Lucifer: Princeps -- My Fav Quotes!

P1. “The story of Lucifer can be read as the history of the falsehoods, myths, hopes, hatreds and dreams that this one line has engendered … How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!”

P4. “It is women who are so often attacked in scripture as the weak point through which heresy enters, and it is this susceptibility which flourishes into a wilful embrace that becomes a key element of the medieval witch hunts.”

P5. “Put simply, most modern rebellion is not rebellion at all; neither is it harmless: it is actively beneficial to the corporate culture and values it purports to reject. The rebel is rendered impotent by their consumption, whether of pornography or possessions, caught by their own reflection from breaking free into the possibilities of experiences not mediated by constant reference to the screen ideal. Rebellion has, through these and other methods, been very neatly transformed into a tool that creates self-slavery.”

P8. “…our end is found in our beginning.”

P10. “For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.

Lucifer is styled as an upstart who seeks to set his own throne in the place of Yahweh. This is not overthrowing order, it is an at- tempt at achieving parity with the divine. Apotheosis, the eleva- tion to the status of a god, is the aim. This suggests a connection to a deeper strata of meaning, of an antecedent myth or myths.”

P36. “The fall of Lucifer is not a unique mythic event. His fate is mir- rored in a plethora of figures in the Ugaritic, Greek and Mesopota- mian traditions, whose legends are marked by certain common el- ements: doomed flight, the bringing of the fire of knowledge, and transgressing the limits of divine power. Notable amongst these figures are Icarus, Etana, Athtar, Gilgameš, Prometheus, Phaëthon and Bellerophon.”

P110. “One cannot limit Lucifer to a moment, or extract him from the river of history that runs as surely as Eridanus flows.”

P124. “The acquiescence of women in provoking sin, and thereby allowing evil to flourish, is played out in persistent Christian an- tifeminism. By absolving God of creating evil angels, woman is made to shoulder the blame.”