Satan and Lucifer
Written by Jeannie Weyrick with Christ, Archangel Raphael, and St. Germain
Lucifer
An except from the book "A Dictionary of Angels":
Lucifer Means "Light Giver", [or “Light Bearer“?]. Erroneously equated with the fallen angel (Satan) due to a misreading of Isaiah 14:12: "how art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning." an apostrophe [metaphor] which applied to Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon.... The name Satan was applied to Lucifer by St. Jerome and the Church Fathers. Milton in "Paradise Lost" applied the name to the demon of sinful pride. Lucifer is the principal character of the epic poem by the Dutch Shakespeare, Vondel (who used Lucifer in lieu of Satan), and a principal character in the mystery play by Imre Madach, "The Tragedy of Man". Blake pictured Lucifer in his illustrations to Dante. George Meredith's sonnet "Lucifer is Starlight" addresses the "fiend" as Prince Lucifer. Actually Lucifer connotes star, and applies (or was originally meant to apply) to the morning star or evening star (Venus). To Spenser in "A Hymne of Heavenly Love" Lucifer is "the brightest angel, even the Child of Light."In fact a being named Lucifer does not exist at all, except in fictional writing. When Isaiah was translated into Latin 2500 years after it was written the words “this luminous falling star“? were translated into the Latin word “Lucifer“?, literally meaning “Light Bearer“?. What Isaiah wrote was meant as a metaphorical reference to King Nebuchadnezzar. Through fictional writings, such as in Milton’s “Paradise Lost“?, a whole character was created and developed that is still is referred to as “the devil“? or used as a synonym for Satan.
Satan
A quote from "The Dictionary of Angels":
"Originally, Satan was a great angel, chief of the seraphim, head of the order of virtues. While seraphim were usually pictured as 6 winged, Satan was shown as 12 winged. Gregory the Great in his Maralia, after listing 9 hierarchic orders, pays this tribute to Satan: "he wore all of them [all the angels] as a garment, transcending all on glory and knowledge." Talmud [sacred writing of Orthodox Judaism] claims that Satan was created on the sixth day of Creation."
