Where Were You Before the Tree of Life? - Horus Centre

“morning star.” The identification of Isaiah’s Lucifer with the Devil began with Saint Jerome and
other Fathers of the Church, who held that Jesus implied the identification when he said, “I beheld
Satan as lightning fall from heaven” (Luke 10:18). Consequently, in Patristic literature, Lucifer is
used as a synonym for Satan.
The Gnostic scripture The Secret Book According to John discloses the nature of Lucifer at
his creation, and already implies some similarities or some kind of relationship to Jesus:
“Its anointment
“(18) And the invisible virgin spirit rejoiced at the light that had come to exist and that had
been shown forth out of the first power of the spirit’s forethought, who is the Barbelo. And the
spirit anointed it (the spark) with its own kindness until it became perfect needing no further
kindness since it had been anointed with the kindness of the invisible spirit. And it stood at rest in
the presence of the spirit, which was . . (28) pouring upon it. And the moment that it received from
the spirit it glorified the holy spirit and perfect forethought, because of which it had become
disclosed.”
One early term for Lucifer is Ba’al. Ba’al is a Hebrew word that means “lord” or “master.” The
only question is to which lord or master they were referring to when using this expression.
Numerous deities were addressed by that title in the Middle East throughout ancient history,
but all their names have not come down to us. It would have caused great confusion if the English
translators of the Old Testament had translated ba’al into the English word “lord”. So they left the
word in Hebrew. To the reader in English it appears to be a name rather than the honorific title it
is, a title that is still used in the Jewish faith. For example, one who can work miracles in the
name of God is known as Ba’al shem, the lord or master of the Name. . . the Jews did not accuse
Jehovah’s rival of being the devil, but rather denigrated him by calling him the lord over nothing,
the Lord of the Flies or in Hebrew Ba’al-zbub. Over a thousand years later, impassioned
Christians decided that any rival of Jehovah had to be the Devil and anglicized the Hebrew Lord
of the Flies to Beelzebub, which they declared to be the name of Satan.
In the Hebrew Bible, as in mainstream Judaism to this day, Satan or Lucifer never appears
as Western Christendom has come to know him, as the leader of an “evil empire,” an army of
hostile spirits who make war on God and humankind alike? As he first appears in the Hebrew
Bible, Satan is not necessarily evil, much less opposed to God. On the contrary, he appears in
the book of Numbers and in Job as one of God’s obedient servants—a messenger, or angel, a
word that translates the Hebrew term for messenger (mal’ak) into Greek (Angelos). In Hebrew,
the angels were often called “sons of God” (ben e ‘elohim), and were envisioned as the
hierarchical ranks of a great army, or the staff of a royal court.
Fusion, or the combining of all the parts into a Whole, is the true nature of God. Fission, the
breaking apart of that which is one Whole, is of the nature of Lucifer. This can be seen in the
explosive nature that has enveloped Mankind. That which is Dark such as the atom bomb, and
the ‘Big Bang’ theory of Creation, and nuclear fission as a form of creating energy, are much
more readily accepted than anything which is a coming together of elements, such as fusion.
In a speech given at the University of Munich, obtained from the SS secret archives, Dr. W.
O. Schumann declared:
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