From: pul@hardy.u.washington.edu (Arbaline)
Subject: Satan is your friend !!!!!! !!!!!! !!!!!!
Summary: Lucifer: A study in light and dark.
Keywords: Worship Satan :)
Organization: University of Washington
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 07:31:56 GMT


     "No real understanding of our celestial colleagues would be
complete without tackling the issue of the "fallen" Angels. Opinions
differ as to the precise nature of what happened in the past that
could have caused Angels to fall, but what is unarguable is the
persistence with which this idea has shown up in most planetary belief
systems. Christianity and Judaism have their Satan and Lucifer and
depending on the sect, any number of fallen Angels. Islam has its
Eblis, or Shaytan as he is sometimes called, who is clearly the
counterpart of Satan.
     Even in this day and age, films like _The Omen_, _Rosemary's
Baby_, and _The Seventh Sign_ evoke horror because they tap into the
possibility that we may be influenced in some way by universal
messengers of evil. However, according to our Angelic informants, the
situation, thank God, is not like that at all.
     Lucifer, it is said in one tradition, was one of the seven great
Archangels of our solar system, serving as the guardian of the planet
Venus. God asked for a volunteer from among His top Angels who might
be willing to go down to Earth and help strengthen humanity's
spiritual resolve by offering constant temptation. Lucifer
volunteered. Despite his loving intentions, slowly, over the ages,
Lucifer has become identified in our mind as the devil, instead of an
aspect of God dedicated to our growth by helping us strengthen our
spiritual muscles. "The devil made me do it" is a tempting excuse for
just about anything, and we've allowed this to blind us into depicting
Lucifer as the source of everything we consider "evil" in the world.
     One of the heavenly tasks of Lucifer, whose very name means
"light giver" or "light bearer," is to teach us about the necessary
dark side of life. Lucifer is the shadow that reveals the light by
contrast. In many ways we can't see the true light until we first
experience the darkness. We tend not to value something until we lose
it and then regain it through our own efforts. The parable of the
prodigal son touches on this quirk of human nature.
     This interdependence of light and dark, of joy and sorrow, of
good and bad, and all the other opposites in our dual system of
reality, yields to an understanding that, within the larger context,
Christ and Lucifer, while not exactly complementary to each other, are
at least on the same side, integral parts of the same whole.
     Many contemporary Christians have begun to abandon the concept
that there is a real devil, recognizing once again that there is only
one omnipotent force in the Universe. "Evil," as poet-philosopher
William Blake wrote, "is only the deprivation of good, and when the
soul emerges from this illusion of evil, Lucifer resumes his original
status as one of God's great Archangels."
     Slowly, surely, we are collectively emerging from this illusion
of evil. To do this means to hold firmly to the understanding of God
as One Power, as One Ultimate Life Principle, from which all else
emanates. Naturally, the illusion of fear and loathing still stalks
our cities and can sometimes convince us, if we pay too much attention
to the media, that it has some degree of objective reality.
     But isn't this exactly the challenge being presented to us - to
come more fully to terms with the shadow side of our own nature? As we
learn how to release and finally let go of negative and
self-destructive behavior, we also cease to project our own negativity
onto a fictitious devil, or fallen Angels, or onto other people. When
we reach this point we have no further need to hang onto the illusion
of evil.
     In reconciling these apparently opposite characteristics we also
demonstrate those qualities the Angels revere so highly in us. And, in
turn, we can free the so-called fallen Angels from the negativity we
have externalized onto them for all these long millennia. By so doing
we can allow them one again to pursue the functions for which they
were originally created."

     [The above wisdom was excerpted from the book "Ask Your Angels" put
     out by Ballantine Books, in the chapter "Angels watching over us".]

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|      Walter D. "Cruiser1" Pullen           pul@hardy.u.washington.edu.      |
- "When you learn to love hell, you will be in heaven!"                       -
|                 - Thaddeus Golas in "The Lazy Man's Guide to Enlightenment" |
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