Satan/Lucifer was a huge headache for me growing up! Not to mention so much fear revolving around him.
Anyways, theres so many questions regarding the relationship between God and Lucifer/Satan, but theyre not really answered in the bible! New Age has offered fun answers, that is, if you dont mind story time.
First off, Lucifer is not the duality of God. Lucifer is not the lord of evil. Lucifer is virtually powerless.
Lucifer and Satan? Why the two names? It means they are not the same person, consciousness, or thing, though they are connected. Lucifer is an angel created by God. Angels, like humans, were created with duality - this sense of separation. And while Lucifer isn't separate from God, Lucifer for the time being can believe he is.
Both angels and humans have the power to create. Angels create in the same way we create in dreams. Our ideas and emotions manifest. The angels live in the mental and emotional realms talked about in astral projection. Anyways, important thing to remember is - the thoughts of angels literally manifest in their reality!
The angels created Satan.
It all started with an idea. The idea was to prove that they could create something separate from God, to prove to God that Gods model of reality was wrong. This was Lucifers idea. Well nothing can be separate from God. And therefore what they created was a nothingness. But this nothingness was fed by the thoughts, the ideas, the emotions, of millions of conscious angels for millions and millions and millions of years. And this idea, sorta has a life of its own now. The most powerful dream character in history, Satan!
Satan became manifest in the world of angels, so much, Satan declared himself their god! He was real to them. Scary. And powerful. But really. . . . . he was still just a delusion.
Being the first to concieve of this idea, Lucifer became attached to Satan. But they arent one and the same. Lucifer didn't intend to create something so malicious and dark. But that didn't stop Lucifer from being fooled by his own minds eye creation.
But anyways, moving on!
THE FALL!! Here is the real reason why Lucifer became so pissed at humanity.
This Satan dream character running around in the dream like realm of angels is totally making a mess of things. This dream like realm of the angels is intimately linked to all other realities, including our own. At this point in time, were not even ape people. Earth is barely just growing its first trees when Satan already existed. But this Satan, embodied everything that is not God. Which is bad news for us, because in this story, we are the body of God!!
Satan is like a black hole, sucking away at reality to a nothingness.
And Satan was only becoming more and more and more powerful. Because the angels were dumb and literally waged war against Satan. Like a dream character, giving the dream character attention can only make the character stronger!
This Satan delusion was threatening the whole of creation. God acted in a way in a way God has never acted before. God took away the ability to co-create from the angels who were led by Lucifer. No more could their thoughts or emotions create. This was done to save themselves from their own creation. And to save the rest of creation from the black hole of Satan.
It was not to punish.
By separating them from their capacity to create, the idea was that Satan will disappear. Just like a dream character disappears when you turn away.
Do you see where this is going? The angels create thoughts. Ideas. Emotions.
And ego identities.
Without Gods light to sustain creation, everything that they created would be un-created, including their identities. Being no different, we can understand how the angels felt - Like they were going to cease existing! When really it was only their ego that would die, but tell that to your ego!
Trying to create Satan wasn't the rebellion. By the law of free will, they had the right to create anything they so desired.
The true rebellion was when they refused to give up their false egos. This was the unforgivable sin described in the bible. When God says your ego is so fucked up it needs to be undone, then its going to be undone and there is nothing you can do about it.
Many things simultaneously happened on this dark day. Including the creation of what we call hell. That place where you are separate from the light. Where you feel separate from everything that is. Lucifer was pissed at God! Now he rebels! He refuses to give up his ego, believing God has wronged him. He conceives of a plan. If he can no longer receive the light, then he will steal it!
So the fallen angels start stealing the light from beings like ourselves.
But things are going array. Lucifer wanted to preserve his identity. But the fallen angels are falling apart. Their egos, tearing, melting away, scarcely anything left of them. They became shadows of their former glory. Soul sucking vampires who dont even remember anymore why they soul suck. On top of that, the lies that they spread to us, the lie of Satan, kept Satan and other demonic dream characters alive.
There is a famous image of Lucifer being tied in chains in the lowest depths of hell, weaping, because hes realized how much hes fallen, how we can never win, and how much he misses the damn light. In this story, Lucifer finally gave up. Surrendered his ego. The angel named Lucifer is no more. The consciousness within has been released to live again.
Satan still remains, because people believe in Satan. But in the bible, God promises that at some future time, Satan and all the demons will be destroyed and cease to exist. God is not talking about the angels that he created because they are immortal consciousness. But illusions running amok, whove fooled themselves into thinking they truly exist (egos)
Oh and....
Many of the fallen angels realized they couldn't win, and/or/ were disgusted by their brothers and sisters who willfully became soul sucking vampires. Instead they gave up their angelic egos and agreed to be reborn as humans and other physical beings across the universe instead. But the memory of losing the light, what felt like total abondonment from God runs deep. Humans who were once fallen angels are actually more likely to be God fearing than any group. So afraid to lose the light, theyre the ones running the church.
Now I call that a story filled with irony!
niiiiiiiiiigggghhhhhhht!
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