Today I searched (Google) for “Angel of the morning star” who you all you Christians know is Lucifer.
The morning star is another name for ‘Venus‘ the brightest of the planets. It’s symbol is the symbol for ‘female’. In pre-christian Greece (Aphrodite) and Rome (Venus) the morning star represented the Goddess of love and beauty linked to marriage, motherhood and sex.
I’m curious about Lucifer’s role before his (gender?) fall from ‘grace’. I’m assuming there was a good reason that Lucifer was “second in command to God himself; he was the highest archangel in heaven“. This online version tells of how lucifer fell from grace before the creation of man. In summary, it suggests that God ran a totalitarian government that did not justify its actions. Lucifer convinced nearly half of the angels that this effectively made them slaves and insighted them to rebel. The key request of the rebels, lead by Lucifer, appears to have been
that angels needed no law but should be left free to follow their own will, which would ever guide them right; that law was a restriction of their liberty; and that to abolish law was one great object of his standing as he did. The condition of the angels, he thought, needed improvement.”
Other quotes imply that they wanted a justification for laws, they wanted reasons and the ability to question laws rather than obey unquestioningly. And of course Lucifer was bright and aspired to having equivalent status to God. There was a war in heaven and God won.
Interesting how Christianity associated a pre-christian female principle that forefronted the relationships between men and women (love, sex, marriage, children) with their ultimate bad-guy.
Angel: Yes….Yes…my home was broken into 4 years ago….they took everything….everything small….small enough to carry……mobile phones…..DVD player……they didn’t take my Cello….it is portable, in a case with a handle, you can carry it….they didn’t take it.
