Lucifer Quotes
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On a starred night Prince Lucifer uprose. Tired of his dark dominion swung the fiend.
George Meredith— Lucifer in Starlight, l. 1-2 (1883).
Herr God, Herr Lucifer, Beware. Beware. Out of the ash I rise with my red hair And I eat men like air.
Sylvia Plath— "Lady Lazarus"
The masonic Religion should be, by all of us initiates of the higher degrees, maintained in the Purity of the Luciferian doctrine.… The true and pure philosophic religion is the belief in Lucifer, God of Light and God of Good, struggling for humanity against Adonay, the God of Darkness and Evil.
— The 1894 anti-Masonic text La Femme et l'enfant dans la franc-maçonnerie universelle attributed this passage to Freemason Albert Pike's Morals and Dogma (1871). The publicly available text of that work contradicts it and writer Léo Taxil subsequently admitted fabricating it as part of a hoax against both Freemasonry and the Catholic Church.
The masonic Religion should be, by all of us initiates of the higher degrees, maintained in the Purity of the Luciferian doctrine.… The true and pure philosophic religion is the belief in Lucifer, God of Light and God of Good, struggling for humanity against Adonay, the God of Darkness and Evil.
— The 1894 anti-Masonic text La Femme et l'enfant dans la franc-maçonnerie universelle attributed this passage to Freemason Albert Pike's Morals and Dogma (1871). The publicly available text of that work contradicts it and writer Léo Taxil subsequently admitted fabricating it as part of a hoax against both Freemasonry and the Catholic Church.
I summarize more than 30 years of research on factors that can create a "perfect storm " which leads good people to engage in evil actions . This transformation of human character is what I call the "Lucifer Effect," named after God 's favorite angel , Lucifer , who fell from grace and ultimately became Satan . Rather than providing a religious analysis, however, I offer a psychological account of how ordinary people sometimes turn evil and commit unspeakable acts.
— Philip Zimbardo, in his introduction to his site on The Lucifer Effect (2007)
It is Lucifer , The son of mystery ; And since God suffers him to be, He, too, is God's minister, And labors for some good By us not understood.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Christus, The Golden Legend (1872), Epilogue. Last stanza
How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer , son of the morning!
— Isaiah, XIV. 12 (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations)
Abortion is the greatest deception that has plagued the black church since Lucifer himself.
— Clenard Howard Childress, Jr., Life Education And Resource Network.
