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Lucifer

Lucifer as a part of the Being and the living double of the Intimate Christ, the trainer who tempts so that we may rise, the black Lucifer of the fall and how he is whitened, and his offices, in his own words from all fifty-two books

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Six parts: Lucifer within the Being, his place beside the Intimate Christ, the trainer, the fall, his offices, and the devil whitened

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The road through the work: six parts, with the passages and practices in eachThe shadow of our divine Beingpart one · 39 passages · 0 practicesThe sunderable part of the Intimate Christpart two · 24 passages · 0 practicesThe psychological gymnasium of human existencepart three · 56 passages · 8 practicesHumanity has Lucifer converted into the devilpart four · 46 passages · 1 practiceThe minister of the Most Highpart five · 18 passages · 0 practicesWhiten the devilpart six · 56 passages · 22 practices

Every word here is his. Nothing has been paraphrased, joined or improved. Each passage was cut out of the book it belongs to by reference and carries that book and the paragraph it came from. Where he was speaking rather than writing, it also carries the name of the lecture, with the place and year where the volume records them, so anything on this page can be found again in the source.

This is a work of the Being. He does not set Lucifer outside us: “Xolotl-Lucifer is not at all a foreign element to our psyche; on the contrary, he is certainly the shadow of our divine Being” “Each of us has our particular Lucifer.” And he names what Lucifer is: “Lucifer is the reflection of the Logos within us, here and now.”

The second part sets him beside the Intimate Christ, whose own work stands in the Christ family: “The sunderable part of Christ, or better if we say, the living double of Christ, is Lucifer, the Maker of Light.” “Christus-Lucifer is the Saviour within each one of us.”

The third part is the trainer. “Xolotl-Lucifer-Prometheus is the psychological trainer in the gymnasium of practical life.” “Temptation is fire, triumph over temptation is light.” “Lucifer is the staircase to ascend; Lucifer is the staircase to descend.”

The fourth part is the fall. “Satan is the devil, black like carbon, the fallen Lucifer.”

The fifth part is his offices. “To him is entrusted the Sword and the Scale of Cosmic Justice.” “Prometheus-Lucifer courageously plunders the divine fire in order to assist us in the path of spiritual insurrection.”

The last part is the work that remains. We, he says, “need to transform the Devil into Lucifer”, and he ends on what that makes of us: “Lucifer-Prometheus totally integrated with all the parts of our Being, makes us something different, distinct; an exotic creature, an Archangel, a terribly divine Power.”

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Part One — The shadow of our divine Being

11 passages

IEach of us has our particular Lucifer

Lucifer is presented here as an inner presence rather than one devil standing outside humanity: every person carries a Lucifer of his own, the projected shadow of his own Logos. The Church Fathers met theirs in many shapes, the Aztecs called him Xolotl, and the Maya drew him as the Jaguar, frightful or radiant according to how far the psychological aggregates have been removed.

We know that the inner divine Logoi is beyond the body, the emotions and the mind. This, unquestionably, is that which is ineffable, is real. He projects his reflection, his particular shadow within us, here and now. Obviously this shadow, this logoic reflection is the psychological trainer, Lucifer the tempter. Each of us has our particular Lucifer. In the Egypt of the Pharaohs, the midday sun, the Sacred Absolute Sun was always symbolised by Osiris whilst his shadow, his reflection, his Lucifer, was allegorised by Typhoon.

Tarot and Kabbalah, 1978

Lucifer-Prometheus, the adversary, that vile worm that pierces the heart of the world, had the most beautiful face, although he is now found chained to the fatal rock of impotence. Let us not think of a dogmatic Lucifer, but of the interior Lucifer of each person, that reflection of the Logos that is found within the inner depth of each person.

Yes, There Is a Hell, a Devil and Karma, 1973

The Church Fathers: Simeon, Pachomius, Eulogius, and Anthony, saw their own individual Lucifer (everyone of us has our own) appearing in the form of a pretty woman, or as a terrifying man with glowing horns, or as a child dressed in a black robe. Let us hear Ezekiel’s marvellous chant to the beautiful demon, Lucifer-Xolotl (Ezekiel, 28: 12, 13, 16): Thou sealest up the sum, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty.

The Secret Doctrine of Anahuac, 1974

Thou hast been in Eden, the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created.

The Secret Doctrine of Anahuac, 1974

By the multitude of thy merchandise they have filled the midst of thee with violence and thou hart sinned: therefore I will cast thee as profane out of the mountain of God: and I will destroy thee, O covering cherub from the midst of the stones of fire.

The Secret Doctrine of Anahuac, 1974

Xolotl-Lucifer is not at all a foreign element to our psyche; on the contrary, he is certainly the shadow of our divine Being within our innermost individual depth.

The Secret Doctrine of Anahuac, 1974

To reiterate is sometimes indispensable. It is urgent to understand totally that each of us has his own Xolotl-Lucifer, individual, the total reflection of his own Logos.

The Secret Doctrine of Anahuac, 1974

Our Lord Quetzalcoatl, the Mexican Christ, undoubtedly developed the highest part of his own Being. It should be noted that Xolotl, the Nahua Lucifer, is also one of our own Being’s isolated parts.

The Secret Doctrine of Anahuac, 1974 also in The Twelve Powers Are Within Us

Therefore, those who think that Lucifer is the enemy of the Eternal One are very mistaken. And those who dogmatically illustrate him as a terrible demon—seated on a throne of ignominy and blasphemy while holding an iron trident with his right hand and dominating the world—are also mistaken.

The Mayan Mysteries, 1977

Indeed, Xolotl-Lucifer, the Jaguar, the Tiger, represents the particular, individual Lucifer. Everyone within the very depth of his consciousness has his own Lucifer, and will see him according to the degree of purification in the elimination of their psychological aggregates. The more errors, defects, and vices we have, the more horrible and frightful will he be. Yet, the more clean and pure we are, the more radiant will he be.

The Mayan Mysteries, 1977

The Jaguar represents the same interior, particular, individual Lucifer that each one of us has inside. The Tiger Knights, in addition to being warriors accustomed to hard labor, were also extraordinary athletes of Jinn science. These extraordinary beings knew how to mix the three Samyasa elements with the terrifying feline power of the Jaguar-Lucifer.

The Mayan Mysteries, 1977

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IILucifer is the reflection of the Logos within us

These passages define Lucifer by what casts him. The divine spark, the inner Sun, projects a shadow into the psyche, and that shadow is Lucifer, Satan or Mephistopheles; it cannot be dissolved as the ego can, because it belongs to the Eternal, and whoever curses it speaks against the cosmic reflection of the Logos.

They who rashly curse Lucifer, speak ill of the Cosmic Reflection of the Logos; anathematise the Living God manifested in matter and renounce the always incomprehensible wisdom revealed in the opposites of light and darkness; semblance, similarity: sun and shadow, day and night. Law of opposites...

Tarot and Kabbalah, 1978 also in The Law of Polarities

It is clear and evident that Lucifer is the antithesis of the Creator Demiurge, its living shadow projected into the profound depths of microcosm man.

The Three Mountains, 1972

Inside each one of us, Lucifer is the reflection of the Intimate Logoi, shadow of the Lord projected onto the depth of our Being...

The Three Mountains, 1972

Ladies and gentlemen: Satan, Lucifer, the Devil is something beyond all of this, he is the reflection of our own inner Being in ourselves and within our own consciousness, here and now.

Yes, There Is a Hell, a Devil and Karma, 1973

Now I am talking about a different dragon. I am referring to the reflection of the Logos within ourselves, here and now, the authentic Devil, the sacred dragon of the Dracontias that has nothing evil or perverse as ignorant people suppose.

Yes, There Is a Hell, a Devil and Karma, 1973

Do not forget that behind each Sun that illuminates us is the Phoenician Elon, the Jewish Helion, the central Sun of this universe in which we live, we move and have our Being. That this sacred absolute Sun has its contrasts and oppositions is normal; in any case his shadow in us and within us is Lucifer, the great psychological trainer that we have for our own good.

Yes, There Is a Hell, a Devil and Karma, 1973 also in The Solar Logos

If we wisely analyze what Satan is, the devil, Lucifer, if we comprehend that he is only the reflection of God within us, the shadow of the Inner Sun within each of us, located in the depth of our soul for our good, immediately and rightfully we are doing justice to such a Gnostic sect.

Yes, There Is a Hell, a Devil and Karma, 1973

Answer: With great pleasure I answer the question that comes from the audience. Ladies and gentlemen, the hour of knowing that all of us are children of the devil has arrived. I beg you, please, do not be frightened; we already know that the Lord Satan or Lucifer-Prometheus is exclusively the shadow of our own internal divinity, projected within our very selves for our own good.

Yes, There Is a Hell, a Devil and Karma, 1973

In Mesoamerica and Mexico, the humanized tiger became a concrete reality. This is how we also find it in Teotihuacán, raising his arms in a liturgical gesture or with that feline march that characterizes it. Therefore, Lucifer is the reflection of the Logos within us, here and now. If a tree has its shadow, why should it surprise us that the Logos has a shadow?

The Mayan Mysteries, 1977

When we have dissolved the Ego, the Myself, we will discover with mystical astonishment that there is something that cannot be dissolved, and that something is hated by the people of all religions. I refer to the Biblical Satan. This word, naturally, horrifies many. We already know the role that the Devil played in the Old Testament. But we must comprehend it. That Devil, who scares us so much, is the least harmful. As Goethe said in one of his poems –words that he puts in God’s mouth–: “Of all your kind, rebellious spirits to my law, the least damaging and harmful is you.“ That Mephistopheles –Satan– is the least damaging and harmful, it seems incredible, right? All religious people think that Satan is the most harmful, and if we were to speak in favor of Satan, we would be declared Satanists, black mages, sorcerers, wizards, cursed people, etc. This is humanity.

The Fifth Gospel The Mind and Ethics of Resurrected Masters Third Chamber – Mexico City – December 31. 1975

But remember that this Satan is the shadow of the Eternal. We could dissolve the Ego, reduce it to dust, but Satan cannot be dissolved because it is the shadow of the Eternal. If we go down a street, we cast our shadow in the sunlight, right? Likewise, the Eternal casts his shadow on each of us.

The Fifth Gospel The Mind and Ethics of Resurrected Masters Third Chamber – Mexico City – December 31. 1975

Remember that each of us has a divine, virginal, ineffable spark, which is our intimate Logoi, our Be-ness. He casts his shadow into our psyche and that is precisely Satan, Mephistopheles, Ahriman, or whatever we want to call it. Among the Aztecs, Satan is Xolotl, the double of Lord Quetzalcoatl.

The Fifth Gospel The Mind and Ethics of Resurrected Masters Third Chamber – Mexico City – December 31. 1975

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IIILucifer is the Logos in its more elevated aspect

One being, two faces. In his higher aspect Lucifer is the Verb itself, an Angel produced from the presence of the Logos and given dominion of the infernal worlds; in his lower aspect he is the adversary, and the shame of falling into generation rests on him, never on the Logos.

In the resplendent dawn of the Mahamanvantara, when the human being and the terrestrial chain were going to appear, an Angel (the shadow of the Lord), filled with a desire for progression, was produced from the presence of the Logos like an enchantment. Thus, it is obvious that the Divine Architect of the universe granted to him the dominion of the Infernal Worlds.

Parsifal Unveiled, 1970

Hence, it is unquestionable that the superior semblance of that vile worm who passes through the heart of the world is loan, Swan, Choan, John, the Verb, the Army of the Voice, the Logos.

Parsifal Unveiled, 1970

Lucifer is the Logos in its more elevated aspect and the ‘adversary’ in its inferior aspect, both reflecting themselves in and within each one of us.

Parsifal Unveiled, 1970

The negative aspect of Lucifer-Prometheus leads us inevitably to failure and because of this, it is said that he is the adversary that dwells in the heart of the world.

Yes, There Is a Hell, a Devil and Karma, 1973

It is then the dragon, Lucifer, Prometheus, Satan or the Devil, in its superior aspect, the same Logos “The Self-born One,” the Hindu Aja. In its inferior aspect it is the authentic and legitimate dragon or esoteric devil, (different from that of dogmatic orthodoxy). Every hierophant, every true self realized being is a dragon of wisdom.

Yes, There Is a Hell, a Devil and Karma, 1973

I want you then my friends to comprehend what this dogmatic fetish or fantastic orthodox devil and what the reflection of the Logos, the shadow of God within each of us, the real Devil or Lucifer or sacred Prometheus, is.

Yes, There Is a Hell, a Devil and Karma, 1973

Bel and the Dragon, Quetzalcoatl and Xolotl, Apollo and Python, Krishna and Kaliya, Osiris and Typhon, Michael and the Red Dragon, St. George and his Dragon: these are always the individual, divine Logoi and their doubles, projected in our own psyche for our own well being.

The Secret Doctrine of Anahuac, 1974

The shadow of Adonai is the glory of Satan, and the Lord's stool is the throne of Satan.

The Mayan Mysteries, 1977

Countenance, resemblance, similitude, sun and shadow, day and night, the law of the contraries—two are the armies of the Logos or Demiurge Architect of the Universe: the warring hosts of Michael in the sublime expansions of heaven, and the legions of Satan in the abyss of the manifested world. Clearly, these are the unmanifested and the manifested, the virginal one and the one fallen into animal generation.

The Mayan Mysteries, 1977

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IVThe horns of the Individual Lucifer

The degree to which objective reason has developed in a person is marked by tridents on the horns of his individual Lucifer, one trident for each degree. Whoever bears the full number is called a God, and the luminous horns of Christus-Lucifer are not to be confused with those of the demons.

The degrees of development of the objective reasoning of the Being are known by the number of tridents that are shown on the horns of the Individual Lucifer, who is within each one of us.

Pistis Sophia Unveiled, 1983

It is necessary to know about the Taurinean Mysteries in order not to alarm ourselves with the luminous horns of Christus-Lucifer within each one of us.

Pistis Sophia Unveiled, 1983

Therefore, we must not confuse the horns of the demons with the luminous horns of Christus-Lucifer.

Pistis Sophia Unveiled, 1983

So, whoever is able to have, for example, the total development of the Ninth Degree, and is able to have the nine tridents on the horns of his own individual Lucifer, undoubtedly has become absolutely conscious of what is Real, of the Truth, as he can even process analyses about it. He is a God.

The Fifth Gospel Gnostic Consequences of the Immolation of Pain Lecture – Interview – Mexico City – 1976

Now, only Lucifer with his tridents can indicate to us the path with exactitude. Why? Because, simply, it is a great truth: he is the one who gives the impulse and the material for the Great Work.

The Fifth Gospel Gnostic Consequences of the Immolation of Pain Lecture – Interview – Mexico City – 1976

Whoever has developed objective reason is an Enlightened One. But there are six degrees of development of objective reason. These six degrees are known by the tridents that exist on the horns. What horns am I referring to? To the silver horns of the Hierophants, to the horns of Lucifer. This Lucifer is none other than the reflection of the Logos in us, the shadow of the Lord located within ourselves, within our inner universe for our own good.

The Fifth Gospel Work Taste and Life Taste Third Chamber – Mexico City – 1976

I was saying that the six degrees of development of objective reason are on the horns of Lucifer. Yes, the mark is there. Whoever has only one trident on those horns has not gone up but one degree; whoever has two tridents indicates a second degree of development in his objective reason; and whoever has three has perfected his mind up to the third degree of his objective perception.

The Fifth Gospel Work Taste and Life Taste Third Chamber – Mexico City – 1976 also in The Mind

Part Two — The sunderable part of the Intimate Christ

11 passages

IThe living double of Christ

The power that comes from Christ can be separated from him, and that separable part, which gives the erotic impulse, is Lucifer, the Maker of Light, through whom Pistis Sophia is set free. Among the Nahuas the same double is Xolotl, the living shadow of Quetzalcoatl who plunges into our atomic infernos.

Xolotl, the living shadow of Quetzalcoatl, or Lucifer-Prometheus, is the bearer of light, the Morning Star, the living symbol of our cornerstone, the Philosopher’s Stone in which lies the key to all powers.

The Secret Doctrine of Anahuac, 1974

Ostensibly, Xolotl-Lucifer-Prometheus is Quetzalcoatl’ s double, and is the prince of light and darkness, having absolute power over the heavens, the earth and the infernos. The divine Daemon is the reflection of God within us, here and now, and can confer upon us the power, the wisdom and divine likeness. Eritris sicut dei, “Thou shalt be like gods.” The Philosopher’s Stone (Lucifer-Xolotl) lies in the depths of our own sexual organs, and has to reconcile the opposites — coincidentia oppositorum — or the enemy brothers. Thou shalt be like gods.

The Secret Doctrine of Anahuac, 1974

Xolotl, the shadow or double of the Mexican Christ, Quetzalcoatl, plunging from the empyrean to our own atomic infernos, is truly extraordinary and marvellous.

The Secret Doctrine of Anahuac, 1974

Xolotl-Lucifer is the archetype of the chaste penitent; having become an anchorite, he sheds light in darkness and explains the Christic esotericism.

The Secret Doctrine of Anahuac, 1974

The power that comes from Christ is a sunderable part of Christ.

Pistis Sophia Unveiled, 1983 also in The Intimate Christ

The sunderable part of Christ gives the erotic impulse to the human being.

Pistis Sophia Unveiled, 1983 also in The Intimate Christ

The sunderable part of Christ, or better if we say, the living double of Christ, is Lucifer, the Maker of Light.

Pistis Sophia Unveiled, 1983 also in The Intimate Christ

Thanks to the Maker of Light, Pistis Sophia is liberated.

Pistis Sophia Unveiled, 1983

On the other hand, religion hates Lucifer, and curses Him without knowing that he is the sunderable part of the Intimate Christ.

Pistis Sophia Unveiled, 1983 also in The Intimate Christ

Lucifer, the Maker of Light, is within the Mysteries of sex.

Pistis Sophia Unveiled, 1983

The Mayan Jaguar is indubitably the same as Xolotl, or the Nahua Lucifer. The Jaguar represents this in all of Mesoamerica. Translated to the present epoch of Christianity, this is Lucifer, which is Latin, from luci, light, and fer, faith. Light and faith are therefore the reflection of the Logos within us, here and now. The Logos, God, rent itself asunder, and that sundered part is precisely the Nahua Xolotl, the Christian Lucifer, the Mayan Jaguar.

The Mayan Mysteries, 1977

13 passages

IIChristus-Lucifer is the Saviour within each one of us

Here the Gnostic name Christus-Lucifer is set against the theologians' devil: an allegory of the highest sacrifice, God of Wisdom, one with the Platonic Logos, whose higher aspect is the Cosmic Christ. As the light-stream he takes the lights out of the aggregates and returns them to Pistis Sophia, and he descends into the atomic hells to serve as the ladder upward.

Since we have just written this name, so hateful for the pious ears of common people, it is necessary to clarify the fact that the esoteric Lucifer of the Archaic Doctrine is the opposite to what the theologians, such as the famous Demouss-Eaux and the Marquis of Mirville, mistakenly suppose, since he is an allegory of righteousness, symbol of the highest sacrifice (Christos-Lucifer) of the Gnostics and the god of Wisdom under an infinite number of names.

The Three Mountains, 1972

Light and shadow, mysterious symbiosis of the Solar Word, multiple perfect unity, INRI is Lucifer.

The Three Mountains, 1972

The Christ-Lucifer of the Gnostics is the God of Wisdom under different names, the God of our planet Earth without any shadow of evil, because he is One with the Platonic Logos...

The Three Mountains, 1972

Lactacio, when speaking about the nature of Christ, makes of the Logos, the Verb, the “first begotten brother of Satan and the first of all creatures.”

Parsifal Unveiled, 1970

The antithesis of Lucifer or the superior aspect of the same, is the Solar Logos, the Cosmic Christ.

Yes, There Is a Hell, a Devil and Karma, 1973 also in The Intimate Christ

In this way friends, the transcendental fohat, the sexual electricity, the marvellous force of the Christus-Lucifer, redeems, works, disintegrates everything that is useless, with the goal of liberating the essence, the conscience, the Buddahata.

Yes, There Is a Hell, a Devil and Karma, 1973

Obviously, the Individual Lucifer within each one of us is a reflection of the Logos (Christ) within our interior. This is why he is referred to us as Christus-Lucifer. Lucifer gives us the sexual impulse. Therefore, Lucifer is the stairs to ascend and the stairs to descend.

Pistis Sophia Unveiled, 1983

Christus-Lucifer is our Saviour, the Redeemer of Pistis Sophia.

Pistis Sophia Unveiled, 1983 also in The Intimate Christ

Christus-Lucifer grasps the scale and the sword as a Lord of Justice. Lucifer, integrated with the Intimate Christ, shines in Sabaoth, the Solar Man.

Pistis Sophia Unveiled, 1983 also in The Intimate Christ

Christus-Lucifer is the Saviour within each one of us.

Pistis Sophia Unveiled, 1983 also in The Intimate Christ

We know very well that the integrated light-stream is Christ-Sabaoth or Lucifer Sabaoth. The Light-Powers return to Pistis Sophia when all the undesirable elements of Selfwilled have been annihilated. The Body of Gold, To Soma Heliakon, with which Pistis Sophia is dressed, shines with the lights that have been poured into Pistis Sophia.

Pistis Sophia Unveiled, 1983 also in The Intimate Christ

The light-stream, Christus-Lucifer, takes away the lights from within the diverse aggregates, in order to return them to Pistis Sophia.

Pistis Sophia Unveiled, 1983 also in The Intimate Christ

Christus-Lucifer descends to our own atomic hells to serve as a ladder for us to ascend; therein lies the greatness of Christus-Lucifer.

The Fifth Gospel Gnostic Consequences of the Immolation of Pain Lecture – Interview – Mexico City – 1976 also in The Intimate Christ

Part Three — The psychological gymnasium of human existence

13 passages

IThe psychological trainer in the gymnasium of practical life

Every gymnasium needs a trainer, and in the psychological one that trainer is the shadow of the inner Being. Xolotl, the divine Daimon of Socrates, places temptation in the way so that powers and virtues may be drawn out, and his temptation is described as a pedagogy with a hidden divine purpose.

Let us now refer to the divine Daemon of Socrates: the famous Lucifer of the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, the very same Nahua Xolotl, who in the magical hill of Coatepec, in Tula, attended faster than the wind, the sorcerous invocation of the sixty elders.

The Secret Doctrine of Anahuac, 1974

Xolotl-Lucifer-Prometheus is the psychological trainer in the gymnasium of practical life. Some co-fraternities spread foolish and defamatory lies against the solar Gnostic Chnuphis, the Chrestos Agathodemon, the serpent of the Genesis, the Nahua Lucifer, the resplendent Dragon of Wisdom. All this is useless noise and uproar.

The Secret Doctrine of Anahuac, 1974 also in The Words He Uses

Xolotl-Lucifer as a tutor, educator or mentor, is certainly astonishing, tremendous and extraordinary.

The Secret Doctrine of Anahuac, 1974

The Luc temptation is unique didactics, prodigious pedagogy, and amazing attraction. It is unmistakable incentive, seduction, fascination and occult motivation with secret and divine purposes.

The Secret Doctrine of Anahuac, 1974

When we wisely take advantage of Xolotl-Lucifer’s moving and fascinating didactics, we achieve magical resurrection.

The Secret Doctrine of Anahuac, 1974

---It is useless for you to go on dressing up, I always recognise you, oh, Lucifer...! You will never defeat me...

The Three Mountains, 1972

That sublime creature, terror of the ignorance, smiled then with an infinite sweetness... Unquestionably he is the "divine Daimon'' of Socrates, our special trainer in the psychological gymnasium of life...

The Three Mountains, 1972

Obviously such a shadow, such a logical reflection is the psychological trainer, Lucifer, the tempter...

Yes, There Is a Hell, a Devil and Karma, 1973

In the psychological gymnasium of human existence, a trainer is always required, with the purpose of educing powers, faculties, extraordinary virtues, etc., etc.

Yes, There Is a Hell, a Devil and Karma, 1973

Regarding the dragon, indubitably he is the most extraordinary psychological trainer that each of us carry within ourselves.

Yes, There Is a Hell, a Devil and Karma, 1973

The divine Daimon, mentioned many times by Socrates, the very shadow of our individual spirit, places us in temptations with the purpose of training us, educating us; only in this manner do the precious gems of virtues spring forth from our psyche. Now I ask myself and I ask you: Where is the evil of Lucifer? The results are what speak.. if there is no temptation, there are no virtues; the stronger the temptations, the greater the virtues; what is important is to not fall into temp tation and because of this we should beg the Father, saying, “Do not let us fall into temptation.”

Yes, There Is a Hell, a Devil and Karma, 1973 also in The Secret Weapon of the Ego

This red dragon, that shadow of the solar Logos in us, that psychological trainer that each person carries in his interior, puts us in situations of temptation with the purpose of training us on the path of virtue.

Yes, There Is a Hell, a Devil and Karma, 1973 also in The Secret Weapon of the Ego

It is evident that Lucifer is a great trainer that we carry within; because of this, the sexual impulse is deep down Luciferic.

Yes, There Is a Hell, a Devil and Karma, 1973

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IITemptation is fire, triumph over temptation is light

Without temptation there is no virtue, and the stronger the temptation the greater the virtue that comes of conquering it. The tempter's duty is to test the Initiate, above all in sex where the root of the ego lies, and Lucifer gives light to the one who defeats him.

I now ask myself and I ask you: where is the evil of Lucifer? It is the results which speak; if there is no temptation, there is no virtue. The stronger the temptations, the greater the virtues. The important thing is not to fall into temptation, and for this reason we must pray to the Father saying: “Lead us not into temptation”.

Tarot and Kabbalah, 1978

“The Inferno is the womb of Heaven. From putrefaction is born the beauty. Lucifer gives us the light when we are victorious over him”.

Tarot and Kabbalah, 1978

If the good Sir Amfortas, King of the Grail, would have known how to properly use the luciferic mighty boon in the supreme moment of sexual temptation, then, it is ostensible that he would have passed through a radical transformation.

Parsifal Unveiled, 1970

That the dragon tempts us during the work, that is his duty; he should make us strong, he should educate us in the sexual gymnasium, he should convert us into athletes of sexual magic.

Yes, There Is a Hell, a Devil and Karma, 1973

Answer: Distinguished lady, it is urgent that you understand that the root of ego is found in sexual abuse, in lust, in fornication, in adultery... If we take away the roots from a tree it is clear that the latter will ultimately die; something similar happens with ego... unfortunately Lucifer should educate us in sex, there is where we should submit to a rigorous understanding through the most severe temptations; it is clear that if, there in se; we come out victorious, the disintegration of the ego is inevitably precipitated. I do not want to say with this that all the psychological defects should not be worked on with the purpose of reducing them to ashes; I am only putting certain emphasis on the sexual matter, since it is in fornication that the original sin is found.

Yes, There Is a Hell, a Devil and Karma, 1973

When Jesus, the great Gnostic Priest, was tempted by Satan, he only exclaimed: “Satan, Satan, it is written that you shall not tempt the Lord, thy God and only Him will you obey.”

Yes, There Is a Hell, a Devil and Karma, 1973

It is then clear that Satan, Lucifer-Prometheus, should obey God; his duty is tempting the Initiate, it would be absurd that the shadow of the Eternal one tempt the Eternal one or in other words, that the Devil tempt God.

Yes, There Is a Hell, a Devil and Karma, 1973

Temptation is fire, triumph over temptation is light. Let us not look with disdain at Typhoon Baphomet the Devil, because each person carries him within himself and he is the shadow of the inner God.

Yes, There Is a Hell, a Devil and Karma, 1973 also in The Secret Weapon of the Ego

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Temptation is fire. Triumph over temptation is light. The elimination of those undesirable elements that we carry within is urgent; it cannot be postponed or delayed.

The Secret Doctrine of Anahuac, 1974

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IIIThe same struggle of every Initiate against his dragon

Michael's war with the dragon is read as an inner battle that each Initiate must fight against his own Lucifer and the psychological defects. He gives his own case, a wager with his inner Lucifer over chastity that he says he is winning, and warns that almost all initiates fall at this point.

Xolotl-Lucifer is disliked and despised by those learned ignoramuses who have rejected the spirit that gives life. They have interpreted the symbolic war in the heavens and Michael’s battle against the dragon to the dead letter, and they do not understand its profound meaning.

The Secret Doctrine of Anahuac, 1974

Our own Real Being has to, without question, kill or fail. In the first, he is obviously the victor over all the temptations to which he was submitted, becoming the killer of the dragon.

The Secret Doctrine of Anahuac, 1974 also in The Being Is the Being

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We can thus infer, that within our innermost depths, we may and must fight the dragon and its tenebrous hosts (the psychological defects) if we truly long to become immortal gods or the Children of Wisdom.

The Secret Doctrine of Anahuac, 1974

We will emphasise that killing the Dragon or Venus Lucifer-Xolotl is the same as becoming his children; namely, we receive the Morning Star.

The Secret Doctrine of Anahuac, 1974

A practice

Obviously, all of us are children of the dragon, of Satan, of the Devil, of the darkness. If one wants to become a son of God, he should defeat the dragon, the tempter, the scaly creature; then we will have been transformed into children of God and into dragons of wisdom.

Yes, There Is a Hell, a Devil and Karma, 1973

On a certain occasion, (the date and the hour do not matter), the two of us seated, face to face, at a table, I heard from the lips of my own Inner Lucifer the following affirmations: “I will defeat you in chastity and I will show you; you cannot win over me.”

Yes, There Is a Hell, a Devil and Karma, 1973

In the name of the truth, I would like to say to you my friends, that until this moment I am winning the bet, since the Devil cannot win over me; in no way has he been able to make me fall into temptation, although I have had to wage tremendous battles with him. The war then, is tremendous; I am defeating the dragon and I can say that I have vanquished him.

Yes, There Is a Hell, a Devil and Karma, 1973

This is the same thing that Michael did against Lucifer, the same struggle of every Initiate against his dragon.

Yes, There Is a Hell, a Devil and Karma, 1973

Satan, the dragon, Lucifer or whichever way we want to call him, makes tremendous super-efforts to make the initiate fall into temptation and it is clear that almost all initiates fail; that is why it is difficult to get self-realized people; the weakness of persons is found precisely there, in sex, and however strong they think themselves to be, they succumb at the end.

Yes, There Is a Hell, a Devil and Karma, 1973

A practice

Answer: Friends, it is said that Michael fought against the dragon and his rebel angels as we have to do against our inner Lucifer and the psychic aggregates; it has to do with internal, secret, terrible and very painful struggles.

Yes, There Is a Hell, a Devil and Karma, 1973

16 passages · 3 practices

IVLucifer is the staircase to ascend

Lucifer is both the way down into the Ninth Sphere and the way up out of it. Each temptation defeated, each thrust of the lance into his side, is a step climbed on his back toward the Golgotha of the Father, and the luciferic force is what reduces the aggregates to ashes.

Lucifer is the staircase to ascend; Lucifer is the staircase to descend. Dante places in the mouth of Virgil the following phrase: Expect that by such stairs as these, we must depart from evil so extreme.

The Solar Bodies, 1968

To gradually extinguish the Luciferic Fire is equivalent to ascending the Luciferic staircase degree by degree.

The Solar Bodies, 1968

Virgil (the Poet crowned with laurels) and sublime Dante (as a child) clutched Lucifer’s neck; he caught fast the shaggy sides when the wings were opened enough, and down from pile to pile he descended and stepped between the thick fell and the jagged ice. And when he reached the point (whereat the thigh upon the swelling of the haunches turns) with pain and much struggle, he turned his head around where his feet stood before, and grappled at the fell as one who mounts; that into hell he thought he turned again.

The Solar Bodies, 1968

One descends into the Ninth Sphere through the Luciferic ladder. One ascends or comes out from the Ninth Sphere through the Luciferic ladder.

The Solar Bodies, 1968

If one who is Twice-born, or someone who has reached Adepthood, tries to reach the angelic state, he will have to descend once again into the deep well of the universe; to the Ninth Sphere, and, on terminating the Work, to ascend via the Ladder, or Scale of Lucifer in order to thus reach the Angelic state. If he should wish to be an Archangel, a Principality, a Throne, or a Cherubim he mus t do the same; descend in order to then ascend.

Tarot and Kabbalah, 1978

By the Luciferic Ladder one must descend, and one must suffer. We need to become Masters of both the Superior and Inferior forces. The Father who is in Secret commands that which must be done; only upon receiving the order does one descend.

Tarot and Kabbalah, 1978

Lucifer is the ladder to descend to the avernus and the ladder to ascend. Comprehension is indispensable. Remember that our motto is thelema (will).

Yes, There Is a Hell, a Devil and Karma, 1973

Is not the dragon the reflection of the Sun? Comprehend then what the trident means. Question: Dear Master, when one works with Lucifer in the ninth sphere to eliminate ego, are we doing it with the positive as well as negative forces of Lucifer?

Yes, There Is a Hell, a Devil and Karma, 1973 also in The Laws of the Three and of the Seven

Answer: Distinguished gentlemen, ladies: obviously, Lucifer is a ladder to descend and a ladder to ascend, and a force to work and dissolve the ego in the laboratory of sexual alchemy.

Yes, There Is a Hell, a Devil and Karma, 1973

Unquestionably, only through the luciferic force can we reduce to ashes the negative crystallizations of our psyche, the infrahuman elements, the psychic aggregates, unhappy deviations of the luciferic force.

Yes, There Is a Hell, a Devil and Karma, 1973

A practice

Lucifer Baphomet gives the great impulse, however, if we thrust the Lance of Willpower into his side, we will defeat him; Defeating temptation is equivalent to climbing on the back of Lucifer.

Pistis Sophia Unveiled, 1983 also in The Secret Weapon of the Ego

We arise; we ascend, when defeating Lucifer.

Pistis Sophia Unveiled, 1983

Lucifer is the one who gives us self-independence and the powers that divinize. Lucifer is the one who gives the sexual impulse—without this, Christification is impossible. Therefore, Lucifer serves as a ladder to descend or a ladder to ascend.

The Mayan Mysteries, 1977

A practice

One ascends one more degree on the back of Lucifer when one defeats temptation, when one wounds his side with the lance. This is how one ascends on the back of Lucifer until one day reaching the Golgotha of the Father.

The Mayan Mysteries, 1977

A practice

Could we by any chance ascend up to the Golgotha of the Father by any other path that is not the body of Lucifer, the back of Lucifer? Impossible! Could someone by any chance work in the Forge of the Cyclops without the impulse of Lucifer? Impossible! Lucifer gives the impulse, and if we know how to plunge the lance in his side, we defeat him. Once the dragon is defeated, we go up using his back as a ladder. Temptation is fire, triumph over temptation is light.

The Fifth Gospel Work Taste and Life Taste Third Chamber – Mexico City – 1976 also in The Secret Weapon of the Ego

If we succeed in defeating Lucifer, then we go up degree by degree on his back; every triumph over Lucifer actually implies a step in the ascent. Like this, step by step, we reach the summit of the Being, we climb the mountain of the Being.

The Fifth Gospel Work Taste and Life Taste Third Chamber – Mexico City – 1976

8 passages · 1 practice

VIt has nothing to do with Lucifer

Asked how to tell Lucifer acting within from the ego acting, he answers that only serene self-reflection and deep meditation can separate direct Luciferian impressions from egotistical ones. The ego is perverted astral light and the opposite of Lucifer, and the shadow of the Logos must not be confused with the demons or aggregates; a strange case from the Lenosino is read as the work of a woman's own interior Lucifer.

Question: Master, how can we differentiate when Lucifer is acting in us and when it is ego acting in us?

Yes, There Is a Hell, a Devil and Karma, 1973 also in The Words He Uses

We have talked clearly about the Luciferian super-darkness and about the infra darkness of ignorance and error. Lucifer, the tempter, the great trainer, of the psychological gymnasium of existence, works tempting us and these internal impressions tend to polarize negatively or fatally through egotistical activity.

Yes, There Is a Hell, a Devil and Karma, 1973

A practice

Indubitably, only through serene self-reflection and profound, internal meditation can we make a clear differentiation between inner, direct Luciferian impressions and bestial egotistical impressions.

Yes, There Is a Hell, a Devil and Karma, 1973 also in The Science of Meditation

Normally, people with asleep consciousness are not duly prepared to make such a differentiation of impressions; this requires much psychological training.

Yes, There Is a Hell, a Devil and Karma, 1973

Undoubtedly, the ego in itself with all its psychic aggregates is perverted astral light, malignant mind; it has nothing to do with Lucifer. It is rather, more the antithesis of him, his fatal opposite.

Yes, There Is a Hell, a Devil and Karma, 1973

The narrator tells us that the smell of sulfur persisted for some time in the Lenosino and that because of this, people avoided passing by on the street where the house was located. Wisely analyzing this story, we practically discover an operation of moral asepsis; a method of urgency taken by the woman’s own interior Lucifer.

Yes, There Is a Hell, a Devil and Karma, 1973

There is no doubt that her inner God ordered his shadow, his Lucifer, his particular interior dragon, to materialize in that shape before the unhappy woman, to make himself visible and tangible for her, and then to even copulate with her.

Yes, There Is a Hell, a Devil and Karma, 1973

However, we should nnk a clear differentiation between what is the shadow of the Logos within us (Lucifer) and what the demons or psychic aggregates or fallen angels, etc., etc., etc., are.

Yes, There Is a Hell, a Devil and Karma, 1973

Part Four — Humanity has Lucifer converted into the devil

12 passages

ILucifer gave us individual self-independence

The fall is told from Eden to Isaiah. Lucifer's word to the woman opened the eyes of humanity and gave it self-independence and the knowledge of good and evil; the Lemurian couple fell to the Luciferian serpent, and the morning star, once the highest of the angels, was brought down to the pit.

The Kundalini which previously arose victoriously in the spinal canal, then descended to the coccygeal bone and remained enclosed in the Muladhara Chakra. The lamp of the temple was extinguished and man sunk into deep darkness. This is how the Edenic man died and the Luciferic man was born. When man ate the forbidden fruit, Lord Jehovah said, “Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil.” If man had not eaten of the fruit of the tree of knowledge, he would have risen up to the angelic state, but in perfect innocence. In Eden, we were with respect to Lord Jehovah what the fingers of the hand are with respect to the cerebrum. Lucifer gave us independence.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956

Jehovah, the ruler of Eden, said, “Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.” Lucifer said to the woman, “Ye shall not surely die: For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil”, and when man ate of the forbidden fruit, Jehovah exclaimed, “Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil.” This is how we acquired wisdom, this is how we attained self-independence. This is how we became conscious of the science of good and evil.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956

Jehovah gave us his commandments. Lucifer gave us individual self-independence, and Christ redeems us from sin. This is how the Gods rise from the mud of the earth.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956

We have arrived in this present 1969-1970 Christmas Message to a very thorny problem. I am emphatically referring to Lucifer-Venus, unto whom Isaiah (14:12) offered that ineffable chant of pure mysticism, as follows: “How art thou fallen from heaven, O shining star, son of the morning!, thou who looketh so brilliant at dawning?”

My Return to Tibet, 1969

I want to refer to Lucifer, the tempting serpent of Eden, that fatal Fohatic force that when developed within the human being converts itself, as a fact and by its own right, into the abominable Kundabuffer organ (the tail of Satan).

My Return to Tibet, 1969

It is obvious that the original human couple (the Lemurian Root Race) was the fatal sexual victim of the Luciferian Serpent.

My Return to Tibet, 1969 also in The Root Races

The few Sages who have existed in the world do not ignore that Lucifer-Prometheus, Maha-Asura, the “Giver of light and fire”, horribly enchained to the mount Caucasus and condemned to the pain of living, also represents the rebel Devas who fell into animal generation in the dawning of life...

Parsifal Unveiled, 1970

Let us now refer to Isaiah, the prophet (Isaiah, 14: 12-15): How are thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! How are thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!

The Secret Doctrine of Anahuac, 1974

For thou hast said in thine heart, 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.

The Secret Doctrine of Anahuac, 1974

Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit.

The Secret Doctrine of Anahuac, 1974

Saint Thomas says: “He is the highest, the foremost of all angels, the preferred angel of God.”

The Secret Doctrine of Anahuac, 1974

Dante writes: “The most noble of all creatures and the sum of all creatures.”

The Secret Doctrine of Anahuac, 1974

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IINinety-nine percent Luciferian

After the fall the Luciferian fire became the passionate, bestial fire that every person carries in the atomic infernos. This lunar Fohat controls a malignant atom in the body, crystallises in the legion of I's and keeps humanity hypnotised, and only the sacred serpent can destroy what the Luciferian serpent has granulated.

Lucifer exists within the Atomic Infernos of the Intellectual Animal. It is that passionate, instinctual, sexual and bestial fire that every person carries within.

The Solar Bodies, 1968 also in The Words He Uses

The Original Sin is Absolutely Luciferic, Sexual and Passionate. The root of any psychological defect is one hundred percent Luciferic. The origin of all evil is in Lucifer. Judas is the Verb of Lucifer.

The Solar Bodies, 1968 also in The Three Traitors

Lucifer, that miserable worm that passes through the world, the Passionate fire, the Tempting Serpent of Eden, the Repugnant Viper that granted onto Eve the bitter food, is our worst adversary.

The Solar Bodies, 1968

Lucifer is the Antithesis of Christ. It is that malignant reptile that slyly writhes through the green grass and perfumed flowers of spirituality.

The Solar Bodies, 1968

Lucifer, that vile worm who passes through the heart of the world, abides, as it is natural, in the depth of any organic or inorganic matter.

My Return to Tibet, 1969

This Lunar Luciferian Fohat exercises direct control upon a certain malignant atom in the coccyx, sexual organs, heart and brain.

My Return to Tibet, 1969

This malignant Luciferian sexual impulse controls even our most intimate feelings.

My Return to Tibet, 1969

Is indubitable that this blind Fohatic Force of a Luciferian Lunar type has hypnotised the whole humanity, submerged it into the unconsciousness.

My Return to Tibet, 1969 also in Awakening

It is easy to comprehend that when this Luciferian Fire crystallises in the entire legion of Devil ‘I’s that every one carries inside, the outcome is the unconsciousness.

My Return to Tibet, 1969

This is how the Luciferian hypnotic process is developed inside each subject who lives upon the face of the earth.

My Return to Tibet, 1969 also in Awakening

The intellectual animal mistakenly called human being is ninety-nine percent Luciferian.

My Return to Tibet, 1969

If it was not for the psychic essence that is bottled up within the Ego, then, the rational homunculi would be one hundred percent Luciferian.

My Return to Tibet, 1969

The Sacred Viper can destroy the crystallisations or granulations of the Luciferian Serpent. Therefore, we are before the two serpents.

My Return to Tibet, 1969

The first one is the Serpent of Bronze that healed the Israelites in the wilderness. The second one is the tempting serpent of Eden, Lucifer, the horrible Python snake that is writhing in the mud of the earth and that Apollo enragedly hurts with his darts.

My Return to Tibet, 1969

10 passages · 1 practice

IIILucifer works in time

In a vision he was shown Lucifer walking among the sepulchres of time, raising dead I's through memory. Even after the ego has died Lucifer still governs its seeds and can call back the three traitors, which is why living from moment to moment becomes a necessity.

Afterwards, another figure detached itself from that strange set. I was instructed that it was Lucifer, who works in time. It was indicated to me that Lucifer achieves the resurrection of the dead ‘I’s by means of memories…

My Return to Tibet, 1969 also in The “I” Is Memory

Thus, I saw Lucifer walking among the sepulchres of time. He searches for the buried ‘I’s within the dust of the centuries, he wants to turn them into life again. I contemplated him in absorption…

My Return to Tibet, 1969

How sly Lucifer is! He awakens lustful, sinful memories within oneself, so that the dead ‘I’s can resurrect…

My Return to Tibet, 1969 also in The “I” Is Memory

A practice

Then, I comprehended in depth the necessity of living from instant to instant, from moment to moment…

My Return to Tibet, 1969 also in The “I” Is Memory

Once this other illustration finished, the Luciferian figure returned to his mysterious place… Then, I concentrated my attention in a most intense way. Thus, I saw something that stood out, it was a fatal flame. It was clear that such a sinister fire assumes a terrible, masculine form. The Voice of the Silence told me that Lucifer controls the three traitors of Hiram Abiff and the remnants of the ego after his final disintegration. This is how I did understand it. So, I approached Lucifer and I told him that I was his friend. He then laughed at me, and by talking he addressed me and made me to understand that I was his enemy. It is ostensible that this diabolic fire did not make a mistake concerning his remarks...

My Return to Tibet, 1969 also in The Three Traitors

Incredible! Even after the ‘I’ has died, Lucifer continues controlling even the seeds of the ego… What a horror…!

My Return to Tibet, 1969

It is obvious that the Luciferian fire originated this special type of diabolical resurrection within the psyche of every Man-Angel of the continent Mu…

My Return to Tibet, 1969

In the preceding Mahamanvantara of Padma, or Lotus of Gold, these ineffable ones from this Rebellion had already eliminated Seth and the three Traitors. Unfortunately, Lucifer works in time…

My Return to Tibet, 1969

It is unquestionable that the Lunar Luciferian Fire has the power of resuscitating Judas, Pilate and Caiaphas.

My Return to Tibet, 1969 also in The Three Traitors

It is certain that Lucifer-Mara, the sexual tempter can call to life all of those Red Demons from ancient times, all of those Devil ‘I’s of Seth…

My Return to Tibet, 1969

10 passages

IVSatan is the devil, black like carbon, the fallen Lucifer

Satan and Lucifer must be told apart: Satan is the same Lucifer fallen and blackened, the devil humanity has made of him. The luciferic fire is in itself neither good nor evil, yet the Prometheus of old has become Milton's devil and Epimetheus, and he unfolds into the multiplicity of the ego.

We must distinguish between Satan and Lucifer. Satan is the devil, black like carbon, the fallen Lucifer.

Pistis Sophia Unveiled, 1983 also in The Words He Uses

Humanity has Lucifer converted into the devil.

Pistis Sophia Unveiled, 1983

However, it is easy to comprehend that with the arts which exalt and dignify man, the granted luciferic fire has turned itself into the worst damnation.

Parsifal Unveiled, 1970

Hence, since we have already talked about the tenebrous aspects of the luciferic fire in our past Christmas Messages, now we only have to say that such a fire is neither good nor evil. All depends on how we use it. Precisely, sin and redemption are established upon this, in unison.

Parsifal Unveiled, 1970

The ultra-modern Lucifer-Prometheus, frightfully devolving in time, has now converted himself into Epimetheus: “The one who sees only after the event” because the glorious universal philanthropy of the first has degenerated itself since many centuries ago into interest and self-adoration.

Parsifal Unveiled, 1970

Lucifer then is that revolutionary force that is found in the depth of our sexual system and which, handled wisely, can transform us into gods.

Yes, There Is a Hell, a Devil and Karma, 1973

By simple inductive logic, I invite you to comprehend that Prometheus-Lucifer, chained to a rough rock, sacrificing himself for us, subjected to all the tortures, although he is the marker of the balance, the giver of light, the measure and the weight, the guardian of the seven mansions that lets through only those who have been anointed by wisdom, that carry on their right the lamp of Hermes, inevitably unfolds into the fatal aspect of the egotistical multiplicity, into those sinister psychic aggregates that constitute our “I” and which have been duly studied by Buddhist tantric esotericism.

Yes, There Is a Hell, a Devil and Karma, 1973

It is then the Luciferic force that takes humanoids to triumph or failure, to degeneration or regeneration.

Yes, There Is a Hell, a Devil and Karma, 1973

In its lowest meaning, it is the Devil, that excellent creature formerly called Lucifer, the maker of light, the Morning Star, “the brass” of old medieval alchemists.

The Secret Doctrine of Anahuac, 1974

Sadly, the Prometheus-Lucifer of ancient times has been transformed into Milton’s Devil. Satan will become the free Titan of ancient times again, only when we eliminate from our inner nature all animal elements.

The Secret Doctrine of Anahuac, 1974

Part Five — The minister of the Most High

7 passages

IThe Sword and the Scale of Cosmic Justice

His offices begin with justice and the threshold. To Lucifer-Sabaoth are entrusted the sword and the scale, the norm of weight, measure and number; he is the Guardian of the Door who lets in only the anointed, the minister of the Solar Logos, and the servant of the Most High who must obey God.

Lucifer as Ayo, educator, mentor is certainly something rare, unusual, extraordinary. There exists in the Luciferic temptation an inimitable didactic, a portentous teaching, an attraction which is amazing, an unmistakable incentive, a hidden instigation with secret divine purpose, seduction, fascination... Lucifer Prometheus is one with the Platonic Logos, the Minister of the Demiurge Creator and resplendent Lord of the Seven Mansions of Hades (the Inferno), Sabbath and the manifest world. To him is entrusted the Sword and the Scale of Cosmic Justice. He is then, indubitably, the rule of weight, measure and number - Horus, Brahma, Ahura-Mazda, etc. - always ineffable.

Tarot and Kabbalah, 1978

Lucifer (Luci = light; Fer = fire) is the Guardian of the Door and has the keys of the Lumisial so that none other than the anointed may enter; they who possess the secret of Hermes.

Tarot and Kabbalah, 1978

The resplendent Lord of the seven glorious mansions, known with the sacred names of Lucifer-Prometheus, Maha-Asura, etc., is certainly the splendid Minister of the Solar Logos.

Parsifal Unveiled, 1970

The Seven Lords of Time (the seven Chronides) know very welt that Lucifer-Sabaoth is the one who bears the sword and the scale of Cosmic Justice, because to him is undoubtedly committed the norm of the weight, measure and number. He is Horus, Brahma, the Ahura Mazda etc., etc., etc.

Parsifal Unveiled, 1970 also in The Law of Karma

It is clearly seen in the words of the Great Kabir Jesus, that Lucifer is the minister of the Most High, the guardian of the seven mansions, the servant of the divinity.

Yes, There Is a Hell, a Devil and Karma, 1973

We now have to deliberate and discuss some symbolic values. I am now referring to the tiger and the dog. The solar hieroglyph is imprinted in Xolotl-Lucifer. As he is found at the foundations of our seminal system, he plays the marvellous role of Cerberus the dog, quoted by Dante in his Divine Comedy.

The Secret Doctrine of Anahuac, 1974

Lucifer-Xolotl, Quetzalcoatl’s double, is the guardian of the keys to the door of the Lumisial, where only the anointed ones who possess the secret of Hermes can enter. Those who dare to curse the Nahua Lucifer pronounce themselves against the cosmic reflection of the Logos; they anathematise the living God who manifests in matter and execrate the always-incomprehensible wisdom, which reveals itself in the opposites of light and darkness alike.

The Secret Doctrine of Anahuac, 1974

11 passages

IIPrometheus-Lucifer courageously plunders the divine fire

Prometheus is set beside the Hindu Maha-Asura and Dante's Dis: a fire detached from the Solar Logos, chained to the rock of sex, who goes down into the Averno to free the tortured. He is named the active energy of the universe, the spirit of illumination and freedom of choice, and the torch that guides a person through the reefs of life.

Prometheus, the Greek God is the Maha-Asura, the Hindustani Lucifer who rebelled against Brahma the Lord, for which Shiva, the Third Logos, hurled him with indignation down into the inferior Patala.

Parsifal Unveiled, 1970

The Florentine Dante, illustrious disciple of Virgil, the eminent crowned bard from Mantua, finds in the right moment Dis, Prometheus-Lucifer in the Ninth Sphere. This is obviously in the center of the earth, in the profound well of the universe, the place “where the souls were all covered underneath, transparent, as through glass Pellucid the frail stem.”

Parsifal Unveiled, 1970

The Maha-Asura, fatally enchained to the severe rock of sex, cruelly passes through unutterable bitterness. The wild flames of lust frightfully torture him. The insatiable, useless vulture of reasoning gnaws at his entrails.

Parsifal Unveiled, 1970 also in Lust, Lust and Chastity

Prometheus-Lucifer is a mysterious fire detached from the Solar Logos and wisely fixed in the center of the earth by the force of gravity and the weight of the atmosphere. It is written with golden words in the book of life: “The superlative ingredient of the Anima Mundi is the luciferin phosphorus.”

Parsifal Unveiled, 1970

Let Lucifer, the Maha-Asura be excluded from Sex-Yoga and observe then what happens... Let failure be contemplated.

Parsifal Unveiled, 1970

Prometheus-Lucifer, descending to the bottom of the Averno in order to liberate the victims from their tortures, reminds us of Hercules, the Solar God, descending into Hades or the Cave of the Initiation in order to save the lost souls.

Parsifal Unveiled, 1970 also in The Klipoth

Lucifer is the active and centrifugal energy of the universe, fire, life, self-independence, psychological rebellion.

Parsifal Unveiled, 1970

Prometheus-Lucifer courageously plunders the divine fire in order to assist us in the path of spiritual insurrection.

Parsifal Unveiled, 1970

Prometheus-Lucifer, placing his Verb (word) in the mouth of the wounded Titan, when speaking of the wretched mortals, exclaims with all of the strength of his soul: “I rescued men from shattering destruction that would have carried them to Hades’ house; and therefore I am tortured on this rock, a bitterness to suffer, and a pain to pitiful eyes. I gave to mortal man a precedence over myself in pity...”

Parsifal Unveiled, 1970

Some sincerely mistaken ones now compel themselves to justify the angelic downfall. Metaphorically, Lucifer is the conductor-torch which helps the human being to find his route through the cliffs and the sand banks of life...

Parsifal Unveiled, 1970

Lucifer is certainly the spirit of the spiritual illumination of humanity and of the freedom of choice and, metaphysically, the torch of humanity; the Logos in his superior aspect, and the adversary in his inferior one; the divine and chained Prometheous; the active and centrifugal energy of the Universe; fire, light, life, struggle, effort, consciousness, freedom, independence, etc., etc., etc.

The Three Mountains, 1972

Part Six — Whiten the devil

9 passages · 7 practices

IThe heavenly fire must be stolen from the devil

The torch between the horns of the goat of Mendes is the verb of life, and the alchemist has to take it. It is taken in the Arcanum A.Z.F., by retaining the seed and mastering passion, and so whoever works this way becomes an angel and the five-pointed star shines.

Therefore, the mystery of Baphomet is a mystery of alchemy. Between the horns of the devil shines the torch of the verb. The heavenly fire must be stolen from the devil, because the devil is God, inverted.

Secret Notes of a Guru, 1952 also in The Words He Uses

“The goat of Mendes” represents the mystery of Baphomet. The torch placed in between the two horns of Baphomet is the verb of life, the sacred fire that we have to steal from the devil, learning to enjoy a woman without spilling the semen.

Secret Notes of a Guru, 1952

A practice

When the soul fuses with the Intimate, the five-cornered star on his forehead shines; and the union with the Intimate can be carried out only by learning to enjoy a woman without spilling the semen. Thus is stolen the torch of fire of Baphomet. Thus is stolen the fire from the devil, because when we connect sexually with a woman we become full of the terrible fire of the carnal passion, and then, retaining the semen and dominating the passion, we steal the fire from the devil and we become angels. This is the occult meaning of the he-goat of Mendes.

Secret Notes of a Guru, 1952

A practice

13. The white color whitens everything; it even whitens the red bodies of the Abyss. 14. We enter into the world of passion through the erotic doors, in order to steal the cups of the spinal column from the devil. This is how we are stealing the fire from the devil. 15. The tempting demons then attack us in the underworld and we must fight great battles with them in order to steal the cups of our spinal column.

Treatise of Sexual Alchemy, 1954

A practice

“The Alchemist must steal the Fire from the Devil.”

Tarot and Kabbalah, 1978

A practice

When we work with Arcanum A.Z.F. we steal the Fire from the Devil. In this way we become Gods, in this way the five-pointed star shines.

Tarot and Kabbalah, 1978

A practice

We need to seize the Devil by the horns, it is essential to capture the fiery torch from Tiphon Baphomet, the Billy Goat of Mendez.

The Mystery of the Golden Blossom, 1971

A practice

We are now going to study the fifteenth Arcanum of the Tarot. We are going to study the he-goat of Mendes, Typhon Baphomet, the Devil. “The Alchemist must steal the fire from the Devil.” When we work with the Arcanum A.Z.F, we steal the fire from the Devil and thus transform ourselves into gods.

Esoteric Course of Kabbalah

A practice

Sex is the door to Eden. The Guardian who stands at the door is the Assyrian Sphinx, the Egyptian Sphinx, the Golden Bull of Moses with the sword in his hands. This is the Psychological “I”, the Baphomet, who with his sword drives away from the threshold all those who are not prepared. Inside of us lies the enemy. We must work with the Devil in order to dissolve it. We must steal the fire from the Devil.

Esoteric Course of Kabbalah

13 passages · 3 practices

IILucifer-Baphomet grants us the sexual impulse

Typhoon Baphomet, the fifteenth Arcanum, is the reflection of the Solar Logos within, and without him neither the Great Work nor the ascension of the Intimate Christ is possible. He gives the impulse; when it is refrained and he is wounded with the lance of will, lead becomes gold, and only those who have worked with him in the infernos reach the light of the Christified.

Unquestionably the ascension of the Intimate Christ within each one of us can be attained by means of the Fifteenth Mystery, which is, the Mystery of Typhoon Baphomet.

Pistis Sophia Unveiled, 1983 also in The Intimate Christ

A practice

The Mystery of Baphomet is solved with the Sixth Mystery; you know this. The Hermetic figure of the Baphomet was never absent from the houses of the old Alchemists of the Middle Ages. Lucifer-Baphomet grants us the sexual impulse, through which the realization of the Great Work is possible.

Pistis Sophia Unveiled, 1983

A practice

When we wound Baphomet to death with the Lance of Longinus, we transmute Lead into Gold.

Pistis Sophia Unveiled, 1983

The inner Self-realization of the Being would be impossible without Lucifer-Baphomet. Lucifer originates the sexual impulse within each one of us.

Pistis Sophia Unveiled, 1983

Unquestionably, the Fifteenth Arcanum is terrific. Typhoon Baphomet, Lucifer, is the Fifteenth Arcanum.

Pistis Sophia Unveiled, 1983

Typhoon Baphomet is the reflection of the Solar Logos within our own selves, here and now.

Pistis Sophia Unveiled, 1983 also in The Words He Uses

A practice

Lucifer Baphomet always gives the sexual impulse. If we refrain the sexual impulse in the sexual act, we obtain transmutation.

Pistis Sophia Unveiled, 1983

Lucifer will convert us into Archangels, if we perform the Mystery of Baphomet within ourselves.

Pistis Sophia Unveiled, 1983

Within the completely Christified Adept, that Light is of 8,700 myriads; you know this. Only those who have worked with Lucifer in the infernos can reach or possess such Light.

Pistis Sophia Unveiled, 1983

The Philosophical Stone, the Stone of Truth must be searched for within the Inferno. Lucifer is the best friend that we have.

Pistis Sophia Unveiled, 1983

Typhoon Baphomet, Lucifer-Prometheus, is the best of the helpers of the Divine Mother Kundalini in the work of the Great Work.

Pistis Sophia Unveiled, 1983

The sexual fire, the dog, the erotic instinct, the Nahua Lucifer, is that extraordinary and marvellous agent that can transform us radically. The dog guides the knight, leading him through the narrow path from darkness to light, from death to immortality.

The Secret Doctrine of Anahuac, 1974 also in The Words He Uses

The true meaning of the Dragon (Lucifer), the serpent, the goat and all the symbols of the now so called evil powers can best be seen in the religious principles of Gnostics. Jesus the great Kabir would have never advised his disciples to be as wise as the Serpent if it had been a symbol of the Devil. Neither had the Ophites, the Egyptian Gnostic sages of the Fraternity of the Serpent, revered a living snake in their rituals as a symbol of wisdom — divine Sophia.

The Secret Doctrine of Anahuac, 1974

11 passages · 8 practices

IIITransform the Devil into Lucifer

The black shadow in each one has to be whitened, and the means given is single: transmute the sexual energy and dissolve the animal ego, fighting against oneself and extinguishing the Luciferic fire region by region. The reward promised is the treasure, the elixir of long life and a Daimon turned Prince of Light, with power over Heaven, Earth and Hell.

It would be impossible to reduce Judas to cosmic dust without previously extinguishing the Luciferic Fire.

The Solar Bodies, 1968

A practice

It is a bitter and difficult task to eliminate the Luciferic Fire in each and every one of the forty nine regions of the Sub-consciousness. Whosoever performs this work has to weep tears of blood.

The Solar Bodies, 1968 also in The Science of Meditation, The Subconscious

A practice

We need with the utmost and unpostponable urgency to whiten the Devil, and this is only possible by fighting against ourselves; by dissolving that whole complex of psychic aggregates which form the “I”, the myself, the self. Only by dying within ourselves can we whiten the brass and contemplate the Midnight Sun (the Father). This means to overcome temptations and to eliminate each and every one of the inhuman ele ments which we carry within (anger, avarice, lust, envy, pride, laziness, gluttony etc., etc., etc.). In the psychological gymnasium of human existence a trainer is always needed. The Divine Daemon mentioned so many times by Socrates, the very shadow of our individual Spirit, is the most extraordinary psychological trainer which each one of us carries within. He places temptation in our path with the purpose of training us, educating us.

Tarot and Kabbalah, 1978 also in The Many I’s, The Secret Weapon of the Ego

A practice

The Brass must be whitened.

Pistis Sophia Unveiled, 1983

A practice

Burn your books and whiten the Brass. Whiten the devil. Convert him into Lucifer. One whitens the devil when one transmutes the sexual energy and eliminates the ego. People have their Lucifer converted into a devil.

Pistis Sophia Unveiled, 1983 also in Lust, Lust and Chastity

A practice

We must whitewash the devil. This is only possible by practicing sexual magic intensely and by disintegrating the ego.

Pistis Sophia Unveiled, 1983

The devil is whitewashed and transformed into a Maker of Light, that is, into Lucifer; you know this.

Pistis Sophia Unveiled, 1983 also in The Klipoth, The Words He Uses

A practice

Let us reflect, my dear brothers. That Satan, the shadow of the Eternal in each of us, must be transformed into Lucifer. Obviously, Lucifer is the Giver of Light, the Morning Star and also the Evening Star. Transforming the Devil into Lucifer is something magnificent. When we, in the Superior Worlds of Cosmic Consciousness, see our own Devil, we comprehend the need to transform it. The Devil of any profane one, the Ahrimanic or Mephistophelic shadow –speaking in terms of Goethe– is as black as charcoal in any individual; it is clear that it casts a sinister fire, the negative and fatal fire, that diabolical Fohat. But herein lies the magnificent thing: to transform, to turn that black shadow, that Devil, into Lucifer is possible, and it becomes feasible when we eliminate the animal Ego, when we destroy the inhuman elements that we carry within us. Then that shadow of the Eternal can be dressed in the tunic of glory, become the Archangel of Light.

The Fifth Gospel The Mind and Ethics of Resurrected Masters Third Chamber – Mexico City – December 31. 1975

Do not forget that Lucifer has power over the Heavens, over the Earth and over the Hell. In Heaven, the angels obey him; on Earth, he makes humans tremble, and in Hell, demons run terrified. He is, thus, Lucifer, the Prince of Light, the Archangel of Glory.

The Fifth Gospel The Mind and Ethics of Resurrected Masters Third Chamber – Mexico City – December 31. 1975

A practice

But we –I repeat– need to transform the Devil into Lucifer; modify that black and tenebrous aspect of the Eternal’s shadow; whiten it to make it pure and perfect; beautify it through the dissolution of the animal Ego. If we proceed, the payment will be magnificent: he will give us the treasure, he will give us the Elixir of Long Life, he will confer on us immortality, he will make us really strong. In this day and age, we are weak, absolutely weak, victims of others, everyone plays with us and, unfortunately, we do not want to comprehend that others play with us. We are victims of others but we do not know it; we think that we are powerful when we are but measly logs thrown into the tempestuous sea of existence.

The Fifth Gospel The Mind and Ethics of Resurrected Masters Third Chamber – Mexico City – December 31. 1975

A practice

I invite you, my dear brothers, to dissolve the Ego with the aim of whitening your own Daimon, your divine Daimon. I invite you to dissolve the Ego so that you beautify your Daimon, your Xolotl, your Mephistopheles, so that you turn him into the Prince of Light, the Lord who has power over Heavens, over Earth and over Hell. Reflect, then, become more individual.

The Fifth Gospel The Mind and Ethics of Resurrected Masters Third Chamber – Mexico City – December 31. 1975

9 passages · 2 practices

IVWe must whiten the brass, the Devil

The alchemists' brass, blackened by degeneration, stands for the devil, and their rule to burn the books and polish the brass is read as sexual magic and the death of the ego. Once the brass is whitened the Divine Androgyne shines, the Devil becomes Lucifer the cornerstone, and the one who overcomes receives the morning star.

A practice

The face is deformed as a result of error and sin. The Baphomet has been represented as being of brass which humanity has blackened because of degeneration. We must whiten the brass, the Devil, who is the psychological trainer and guardian of the doors of the Sanctuary. This is so that only the chosen may get into, they who have been able to overcome all of the tests set by the Devil.

Tarot and Kabbalah, 1978

Arcanum number 15 comes after Arcanum 13 which is the death of the “I”; and after Arcanum number 14 which is Temperance or Moderation, the chastity which is a result of the death of the ego. Arcanum number 15 is then, the Divine Androgyne which becomes resplendent, is the whitened brass.

Tarot and Kabbalah, 1978 also in Lust, Lust and Chastity

In the Sacred Temples of the old Egypt of the Pharaohs, when the Neophyte was at the point of being subjected to the tests of Initiation, a Mas ter drew near to him and quietly murmured in his ear this mysterious phrase: “Remember that Osiris is a Black God”. This is clearly the specific colour of darkness and of the cumaean shadows; of the Devil who was always offered black roses. It is also the colour of primitive Chaos where all the elements and seeds of life are totally mixed and muddled; the symbol of the earth element and of night; of the total death of all psychological elements which in their conjunct constitute the “Myself”.

Tarot and Kabbalah, 1978

The Devil, the reflection of our inner Logoi, was the most exalted being before we descended into animal generation. “Whiten the brass and burn your books” the Masters of Hermetic art tell us time and aga in.

Tarot and Kabbalah, 1978

The Cubical Stone of Jesod, located in the creative organs is clearly that metallic soul which results from sexual transmutations. We may call it the Mercury of Secret Philosophy, or speaking in more simple terms, creative energy. This energy is allegorised, or symbolised by the Devil. When we say that we have to work with the Devil it is in order to transform him into Lucifer, the Giver of Light.

Tarot and Kabbalah, 1978 also in Yesod

A practice

“Burn your books and polish your brass,” the best authors of medieval alchemy remind us repeatedly. Such an expression, wisely interpreted means: Sexual Magic or scientific chastity, and radical death of the animal ego.

The Secret Doctrine of Anahuac, 1974

Quetzalcoatl resurrects after having “polished the brass,” becoming the Morning Star. See St. John’s Revelation, 2: 26- 29: And he that overcometh, and keepeth my works unto the end, to him will I give power over the nations: And he shall rule them with a rod of iron; as the vessels of a potter shall they be broken to shivers: even as I received of my Father.

The Secret Doctrine of Anahuac, 1974

And I will give him the morning star.

The Secret Doctrine of Anahuac, 1974

The initiator always hands us the mirror of alchemy with one hand, while he holds Amalthea’s horn with the other. To his side, we see the Tree of Life, which the Hebrew kabalists study so intensely. The mirror always symbolizes the beginning of the Great Work — the Tree of Life points out its end, and the plenty’s horn symbolizes the results. Quetzalcoatl transformed the Devil, the raw and coarse, crude stone, into Lucifer, the cornerstone of the Great Work, the Archangel of Light or the Morning Star.

The Secret Doctrine of Anahuac, 1974

14 passages · 2 practices

VLucifer-Prometheus totally integrated with all the parts of our Being

The work closes on Lucifer restored. Whoever dies in himself frees the chained Prometheus, the Nahua Lucifer regains the virginal Kumara state, and the shadow returns to the Logos and fuses with him; whitened and shining, Lucifer becomes each one's inner Moses, through whom Sabaoth crystallises in the human person.

Whoever whitens the Devil, returning him to his resplendent and primordial state; whoever dies in himself here and now, liberates the enchained Prometheus; and he rewards most highly, because he is a colossus with power over the Heavens, over the Earth and over the Infernos. Lucifer-Prometheus totally integrated with all the parts of our Being, makes us something different, distinct; an exotic creature, an Archangel, a terribly divine Power.

Tarot and Kabbalah, 1978 also in The Twelve Powers Are Within Us

Being in possession of those remains that he will resurrect, Xolotl-Lucifer indicates to us the necessity of dying in order to be.

The Secret Doctrine of Anahuac, 1974

Unquestionably, only over Satan, never over the Logos, falls the shame of generation. The former lost his highest virginal state of Kumara when he ate the forbidden fruit. With esoteric resurrection, the Nahua Lucifer regains the virginal state of Kumara. The cornerstone of the Great Work is the Nahua Lucifer. The great kabir Jesus built his church upon this master stone, which is located by the sages in the depths of our sexual system.

The Secret Doctrine of Anahuac, 1974

The Blessed One — when passing through the torments of the brothers of the Fraternity of the Thistle — polished the Devil and he turned it into his primeval shining state. Whoever dies in himself, here and now, frees the enchained Prometheus. The latter pays him in excess, because he is a colossus who has power over heaven, earth and the infernos.

The Secret Doctrine of Anahuac, 1974

Lucifer-Prometheus, whe n totally integrated with all the parts of our Being, converts one into something different: an exotic being, an archangel, or a mighty and divine Power. When the holy women went into the sepulchre of the Saviour of the World, instead of the man they knew, they saw an angel dressed in a long, white robe, and they were frightened.

The Secret Doctrine of Anahuac, 1974

The cornerstone of the Great Work is certainly impure, material, and coarse. For this intrinsic reason it receives the name "devil." However, by means of the esoteric resurrection, the Nahua Lucifer re-conquers his virginal state of Kumara.

The Mayan Mysteries, 1977

When shining Lucifer integrates with the human being, then he converts us into Archangels of Light.

Pistis Sophia Unveiled, 1983

A practice

Each one of us must whitewash his particular devil in order to convert him into Lucifer. When Lucifer shines in ourselves, he converts himself into our particular, individual Moses.

Pistis Sophia Unveiled, 1983

Fortunate is the one who integrates himself with his own Moses.

Pistis Sophia Unveiled, 1983

The Doctrine of Moses is the Doctrine of Lucifer.

Pistis Sophia Unveiled, 1983

The Heavenly Sabaoth crystallizes within the Sabaoth-Man, thanks to the Intimate Moses.

Pistis Sophia Unveiled, 1983

Sabaoth is the Internal God who must crystallize in the human person, thanks to the good duties of Lucifer.

Pistis Sophia Unveiled, 1983

This means coming out triumphant from all the temptations offered by the dragon, to come out victorious, to eliminate the ego, to disintegrate all the psychic aggregates that constitute the ego, to reduce to cosmic dust all the memories of desire, etc., etc. Indubitably, after having been devoured by the serpent, we become transformed into serpents; later the eagle, the Third Logos, the Arch-hierophant and the Arch-magus, our Real Being, the secret Master, swallows the serpent; then we are converted into plumed serpents, into the Mexican Quetzalcoatl, into the Mahatma and the work is carried out. On arriving at these transcendental heights of the Being, to these inner reevaluations, the reflection of the Logos, his own shadows within ourselves, the Devil, returns to the Logos, it mi with him, it fuses with him, because in the depths He is Question: Master, if I should forget even the memories of desire, which stimulus will I utilize for my work in the Lit Forge of Vulcan?

Yes, There Is a Hell, a Devil and Karma, 1973

A practice

However, before this extraordinary happening, before that banquet of the serpentine fire, we should defeat the dragon, that is, we should come out victorious from the temptation. Finally, the scaly Lucifer, the shadow of the eternal one, the inner reflection of our true divine Being, will return to Him, will fuse with Him, will shine in Him.

Yes, There Is a Hell, a Devil and Karma, 1973

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How this was made. All fifty-two books were extracted — 73,105 paragraphs, 2,157,671 words — and swept for every form of the name: Lucifer, luciferic, Luciferian; for his other names: Prometheus, Xolotl, the Maker and Bearer of Light, the sunderable part and living double; and for the phrases he uses when he teaches him without naming him: whitening the devil, our own devil, the psychological trainer, the tempter, the reflection of the Logos, the Guardian of the Door, the Sword and the Balance, Baphomet, and Satan as the fallen Lucifer. His own runs on Lucifer in eleven books were offered whole. Bare devil, Satan, temptation, whiteness and the morning star were measured and narrowed first, because most of them are something else. That returned 763 candidate paragraphs in 42 books. Every one was read twice, by independent readers working from a written brief; they agreed on whether to print 95.2% of the time and on the class 89.3%, and a third reader, who saw neither verdict, settled the 37 they did not. Where a kept passage began in the middle of his sentence, the 5 paragraphs before it were read the same way. 265 were judged printable and 239 passages are printed here; the rest are recorded with the reason each was set aside.

What was set aside. 109 paragraphs where the word is something else (the devil as the ego or hell, Satan as the ego, the alchemical whiteness); 73 where Lucifer is named in passing and the subject is elsewhere; 50 of the Lucifers and Luciferians who are the black magicians; 34 of the sexual fire as alchemy; 32 of the Klipoth and the tail of Satan; 26 headings; 22 of narrative; 20 that belong to a finished work; 13 of myth retold; 9 of the three traitors; and 5 of the Pistis Sophia’s own text. Eighty-one more were judged marginal.

Some of it is spoken, not written. 14 of these passages come from the two Fifth Gospel volumes, across 3 named lectures.

Nothing of his is changed. Misreadings of the scanner were mended — a word split in two, a letter for a letter — and each is recorded in the build record. One editor’s footnote set inside his sentence in the Fifth Gospel was lifted out. Nine paragraphs were set aside at the last because the same words stand in the same section from an earlier book, and 17 were taken into the passage before them, of which they are the second half.

No sentence of his is cut in half. Each range was extended against the corpus until his sentence closed; 29 ranges run over more than one paragraph.

50 passages also stand in a finished work, The Intimate Christ most of all, and every one is marked where it stands. This booklet reprints them so that the whole teaching stands in one place.

Checked five ways. Every reader’s note was proved to sit on the passage as printed. Every printed pair was compared as sequences. Every ragged edge was repaired or named. Every one of the 31 passages marked a practice was proved to carry its own instruction. And every passage was checked word for word against a fresh extraction of its book.