The Irony of Lucifer

The story of how Lucifer was cast out of heaven by God is an oral tradition and not represented in the Bible. It’s only in Isaiah 14:12 of King James Version* and New King James Version that the name Lucifer appears:

“How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning!”

Other versions of the Bible doesn’t use the word Lucifer but instead employ morning star, star of the morning, shining star, day star and shining one.
In Hebrew O Lucifer, son of the morning is O Helel, son of Shahar (HeYLeL BeN-ShaCHaR). The Babylonian god of the dawn was Shahar and his son, Helel, was the morning star that in fact is the planet Venus that at certain times is visible in the morning but not in the evening. Shahar had a twin brother, Shalem, associated with dusk and the evening appearance of Venus. Over time shalem became shalom which means go in peace or peace be with you. Jerusalem actually means House of Shalem from the worship of Venus as an evening star.
Since the planets moved differently than the star stories originated about them such as the one how Venus falls from heaven. As the morning star Venus was visible before sunrise and as the evening star immediately after sunset. Because of these qualities a number of names have been given to it by the ancients. At sunset Vesper and at sunrise, as it appears before the sun, the false light, the star of the morning or Lucifer (the light-bearer).

When Helel was translated into Greek for their version of the Old Testament, the Septuagint, it became Phosphorus, which was Greek for Venus, and then when translated into Latin for the Vulgate it became Lucifer, which is Latin for Venus.
How ironic is it not that the collective perception of Lucifer is that of evil and Venus that of love, when in fact the two are one and the same in some form of translational Yin and Yang. Jesus himself, expressing the notion of unconditional love, called himself the morning star in Rev 22:16 (KJV):

“I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches. I am the root and the offspring of David, [and] the bright and morning star.”

There it is.
As a side note I would like to say that the Rosicrucian scholars called the spiritual sun Vulcan, the sun of the soul Christ and the intellectual sun Lucifer and the material sun Jehovah. Without the spiritual (Vulcan) the intellectual (Lucifer) is not illuminated, and is in fact a false light. When the intellect (Lucifer) is transmuted into the soul (Christ) it equates the alchemical process of transmuting base metals into gold. Paracelsus wrote:

“There is an earthly sun, which is the cause of all heat, and all who are able to see may see the sun; and those who are blind and cannot see him may feel his heat. There is an Eternal Sun, which is the source of all wisdom, and those whose spiritual senses have awakened to life will see that sun and be conscious of His existence; but those who have not attained spiritual consciousness may yet feel His power by an inner faculty which is called Intuition.”

*POSTSCRIPT:
The King James Bible was written by a committee and published in 1611. Forty-seven translators worked in groups of six to complete the project supervised by Sir Francis Bacon.

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