs I can add, I would love to hear from you!

*Squeals* My zine is in this!

I am working on pulling together my own google drive to be fit for sharing.

Edited to add: Here’s my PDF library in progress, it has some overlap with the above (partially because I snaked some links from the above). Check out “The Marriage of Heaven and Hell” by William Blake. 

And here’s the PDFs of all issues of Lucifer so far.