Re: Gnostics and Lucifer.

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From: B.A. Davis-Howe
Date: Sun, 10 Jul 1994 23:14

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nsmca@aurora.alaska.edu writes:

>Lucifer to a christian seems to be more a term for evil. Anti-god.

>Lucifer to a gnostic-christian seems more like an anti-thesis to knowledge of
>god.

>Lucifer to a gnostic. Gnostic coming from gnosis, meaning knowledge.
>So a gnostic meens to be a searcher of knowledge. And therefore anything that
 is
>anti-knowledge, anti-search for knowledge is lucifer/satan/shaitan, to include
>superstitious christians (and other religeons).

>shaitan/Satan meaning enemy.

To some Gnostic Christians, Lucifer (Light-bearer) was a source of knowledge,
since he convinced Eve to eat of the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge.  This
is in contrast to the creator, who, in the cosmology of these Gnostics, is
trying to keep humans ignorant.  To these Gnostics, Lucifer is good, and
God the Creator is evil.

Also, Satan does not mean enemy, it means, approximately from the Hebrew,
tester.

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Enjoy the journey!
                       --B.A. "Bran" Davis-Howe (ba@mrcnext.cso.uiuc)

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Witches have the sick sense (of humor). ;)

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