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- From: pul@hardy.u.washington.edu (Arbaline)
- Subject: Satan is your friend !!!!!! !!!!!! !!!!!!
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.073156.7314@u.washington.edu>
- Summary: Lucifer: A study in light and dark.
- Keywords: Worship Satan :)
- Sender: news@u.washington.edu (USENET News System)
- Organization: University of Washington
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 07:31:56 GMT
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- "No real understanding of our celestial colleagues would be
- complete without tackling the issue of the "fallen" Angels. Opinions
- differ as to the precise nature of what happened in the past that
- could have caused Angels to fall, but what is unarguable is the
- persistence with which this idea has shown up in most planetary belief
- systems. Christianity and Judaism have their Satan and Lucifer and
- depending on the sect, any number of fallen Angels. Islam has its
- Eblis, or Shaytan as he is sometimes called, who is clearly the
- counterpart of Satan.
- Even in this day and age, films like _The Omen_, _Rosemary's
- Baby_, and _The Seventh Sign_ evoke horror because they tap into the
- possibility that we may be influenced in some way by universal
- messengers of evil. However, according to our Angelic informants, the
- situation, thank God, is not like that at all.
- Lucifer, it is said in one tradition, was one of the seven great
- Archangels of our solar system, serving as the guardian of the planet
- Venus. God asked for a volunteer from among His top Angels who might
- be willing to go down to Earth and help strengthen humanity's
- spiritual resolve by offering constant temptation. Lucifer
- volunteered. Despite his loving intentions, slowly, over the ages,
- Lucifer has become identified in our mind as the devil, instead of an
- aspect of God dedicated to our growth by helping us strengthen our
- spiritual muscles. "The devil made me do it" is a tempting excuse for
- just about anything, and we've allowed this to blind us into depicting
- Lucifer as the source of everything we consider "evil" in the world.
- One of the heavenly tasks of Lucifer, whose very name means
- "light giver" or "light bearer," is to teach us about the necessary
- dark side of life. Lucifer is the shadow that reveals the light by
- contrast. In many ways we can't see the true light until we first
- experience the darkness. We tend not to value something until we lose
- it and then regain it through our own efforts. The parable of the
- prodigal son touches on this quirk of human nature.
- This interdependence of light and dark, of joy and sorrow, of
- good and bad, and all the other opposites in our dual system of
- reality, yields to an understanding that, within the larger context,
- Christ and Lucifer, while not exactly complementary to each other, are
- at least on the same side, integral parts of the same whole.
- Many contemporary Christians have begun to abandon the concept
- that there is a real devil, recognizing once again that there is only
- one omnipotent force in the Universe. "Evil," as poet-philosopher
- William Blake wrote, "is only the deprivation of good, and when the
- soul emerges from this illusion of evil, Lucifer resumes his original
- status as one of God's great Archangels."
- Slowly, surely, we are collectively emerging from this illusion
- of evil. To do this means to hold firmly to the understanding of God
- as One Power, as One Ultimate Life Principle, from which all else
- emanates. Naturally, the illusion of fear and loathing still stalks
- our cities and can sometimes convince us, if we pay too much attention
- to the media, that it has some degree of objective reality.
- But isn't this exactly the challenge being presented to us - to
- come more fully to terms with the shadow side of our own nature? As we
- learn how to release and finally let go of negative and
- self-destructive behavior, we also cease to project our own negativity
- onto a fictitious devil, or fallen Angels, or onto other people. When
- we reach this point we have no further need to hang onto the illusion
- of evil.
- In reconciling these apparently opposite characteristics we also
- demonstrate those qualities the Angels revere so highly in us. And, in
- turn, we can free the so-called fallen Angels from the negativity we
- have externalized onto them for all these long millennia. By so doing
- we can allow them one again to pursue the functions for which they
- were originally created."
-
- [The above wisdom was excerpted from the book "Ask Your Angels" put
- out by Ballantine Books, in the chapter "Angels watching over us".]
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- | Walter D. "Cruiser1" Pullen pul@hardy.u.washington.edu. |
- - "When you learn to love hell, you will be in heaven!" -
- | - Thaddeus Golas in "The Lazy Man's Guide to Enlightenment" |
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