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I actually know someone who named her daughters Lilith and Lorelei

"Abrahamic religions" has no practical meaning, especially here when we're talking about a figure exclusive to Judaism.

Judaism didn't bastardize/demonize Lilith. There were Sumerian classes of entities that likely influenced Lilith's name/depiction, but there was no singular figure named Lilith before Judaism. She didn't exist for us to steal.

The idea of her being stolen/demonized plays into antisemitic rhetoric that those nasty ol' Jewish people took all these nice other religions, took their stuff, and invented all religious oppression and misogyny. (Which to me sounds eerily similar to when white supremacists talk about how Pagan religions were "pure" before The Jews happened.)

Her depiction as the ""world's first feminist"" (as you call it) is less than 70 years old. And guess what? That reimagining was largely led by Jewish women before the New Age goddess movements got ahold of it and sucked out all the nuance.

I didn't at all mean to imply that Jewish people had appropriated Lilith. I do know of the existence of the lilitu demon -- I think it was the inspiration for the succubus??? But from what I had read, the demon was named after the character Lilith. Not the other way around.

I just don't feel it's right that Lilith was made into a demon because she refused to be subservient to Adam.

There was a Sumerian class of spirit called the Lilit/u, depending on how you spell it. Judaism developed in the same general area sometime afterward. Lilith herself wasn't mentioned until a few centuries later in the Talmud (and it wasn't comprehensive.) The story about her and Adam didn't come around until another few centuries after that, as part of a not-officially-canon possibly-satirical collection of midrashim (rabbinical writings explain unanswered questions/discrepancies in the texts.) She had already existed as a demon for 200-500 years before that was written, based on ancient amulets and incantation bowls that survived from the time.

So yeah, a group of Rabbis didn't take an existing "feminist icon" and demonize her Because Sexism. That's an antisemitic ahistorical myth. One person took an entity widely known for strangling newborn babies and decided to give her a backstory, and it's not surprising that attitudes about gender in 700-1000 AD were a little different than they are today. Fortunately, multitudes of Jewish feminists have been having nuanced conversations about Lilith in a modern Jewish context for longer than you've been alive.

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If you feel like you need to end your life to get closer to Satan (or any deity you work with), that's not devotion, it's mental illness and you should seek professional help. I don't say that lightly. I admire your enthusiasm towards deity worship, I really do, but this certainly isn't the way to do it; you're channeling your energy in the wrong direction.

So JoyOfSatan is hiding business cards in occult books now.

Dont fall for their shit. If you get any of these cards, throw them away, destroy them.

I combined a few prompts the other day, so this is another bonus prompt entry.

Are there other religions/philosophies that inspire you or influence your path as a Luciferian? Or do you work with other Gods or Spirits?

So obviously Christianity does influence and inspire my Luciferianism. I touched on it a bit in this post, but essentially as someone with a Lutheran upbringing in a culturally Christian country who takes a good chunk of inspiration from Christian folklore… it would be foolish and disingenuous to pretend that I could divorce my Luciferianism from Christianity entirely, and I make no attempts at doing so. While I do not consider myself a Christian, nor my religion to be a branch of it, I do undeniably exist at the fringes of it. 

The spirits that come with that are Eve of course, who I’ve mentioned, and St Expedite, who (at time of writing this) still hasn’t shown any disinterest in continuing our relationship. Though I have a fascination with St Sebastian, I never attempted to reach out to him, and I suspect I never will. St Cyprian of Antioch, however, is someone I’ve considered given his association with magic and necromancy, his time as a pagan, and the nature of his conversion to Christianity. All together I don’t think he’d take issue with me, though I’ve yet to check if the interest is mutual and worth pursuing. At least, not at this time. 

My animism also influences my approach to things, but that’s less a formal religion and more an aspect of one, as it’s a world view that exists in many religions throughout the world. I hope to build up a small gathering of plant allies and teachers when I can, though for a number of reasons this is a bit slow going in my current living situation. Perhaps next year will be when I really explore that. Mandrake is a favourite, as well as mullein, and I’ve also deeply appreciated @graveyarddirt‘s tips and input when it comes to amanita muscaria. 

I’ve also previously mentioned my Dionysian leanings, and as I believe in approaching deities and spirits in the ways that are appropriate to them, there are some Hellenic and Orphic influences to my practice when it comes to those entities. Dionysus is possibly the deity I’ve been most passionate about for the longest, and it came to a point where even as a Luciferian, I couldn’t really ignore it anymore. Incorporating my veneration of him into my practice was a bit of a process, but it’s been working well so far. Eventually I hope to try and round out that side of my path a little more. I’m very drawn to Phanes for what are I’m sure very obvious reasons for anyone who reads this blog, and I’ve been strongly considering approaching Hypnos and Pasithea for a few reasons. Prometheus is also, unsurprisingly, a figure I respect though do not (currently) actively venerate. 

Bizarrely, I have never felt any draw to Hekate. You’d think I would, between her torchbearer epithets and symbolism, the keys and snakes and magic, and how cthonic she is, but it just never clicked for me. I have a great deal of respect and curiosity, but I don’t honestly think I’d ever try to form a relationship with her. 

Please note that I’m speaking of these gods and how I hope to approach them from the mindset of a Luciferian and an occultist. I know that the idea of Hellenic pagans worshiping and venerating the pantheon as a whole with maybe some favoured patrons versus picking and choosing like I have is a topic that’s discussed now and then, but as I said before, I do not actually consider myself a Hellenic pagan… just a Luciferian with Hellenic and Orphic influences. So while I’ll approach Dionysus and the others with the offerings and tone befitting them, it’s within the framework of that Luciferianism.

While it may appear at a glance that these are two disjointed halves or “pantheons” that make up an eclectic whole, they’re very interwoven. To use my interest in medicinal and occult herbalism as an example, as well as my study of veneficium or the poison path, both Azazel and Pasithea make valuable allies in such work: Azazel is a teacher of herbal knowledge, and Pasithea is the Grace/Charity of relaxation, hallucination, and altered states of mind. I also work a great deal with Lucifer for Illumination when it comes to divination, and Dionysus had a connection to Delphi (which he was said to inhabit during the winter months as Apollo went elsewhere) and his cult likely had some influence over the Oracle’s rites shifting from being oneiric to trance based. Though the context changes, the themes, skills, knowledge, and so forth overlap.