WHAT IS LUCIFERIANISM
Luciferianism is a magickal philosophy with few, if any, fixed dogmas. More often the luciferian magician is inspired by a multitude of different sources.

If there is any dogma at all, it is each persons individual aspiration to imitate and mobilize the force which s/he call by diverse names, but which we – out of convienience – call Lucifer, Phosperous and other names. The main idea is to take responsibility for your own life and act as an individual moral agent, using the full potential of your own genius and thereby optimizing your own possibilities.

We evaluate reality and act according to circumstances and therefore do not pretent to obey a fixed set of rules. What seems reasonable today may seems quite different tomorrow. In this regard fixed dogmas are useless and are – at best – a rule of thumb.

In the Neo-Luciferian Church we adhere to the following simple statements:

1. Lucifer is the deity of illumination, education and insight.
2. Lucifer is the deity of pride.
3. Lucifer is the deity of freedom.
4. Lucifer is the deity of prosperity.
5. Lucifer is a primeval force.

These keywords are not to be understood as dogma, but they illustrate our concept of the luciferian energy. The enjoyment of these points are what unites us. Point 1 and 5 have a specific magical meaning; That the luciferian path is also about mystical illumination and not just a philosophical intellectual system, and that Magick works from the plane of instinct and intuition which inhabits the magician. Though it is primarily through the instinctive and intuitive plane magick forces are mobilized, this does not reduce magick to a purely psychological exercise, as many magicians know. Contact to other beings (spirits, gods, angels or whatever one chooses to call them) are a common experience with many practising magicians.

WHO IS LUCIFER AND WHY LUCIFERIANISM?
Luciferianism is the study of the hidden, occult forces in man and in nature. Neo-Luciferianism is a practical and result-oriented occult path for those with the will and talent of success.

Lucifer was a Roman God. His name means Lightbearer. In Roman mythology he is the herald of Aurora, the dawn. Lucifer is the personification of the Morningsstar, the planet Venus. In Greek mythology Lucifer was called Phosphorus, the shining one, herald to the rosy-fingered Eos, sister of Selene and Helios, the Moon and the Sun. The Dawn, which lies between darkness and light, is a fitting symbol of initiation. Lucifer, the herald of dawn, becomes the initiator himself.

Lucifer is an alien element in Christianity. His role in Christianity is due to a mistranslation in the Book of Isaiah and he was later identified with Satan. The Book of Isaiah 12:14 says: [Hebrew letters] HYLL BN-ShChR. HYLL means bright or shining morningsstar. BN means son. ShChR means dawn or morningsstar. The Bright Son of the Morningsstar, an ironic title Isaiah attributed to the arrogant Babylonian King Tiglath-Pileser III. By the translation into Greek, the translator used the word phosphorus, the shining one, and from the translation in Greek into Latin, the word used was Lucifer. In the Vulgate Bible Lucifer is spelled without a capital L. It was not intended to be a name, but a title.

In the Lucifer myth and in Christianity's perversion of ancient mythologies, it is easy to recognize Aurora, the dawn dressed in red gowns who loves to seduce young kings and princes, in the shape of Babylon, the Scarlet Whore who courts kings at her tent in the Apocalypse of St. John. The beautiful love-sick woman, a symbol of initiation, was turned into a simple slut by the men of Christianity.

In a certain sense Lucifer can be compared to the Daimon of Greek Mythology or The Holy Guardian Angel of the Golden Dawn and Aleister Crowley's systems. Aurora is just an ancient symbol of Babalon. Methods and perception of truth changes as the years roll by and the centuries pass, but the Gnosis remains unchanged. It is the Axl in the Wheel.

Years later the famous freemason Albert Pike mentions the Lucifer of Light in his Morals and Dogma from 1871, writing: "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!" The quote actually origins from the French occultist Eliphas Levi, though in a slightly different form. As Pike, Levi was connected to Freemasonry, and the myth of Luciferianism within Freemasonry was fueled further when Leo Taxil (Gabriel Jogand-Pagés) made his famous hoax in the late 19th century. Of course Freemasonry isn't luciferian. Neither Pike or Levi believed that, but the quote of the Luciferian idea of a Light Bearer illustrates that spiritually interested indivuals had seen through the Christian biased view of the Bringer of Light and that ”spiritual satanism” or Luciferianism was surfacing in the late 19^th century.

In 1899 a book surfaced, written by Charles G. Leland, claiming to be an old Italian manuscript for witches. It was titled Arardia – or the Gospel of the Witches, and says: "DIANA was the first created before all creation; in her were all things; out of herself, the first darkness, she divided herself; into darkness and light she was divided. Lucifer, her brother and son, herself and her other half, was the light. And when DIANA saw that the light was so beautiful, the light which was her other half, her brother Lucifer, she yearned for it with exceeding great desire. Wishing to receive the light again into her darkness, to swallow it up in rapture, in delight, she trembled with desire. This desire was the dawn."

LUCIFERIAN CONSPIRACIES
Is there any such thing as a ”luciferian conspiracy”? Of course there is. Many people who believe in the freedom of man and the fight against tyrannical thought-schools, censurship, governments and dictators work in secret to improve society and educate their fellow men. Such people attract other people with similar interests and they ”plot and plan” against regimes that oppress the population. What is often termed a ”luciferian conspirary” on fundamentalist religious sites is none other than an imformal contact and sympathy between people who believe in education, unbiased research, nature preservation and human rights. There're no central leaders, but the central plan seems clear: Increase freedom and possibilities for humankind, and make this world a better place to live.

This ”very evil world conspiracy” by nature works against fundamentalist religions as expressed in right-wing Christianity, Islamist fundamentalism, Jewish fundamentalism, Hindu caste-systems, oppressing religious observances against women, homosexuals and with racial issues, and many other religions, and of course in the extreme right- and leftwing political groups and other forms of extremism, where it is believed that a few men are entitled to rule the viewpoint and behavior of all other men. All men have a right to flourish and express their talent to the bettering of the world.

In that sense it is easy to understand why such extreme groups regard information as a threat to their very existence, and therefore – par excellence – evil and dangerous. So yes, there is a ”luciferian conspiracy” but the conspirator do not have an exclusive membership card to any one organisation.