So, I take it you're a Luciferian...Former, offshoot, or some other left hand path?
Let's hear your side. I have the CoS view from a titled member in high standing.
Fill me in on Luciferianism. I've studied, but not in depth.
Okay so i'll start by explaining the difference between Luciferianism and LaVeyan Satanism, AKA the CoS.
Anton LeVay and his church are atheists. They do not believe in any deity or any literal "satan". Objectively, the Church of Satan is a tight-knit order who value self-indulgence, and whose beliefs are mostly based on a reactionary opposition to the values of Christianity, which included piouty, perceived subservience, and "helping they neighbor". You know this stuff. I'm just typing it for notation purposes, and to properly compare it to Luciferianism.
Luciferian Satanism
Luciferians, although very broad, loose-knit, and few, come in a couple different varieties.
Gnostics are similar to gnostic Christians. They believe Lucifer, as a spiritual being of knowledge, light, self-improvement, the Sun, permeates everything around them and that Lucifer is really more of a state of "enlightenment" to be attained by practicing perceived virtues and values therein. This "branch"(and i use that word with trepedation) of Luciferian practice has many parallels with LeVays beliefs in that the primary focus is on the self, sometimes even including the factor of total opposition to the Christian way of life, with the primary difference being that Lucifer truly does exist to them just only in a broader, spiritual sense than a Theistic Luciferian might believe.
Theistic Luciferians are the ones the believe in Lucifer as a true, singular deity whom they follow, worship, and attempt to emulate in their everyday lives. There are a few very very unofficial schools of thought within Theistic Luciferianism. I'm going to use my own made-up names for them just to convey the main points of what they believe and how they differ but i garrentee that none of them call themselves by the names im going to give them in this explanation.
1. Biblical Theistic Luciferians. These folks believe in the leader of the Satans, who they interpret as Lucifer, exactly how he is portrayed in the Christian Bible. He is the literal God of Evil, King of Hell, and the main opposing force to Christianity. He is in constant war with Jehovah over our mortal souls and his followers seek to aid him in this war. Like LeVayans they condone hedonism, and also bellieve in every other form of self-indulgence and sin you could think of. They hate Christ and his peaceful, pious nature and wholeheartedly condone violence, evil, Darwin-esque "the strongest survive and the weak are born to die" heirarchal structures, and everything that comes with it.
2. Lightbearer Theistic Luciferians (again this is completely made up on the spot by me and they do not use this name) are, like before, those who believe in a literal, meta-physical, physical, spiritual, and intervening deity named Lucifer. While rejecting many different aspects of Christianity, these folks tend not to really care about including any reactionary practices or beliefs in their worship. Their worship of Lucifer tends to be very individualistic, where developing a genuine, spiritual relationship with Lucifer is the main goal in order to better themselves. The focus of this brand of Lucifer worship is not really based in self-indulgent ideas and has many parallels with Christianity actually. Evil is not a focus in this religion and the Bible is not usually a factor whatsoever. Lucifer to them is a stand-alone deity of knowledge, self-improvement, and is usually assigned many other values and characteristics specific to those worshiping Lucifer. Sometimes there are those who include Demonolatry (not to be confused with Demonology) in their practices, where they will convene with Demons and Lesser Satans to obtain guidance and achieve many other things. This practice of Demonolatry usually comes with a slight more inclusion of Biblical belief, but not an all out acceptance of the Biblical representation of the Satans.
I was a Lightbearer Theistic Luciferian, as i have named them here simply for the purpose of highlighting their differences from others. Luciferianism is a very broad and blurry religion and some dont even see it as one. None of the name i used here are used by them at all. These are all my interpretations based on speaking with and reading about different believers. I have spoken with every different type of Luciferianism you could imagine and even though ive represented them as if there are clear-cut lines between each belief system that is truly not the case. Luciferianism is not yet very organized, there is not any prescribed doctrine, text, or way of living, and is largely defined by each individual worshiper. what i've given above is just a cheap, short, and basic set of overarching themes within Luciferianism.
I tend to be very opposed to LeVayan beliefs and ideas. I am no longer a Luciferian though. I am Fyrnsidu and i worship Thunor, Woden, Saxnot, Frig, and the like. I still really believe Lucifer exists but i think back then i simply misunderstood him, and misunderstood myself, and what i thought was Lucifer was actually Woden. Any questions?
