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On Luciferism: ⁃ “Lucifer,” is the pale morning-star, the precursor of the full blaze of the noon-day sun — the “Eosphoros” of the Greeks. ⁃ So deeply rooted, indeed, is this preconception and aversion to the name of Lucifer — meaning no worse than "light-bringer" (from lux , lucis , "light," and ferre "to bring") ⁃ They ought to study their Homer and Hesiod’s Theogony if they would do justice to Lucifer, " Eosphoros and Hesperos ," the Morning and the Evening beautiful star. ⁃ But their sacred writ is the first to contradict their interpretations and the association of Lucifer, the Morning Star, with Satan. Chapter XXII. of Revelation , verse 16th, says: “I, Jesus . . . am the root . . . and the bright and Morning Star ” (òρθριvòς "early rising"): hence Eosphoros, or the Latin Lucifer. ⁃ This gives the reason why one of the early Popes was called Lucifer, as Yonge and ecclesiastical records prove. (Blavatsky, H.P. (1887) Wh...