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January 2006 - Luciferianism constitutes the
nucleus of the ruling class religion. While
there are definitely political and economic
rationales for elite criminality,
Luciferianism can account for the longevity
of many of the oligarchs' projects. Many of
the longest and most brutal human endeavors
have been underpinned by some form of
religious zealotry. The Crusades testify to
this historical fact. Likewise, the power
elite's ongoing campaign to establish a
socialist totalitarian global government has
Luciferianism to thank for both its
longevity and frequently violent character.
In the mind of the modern oligarch,
Luciferianism provides religious legitimacy
for otherwise morally questionable plans.
 Luciferianism
is the product of religious engineering,
which sociologist William Sims Bainbridge
defines as "the conscious, systematic,
skilled creation of a new religion"
("New Religions, Science, and
Secularization," no pagination). In
actuality, this is a tradition that even
precedes Bainbridge. It has been the
practice of Freemasonry for years. It was
also the practice of Masonry's religious and
philosophical progenitors, the ancient pagan
Mystery cults. The inner doctrines of the
Mesopotamian secret societies provided the
theological foundations for the Christian
and Judaic heresies, Kabbalism and
Gnosticism. All modern Luciferian philosophy
finds "scientific" legitimacy in
the Gnostic myth of Darwinism. As
evolutionary thought was popularized,
variants of Luciferianism were popularized
along with it (particularly in the form of
secular humanism, which shall be examined
shortly). A historical corollary of this
popularization has been the rise of several
cults and mass movements, exemplified by the
various mystical sects and gurus of the
sixties counterculture. The metastasis of
Luciferian thinking continues to this very
day.
Luciferianism represents a radical
revaluation of humanity's ageless adversary:
Satan. It is the ultimate inversion of good
and evil. The formula for this inversion is
reflected by the narrative paradigm of the
Gnostic Hypostasis myth. As opposed
to the original Biblical version, the
Gnostic account represents a
"revaluation of the Hebraic story of
the first man's temptation, the desire of
mere men to 'be as gods' by partaking of the
tree of the 'knowledge of good and
evil'" (Raschke 26). Carl Raschke
elaborates:
In The Hypostasis of the Archons,
an Egyptian Gnostic document, we read how
the traditional story of man's
disobedience toward God is reinterpreted
as a universal conflict between
"knowledge" (gnosis)
and the dark "powers" (exousia)
of the world, which bind the human soul in
ignorance. The Hypostasis describes man as
a stepchild of Sophia
("Wisdom") created according to
the "model" of aion, the
imperishable realm of eternity. On the
other hand, it is neither God the
Imperishable nor Sophia who actually is
responsible in the making of man. On the
contrary, the task is undertaken by the
archons, the demonic powers who, because
of their "weakness," entrap man
in a material body and thus cut him off
from his blessed origin. They place him in
paradise and enjoin him against eating of
the tree of knowledge. The prohibition,
however, is viewed by the author of the
text not as a holy command but as a
malignant effort on the part of the
inferior spirits to prevent Adam from
having true communion with the High God,
from gaining authentic gnosis.
(26)
According to this bowdlerization, Adam is
consistently contacted by the High God in
hopes of reinitiating man's quest for gnosis
(26). The archons intervene and create Eve
to distract Adam from the pursuit of gnosis
(26-27). However, this Gnostic Eve is
actually a "sort of 'undercover' agent
for the High God, who is charged with
divulging to Adam the truth that has been
withheld from him" (27). The archons
manage to sabotage this covert operation by
facilitating sexual intercourse between Adam
and Eve, an act that Gnostics contend was
designed to defile the "woman's
spiritual nature" (27). At this
juncture, the Hypostasis
reintroduces a familiar antagonist from the
original Genesis account:
But now the principle of feminine
wisdom reappears in the form of the
serpent, called the
"Instructor," who tells the
mortal pair to defy the prohibition of the
archons and eat of the tree of knowledge.
(27)
The serpent successfully entices Adam and
Eve to eat the forbidden fruit, but the
"bodily defilement" of the woman
prevents man from understanding the true
motive underpinning the act (27). Thus,
humanity is fettered by the archons'
"curse", suggesting that the
"orthodox theological view of the
violation of the command as 'sin' must be
regarded anew as the mindless failure to
commit the act rightly in the first
place" (27). In this revisionist
context, the serpent is no longer Satan, but
is an "incognito savior"
instead (27). Meanwhile, God's role as
benevolent Heavenly Father is vilified:
The God of Genesis, who comes
to reprimand Adam and Eve after their
transgression, is rudely caricatured in
this tale as the "Arrogant
archon" who opposes the will of the
authentic heavenly father. (27)
Of course, within this Gnostic narrative,
God incarnate is equally belittled. Jesus
Christ, the Word made flesh, is reduced to
little more than a forerunner of the coming
Gnostic adept. According to the Gnostic
mythology, Jesus was but a mere
"type" of this perfect man (27).
He came as a "teacher and an exemplar,
to show others the path to
illumination" (27-28). The true messiah
has yet to come. Equally, the serpent is
only a precursor to this messiah. He only
initiates man's journey towards gnosis.
The developmental voyage must be further
facilitated by the serpent's predecessor,
the Gnostic Christ. The Hypostasis
provides the paradigmatic template for all
Luciferian mythologies.
Like the Hypostasis, the binary
opposition of Luciferian mythology
caricatures Jehovah as an oppressive tyrant.
He becomes the "archon of
arrogance," the embodiment of ignorance
and religious superstition. Satan, who
retains his heavenly title of Lucifer, is
the liberator of humanity. Masonry, which
acts as the contemporary retainer for the
ancient Mystery religion, reconceptualizes
Satan in a similar fashion. In Morals
and Dogma, 33rd degree Freemason
Albert Pike candidly exalts the fallen
angel:
LUCIFER, the Light-bearer!
Strange and mysterious name to give to the
Spirit of Darkness! Lucifer, the Son of
the Morning! Is it he who bears
the Light, and with its splendors
intolerable blinds feeble, sensual, or
selfish Souls? Doubt it not. (321)
He makes man aware of his own innate
divinity and promises to unlock the god
within us all. This theme of apotheosis
underpinned both Gnosticism and the pagan
Mystery religions. While Gnosticism's
origins with the Ancient Mystery cults
remains a source of contention amongst
scholars, its promises of liberation from
humanity's material side is strongly akin to
the old pagan Mystery's variety of
"psychic therapy" (28). In
addition, the Ancient Mystery religion
promised the:
opportunity to erase the curse of
mortality by direct encounter with the
patron deity, or in many instances by
actually undergoing an apotheosis, a
transfiguration of human into divine (28).
Like some varieties of Satanism,
Luciferianism does not depict the devil as a
literal metaphysical entity. Lucifer only
symbolizes the cognitive powers of man. He
is the embodiment of science and reason. It
is the Luciferian's religious conviction
that these two facilitative forces will
dethrone God and apotheosize man. It comes
as little surprise that the radicals of the
early revolutionary faith celebrated the
arrival of Darwinism. Evolutionary theory
was the edifying "science" of
Promethean zealotry and the new secular
religion of the scientific dictatorship.
According to Masonic scholar Wilmshurst, the
completion of human evolution involves man
"becoming a god-like being and unifying
his consciousness with the Omniscient"
(94).
During the Enlightenment, Luciferianism
was disseminated on the popular level as
secular humanism. All of the governing
precepts of Luciferianism are encompassed by
secular humanism. This is made evident by
the philosophy's rejection of theistic
morality and enthronement of man as his own
absolute moral authority. While
Luciferianism has no sacred texts, Humanist
Manifesto I and II succinctly
delineate its central tenets. Whittaker
Chambers, former member of the communist
underground in America, eloquently
summarizes this truth:
"Humanism is not new. It is, in
fact, man's second oldest faith. Its
promise was whispered in the first days of
Creation under the Tree of the knowledge
of Good and Evil: 'Ye shall be as
gods.'" (Qutd. in Baker 206)
Transhumanism offers an updated, hi-tech
variety of Luciferianism. The appellation
"Transhumanism" was coined by
evolutionary biologist Julian Huxley ("Transhumanism,"
Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia,
no pagination). Huxley defined the
transhuman condition as "man remaining
man, but transcending himself, by realizing
new possibilities of and for his human
nature" (no pagination). However, by
1990, Dr. Max More would radically redefine
Transhumanism as follows:
Transhumanism is a class of
philosophies that seek to guide us towards
a posthuman condition. Transhumanism
shares many elements of humanism,
including a respect for reason and
science, a commitment to progress, and a
valuing of human (or transhuman) existence
in this life… Transhumanism differs from
humanism in recognizing and anticipating
the radical alterations in the nature and
possibilities of our lives resulting from
various sciences and technologies… (No
pagination)
Transhumanism advocates the use of
nanotechnology, biotechnology, cognitive
science, and information technology to
propel humanity into a "posthuman"
condition. Once he has arrived at this
condition, man will cease to be man. He will
become a machine, immune to death and all
the other "weaknesses" intrinsic
to his former human condition. The ultimate
objective is to become a god. Transhumanism
is closely aligned with the cult of
artificial intelligence. In the very
influential book The
Age of Spiritual Machines, AI high
priest Ray Kurzweil asserts that
technological immortality could be achieved
through magnetic resonance imaging or some
technique of reading and replicating the
human brain's neural structure within a
computer ("Technological
Immortality," no pagination). Through
the merger of computers and humans, Kurzweil
believes that man will "become god-like
spirits inhabiting cyberspace as well as the
material universe" (no pagination).
Following the Biblical revisionist
tradition of the Gnostic Hypostasis
myth, Transhumanists invert the roles of God
and Satan. In an essay entitled "In
Praise of the Devil," Transhumanist
ideologue Max More depicts Lucifer as a
heroic rebel against a tyrannical God:
The Devil—Lucifer—is a force for
good (where I define 'good' simply as that
which I value, not wanting to imply any
universal validity or necessity to the
orientation). 'Lucifer' means
'light-bringer' and this should begin to
clue us in to his symbolic importance. The
story is that God threw Lucifer out of
Heaven because Lucifer had started to
question God and was spreading dissension
among the angels. We must remember that
this story is told from the point of view
of the Godists (if I may coin a term) and
not from that of the Luciferians (I will
use this term to distinguish us from the
official Satanists with whom I have
fundamental differences). The truth may
just as easily be that Lucifer resigned
from heaven. (No pagination)
According to More, Lucifer probably
exiled himself out of moral outrage towards
the oppressive Jehovah:
God, being the well-documented sadist
that he is, no doubt wanted to keep
Lucifer around so that he could punish him
and try to get him back under his (God's)
power. Probably what really happened was
that Lucifer came to hate God's kingdom,
his sadism, his demand for slavish
conformity and obedience, his psychotic
rage at any display of independent
thinking and behavior. Lucifer realized
that he could never fully think for
himself and could certainly not act on his
independent thinking so long as he was
under God's control. Therefore he left
Heaven, that terrible spiritual-State
ruled by the cosmic sadist Jehovah, and
was accompanied by some of the angels who
had had enough courage to question God's
authority and his value-perspective. (No
pagination)
More proceeds to reiterate 33rd Degree
Mason Albert Pike's depiction of Lucifer:
Lucifer is the embodiment of reason, of
intelligence, of critical thought. He
stands against the dogma of God and all
other dogmas. He stands for the
exploration of new ideas and new
perspectives in the pursuit of truth. (No
pagination)
Lucifer is even considered a patron saint
by some Transhumanists ("Transtopian
Symbolism," no pagination).
Transhumanism retains the paradigmatic
character of Luciferianism, albeit in a
futurist context. Worse still, Transhumanism
is hardly some marginalized cult. Richard
Hayes, executive director of the Center for
Genetics and Society, elaborates:
Last June at Yale University, the World
Transhumanist Association held its first
national conference. The Transhumanists
have chapters in more than 20 countries
and advocate the breeding of
"genetically enriched" forms of
"post-human" beings. Other
advocates of the new techno-eugenics, such
as Princeton University professor Lee
Silver, predict that by the end of this
century, "All aspects of the economy,
the media, the entertainment industry, and
the knowledge industry [will be]
controlled by members of the GenRich
class. . .Naturals [will] work as low-paid
service providers or as laborers. .
." (No pagination)
With a growing body of academic
luminaries and a techno-eugenical vision for
the future, Transhumanism is carrying the
banner of Luciferianism into the 21st
century. Through genetic engineering and
biotechnological augmentation of the
physical body, Transhumanists are attempting
to achieve the very same objective of their
patron saint.
I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt
my throne above the stars of God: I will
sit also upon the mount of the
congregation, in the sides of the north: I
will ascend above the heights of the
clouds; I will be like the most High.
(Isaiah 14:13-14)
This declaration reflects the aspirations
of the power elite as well. Whatever form
the Luciferian religion assumes throughout
the years, its goal remains the same:
Apotheosis.
Sources Cited
- Bainbridge, William Sims. "New
Religions, Science, and Secularization."
Excerpted from Religion
and the Social Order, 1993, Volume
3A, pages 277-292, 1993.
- Baker, Jeffrey. Cheque
Mate: The Game of Princes.
Springdale, PA: Whitaker House, 1995.
- Hayes, Richard. "Selective
Science." TomPaine.commonsense
12 February 2004.
- More, Max. "Transhumanism:
Towards a Futurist Philosophy."
Maxmore.com 1996
- Pike, Albert. Morals
and Dogma. 1871. Richmond, Virginia:
L.H. Jenkins, Inc., 1942.
- Raschke, Carl A. The
Interruption of Eternity: Modern
Gnosticism and the Origins of the New
Religious Consciousness. Chicago:
Nelson-Hall, 1980.
- "Transhumanism."
Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia.
8 January 2006
- "Transtopian
Symbolism." Transtopia:
Transhumanism Evolved 2003-2005
- Wilmshurst, W.L. The
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About the Author
Phillip D. Collins acted
as the editor for The Hidden Face of
Terrorism. He has also written
articles for Paranoia Magazine, MKzine, News
With Views, B.I.P.E.D.: The Official Website
of Darwinian Dissent and Conspiracy Archive.
He has an Associate of Arts and Science.
Currently, he is studying for a bachelor's
degree in Communications at Wright State
University. During the course of his
seven-year college career, Phillip has
studied philosophy, religion, and classic
literature. He also co-authored the book, The
Ascendancy of the Scientific Dictatorship:
An Examination of Epistemic Autocracy, From
the 19th to the 21st Century, which
is available
online here. He also moderates the Yahoo
discussion group "Panoptic
Age."
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