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Theistic Luciferians believe in Lucifer as an actual deity. However, Lucifer is not worshipped as the Abrahamic God, but is revered and followed as a teacher and friend. Most Theistic Luciferians are followers of the left-hand path and may adhere to different dogmata put forth by organizations such as the Neo-Luciferian Church or other congregations which are heavily focused on ceremonial magic, the occult, and literal interpretations of spiritual stories and figures. Many modern-day pagans also believe that Lucifer and many other demons were originally gods of ancient civilizations that were demonized by the Abrahamic religions. Richard Ramirez | Biography, Night Stalker, Death, Childhood, & Facts | Britannica". www.britannica.com . Retrieved 26 September 2022. Butler, Alban, Butler's Lives of The Saints, " St Athanasius", bartleby.com. Accessed 23 September 2022. Greek OT (Septuagint/LXX): Isaiah 14" (in Greek). Bibledatabase.net. Archived from the original on 15 January 2020 . Retrieved 22 December 2012. But what about those Luciferians? References to such a group were recorded in Europe in the 13th and 14th Centuries, with a certain 'Lucardis' being named as the woman who led the sect. According to a chronicle, this Lucardis wanted to restore Lucifer to his righteous place in Heaven.

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Michelle Belanger (2007). Vampires in Their Own Words: An Anthology of Vampire Voices. Llewellyn Worldwide. p.175. ISBN 978-0-7387-1220-8. Holt, Cimminnee; Petersen, Jesper Aagaard (2016) [2008]. "Modern Religious Satanism: A Negotiation of Tensions". In Lewis, James R.; Tøllefsen, Inga (eds.). The Oxford Handbook of New Religious Movements, Volume 2 (2nded.). New York City: Oxford University Press. pp.441–452. doi: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190466176.013.33. ISBN 978-0-19-046617-6 . Retrieved 1 December 2020. With frightening cynicism, the miserable person we shall not name here [Taxil] declared before an assembly especially convened for him that for twelve years he had prepared and carried out to the end the most sacrilegious of hoaxes. We have always been careful to publish special articles concerning Palladism and Diana Vaughan. We are now giving in this issue a complete list of these articles, which can now be considered as not having existed. [31] Butler, Alban, Butler's Lives of The Saints, " St. Jerome", bartleby.com. Accessed 23 September 2022. Luciferians use the term "Lucifer" in its literal sense: the name means " light bringer" in Latin. Rather than being a figure of challenge, rebellion, and sensuality, Lucifer is seen as a creature of enlightenment, the one who brings light out of the darkness. Practitioners embrace the seeking of knowledge, delving into the darkness of mystery, and coming out better for it. They stress the balance of light and dark and that each depends upon the other.a b Lambert Ferreres. Sobre la relación entre el Ms. Genouefensis 1351 y el Vaticanus Reginensis Lat. 133 . Revista Catalana de teologia, xvii, 1992. P. 193—199. Michelet, Jules, A. R. Allinson. Satanism and Witchcraft: The Classic Study of Medieval Superstition (1992), Barnes & Noble, 9780806500591 Klaits, Joseph (1985). Servants of Satan: The Age of the Witch Hunts. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press. ISBN 0-253-20422-4. JSTOR j.ctt16xwc16 . Retrieved 28 May 2020. The first recognized esoteric, non-LaVeyan Satanist organization was the Ophite Cultus Satanas, [22] [23] which claimed to have been founded in 1948 by Herbert Arthur Sloane and therefore to allegedly precede the foundation of Anton LaVey's Church of Satan. [22] [23] Their doctrine relies on a Gnostic conception of Satan as the liberating serpent and bestower of knowledge to humankind opposed to the malevolent demiurge or creator god, [22] [23] mainly inspired by the Gnostic dualistic cosmology of the Ophites, [23] Hans Jonas' study on the history of Gnosticism, [22] and the writings of Margaret Murray on the witch-cult hypothesis. [22] [23] " Our Lady of Endor" seems to have been the only existing coven of this Satanist organization, [23] which was disbanded shortly after the death of its founder during the 1980s. [22] Temple of Set and Setianism [ edit ] The diversity of beliefs amongst Satanists, and the theistic nature of some Satanists, was seen in a survey [ which?] in 1995. Some spoke of seeing Satan not as someone dangerous to those who seek or worship him, but as someone that could be approached as a friend. Some refer to him as Father, though some other theistic Satanists consider that to be confused or excessively subservient. Satan is also portrayed as a father to his daughter, Sin, by the 17th-century English poet John Milton in Paradise Lost. [21] Our Lady of Endor Coven [ edit ]

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Englebert, Omer. The Lives of the Saints. Christopher and Anne Fremantle, trans. New York: Barnes & Noble Books, 1994. Nihil obstat, Imprimatur 1951.Introvigne, Massimo (2016). Satanism: A Social History. Aries Book Series: Texts and Studies in Western Esotericism. Vol.21. Leiden and Boston: Brill Publishers. ISBN 978-90-04-28828-7. OCLC 1030572947 . Retrieved 28 May 2020. a b c d e Introvigne, Massimo (13 April 2017). "Satan the Prophet: A History of Modern Satanism" (PDF). CESNUR. p.55. Archived (PDF) from the original on 28 June 2017 . Retrieved 28 December 2020. a b "Astronomy – Helel Son of Dawn". The unedited full-text of the 1906 Jewish Encyclopedia. JewishEncyclopedia.com . Retrieved 1 July 2012. Theistic Satanism often involves a religious commitment, rather than being simply an occult practice based on dabbling or transient enjoyment of the rituals and magic involved. [62] Practitioners may choose to perform a self-dedication rite, although there are arguments over whether it is best to do this at the beginning of their time as a theistic Satanist, or once they have been practicing for some time. [63] [44] Historical mentions of Satanism [ edit ] The age of accusations [ edit ] Illustration by Martin van Maële of a Witches' Sabbath from the 1911 edition of La Sorciere, written by Jules Michelet. It is not known to what extent accusations of groups worshiping Satan in the time of the witch trials identified people who did consider themselves Satanists, rather than being the result of religious superstition or mass hysteria, or charges made against individuals suffering from mental illness. Confessions are unreliable, particularly as they were usually obtained under torture. [68] However, scholar Jeffrey Burton Russell, Professor Emeritus of the University of California at Santa Barbara, has made extensive arguments in his book Witchcraft in the Middle Ages that not all witch trial records can be dismissed and that there is in fact evidence linking witchcraft to Gnostic Christian heretical movements, particularly the antinomian sects. [69] Russell comes to this conclusion after having studied the source documents themselves. Individuals involved in the Affair of the Poisons were accused of Satanism and witchcraft. [70]