Lucifer, Jesus and the Magdalene
By: EDWARD O'TOOLE
By: Author and Phenomena's Esotericist-at-Large
Dateline: Monday, October 2, 2006
We’ve come a long way since the Middle Ages. In fact, we’ve come along way since
the Industrial age of Victorian Times. However, in some areas, we still shudder
at such sentences as the title of this article as we inherently feel it to be
blasphemous and by merely repeating it out loud (“Speak his name and he shall
appear…”) we will condemn ourselves to an eternity in Hell. For a species that
prides itself on being ‘Thinking Man’, Homo sapiens sapiens, that’s a pretty sad
state of affairs, especially when historical texts show that this sentence has
far more ‘truth’ and validity than ‘Lucifer is bad, Jesus is good, and the
Magdalene was just some prostitute that Jesus took pity on’.
Already I can here the executioner’s axe being sharpened, the stake being
propped with wooden faggots and doused in tar – propagated, enforced ignorance
detracting from the individual (that’s you and me…) learning what the REAL story
is.
First off, we’ll look at why Lucifer and Jesus are one and the same. Now, we’re
not talking about Satan; in the Old Testament he was a) irrelevant and b)
several different characters; a sort of unfulfilled idea in the authors’ minds.
In the New Testament he takes on a whole new identity, sort of like a minor TV
series character who gets reinvented for the movie version. In the NT he’s
Ahriman, he’s Iblis, he’s Der Teufel, and in Revelation we meet him in all his
psychedelic technicolor glory – we’re not interested in him in this article; he
has his job to do but as he’s not the same character as Lucifer, he’s
irrelevant.
Lucifer, on the other hand, is what we’re looking at. He makes his first (and
only) appearance in the Old Testament in Isaiah 14:12:
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! (KJV)
But that’s not really Lucifer – that’s where the Hebrew heilel ben Shachar is
used to describe King Nebuchadnezzar, basically by calling him a peacock. It is
only when this verse was translated into the Latin:
quomodo cecidisti de caelo lucifer qui mane oriebaris corruisti in terram qui
vulnerabas gentes (from the Vulgate c.400CE)
does ‘O shining one, son of the dawn!’ become the Latin term ‘Lucifer’.
So who – or what – exactly is Lucifer, and how can it possibly be the same as
Jesus? In strictly scriptural terms, Jesus answers that question himself in 2
Peter 1:19:
et habemus firmiorem propheticum sermonem cui bene facitis adtendentes quasi
lucernae lucenti in caliginoso loco donec dies inlucescat et lucifer oriatur in
cordibus vestries
However, the English King James Version omitted that little tidbit, making it
instead:
We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take
heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the
day star arise in your hearts.
The day star, the morning star – referred to in the Latin by both ‘lucifer’ and
‘stella matutina’, as seen in Revelation 2:27-28
sicut et ego accepi a Patre meo et dabo illi stellam matutinam
(even as I received of my Father. And I will give him the morning star)
and Revelation 22:16
ego Iesus misi angelum meum testificari vobis haec in ecclesiis ego sum radix et
genus David stella splendida et matutina
(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)
I, Jesus, am the Lucifer….
To truly understand why Jesus is associated with the Lucifer, one needs to
understand just from where this source of Light is coming from. It’s not from
God the Creator, the Demiurgos Ialdabaoth – the Old Testament God YHVH – it is
from the Pleroma (from the Pistis to be precise). The Christos, along with other
Promethean characters such as The Serpent in the Garden of Eden was sent,
scripturally speaking, by the Sophia to awaken Man from the illusory dreamworld
of the false god, God (for an easier-to-understand example watch The Matrix or
Aeon Flux). As Jesus states in the Gospel of Judas:
The disciples said to [him], “Master, why are you laughing at [our] prayer of
thanksgiving? We have done what is right.”
He answered and said to them, “I am not laughing at you. are not doing this
because of your own will but because it is through this that your god [will be]
praised.”
They said, “Master, you are […] the son of our god.”
Jesus said to them, “How do you know me? Truly [I] say to you, no generation of
the people that are among you will know me.” (Gospel of Judas, Trs. Kasser,
Meyer, Wurst)
So what is it with Jesus referring to himself as the Lucifer, the Morning Star?
Well, for that you need to look into Mithraism but for now I think we’ve sown
enough seeds to get you pondering….
Onto the Magdalene
David Brown wrote a book about Da Vinci, the Magdalena, the Grail and an
unbroken lineage. While I much prefer the earlier Holy Blood, Holy Grail, the
DVC succeeded in bringing this controversial topic to the masses. The Magdalene
was transformed over night from some obscure reformed streetwalker into Mrs.
Jesus – the missing bit from the scriptures.
But was it missing? That depends on which scriptures you’ve been reading. As is
shown above with the Jesus-Lucifer argument, the ‘Holy Scriptures’ can be very
selective when they’re being commissioned by such fanatical lunatics as good old
King “burn that woman, she’s a witch” James VI of Scotland. A quick sift through
a few alternative scriptures and texts (the ones that didn’t quite make the
grade at the Council of Nicea) will show that Mrs. Jesus is far from being
obscure – in fact, she herself even claims to be Jesus’ chosen disciple, rather
than Peter the Liar who went on to create the wealthiest landowning corporation
on Earth, in the entire history of humanity – the Roman Catholic Church (not bad
for a fisherman… didn’t he do well?). In not one but several Gnostic texts, the
Magdalene makes an appearance as someone far more important (to the Christos at
least) than just the minor character portrayed the RCC:
The Gospel According to Mary Magdalene
9:3-9 Peter answered and spoke concerning these same things. He questioned them
about the Savior: Did He really speak privately with a woman and not openly to
us? Are we to turn about and all listen to her? Did He prefer her to us?
Then Mary wept and said to Peter, My brother Peter, what do you think? Do you
think that I have thought this up myself in my heart, or that I am lying about
the Savior?
Levi answered and said to Peter, Peter you have always been hot tempered. Now I
see you contending against the woman like the adversaries. But if the Savior
made her worthy, who are you indeed to reject her? Surely the Savior knows her
very well. That is why He loved her more than us.
The Gospel of Philip (Trs Wesley W. Isenberg)
And the companion of the [...] Mary Magdalene. [...] loved her more than all the
disciples, and used to kiss her often on her [mouth]. The rest of the disciples
[...]. They said to him "Why do you love her more than all of us?" The Savior
answered and said to them, “Why do I not love you like her? When a blind man and
one who sees are both together in darkness, they are no different from one
another. When the light comes, then he who sees will see the light, and he who
is blind will remain in darkness."
The Magdelene also appears in The Sophia of Jesus Christ, and in the Pistis
Sophia where once again Peter complains about her. As Peter is the basis for
modern Christianity (over the last 1700 years or so), one can easily see why the
Fairer Sex has had such a hard time of things.
We are entering a new age of enlightenment. We now have the possibility – and
the means – to question not just the status quo and dictated truth but our own
existence also. The news is filled with death, destruction and disease; we, as
humans, according to tradition were created by God – if this is God’s idea of
Creation, what a warped mind He must have! How can one respect such a Being who
puts each and every one of us through such torture and anguish? When one begins
to look at God in this way and actually sits back and think about why He would
do such a thing, it opens up a whole can of worms. If what we know about God
isn’t right, if what we know about Jesus, and the Magdalene isn’t right, then
what else isn’t right? What else have we been told or do we take for granted
that just might not be REALITY? When one’s mindset has become hardened to one
set of ideas, blinkered vision sets in. If we remove those blinkers for just a
moment and let our gut instinct take over, what doors will be opened?
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Edward O’Toole - Slovakia, October 2006 - Non Serviam
