"For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods" Gen. 3:5 

"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!  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. Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit" Isaiah 14:12.

"Thou [Lucifer] hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created. Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth; and I have set thee so: thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire. Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till iniquity was found in thee. By the multitude of thy merchandise they have filled the midst of thee with violence, and thou hast sinned: therefore I will cast thee as profane out of the mountain of God: and I will destroy thee, O covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire. Thine heart was lifted up because of thy beauty, thou hast corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness: I will cast thee to the ground, I will lay thee before kings, that they may behold thee. Thou hast defiled thy sanctuaries by the multitude of thine iniquities, by the iniquity of thy traffick; therefore will I bring forth a fire from the midst of thee, it shall devour thee, and I will bring thee to ashes upon the earth in the sight of all them that behold thee. All they that know thee among the people shall be astonished at thee: thou shalt be a terror, and never shalt thou be any more" Ezekiel 28:13-19.

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According to the Gnostics, Evil did not exist before the created universe since there was only pure Divinity of ineffable Godhead. That is, Godhead beyond all categories. Moreover, in the created Cosmos there exists a three-fold god subsisting in the fullness of being or "Light" ("pleroma"), which is separated from the material plane of existence by a great barrier ("horos"). Hence, two realms - "Light" and "Matter"- separated by a great battier - "horos."

How this separation occurred is unknown, but, what Gnostics believe is that our world was not created by the pure Divinity of ineffable Godhead or a God of Light. Rather, it was created by a god that was somehow devoid of pure Divinity: by an entity that resulted from a deficiency in the "pleroma."  Again, the Gnostics are unsure on this but, whatever the cause, they are sure of its consequences: lesser, independent entities arose in the graduated levels ("Aeons") of the new, created Cosmos. Moreover, one of these entities ("Archons") was the creator of our World of Matter. They usually refer to this Archon as the "Demiurge." The Gnostics identify the Demiurge as Yahweh (YHWH) the God of the Old Testament.

The Gnostics contend that man is a mixed entity, an admix of elements arising from both the World of Light (of the God of Light) and the World of Darkness (of the Demiurge). Moreover, that man can only be redeemed from this fallen state by knowledge - Gnosis. This knowledge, this Gnosis, is not something derived from study of conclusions reached by logical methods but by a "direct expedience of being."

The Gnostics by the mysterious process of the "direct expedience of being" concluded that the Demiurge Yahweh demanded faith ("pistis") from His creation and because of this he was the "bad god"; contrasted by the "Good God" who can only be reached by "gnosis."

In certain Gnostic creeds this "Good God" is the Ancient Greek god Prometheus (the Titan who stole fire from Olympus and gave it to mankind) who is also identified as Lucifer (the spirit of evil and adversary of God in the Christian and Islamic religions).

Lucifer is the Light Bearer for mankind and ipso facto the saviour of humankind: at least for that part of humanity able and willing to comprehend and accept his Principle. Accordingly, the duty of all true seekers of salvation is to understand this entity, this "Good God," this Light Bearer, and to make use of its power in the service of humanity itself but, more importantly, in the service of the "Solar Logos" - the "Good God," Sorath.

In the mythos of Dark Freemasonry and Dark Gnosticism this Luciferian mythology is far older than the treatment given to it by the Ancient Hebrews and early Christians. Who, according to the prophets of Dark Freemasonry, ignorantly misunderstood it and wilfully distorted it in order to pander to the local god of the Israelites: to placate the Demiurge Yahweh.

Thus, in Dark Gnosticism and Dark Freemasonry Lucifer has none of the destructive slanders or attributes described in the Christian Tradition, rather, he is the embodiment of enlightenment and reason.

The Luciferian Albert Pike is acknowledged as a supreme authority of his Craft and his books repositories of the inner secrets of the Order. In his book, Morals and Dogma he gives an apt description of Lucifer, but distorts the Dark God's purpose.

 "The devil is the personification of Atheism or Idolatry. For the Initiates, this is not a Person, but a Force, created for good, but which may serve for evil. It is the instrument of Liberty or Free Will. They represent this Force, which presides over the physical generation, under the mythological and horned form of the God Pan; thence came the he-goat of the Sabbat, brother of the Ancient Serpent, and the Light-bearer or Phosphor, of which the poets have made the false Lucifer of the legend."

The sinister prophet of Freemasonry further describes his god thus:

" . . . The Supreme Being is a centre of Light whose rays or emanations pervade the Universe; for that is the Light for which all Masonic journeys are a search, and of which the sun and moon in our Lodges are only emblems: that Light and Darkness, chief enemies from the beginning of Time, dispute with each other the empire of the world . ... Lucifer, the Light-Bearer! Strange and mysterious name to give to the Spirit of Darkness! Lucifer, the Son of the Morning! Is it he who bears the light, and with its splendors intolerable blinds feeble, sensual or selfish Souls? Doubt it not!"

Pike was a modern exponent of the ancient Gnostic Tradition, the pagan doctrines of antiquity that revered Lucifer as the beneficent god who gifted mankind self-consciousness: that is, the "Light-Bearer" (Greek: "Eosphoros") who is the "God" of most true religions and creeds.

The Greeks knew Lucifer as the Titan, Prometheus ("he who has foreknowledge"). Here, Prometheus wishing to help and preserve mankind brought the divine fire ("higher consciousness") and bestowed it upon men. Thus, Prometheus, the true friend of man, stole the divine fire from Olympus and gave it to mankind, thereby gifting to men all the crafts, as wells as showing them the rich ore and precious stones buried in the earth. This was the first enlightenment of mankind. For these countless benefactions conferred on humanity by Prometheus the jealous spirits who claim to be true gods combined against him and wronged him. Therefore, Zeus was angered and punished Prometheus by hurling him into the depths of Erebus and chained him to a rock where an eagle gnawed at his liver until Hercules rescued him.

Thus, the "creator god," Zeus (the Yahweh of the Old Testament) wants to keep mankind in bondage to him and his "natural laws" which he has set up, but a rebel figure, Prometheus (Lucifer) befriends man and brings him the means to effect his freedom. That is, the Great Rebel brings man the means to become as one of the gods: "ye shall be as gods" (Gen. 3:5).

The Luciferian Doctrines of Dark Gnosticism and Dark Freemasonry further contend that the Christian conception, particularly that given in Genesis 3, is not only wholly ignorant but also a viscous slander of Lucifer. In that any close, honest and objective reading of the myth merely proves their point viz. the Serpent is both friend and brother of Adam, while the Lord God, Yahweh, is only his keeper and shepherd. While Yahweh would have held man in an eternal bondage of ignorance, the Great Rebel, Lucifer opened the way for man's rebellion and hence salvation. Thus, while Yahweh would keep man chained to matter and ignorance The Serpent gave Knowledge -Gnosis- and therefore made man's escape possible: hence, Lucifer was the true friend of mankind and his true liberator ... Yahweh is true captor and true enemy. Furthermore, any other interpretation of the Genesis 3 text is wholly imaginative and very wrong.

The Luciferian Doctrines of Dark Gnosticism and Dark Freemasonry also contain a corresponding Christology, which is consistent with their view of the Eden Myth. Namely, that The Serpent in the Garden of Eden and the Anointed One -the Messiah, the Christos, the Person of Christ- are one and the same. Moreover, that the Christos is a messenger and "son" of The Serpent and not the "son of the Creator." The Christos further establishes his Luciferic credentials in that he preaches Gnosis (Knowledge) and not pistis (Faith) as does his "father."

According to the Luciferian Doctrines of Dark Gnosticism the Serpent of Eden corresponds to the "serpent power," the Kundalini of Indian Tantric lore. Further, that this truly beneficent principle is the "Chrestos" (Greek: "the good one"), which is the "Solar Logos," the benevolent solar entity.

The Luciferian Doctrines of Dark Gnosticism, of which Freemasonry, Dark Freemasonry especially, is a repository, hold that there is not simply a Dualistic contest between "Good" and "Evil" but rather a "beyond-good-and evil" Dualism. A situation conveniently summed up in the slogan "lux e tenebris": "Light from the Darkness." That "Light" is held in a matrix of "Darkness," and both are necessary to existence, and it is the goal of the Luciferian to gain experience in and mastery over both these aspects of Creation. To experience and master both "Light" and "Darkness"; to recognise and embrace both the "Good" and the "Evil" in the created Cosmos as equals. A relationship depicted in the Taoist's yin-yang symbol: in which the seed of the opposite quality is shown embedded in the depths of its counterpart. Thus, both the Right Path and the Left Path of Initiation lead ultimately to The Absolutum: the transcendent sphere that stands beyond "Good" and "Evil."

Thus, the preoccupation in Luciferian Religions with the reconciliation of opposites.

In the degraded doctrines of Illuminism this is reduced to the system of dualism (Thesis Vs. Antithesis) out of which arises Synthesis. But, soon conflicting forces clash again with another Synthesis resulting once more: A cycle repeated until a Final Equilibrium, Final Resolution or Final Revolution is achieved that in the context of the World Revolutionary Movement is the New World Order.

Albert Pike and other Luciferians believe that Prometheus was punished, just as Lucifer was punished by God, for his friendship and goodwill towards mankind and like Lucifer was the brightest angel unjustly cast out of heaven: the veritable son of the morning. Many people, even worshippers of Evil such as Pike, do not fully comprehend what they face. Although Pike was a devotee of the Dark Gods he himself did not recognise or acknowledge Satan (Ahriman). Photographs of the wizened Pike show him wearing the symbol of the Baphomet around his neck but he himself denied that Satan existed as an Active Principle in Creation. In Morals and Dogma he explains that this symbol was misunderstood by those who were not adepts and that it was "invented ages before, to conceal what it was [too] dangerous to avow."

Pike regarded Baphomet, the hermaphrodite god of the pagans, as an ancient Gnostic symbol for Lucifer, and in his exhaustive researches of Gnosticism could find no adversary of man and God known as "Satan." The entity called "Satan" was only mentioned in the Bible and therefore according to Pike, was a fabrication of Christians. "Thus," writes Pike, "the doctrine of Satanism is a heresy; and the true and pure philosophic religion is the belief in Lucifer." While Pike formulated his Luciferian Doctrine for Freemasonry he was in discourse with other occultists who acknowledged Satan's presence in Creation. Occultists such as the "Illustrious Brothers" Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-82) and Moses Holbrook (d.1844) Grand Commander of the Supreme Council, who attempted to pursued Pike of the existence and potency of Satan; the Dark God who is also called Ahriman. They did this by discoursing about the mysteries of the Kabbalah, yet these two Satanists were unable to convert Pike to the Kabbalist view of Satan. According to this interpretation of Evil, the Old Adversary was once Lucifer; and that Satan is a power to be used for either good or evil. Pike describes this Kabbalist view of Satan in Morals and Dogma thus:

"The true name of Satan, the Kabalists say, is that of Yahveh [sic] reversed; for Satan is not a black god, but the negation of God. The Devil is the personification of Atheism or Idolatry. For the Initiates, this is not a Person, but a Force, created for good, but which may serve for evil. It is the instrument of Liberty or Free Will. They represent this Force, which presides over the physical generation, under the mythologic and horned form of the God Pan; thence came the he-goat of the Sabbat, brother of the Ancient Serpent, and the Light-bearer or Phosphor, of which the poets have made the false Lucifer of the Legend."

Pike's position on the matter was that people have, whether by error or choice, confused the nature and role of Lucifer by equating him with Satan even calling Satan the Fallen Angel. Pike taught that Lucifer never fell from Heaven and that he is the "light of the world," equal in power to Almighty God, although less transcendent now.

In Morals and Dogma, Pike ridicules the book of Revelation for denying Lucifer equality with God:

"The Apocalypse is ... The Apotheosis of that Sublime Faith which aspires to God alone, and despises all the pomps and works of Lucifer."

Fred W Allsopp in his hagiography Albert Pike, A Biography tells us that Pike's intimate Freemasonic associates called him "The Patriarch," and that they said that he became:

"The most eminent and best loved Mason in the World, not merely by virtue of the exalted position which he held, but because of his high character and lovable nature, his scholarly attainments, his writings and treatises on the law and symbolism of Masonry, and the extraordinary fund of knowledge which he possessed on every subject, in and out of the order."

In the January 1989 issue of Freemasonic propaganda publication called The New Age, Fred Kleinknecht, the Sovereign Grand Commander of the Southern Jurisdiction of the Scottish Rite wrote that the "apex" of their teachings has been the rituals of their degrees and Morals and Dogma. Pike wrote all of the Freemasonic Rituals from the 4th to the 33rd degrees as well as all of Morals and Dogma. Kleinknecht again praises Albert Pike and his book:

"Correctly understood, Albert Pikes' Morals and Dogma provides our brethren a stimulus to thought, a source of inspiration, and even an aid to Scottish Rite growth. Pike's great work is not the book of an hour, a decade, or a century. It is a book for all time ... Abandon Morals and Dogma? Never!" (The Scottish Rite Journal, November 1992).

It would be impossible to overestimate the importance and influence of Grand Commander Albert Pike on the Scottish Rite and for turning Anglo-Saxon Freemasonry away, as far as is possible, from its original source contained in the doctrines of Craftmasonry. To the contemporary Freemason who is wholly unaware of the true nature of their occult organisation, he is a "Goliath of Freemasonry."

To those contemporary Freemasons who really understand the true nature of their occult organisation, he is a co-conspirator par excellence and peer of two other wicked men, Giuseppe Mazzini (1805-72) and of Adam Weishaupt, and like them, a modern prophet in the Great Conspiracy against God. And, although one must concur that "He has lived; the fruits of his labours live after him," one is even more compelled to declare that these fruits are bitter, very bitter indeed. The ultimate source of the doctrines of Pike can be discerned from his mockery and sarcasm used in his denunciation of the Apostles and early Church Fathers, whom he claimed, continued the suppression of knowledge and science.

"The dunces who led primitive Christianity astray, by substituting faith for science, reverie for experience, the fantastic for the reality; and the inquisitors who for so many ages waged against Magism [sic] a war of extermination, have succeeded in shrouding in darkness the ancient discoveries of the human mind; so that we now grope in the dark to find again the key of the phenomena of nature."

A contemporary of Pike, Domenico Margiotta, a 33� Degree Freemason makes clear the nature of Freemasonry's god, its much-vaunted "The Great Architect of the Universe":

"Lucifer is the equal of the Adonay, with Lucifer the god of light and goodness struggled for humanity against Adonay the God of Darkness and Evil. Albert Pike had only specified and unveiled dogmas of the high grades of all other Masonry's, for in no matter what rite, the Great Architect of the Universe is not the God worshipped by the Christians."

Pike gives sympathetic treatment to the actuality of Lucifer by reiterating the view of antiquity but wilfully avoids the fact of the Incarnation of Christ and its massive effect upon the course of the evolution of the Cosmos. Although the Luciferian Consciousness had a profound impact on humanity its excesses were rendered void by the Event at Golgotha, where Jesus Christ become a blood sacrifice for the salvation of mankind, and where redemption is available to those who believe in Him. This is why Christ can simply say that, even with the entire trappings of the Ancient Mysteries founded on the Luciferic Consciousness notwithstanding:

 "I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life" (John 8:12).

For, Christ had arrived as the Great Mediator between men and God and had rescued mankind from the abyss awaiting it if left prey for the machinations of the Dark Gods, Lucifer and Ahriman, who are the Overlords of Chaos and the architects of the Great Conspiracy against God. The Luciferians and Satanists reject the fact of Christ's function as Mediator and Redeemer of humanity, and despise Him for it. It is for this reason that Freemasonry dedicates itself to John the Baptist and John the Evangelist, the so-called Johannite Tradition, and has no mention of Jesus Christ in its "charges" or rituals. Freemasonry is an organisation comprised of a plurality of religious faiths and does not favour any one religion, except when it is required to deceive the naive and ignorant. The Johannite Tradition comprises alternative forms of "Christianity" in which Jesus Christ is man only, not God-man, mortal not Divine and not made from God.

The JohanniteTradition is a product of "Gnosticism," in which heretical syncretistic sects mixed Hellenistic pagan religions with Neo-Platonism. Its purpose is to substitute one of the "Johns" for Christ and declare him god-like. This is why Freemasonry avoids the mention of Christ if possible, but grudgingly if pushed will acknowledge him as a "master" but attribute no divine aspect to Him. This denial of Christ as God by Freemasonry is also the reason why it forbids the use of Jesus Christ in place of "The Great Architect of the Universe" (GAOTU) in open Lodge yet pointedly eulogise the "Holy Saints John." The Johannite element within Freemasonry is a salient example of its enmity to Christ. For, it is an allusion to the heretical Johannite Sects that form the secret church of St John, which is a Gnostic sect of Nestorian and Gnostic Christians who deny the Divinity of Jesus Christ. These so-called "St. John Christians" revere John the Baptist but despise Jesus Christ who they term the "Vomiter of Lies" the spokesmen of Freemasonry dissemble when pushed to clarify its position on Christ. They will say something like:

 "The perfect man is Christ: and Christ is God. This is the birth-right and destiny of every human soul" or "It is far more important that men should strive to become Christs than that they should believe that Jesus was Christ."

Freemasonry therefore will not accord the unique status to the Christ, who Incarnated into the body of the man Jesus from Nazareth, that aspect of God it most assuredly possesses.

Apologists of Freemasonry compile long lists of famous people who are past or present Freemasons as proof of its moral excellence. The Homosexual Lobby also uses this ploy. They compile a list and recite all prominent men in history, who were supposedly homosexual, as proof and justification of the debased lifestyle they have chosen to lead. In addition, they assert that somehow the mythical "homosexual gene" is not only natural and the cause of their condition, but it is touched with genius. Lists prove nothing other than those on it have chosen for whatever reason to be Freemasons or homosexuals. The long list of famous Freemasons indicates the charge against Freemasonry that it follows the cardinal precept of illumination. That to hide its true nature, its inner teachings, from the neophyte or inferior outer fraternity it creates illusions and arrogates legitimacy by co-opting the great and the good of society. For, in most occult societies predicated on Evil, the hierophant finds that when these inner secrets are revealed to him they are invariably diametrically opposed to the outer surface teachings of the order. In short, his superiors in the order have duped the initiate into believing that it is something that it is most definitely not.

Freemasonry is a secret society disguised as philanthropic and benevolent fraternity in which the vast majority of the past and present members have been ignorant of the inner secrets and intentions of their Order. Only the elite, the elect are privy to the real intentions of Freemasonry. The majority was, and still is, fed falsehoods and fantastical notions of benevolence, fraternity and liberty that was, and is, intended to delude and ensnare the gullible and the good. Freemasonry's use of the "Johns" is an artifice to lull Christians into accepting its religious allusions as somehow Christian and therefore orthodox. However, they are not legitimate references, but trickeries designed to seduce the na�ve and the ignorant. The intention is to give an impression that Freemasonry is somehow a repository of arcane mystical Christianity and that the order is the secret church of Jesus Christ. This is a misapprehension that the na�ve are allowed to make if they so wish.

Freemasons who advance in the Craft believing that they draw closer to God through the mediation of Christ, who seek the "light," are in reality being led into the darkness away from Christ. The wickedness underpinning Freemasonry is revealed by this duplicity. Especially when it is known that the candidate is allowed to believe and speak nonsense under the auspices of the order by men, their dominant masters, who know better but must conceal the Truth from the postulant. Freemasonry betrays its roots by such devices.

It is a modern exponent of the ancient system of Illuminism; that is, it is a gradual process of initiation culminating in an intense experience where the hierophant receives the "light." Freemasonry thus follows the ancient template of fraud whereby the outer dressing of an occult society conceals teachings that would deter the recruit if he were aware of them earlier. Lies, half-truths and allusions are used to inveigle the candidate into the order, who is then guided through the various stages of initiation wherein the inner secrets of the cult or society are slowly revealed to him. However, this knowledge is diametrically opposed to the outer surface teachings of the order and, these disclosures are often disturbing, even extremely distasteful, due to their physical, sociological and cosmological import. Nevertheless, by this time it is usually too late. For, the soul of the candidate has been so corrupted and he himself has invested so much into the process that to leave would require immense moral strength and be too painful for him, if not dangerous. It is therefore a great delusion a man holds who enters Freemasonry, calls himself a "Christian Mason" as he ascends the degrees of initiation.

Sovereign Grand Commander Albert Pike also states that Freemasonry is the guardian of the Secret Tradition of antiquity. A tradition he calls "The Occult Science of the Ancient Magi" that is contained in the arcana of the "Rites of the Highest Masonry." He further asserts that this Secret Tradition of the Magi was hidden in the Mystery Religions of antiquity, distorted by the Gnostics, and incorporated into the religion of the Knights Templars. To apprehend these ancient occult secrets of the Magi, initiates must grasp the significance of the opaque "Rites of the Highest Masonry." He also contends that the beliefs of the Magi were incorporated into the religions established by both Confucius and Zoroaster. He goes on to discuss the Dualism upon which Zoroasterism is based; that is the two competing Principalities, one a "Good," the other an "Evil" and by doing so he reveals his ignorance on the subject. Pike teaches that the "good God" represents "Light," the "evil God," sometimes called "the Demon," represents "Darkness," and that the Empire of Light and the Empire of Darkness are in perpetual struggle for ascendancy. Albert Pike's explanation of the events that took place in the Garden of Eden is also pertinent to the explanation.

In the XXVI Degree of the Scottish Rite composed by Pike, the candidate is informed that:

"The Prince of Darkness . . . made Adam, whose soul was of the Divine Light, contributed by the Eons, and his body of matter, so that he belonged to both Empires, that of Light and that of Darkness. To prevent the light from escaping at once, the Demons forbade Adam to eat the fruit of "knowledge of good and evil," by which he would have known the Empire of Light and that of Darkness. He obeyed; an Angel of Light induced him to transgress, and gave him the means of victory."

Here, Pike asserts that the proto-human, Adam, was created by the "Prince of Darkness," which is of course to Luciferians the Yahweh of Genesis, and that he was freed from bondage by an "Angel of Light," which is clearly Lucifer. In this rendition of the Fall we see an inversion of the Biblical story of the Garden of Eden where evil is called good and good is called evil. Furthermore, Pike claims that Adam's soul came from "the Divine Light" which of course he means the Luciferian Consciousness released into humanity following Lucifer's expulsion from heaven. It is the very same "light" prospective Freemasons are encouraged to seek during their Initiation Ceremony into the Blue Lodge. During the ceremony the candidate is asked what they seek and they obligingly answer "the Light," unfortunately no one ever tells him what "the Light" represents; they are expected to determine this through personal reading and contemplation. Thus, in the Freemasonic worldview, the Divine Light is Lucifer and Empire of Light is his Kingdom, whilst base matter, the Empire of Darkness, is Yahweh's Kingdom. The personal tragedies of all Freemasons who believe the Craft to be something other than it is originate from this distortion of the Truth. "The Light" that Freemasons seek is the divine light of Lucifer, the Light Bearer, although most Freemasons never discover this truth.

Applying the dualism of Zarathustra, Pike uses the term "Demon" for the inferior god of matter and darkness in his treatment of the Creation myth found in the Book of Genesis. Pike censures "the Demons" (Yahweh) for curtailing Adam's freedoms even though they wanted "to prevent the light from escaping at once"; that is, Yahweh did not want Adam's sinful nature released because it would oblige Him to expel Adam from Eden. Yahweh ("the Demons") also incites Pike's disapproval for prohibiting Adam from eating the fruit "of the knowledge of good and evil," this, writes the Freemasonic mage, is a tyranny that curtails all freedoms and initiatives. Lucifer lifted this tyranny from mankind when he approached the First Couple and incited them to join his rebellion against Yahweh. Adam initially scrupled but eventually succumbed to the wiles of the Serpent and to the blandishments of Eve. Thus, according to Pike "[Adam] obeyed; an Angel of Light induced him to transgress, and gave him the means of victory."

The victory gifted Adam by "an Angel of Light," was freedom from Yahweh's restrictions, and the ability to do whatever he so desired, that is, the gift of Free Will. At that point, crows Pike, Adam became his own god. Thus, concludes Pike, Lucifer not Yahweh is the true friend of mankind. However, Pike fails to inform his readers that the freedom gifted to mankind by Lucifer is a double-edged sword: the capacity to attain freedom is accompanied by the possibility for man to fall into error and evil: which they willingly and unerringly do.

Luciferians claim that Yahweh wanted to restrict mankind's pleasure and that by rejecting Him, then everyone can be free to do whatever they wish. This is a facile treatment of the problem of Free Will. Freedom is not the ability to do what we want to do per se; freedom is the ability to do what we should do according to God's laws. Without restraints, without absolute universal morality, there is no true freedom only an extreme relativism leading to moral anarchy, error and evil.

On July 14, 1889, two years before his death, Pike issued the following statement to the "24 Supreme Masonic Councils of the world" who were meeting in Paris. It is a statement of faith:

"That which we must say to the crowd is: 'We worship a God, but it is the God one adores without superstition.' … To you, Sovereign Grand Inspectors General [33rd Degree Masons], we say this, that you may repeat it to the Brethren of the 32nd, 31st, and 30th degrees: 'The Masonic religion should be, by all of us initiates of the high degrees, maintained in the purity of the Luciferian doctrine' … If Lucifer were not God (or "Adonai," the Hebrew word for "Lord" which refers to Yahweh, the God of Israel, whose name they avoided using) whose deeds prove his cruelty, perfidy, and hatred of man, barbarism and repulsion for science, would Adonay and his priests calumniate him? Yes, Lucifer is God, and unfortunately Adonay is also God. For the eternal law is that there is no light without shade, no beauty without ugliness, no white without black, for the absolute can only exist as two Gods: darkness being necessary to light to serve as its foil as the pedestal is necessary to the statue, and the brake to the locomotive ... Thus, the doctrine of Satanism is a heresy; and the true and pure philosophic religion is the belief in Lucifer, the equal of Adonay; but Lucifer, God of Light and God of Good, is struggling for humanity against Adonay, the God of darkness and evil."

Brother Pike cannot be clearer than this regarding his faith in his gods who he calls Lucifer and Satan, who is also called Ahriman. These baleful rebellious gods are the dual faces of Evil that dare to spit in God's face, their Creator, and desire to crash Creation to the ground and erect from its shards an alternative, dark reality in their own image. For, they are Lucifer and Ahriman who are the Dark Gods of crises, chaos and confusion, the Lords of Lies and Misrule, who are truly the Overlords of Chaos.

The nature of Evil is more complicated than expressed by the three great monotheist religions: it is a dual force combining different aspects of Evil; in short, Evil has two faces. The simplified medieval conception of the Devil who is the implacable enemy of God is wrong. This erroneous conception has endured in Western Civilisation and it is now the most accepted explanation of Evil. However, Evil is twofold, it has two faces personified by two Dark Gods called Lucifer and Ahriman. In short, Lucifer and Ahriman are at head the Principality of Evil.

A distinction should now be made between Luciferian Illumination and "Black Magic." The first is the domain of the Dark God Lucifer; the second is the domain of the other Dark God Ahriman, called in the Bible, Satan, who together represent the Dual Faces of Evil. Hence, the contrast between Luciferianism and Satanism; between Luciferians and Satanists; between the Luciferic Principality and the Satanic/Ahrimanic Principality. These are the Evil Hierarchies of spirits that oppose Creation.

The Mystery of the Incarnation, Passion, Crucifixion and Resurrection; when Christ incarnated in the man Jesus of Nazareth, was the momentous event when the Christ Impulse was brought down to Earth ....  and when the twin principalities of Evil were defeated on the Cross.

Lucifer is the First Face of Evil; the Second Face of Evil is Ahriman, commonly called Satan. Zarathustra the ancient Persian prophet was the first to perceive the second face of Evil, which he called Angra Mainyu, and understand this Dark God's desire to obscure mankind's vision of the other side of divine existence. The seminal mission of Zarathustra, one of the great teachers of man, was to help guard humanity's vulnerable position against the onslaught from the Ahriman. The ancient Persians by nature did not yearn perpetually for the spiritual world. Therefore, Zarathustra's aim was to impart to his people a culture directed to the physical world of sense, and the aiming at mastery of the material world through means dependent upon the efforts and labours of physical man.

The ancient Persian civilisation therefore was less subject to the influence of Lucifer, but was becoming victim to the Ahrimanic impulse that began to flood the world. This resulted in many of the Initiates at that time lapsing into the practice of a form of Black Magic. Ahrimanic influence caused many to misuse for the purposes of the physical-material world what was accessible to them from the spiritual world. The forces of Black Magic therefore had their origin in the temptations of that Being whom Zarathustra taught his people to know as Angra Mainyu (later called Ahriman). This Evil Being opposed the God of Light who Zarathustra proclaimed was Ahura Mazdao, the "Great Aura," the Great Sun God.

The teachings of Zarathustra revealed for the first time how Ahriman, as an opposing power, ensnares man and clouds his vision of the spiritual reality behind the world of sense. Fortunately, the wise teaching of Zarathustra and his followers influenced a large part of the ancient Near East. On the one hand, men were taught of the workings of the sublime God of Light, Ahura Mazdao, to whom they may turn, and, on the other, of the malefic power of Angra Mainyu (Ahriman) and his legions of demons.

The hierarchy of Dark Freemasonry follow Lucifer, who they believe is the "good God" because he promises them freedom from the restrictions imposed by their "evil God," Jesus Christ. When Lucifer rules, so the Luciferians teach, his followers can become like gods, and control the world and all those unfortunates who cannot ascend to this exalted, illuminated state. This is a mirror image of what the Bible teaches. Albert Pike, and those who endorse or follow his teachings, display the mental gymnastics peculiar to occultists imbued with Luciferian Consciousness when they distort Objective Reality to suit their own ends. The admixing of ancient traditions and history to promote Lucifer as the saviour and great friend of man is disingenuous and false.

This Dark God works in unison with Ahriman to ensnare humanity in a web of evil and corruption. Lucifer is the origin of the Freemasonic "light," the ancient "light" of the Gnostic religions of antiquity and it was this counterfeit "light" that the prophets and Apostles surrounding Christ counselled against (Matt. 6:23; 2 Cor. 11:14). What the Freemasonic "Magi" purposefully ignore is the fact of the Incarnation of Christ whose purpose was to rescue humanity from the abyss that the Dark Gods had prepared for it. This is why Christ said with utmost sincerity:

 "I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life" (John 8:12).

The Christ-Light is the true aspect of deity whilst the "light" of illumination is the Luciferic inspired counterfeit that dazzles the dupe, the asinine and the depraved. The fool rejects Christ because they know no better: the depraved because they hate Him. Yet, both are the willing tools of the two principalities of Evil who are Lucifer and Ahriman, the Dark Gods of crises, chaos and confusion, the Lords of Lies and Misrule, who are truly the Overlords of Chaos.

 Let there be no mistake on this most important point:

The "light" of the Lodge comes from the Spirit of Darkness, because Lucifer is the ultimate god of Dark Freemasonry.

Albert Pike is not a lone voice in this matter; other Freemasonic writers celebrate their god Lucifer. In his book, The Mysteries of Magic the occultist and Freemason Eliphas Levi, initiated at the Lodge Rose du Parfait Silence of the Grand Orient of France 1861 in Paris, wrote:

"What is more absurd and more impious than to attribute the name of Lucifer to the devil, that is, to personified evil. The intellectual Lucifer is the spirit of intelligence and love; it is the Paraclete, it is the Holy Spirit, while the physical Lucifer is the great agent of universal magnetism."

Brother Eliphas tells us in Historie de la Magie still further his admiration for the Dark God of Freemasonry:

"It [Lucifer] is that Angel who was proud enough to believe himself God; brave enough to buy his independence at the price of eternal suffering and torture; beautiful enough to have adored himself in full divine light; strong enough to still reign in darkness amidst agony, and to have made himself a throne out of this inextinguishable pyre."

Two other 33� ("thirty-third and Last degree") Freemasons, the "Illustrious" Arthur Edward Waite (1857-1942) and his "brother" Freemason Manly Palmer Hall, contribute to the canon of Freemasonry on the subject. In his book The Book of Black Magic, Waite tells us of his supplication to Evil:

"First Conjuration Addressed to Emperor Lucifer. Emperor Lucifer, Master and Prince of Rebellious Spirits, I adjure thee to leave thine abode, in what-ever quarter of the world it may be situated and come hither to communicate with me. I command and I conjure thee in the Name of the Mighty Living God, Father, Son and Holy Ghost, to appear without noise and without ..."

Whilst the Dark Initiate Hall informs us of his Luciferian compact in his book, The Secret Teachings of All Ages:

 "I hereby promise the Great Spirit Lucifer, Prince of Demons, that each year I will bring unto him a human soul to do with as it may please him, and in return Lucifer promises to bestow upon me the treasures of the earth and fulfil my every desire for the length of my natural life. If I fail to bring him each year the offering specified above, then my own soul shall be forfeit to him. Signed ... {Invocant signs pact with his own blood}."

In The Lost Keys of Freemasonry, Hall tells us:

"When the Mason learns that the Key to the warrior on the block is the proper application of the dynamo of living power, he has learned the Mystery of his Craft. The seething energies of Lucifer are in his hands and before he may step onward and upward, he must prove his ability to properly apply this energy."

Manly Palmer Hall was a sinister figure that wielded immense power in the murky and shadowy world of the Dark Empire of Secret Societies.  He was one of the "hidden masters," the Secret Masters, the Black Adepts, who plan and orchestrate events according to the Ancient Plan to Transform Society they slavishly serve. He was one of the Secret Leaders of the New World Order Plan that is the five thousand year old Luciferian Conspiracy for World Government.

Hall was one of the influential human agents of Evil whose influence on history is immense but unseen by the masses he despised. He is dead but his malignant influence still reverberates around the world today. For, historical events cast a long shadow … moreover history does not just "happen" … it is made. Hall was a human agent of influence who faithfully served the Occult Hierarchy, the Black Adepts of the Cult of Evil, the ancient Luciferian Priesthood who can claim an ancient lineage of service to Evil going far back in history, back before recorded history began.. Moreover, by doing so, he faithfully served the Dark Gods.

Hall greatly helped prepared the groundwork for the final push to create the New World Order, the consummation of the Luciferian Conspiracy for World Government. Hall was but one link in the very long chain of Evil that extends far back into history, to the ancient Babylonian Mystery Religions of the Near East.

To be continued ..................