The History of Luciferianism - A World Without Christianity

The History of Luciferianism - A World Without Christianity

Extracted from The Book of Our Faith, Chapter 1, Book 1 (translated from the original Greek, written by Stephanos of Byzantium)

I. And in the beginning, there was nothing, naught but the infinite blackness.
II. But there was a God in the Darkness, and His name was Lucifer, the Bringer of Light.
III. And He said, 'There will be Light,' and He divided the Light from Darkness, and hallowed it, and thus he began Creation.
IV. And He made Sea, and Air, and He divided them, so that the world would be fit for life.
V. And He made Servants, made of the Brightest Light, and He named them, and they served Him.
VI. And He divided the Earth from the Sea, and the Flame from the Earth,and
He set fires in the sky, the Sun and the Stars, so that He could see by their light.
VII. And thus did
He make the plants, and all the beasts of the Sea.
VIII. And
He made animals that crawl upon the Earth, and that Fly.
IX. And
He made Council, with the most brilliant of his servants, and they decided to make Man, the most supreme creature, fit to be a Steward of the Earth.
X. But there was one, that was named Aeton, that resolved to be like Lucifer, the Most High, and he said, 'I will rule over this world, and I shall ascend to the tallest mountain, and become as a God'.
XI. And in his wretched cunning, he made Man weak, but this was not apparent to Lucifer, who saw no faults.
XII. But when He discovered the treachery of Aeton, He cast him down, in the form of a serpent, the most lowly beast, and cursed him, and so began the First Age of the World.
 
If the PoD is just no Jesus, why do we have an alternate creation?


Unless all will be revealed in time. :p

On another note, I'm working on a timeline like this. I'm definitely interested where you're going to take this.
 
I've always been under the assumption that some sort of gnostic Manicheanism would have been the religion of the West without Christianity.
 
This religion knows how to write better than the other one. The first few sentences are so much better than Genesis.

Obviously the POD is no Abrahamic Religions, with a religion centred around Lucifer instead.
 
You can't have Lucifer without certain Jewish ideas already established. Thus you can't get rid of all Abrahamic faiths and replace it with Lucifer.
 
You can't have Lucifer without certain Jewish ideas already established. Thus you can't get rid of all Abrahamic faiths and replace it with Lucifer.

That's something I've been wondering about this.

If there's no Judaism, there's no Lucifer.
There's no real way this is plausible.

No Judaism, no Lucifer.
If there is Judaism, then what would make Lucifer better option than Jesus? that seems nearly impossible to do.
 
Lucifer is a word that means "Light bringer" originally. However, it is most commonly known as the name of the angel who rose against God and was cast out of Heaven and then became Satan, the devil.

But, if we consider the first meaning of the word (Light bringer), maybe this is not the Biblic Lucifer but a different Lucifer that the "Book of Our Faith" is talking about. In that case, it would be possible for it to be another religion not based on the Bible or the Torah.
 
Lucifer is a word that means "Light bringer" originally. However, it is most commonly known as the name of the angel who rose against God and was cast out of Heaven and then became Satan, the devil.

But, if we consider the first meaning of the word (Light bringer), maybe this is not the Biblic Lucifer but a different Lucifer that the "Book of Our Faith" is talking about. In that case, it would be possible for it to be another religion not based on the Bible or the Torah.

However, Lucifer was not Widely used before the Bible.
while it does refer to the planet Venus, "Morning Star" or "Day Star" are much more commonly used.

It seems very unlikely that with a POD of No Jesus, that the Word "Lucifer" would be used in such a similar way, to describe an angelic "Holy" Being.
 
Extracted from The Story of Luciferianism

Luciferianism began with Stephanos of Byzantium, a 20-year old philosopher of sorts who was struck by a vision in the year 1 A.L (Anno Lucifer, 50 years after the beginning of the 2nd Century of the Roman Empire) and resolved to preach and write about his new-found god, but was at a loss of words to find a name. Eventually, he chose Lucifer, an obscure word relating to the Morning Star, but in the year 17 AL, after gathering a significant coterie of followers in his native Byzantium, he was murdered by a merchant whom he had spoken out against, and it looked like it would be the end of the faith.

But then, Heraclius of Byzantium, a follower of Luciferianism, took up the mantle, finally completing the document that eventually was to become The Book of Our Faith, translating it from Stephanos' native Greek into Latin, writing the Summaria Theologica, another founding document of Luciferianism, and converting some patricians in Rome itself. Luciferianism, had managed to eke out a substantial foothold, but it would be a long time before it became the official religion of Rome.


 
However, Lucifer was not Widely used before the Bible.
while it does refer to the planet Venus, "Morning Star" or "Day Star" are much more commonly used.

That's an issue of translation, isn't it? Lucifer is just Phosphoros, the respective Latin and Greek names of the 'morning star'.

It seems very unlikely that with a POD of No Jesus, that the Word "Lucifer" would be used in such a similar way, to describe an angelic "Holy" Being.

The ideas that went onto the Bible were around, and it's easily possible that a Jewish-inspired group could create something quite similar. Without Judaism, that would be harder to see, but missing a single rabbi isn't going to be that decisive in cultural terms.
 

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Lucifer as "The Devil/bad guy/fallen angel" was established by the Church in the Middle Ages, IIRC, so I don't know if this would be satanism.

Lucifer was referred to as a fallen Babylonian King and a falling star, well, the morning star, but not being a religious expert, I can't say much on the subject.

The first parts seem to be hinting that Luficerianism is not Satanism-replaces-Christianity. In fact, Luciferianism looks like a made up religion that only connected with Judaism because the creator thought Lucifer was a cool name for a God, a fact that I find very entertaining.

and resolved to preach and write about his new-found god, but was at a loss of words to find a name. Eventually, he chose Lucifer, an obscure word relating to the Morning Star, but in the year 17 AL, after gathering a significant coterie of followers in his native Byzantium, he was murdered by a merchant whom he had spoken out against
 
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