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Date: October 22, 2011 11:12PM
Itzpapalotl Wrote:
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> Yup- It's tired misconception. Wicca and paganism
> are not devil-worship. Hell, Satanism isn't even
> devil-worship, despite what people think. Devil
> worship is something else entirely. Too bad people
> keep feeding this type of bigotry.
Long ago, after I left mormonism, I studied Blavatsky/Baileys Theosophy, also called Lucis Trust, which has heavy participation in the U.N. I hear, and which also believe that Lucifer is the good guy. They have an initiation level where the initiate must understand the nature of Lucifer as a solar angel of light before passing on to the next level.
Over the years I've discovered a lot of people who reverence Lucifer do so with a similar understanding that he is some kind of holy being angel who is misunderstood in the grand scheme of things due to christian demonizing of said Lucifer character. Many have a great reverence for 'dark' as they teach it's necessary part of their light teachings. Perhaps that justifies any negative dabblings, I didn't research that far to find out. Maybe not as unfamiliar as the D&C's verse stating that if they never should have bitter they could not know the sweet. D&C 29:39
Of course this doesn't explain why God commanded adam and eve NOT to partake of the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, but such is the nonsense of beliefs regardless of what side of the fence you approach it.
http://www.lucistrust.org/en/arcane_school/talks_and_articles/the_esoteric_meaning_of_luciferhttp://www.lucistrust.org/en/arcane_school/talks_and_articles/descent_and_sacrificenote: I had no personal interest in these teachings but was educating myself on different belief systems.