#satanic lore

The character of Satan is a being who:

is rebellious against arbitrary authority

protests and fights against tyranny

believes in autonomy and personal sovereignty

fights for freedom

is curious and questioning

values and advocates for critical thinking and the ongoing pursuit of knowledge

c. Late 300s – The Latin Vulgate (a version of the Bible) translated the Hebrew הֵילֵל (transliterated as hêlêl or heylel) in Isaiah 14 as 'Lucifer'. [It seems to me that this passage of Isaiah was talking about the morning star – Venus – and using it as a metaphor while condemning Nebuchadnezzar II.]

Sometime between 5th and 13th centuries – Christian tradition begins to use the name Lucifer for the devil and it develops into being synonymous with Satan.

1234 – Pope Gregory IX and the Catholic Church accuse a group (or a few groups) in Germany of Luciferianism which they believe is heavily ritualized devil-worship, and they launch the Stedinger Crusade (1233-1234). Modern historians believe the devil-worship was completely fictitious and these people were likely Cathars/Albigensians.

1300s – Several times across this century, various groups of Waldensians in Germany and Poland are accused of being Luciferians.

c. 1321 – Dante Alighieri uses Lucifer as a name for the devil character in 'Inferno' ('The Divine Comedy').

1654 – Joost van den Vondel uses Lucifer as a name for the devil character in his play 'Lucifer'.

1667 – John Milton uses Lucifer as a name for the Satan/devil character in 'Paradise Lost'. Lucifer is portrayed as curious, questioning, ambitious, clever, independent, and itching to create.

1883-1906 – 'Lucifer the Lightbearer', an anarchist journal was published in the United States by Moses Harman. Harman chose to use the name of Lucifer because it was the name of the morning star (a symbol of ushering in a new day) and for the symbolism of the character of Lucifer as a freethinking rebel seeking knowledge. (The journal's name was changed to 'The American Journal of Eugenics' in 1906.)

1887-1897 – 'Lucifer' was the name of a theosophical journal published by Helena Blavatsky. (The journal's name was changed to The Theosophical Review in September 1897.)

1890s – Léo Taxil accused Freemasons to be worshippers of Lucifer, saying that the senior members were in a theistic Satanist cult within Freemasonry. In 1897, he admitted it had all been a hoax.

c. 1919 – Rudolf Steiner asserted that Lucifer had actually incarnated on Earth; in China, approximately 3000 years before Jesus.

1956 – Madeline Montalban and Nicholas Heron founded the Order of the Morning Star (OSM), their own brand of Luciferianism which exalted Lucifer (or Lumiel as they called him), who they believed was a benevolent angel-deity.

1969 – Anton LaVey listed Lucifer as one of the four crown princes of hell in "The Satanic Bible', and named the second book after him as the "lord of the air", associating him with the cardinal direction of East. LaVey describes Lucifer as the "personification of enlightenment". He also (rightly or wrongly) associates Lucifer with Dionysus and Pan.