Jehovah, the wrathful God of vengeance and retribution, demands
discipline, courage and ruthlessness, and a single-minded dedication to duty,
purity and self-denial.
Lucifer, the Light Bearer, urges us to enjoy life to the full, to value
success in human terms, to be gentle and kind and loving, and to live
in peace and harmony with one another. Man's apparent inability to
value success without descending into greed, jealousy and an exaggerated
sense of his own importance, has brought the God Lucifer into disrepute.
He has become mistakenly identified with Satan.
Satan, the receiver of transcendent souls and corrupted bodies,
instills in us two directly opposite qualities; at one end an urge to rise
above all human and physical needs and appetites, to become all soul and
no body, all spirit and no mind, and at the other end a desire to sink
beneath all human codes of behavior, and to wallow in a morass of
violence, lunacy and excessive physical indulgence. But it is the lower end
of Satan's nature that men fear, which is why Satan, by whatever name,
is seen as the Adversary.
In between these Three Great Gods and man, is an entire hierarchy of
Gods, beings and super beings, angels and archangels, demons and
archdemons, elementals and guides, and fallen angels and watchers.
Christ is the Emissary to the Gods.
There is all this and more too, in heaven and in hell and on Earth.
These God-patterns exist within all of us.