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	== ~~Literatur~~ ==		== Literature ==

	* [[a:Robert Powell\|Robert Powell]]: ''Christus und der Mayakalender'', Informationslücke-Vlg., Basel 2009, ISBN 978-3-9523-5211-3, S. 154 - 157		* [[a:Robert Powell\|Robert Powell]]: ''Christus und der Mayakalender'', Informationslücke-Vlg., Basel 2009, ISBN 978-3-9523-5211-3, S. 154 - 157

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	[[File:Lucifer.jpg\|thumb\|300px\|Lucifer in a production of Rudolf Steiner's [[Mystery Dramas]] at the [[Goetheanum]] in Dornach.]]		[[File:Lucifer.jpg\|thumb\|300px\|Lucifer in a production of Rudolf Steiner's [[Mystery Dramas]] at the [[Goetheanum]] in Dornach.]]

	'''Lucifer''' (from {{LaS}}: ''lux'' "light" and ''ferre'' "to bring"; {{GrS\|Φωσφόρος}} ''Phosphoros'' "light-bringer, light-bearer" or {{lang\|grc\|Ἑωσφόρος}} ''Eosphoros'' "bringer of the dawn"), in {{LaS}} also the poetic name of the morning star, i.e. [[Venus]], literally the "bearer of light", the light-filled '''red devil''', often also called '''Diabolos''' ({{GrS\|Διάβολος}} ''Diàbolos'' "muddler, confounder", from {{lang\|grc\|Διά-βαλλειν}} ''dia-ballein'' "to throw into confusion") and according to [[Rudolf Steiner]] identical with '''Iblis''' (also ''Eblis'', {{arS\|إبليس\|d=Iblīs}}, "disappointer, deceiver") mentioned in the [[w:Koran\|Koran]], is symbolised in the Bible by the [[serpent]] who sneaks into [[paradise]] and tempts man to eat from the "[[tree of knowledge]]". Lucifer is also often depicted as a winged [[dragon]]; in Ezekiel's vision also as a winged bull. Lucifer has anchored himself above all in the [[sentient soul]], which has come into being through the transformation of the [[astral body]] {{GZ\|\|107\|247}}, and here he incites the sensual [[desires]] and [[drive]]s.		'''Lucifer''' (from {{LaS}}: ''lux'' "light" and ''ferre'' "to bring"; {{GrS\|Φωσφόρος}} ''Phosphoros'' "light-bringer, light-bearer" or {{lang\|grc\|Ἑωσφόρος}} ''Eosphoros'' "bringer of the dawn"), in {{LaS}} also the poetic name of the morning star, i.e. [[Venus]], literally the "bearer of light", the light-filled '''red devil''', often also called '''Diabolos''' ({{GrS\|Διάβολος}} ''Diàbolos'' "muddler, confounder", from {{lang\|grc\|Διά-βαλλειν}} ''dia-ballein'' "to throw into confusion") and according to [[Rudolf Steiner]] identical with '''[[Iblis]]''' (also ''Eblis'', {{arS\|إبليس\|d=Iblīs}}, "disappointer, deceiver") mentioned in the [[w:Koran\|Koran]] {{GZ\|\|144\|71}}, is symbolised in the Bible by the [[serpent]] who sneaks into [[paradise]] and tempts man to eat from the "[[tree of knowledge]]". Lucifer is also often depicted as a winged [[dragon]]; in Ezekiel's vision also as a winged bull. Lucifer has anchored himself above all in the [[sentient soul]], which has come into being through the transformation of the [[astral body]] {{GZ\|\|107\|247}}, and here he incites the sensual [[desires]] and [[drive]]s.

	== Lucifer and Venus ==		== Lucifer and Venus ==
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	* [[Rudolf Steiner]]: ''Die geistigen Wesenheiten in den Himmelskörpern und Naturreichen'', [[GA 136]] (1996) {{Lectures\|136}}		* [[Rudolf Steiner]]: ''Die geistigen Wesenheiten in den Himmelskörpern und Naturreichen'', [[GA 136]] (1996) {{Lectures\|136}}
	* [[Rudolf Steiner]]: ''Der Mensch im Lichte von Okkultismus, Theosophie und Philosophie'', [[GA 137]] (1993), ISBN 3-7274-1371-9 {{Lectures\|137}}		* [[Rudolf Steiner]]: ''Der Mensch im Lichte von Okkultismus, Theosophie und Philosophie'', [[GA 137]] (1993), ISBN 3-7274-1371-9 {{Lectures\|137}}
			* [[Rudolf Steiner]]: ''Die Mysterien des Morgenlandes und des Christentums'', [[GA 144]] (1985), ISBN 3-7274-1440-5 {{Lectures\|144}}
	* [[Rudolf Steiner]]: ''Die Welt des Geistes und ihr Hereinragen in das physische Dasein'', [[GA 150]] (1980), ISBN 3-7274-1500-2 {{Lectures\|150}}		* [[Rudolf Steiner]]: ''Die Welt des Geistes und ihr Hereinragen in das physische Dasein'', [[GA 150]] (1980), ISBN 3-7274-1500-2 {{Lectures\|150}}
	* [[Rudolf Steiner]]: ''Wie erwirbt man sich Verständnis für die geistige Welt?'', [[GA 154]] (1985), ISBN 3-7274-1540-1 {{Lectures\|154}}		* [[Rudolf Steiner]]: ''Wie erwirbt man sich Verständnis für die geistige Welt?'', [[GA 154]] (1985), ISBN 3-7274-1540-1 {{Lectures\|154}}

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	[[File:Lucifer.jpg\|thumb\|300px\|Lucifer in a production of Rudolf Steiner's [[Mystery Dramas]] at the [[Goetheanum]] in Dornach.]]		[[File:Lucifer.jpg\|thumb\|300px\|Lucifer in a production of Rudolf Steiner's [[Mystery Dramas]] at the [[Goetheanum]] in Dornach.]]

	'''Lucifer''' (from {{LaS}}: ''lux'' "light" and ''ferre'' "to bring"; {{GrS\|Φωσφόρος}} ''Phosphoros'' "light-bringer, light-bearer" or {{lang\|grc\|Ἑωσφόρος}} ''Eosphoros'' "bringer of the dawn"), in {{LaS}} also the poetic name of the morning star, i.e. [[Venus]], literally the "bearer of light", the light-filled '''red devil''', often also called '''Diabolos''' ({{GrS\|Διάβολος}} ''Diàbolos'' "muddler, confounder", from {{lang\|grc\|Διά-βαλλειν}} ''dia-ballein'' "to throw into confusion") and according to [[Rudolf Steiner]] identical with '''Iblis''' mentioned in the [[w:Koran\|Koran]], is symbolised in the Bible by the [[serpent]] who sneaks into [[paradise]] and tempts man to eat from the "[[tree of knowledge]]". Lucifer is also often depicted as a winged [[dragon]]; in Ezekiel's vision also as a winged bull. Lucifer has anchored himself above all in the [[sentient soul]], which has come into being through the transformation of the [[astral body]] {{GZ\|\|107\|247}}, and here he incites the sensual [[desires]] and [[drive]]s.		'''Lucifer''' (from {{LaS}}: ''lux'' "light" and ''ferre'' "to bring"; {{GrS\|Φωσφόρος}} ''Phosphoros'' "light-bringer, light-bearer" or {{lang\|grc\|Ἑωσφόρος}} ''Eosphoros'' "bringer of the dawn"), in {{LaS}} also the poetic name of the morning star, i.e. [[Venus]], literally the "bearer of light", the light-filled '''red devil''', often also called '''Diabolos''' ({{GrS\|Διάβολος}} ''Diàbolos'' "muddler, confounder", from {{lang\|grc\|Διά-βαλλειν}} ''dia-ballein'' "to throw into confusion") and according to [[Rudolf Steiner]] identical with '''Iblis''' (also ''Eblis'', {{arS\|إبليس\|d=Iblīs}}, "disappointer, deceiver") mentioned in the [[w:Koran\|Koran]], is symbolised in the Bible by the [[serpent]] who sneaks into [[paradise]] and tempts man to eat from the "[[tree of knowledge]]". Lucifer is also often depicted as a winged [[dragon]]; in Ezekiel's vision also as a winged bull. Lucifer has anchored himself above all in the [[sentient soul]], which has come into being through the transformation of the [[astral body]] {{GZ\|\|107\|247}}, and here he incites the sensual [[desires]] and [[drive]]s.

	== Lucifer and Venus ==		== Lucifer and Venus ==

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	[[File:Meister Bertram von Minden 007.jpg\|thumb\|300px\|[[Wikipedia:Master Bertram\|Master Bertram of Minden]], Grabower Altar, Petri Altar, right outer wing, inner side (1375-1383); Kunsthalle Hamburg<br>top right, the Tree of Paradise with the Serpent]]		[[File:Meister Bertram von Minden 007.jpg\|thumb\|300px\|[[Wikipedia:Master Bertram\|Master Bertram of Minden]], Grabower Altar, Petri Altar, right outer wing, inner side (1375-1383); Kunsthalle Hamburg<br>top right, the Tree of Paradise with the Serpent]]
	[[File:The Representative of Humanity.jpg\|thumb\|300px\|[[Christ]] as [[Representative of Humanity]] between [[Lucifer]] and [[Ahriman]] - Wooden sculpture by [[Rudolf Steiner]]]]		[[File:The Representative of Humanity.jpg\|thumb\|300px\|[[Christ]] as [[Representative of Humanity]] between [[Lucifer]] and [[Ahriman]] - Wooden sculpture by [[Rudolf Steiner]] and [[Edith Maryon]].]]
	[[File:Lucifer_Model.jpg\|thumb\|300px\|Lucifer, cast of the model designed by [[Rudolf Steiner]] for the large wooden statue of the [[Representative of Humanity]].]]		[[File:Lucifer_Model.jpg\|thumb\|300px\|Lucifer, cast of the model designed by [[Rudolf Steiner]] for the large wooden statue of the [[Representative of Humanity]].]]

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	[[File:Meister Bertram von Minden 007.jpg\|thumb\|300px\|[[Wikipedia:Master Bertram\|Master Bertram of Minden]], Grabower Altar, Petri Altar, right outer wing, inner side (1375-1383); Kunsthalle Hamburg<br>top right, the Tree of Paradise with the Serpent]]		[[File:Meister Bertram von Minden 007.jpg\|thumb\|300px\|[[Wikipedia:Master Bertram\|Master Bertram of Minden]], Grabower Altar, Petri Altar, right outer wing, inner side (1375-1383); Kunsthalle Hamburg<br>top right, the Tree of Paradise with the Serpent]]
	[[File:The ~~Representativee~~ of Humanity.jpg\|thumb\|300px\|[[Christ]] as ~~Representativee~~ of Humanity between [[Lucifer]] and [[Ahriman]] - Wooden sculpture by [[Rudolf Steiner]]]]		[[File:The Representative of Humanity.jpg\|thumb\|300px\|[[Christ]] as [[Representative of Humanity]] between [[Lucifer]] and [[Ahriman]] - Wooden sculpture by [[Rudolf Steiner]]]]
	[[File:Lucifer_Model.jpg\|thumb\|300px\|Lucifer, cast of the model designed by [[Rudolf Steiner]] for the large wooden statue of the [[Representative of Humanity]].]]		[[File:Lucifer_Model.jpg\|thumb\|300px\|Lucifer, cast of the model designed by [[Rudolf Steiner]] for the large wooden statue of the [[Representative of Humanity]].]]

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Lucifer and the Autonomy of Man

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	[[File:GA_136_100.gif\|center\|400px\|Drawing from GA 136, p. 100]]		[[File:GA_136_100.gif\|center\|400px\|Drawing from GA 136, p. 100]]

			== The imaginative portrait of Lucifer ==

			[[File:Meister Bertram von Minden 007.jpg\|thumb\|300px\|[[Wikipedia:Master Bertram\|Master Bertram of Minden]], Grabower Altar, Petri Altar, right outer wing, inner side (1375-1383); Kunsthalle Hamburg<br>top right, the Tree of Paradise with the Serpent]]
			[[File:The Representativee of Humanity.jpg\|thumb\|300px\|[[Christ]] as Representativee of Humanity between [[Lucifer]] and [[Ahriman]] - Wooden sculpture by [[Rudolf Steiner]]]]
			[[File:Lucifer_Model.jpg\|thumb\|300px\|Lucifer, cast of the model designed by [[Rudolf Steiner]] for the large wooden statue of the [[Representative of Humanity]].]]

			In his basic form, Lucifer appears as a serpent with a human head. The head is an image of the earlier planetary stages of world development. The snake's body represents the not yet completely ossified spinal cord, which represents the actual earthly man.

			{{GZ\|Out of the whole universe, through innumerable beings of many hierarchies, is woven that which then becomes our head, which contains within itself a wisdom of the most immense magnitude and scope, a wisdom which is built up on all the experiences gained through Saturn, Sun and Moon. And that which is attached to it is earth-produced. Our head is actually an heirloom of Saturn, Sun and Moon. The Earth with its powers has only been able to bring about what is attached to it. The other human being, not the head with the spinal cord, but what is attached to it, is actually the earthly human being.

			How then, looking inwardly, will one have to represent Lucifer, that is, actually a lunar being? One will have to depict a human head and something like a snake hanging from it: the backbone that is not yet ossified. This is how that thirteenth- or fourteenth-century Master Bertram depicts Lucifer on the tree between Adam and Eve. In the Hamburg Museum you can see the picture represented in this way.\|167\|46f}}

			In the statue of [[The Representative of Humanity between Lucifer and Ahriman]], created by [[Rudolf Steiner]] together with [[Edith Maryon]], the imaginative image of Lucifer becomes particularly clear.

			{{GZ\|Man carries the impulses of the Luciferic within him. He carries them within himself in such a way that they sit in his head, and from his head they penetrate the astral body, in which the Luciferic has remained. Thus, while the spirits of form have otherwise formed his head, the Luciferic impulses push themselves into his head, but also into that which is formed from the astral, into the spinal cord. If we were to draw out the head and its extension, the spinal cord, of a human being, we would get a snake, a snake-like formation with a human head. Of course, the whole thing can then be thought of astrally, the head still somewhat a replica of the human head, and the spinal cord, which is attached to it, snakes out like this. If you think of it projected out objectively, it is a snake with a human head. That is, whoever sees Lucifer externally in the picture could actually say: snake with a human head. - Not a serpent with a serpent's head, for that is no longer Lucifer, that is an earthly serpent on which the spirits of form have already worked as an earthly being. So snake with the human head, we would have to say. This means that a painter who wanted to paint Lucifer on the tree would have to depict the serpent writhing on the tree and a human head at the top. Then he would paint out of the knowledge of our spiritual science. So we would have to imagine Adam and Eve by a tree, and entwined in the tree, similar to a snake's body, just the spinal cord that has become astral, and what imitates the human head. When the woman first sees it, it is naturally modelled on the female face.\|168\|28}}

			{{GZ\|With Lucifer we have to do with a peculiar way of forming the upper part of the head, which is only reminiscent of the human head. There is all movement of the spiritual, there is nothing that forces us to keep the individual limbs of the forehead within fixed limits, as is the case with man, but there each one is as mobile on the upper head as the fingers and the hands are mobile on the arm. Of course, one can only put this down if the movements are the real movements as they are found in Lucifer. And then it should be noted above all that in this form there is that which has remained in the Lucifer being from the lunar existence. It covers the actual face, which recedes very deeply into it.

			You can already imagine from this description that we are dealing with something quite different from the ordinary human face. It is as if the head of the skull were in itself, and that which is the human face were inserted into it at the bottom. And then there is something else: that a certain connection is added, especially in Lucifer, between the ear and the larynx. The ear and the larynx have only been cut apart in man since his earthly existence; in his lunar existence they were one organ. The small wings on the larynx were mighty enlargements which then formed the lower auricle. Mighty auricles were formed about there, while the upper ear, which now goes outwards, is formed from the forehead. And what is separated today, so that when we speak and sing, this goes outwards and we only listen with the ear, went inwards during the lunar time and from there into the music of the spheres. The whole human being was an ear. That comes from the fact that the ear was the wings; so that you have ear, larynx and wing formations, which move harmoniously-melodically according to the vibrations of the world ether, which then bring forth the peculiar appearance of Lucifer; which bring forth what is macrocosmic, for Lucifer has only localised what is actually only cosmic.

			You will see that concessions have to be made so that people are not frightened when they see a face that does not show us human form. Then you will see that his face must be elongated. Lucifer must look like an elongated face, for he is all ear, the wings are all ear, an elongated auricle. Ahriman, on the other hand, is exactly the opposite, and it is natural that in the modelling, wherever something is powerfully extended in Lucifer, where we fully develop it in Lucifer, there are only hints in Ahriman. Whereas with Lucifer the forehead wing is powerfully developed, with Ahriman it is the lower jaw. The whole materialism of the world expresses itself in the formation of the masticatory and dental system.\|157\|253f}}

			{{GZ\|There is a second being up here. This being has a human-like, I can only say human-like head. The head is really such that one can say that a human head reminds one of this head. For this head is formed in such a way that the part of the skull, especially the part of the forehead, is powerfully developed. Whereas in humans these parts are relatively immobile, in this being everything is mobile. Everything is an expression of the soul. Just as a human being can move his hands with his fingers, but not this part here, this being can move everything up here. And you can see in the sculptural work that everything up there is movable. The lower part of the face of this being is very receding. One might say that the powerful skull arches over the receding face. I can only discuss individual parts, for every single stroke of this figure is of great significance. But then the peculiar thing is that there is a connection between what has atrophied into the larynx in man and the ear in this figure. That which is in it as the laryngeal lobule curves upwards and forms the lower part of the ears. The upper part is formed by the forehead. On the other side are two structures reminiscent of birds' wings, between which a body is spread out, which is as if it were a reshaped human face in its entirety. Wings and larynx and ear are formed in one, so that one will recognise: with the wings the being lives within the harmony of the spheres, vibrates through space, through the waves of the harmony of the spheres, and this localises itself in the ear. In man all this is atrophied. Now, when the representative of humanity raises his left hand here, the wings of this figure on the rock are broken and it falls from the rock. - You can guess that this figure falling from the rock, with its broken wings, means Lucifer.\|159\|293}}

			{{GZ\|To understand Lucifer, you must think of what appears as the spirit form of Lucifer in a very strange way. Think of that which is most Ahrimanic in man away from the human form, that is, the head away, but instead think of the ears and the auricles, the outer ear, considerably enlarged, naturally spiritualised and formed into wings and shaped into an organ, but the organ wrapped around its body, the laryngeal wings also enlarged; so that head, wings, ears form one organ together. And the wings, the principal organ, is that which results for the figure of Lucifer. Lucifer is an enlarged larynx, a larynx which becomes the whole form, out of which then develops, through a kind of wing, a connection to the ear, so that one has to imagine: Lucifer is such a form, which receives the music of the spheres, takes it into this ear-wing organism; and without the individuality speaking, the universe, the music of the spheres itself, again expresses itself through the same organ, which is transformed forward into the larynx, thus is another metamorphosis of the human form: larynx-ear-wing organ. Hence the head is only indicated.\|181\|315}}

			If we look at the effect of Lucifer in [[social life]], another picture emerges:

			{{GZ\|There we see how Lucifer lives. I cannot use this image, which is an image, but as an image is actually born out of the correct Ahrimanic ideas, the image of the ossified, creeping, bald-headed Ahriman, who creeps around the educational institutions and wants them to stay that way. This image would not be apt for the Luciferian being. But another picture is apt: if you let the mere egoism, the absence of cosmic feeling, and the good will and the social desires that are believed to be good, express themselves everywhere, then the Luciferic being will emerge from what is speaking. With these social demands, which are aroused in the world without cosmic feeling, man exudes from himself what then becomes the beautiful Lucifer. It lives in men themselves, in their stomachs corrupted by social instincts - but that spiritually conceived -, in their corrupted lungs, there lives the Iuciferic source. It struggles loose, man exudes it from his whole being, and thus our spiritual air is filled with this Luciferic essence, filled with social instincts not felt by the feeling of the connection of man with the cosmos. The bald Ahriman creeping around our abstract education, the long, the skeletal, the gaunt one on the one hand, on the other hand that which at first slimily wriggles out of man himself and assumes the appearance of beauty and thus beguiles man, these are images, but they are realities of our time. And only through self-knowledge and only through a feeling of the connection of the human being with the cosmos does the human being find the equilibrium between the ossified and the appearance of beauty, between the bone being and the slime being, between that which creeps around him and that which wants to wrest itself out of him. And he must find this equilibrium, this balance. What has become of culture, of the civilisation of recent times, is basically nothing other than what one might call the marriage between the bony and the slimy.\|203\|159f}}

	== Lucifer and Elohim ==		== Lucifer and Elohim ==

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 [[File:Michelangelo Sündenfall.jpg|thumb|350px|[[Wikipedia:Michelangelo|Michelangelo]]: Fall of Man and Expulsion from Paradise (ceiling fresco in the [[Wikipedia:Sistine Chapel|Sistine Chapel]])]]

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	== Sündenfall und Vertreibung aus dem Paradies ==		== Sündenfall und Vertreibung aus dem Paradies ==
	[[File:Michelangelo Sündenfall.jpg\|thumb\|350px\|[[Wikipedia:Michelangelo\|Michelangelo]]: Fall of Man and Expulsion from Paradise (ceiling fresco in the [[Wikipedia:Sistine Chapel\|Sistine Chapel]])]		[[File:Michelangelo Sündenfall.jpg\|thumb\|350px\|[[Wikipedia:Michelangelo\|Michelangelo]]: Fall of Man and Expulsion from Paradise (ceiling fresco in the [[Wikipedia:Sistine Chapel\|Sistine Chapel]])]]

	Through the Luciferic influence, man's [[senses]] were opened to the outer world - and at the same time his sensual [[desires]] were awakened. The [[Fall of Man]] began. Man thus became entangled earlier and deeper in the sensual world than was originally intended. Through this Luciferic influence on the [[astral body]], the [[etheric body]] and the [[physical body]] were also affected. The possibility of error arose in the etheric body and the possibility of inner illness was implanted in the physical body.		Through the Luciferic influence, man's [[senses]] were opened to the outer world - and at the same time his sensual [[desires]] were awakened. The [[Fall of Man]] began. Man thus became entangled earlier and deeper in the sensual world than was originally intended. Through this Luciferic influence on the [[astral body]], the [[etheric body]] and the [[physical body]] were also affected. The possibility of error arose in the etheric body and the possibility of inner illness was implanted in the physical body.
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	As a result of Luciferic influence, man is cast out of paradise, i.e. he is deprived of the direct sight of the divine world. The purely spiritual being that man once was descends into the sensual world and takes on physical-bodily form. Because man now becomes a materially corporeal being, he loses his original immortality and takes death into his corporeal nature. At the same time, the originally single-sex being becomes a two-sex being - the separation of the sexes is a direct consequence of the Luciferic impact. As a result, man is no longer the pure unadulterated image of the divine being as which he was originally predisposed, but only a one-sided distorted image of the spiritual creative powers. Mankind is gradually divided into races, tribes and peoples. And further, the prerequisite for the gradual individualisation of man is finally created. Humanity disintegrates into single individuals. Man thus becomes more independent; Lucifer brings him individual freedom, but also seduces him to egoism. From now on, he can distinguish between evil and good by his own strength. Lucifer brings man the capacity for moral knowledge - but also exposes him to the danger of becoming deeply entangled in moral transgressions. Both are necessary, however, for man to become a morally responsible being. Thus, Lucifer can indeed be understood as an adversary who opposes the divine creative powers, but through this resistance he simultaneously promotes development by bringing freedom and moral knowledge to man. He must therefore by no means be understood as a one-sided evil spiritual power. Man becomes evil when he surrenders unilaterally to the sensual desires aroused by Lucifer. Lucifer works well when people receive the light of wisdom and the sense for the beauty of the sensual world through him, the "light bearer". All sciences and arts are a gift of Lucifer - and so is all moral awareness based on knowledge. Without him, human culture would not exist.		As a result of Luciferic influence, man is cast out of paradise, i.e. he is deprived of the direct sight of the divine world. The purely spiritual being that man once was descends into the sensual world and takes on physical-bodily form. Because man now becomes a materially corporeal being, he loses his original immortality and takes death into his corporeal nature. At the same time, the originally single-sex being becomes a two-sex being - the separation of the sexes is a direct consequence of the Luciferic impact. As a result, man is no longer the pure unadulterated image of the divine being as which he was originally predisposed, but only a one-sided distorted image of the spiritual creative powers. Mankind is gradually divided into races, tribes and peoples. And further, the prerequisite for the gradual individualisation of man is finally created. Humanity disintegrates into single individuals. Man thus becomes more independent; Lucifer brings him individual freedom, but also seduces him to egoism. From now on, he can distinguish between evil and good by his own strength. Lucifer brings man the capacity for moral knowledge - but also exposes him to the danger of becoming deeply entangled in moral transgressions. Both are necessary, however, for man to become a morally responsible being. Thus, Lucifer can indeed be understood as an adversary who opposes the divine creative powers, but through this resistance he simultaneously promotes development by bringing freedom and moral knowledge to man. He must therefore by no means be understood as a one-sided evil spiritual power. Man becomes evil when he surrenders unilaterally to the sensual desires aroused by Lucifer. Lucifer works well when people receive the light of wisdom and the sense for the beauty of the sensual world through him, the "light bearer". All sciences and arts are a gift of Lucifer - and so is all moral awareness based on knowledge. Without him, human culture would not exist.

	Lucifer wanted to lead man into the sensual world, but it was not in his intentions to bind him at the same time so firmly to the material world as is now the case. Matter is the realm of [[Ahriman]], and it was through him that humanity became more and more entangled in material existence. It is true that it was Lucifer's work that made it possible for Ahriman to seize man and bind him to matter, but he is thereby acting against Lucifer's interests. Ahriman and Lucifer are opponents. Lucifer wants to pull man out of the pure divine world and lead him into his own spiritual kingdom, but this is not deep in the material world, where Ahriman dwells, but it is on the border between the sensual and the supersensual world. Lucifer is therefore always anxious today to detach man from the merely material world. He does not want him to become a completely earthbound being. He is a spirit of elevation, of visions, illusions, ecstasy and intoxication, who wants to lift man away from the Earth into his fleeting immaterial sensual-supersensual realm. Ahriman, on the other hand, wants to pull us down into the purely material sub-sensible world. Only in a healthy balance between these earth-volatile Luciferic and earth-addicted Ahrimanic forces can man find his true freedom.		Lucifer wanted to lead man into the sensual world, but it was not in his intentions to bind him at the same time so firmly to the material world as is now the case. Matter is the realm of [[Ahriman]], and it was through him that humanity became more and more entangled in material existence. It is true that it was Lucifer's work that made it possible for Ahriman to seize man and bind him to matter, but he is thereby acting against Lucifer's interests. Ahriman and Lucifer are opponents. Lucifer wants to pull man out of the pure divine world and lead him into his own spiritual kingdom, but this is not deep in the material world, where Ahriman dwells, but it is on the border between the sensual and the supersensual world. Lucifer is therefore always anxious today to detach man from the merely material world. He does not want him to become a completely earthbound being. He is a spirit of elevation, of visions, illusions, ecstasy and intoxication, who wants to lift man away from the Earth into his fleeting immaterial sensual-supersensual realm. Ahriman, on the other hand, wants to pull us down into the purely material sub-sensible world. Only in a healthy balance between these earth-volatile Luciferic and earth-addicted Ahrimanic forces can man find his true freedom.

	== The Earthly Incarnation of Lucifer ==		== The Earthly Incarnation of Lucifer ==

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	If we translate what the priests of the Mysteries said about this matter into our present-day language, we must say: In this man was incarnated no more, no less than Lucifer himself. - And that is an important, a significant fact, that there really was a fleshly incarnation of Lucifer in the 3rd pre-Christian millennium in the East of Asia. And from this incarnation of Lucifer in the flesh - for this personality then taught - emanated that which is actually called the pre-Christian, pagan culture, which still lived in the gnosis of the first Christian centuries. One must not simply pronounce a derogatory judgement on this Lucifer culture. For the beauty and even the philosophical insight of Greek culture, which also lives in ancient Greek philosophy, in the tragedies of Aeschylus, all this would not have been possible without this Luciferic incarnation. This Luciferic incarnation was, as I said, still powerful in the south of Europe, in the north of Africa, in the west of Asia in the first Christian centuries. And when the Mystery of Golgotha took place on Earth, it was essentially the Luciferic wisdom through which the Mystery of Golgotha could be understood. That which first prepared itself as gnosis to comprehend the Mystery of Golgotha was thoroughly fertilised by Luciferic wisdom. So that we must first of all emphasise: There was a Chinese Lucifer incarnation at the beginning of the third millennium. There was the incarnation of the Christ at the beginning of our era. And at first even the incarnation of the Christ was understood by the fact that the power of the old Lucifer incarnation was still there, which actually only disappeared for human insight, for human self-power, in the 4th century after Christ.\|193\|185f}}		If we translate what the priests of the Mysteries said about this matter into our present-day language, we must say: In this man was incarnated no more, no less than Lucifer himself. - And that is an important, a significant fact, that there really was a fleshly incarnation of Lucifer in the 3rd pre-Christian millennium in the East of Asia. And from this incarnation of Lucifer in the flesh - for this personality then taught - emanated that which is actually called the pre-Christian, pagan culture, which still lived in the gnosis of the first Christian centuries. One must not simply pronounce a derogatory judgement on this Lucifer culture. For the beauty and even the philosophical insight of Greek culture, which also lives in ancient Greek philosophy, in the tragedies of Aeschylus, all this would not have been possible without this Luciferic incarnation. This Luciferic incarnation was, as I said, still powerful in the south of Europe, in the north of Africa, in the west of Asia in the first Christian centuries. And when the Mystery of Golgotha took place on Earth, it was essentially the Luciferic wisdom through which the Mystery of Golgotha could be understood. That which first prepared itself as gnosis to comprehend the Mystery of Golgotha was thoroughly fertilised by Luciferic wisdom. So that we must first of all emphasise: There was a Chinese Lucifer incarnation at the beginning of the third millennium. There was the incarnation of the Christ at the beginning of our era. And at first even the incarnation of the Christ was understood by the fact that the power of the old Lucifer incarnation was still there, which actually only disappeared for human insight, for human self-power, in the 4th century after Christ.\|193\|185f}}

			== Luciferic culture in the East ==

			{{GZ\|If we ask ourselves where the Luciferic principle is still present in the development of human beings today, then we must look over to the East. In the East, in Asia and in European Russia, Lucifer rules through culture. And although, as I have explained in the cycle on the mission of the folk souls, the Russian element is called to develop the spiritual self in further evolution, there is nevertheless a danger in Russian culture of being ensnared by Lucifer. It is on the way to this. The Luciferic principle is that good spirits are left behind. In the Greek Orthodox Church there was a good spirit until the 6th, 7th century, but what is a good spirit at one time is transformed into a Luciferian spirit if it is kept beyond that time. The adherence to orthodox religion is a "being in the clutches of Lucifer". And this is much more intensely the case with the spiritual forms which develop in the Orient, which have had their justification for ages. By preserving themselves, they enter into the Luciferic element. Over there in the East we find in very many people who have incarnated there that they have to go through something in the world of the Luciferic.\|159\|235f}}

			== Christ and Lucifer ==

			{{GZ\|In former times Christ was found to be a cosmic being, Lucifer an inner human being. They crossed their path. The Christ moves into the human soul, he becomes the planetary Earth spirit, he becomes more and more the mystical Christ in the human souls, he is deepened and recognised through the inner experiences. Through this the soul becomes more and more able to see the other being who has taken the opposite path, from the inner to the outer. Lucifer, from an inner human being, a purely earthly being, where he was sought in the mysteries that led into the lower realm, becomes a cosmic God. More and more he will shine forth outside in the world that we see when we look through the carpet of the sensory world. People's gaze is reversed. If one has seen Lucifer behind the veil of the inner world of the soul, if one has seen the Christ, like Zarathustra, behind the outer sensual world, then in the future one will be able to recognise the Christ more and more through immersion and internalisation in one's own being. Lucifer will be found by looking outwards into the cosmic region.

			Thus we have a complete reversal of human cognitive relations in the course of human development: the Christ has become from a cosmic God to an earthly God who is the soul of the Earth in the future. Lucifer has changed from an earthly God to a cosmic God. And if man wants to ascend again in the future to the outer spiritual world, which is hidden behind the veil of the sense world, if he does not want to remain with that which is external, only grossly material, then he must penetrate through the things of the sense world into the spiritual world; he must allow himself to be carried into the light by the "light-bearer". And no abilities to penetrate will arise for man if he does not create these abilities out of the forces which flow to us from Lucifer's kingdom. Humanity would sink into materialism, would remain in the belief that everything is only an outer material world, if it did not rise to inspiration through the Luciferic principle. If the Christ principle is called to make our inner being stronger and stronger, the Luciferic principle is called to sharpen and train our faculties, which should penetrate the world to the full. Stronger and stronger for comprehending and knowing the world Lucifer will make us, stronger and stronger inwardly Christ will make us.\|113\|127f}}

			== The Salvation of Lucifer ==

			{{GZ\|The salvation of Lucifer is through [[love]], through the higher love which is free from egoism. The salvation of [[Ahriman]] happens through [[thinking]].\|266c\|167}}

	== See also ==		== See also ==

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	Lucifer wanted to lead man into the sensual world, but it was not in his intentions to bind him at the same time so firmly to the material world as is now the case. Matter is the realm of [[Ahriman]], and it was through him that humanity became more and more entangled in material existence. It is true that it was Lucifer's work that made it possible for Ahriman to seize man and bind him to matter, but he is thereby acting against Lucifer's interests. Ahriman and Lucifer are opponents. Lucifer wants to pull man out of the pure divine world and lead him into his own spiritual kingdom, but this is not deep in the material world, where Ahriman dwells, but it is on the border between the sensual and the supersensual world. Lucifer is therefore always anxious today to detach man from the merely material world. He does not want him to become a completely earthbound being. He is a spirit of elevation, of visions, illusions, ecstasy and intoxication, who wants to lift man away from the Earth into his fleeting immaterial sensual-supersensual realm. Ahriman, on the other hand, wants to pull us down into the purely material sub-sensible world. Only in a healthy balance between these earth-volatile Luciferic and earth-addicted Ahrimanic forces can man find his true freedom.		Lucifer wanted to lead man into the sensual world, but it was not in his intentions to bind him at the same time so firmly to the material world as is now the case. Matter is the realm of [[Ahriman]], and it was through him that humanity became more and more entangled in material existence. It is true that it was Lucifer's work that made it possible for Ahriman to seize man and bind him to matter, but he is thereby acting against Lucifer's interests. Ahriman and Lucifer are opponents. Lucifer wants to pull man out of the pure divine world and lead him into his own spiritual kingdom, but this is not deep in the material world, where Ahriman dwells, but it is on the border between the sensual and the supersensual world. Lucifer is therefore always anxious today to detach man from the merely material world. He does not want him to become a completely earthbound being. He is a spirit of elevation, of visions, illusions, ecstasy and intoxication, who wants to lift man away from the Earth into his fleeting immaterial sensual-supersensual realm. Ahriman, on the other hand, wants to pull us down into the purely material sub-sensible world. Only in a healthy balance between these earth-volatile Luciferic and earth-addicted Ahrimanic forces can man find his true freedom.

			== The Earthly Incarnation of Lucifer ==

			According to [[Rudolf Steiner]], Lucifer incarnated on Earth in the 3rd pre-Christian millennium.

			{{GZ\|If we go back in the development of humanity before the Mystery of Golgotha, then we come to find in ancient times of oriental cultural development a human personality on Earth within that culture from which today's Chinese culture has developed, a human personality who was the outer human embodiment of Lucifer, who at that time really walked on Earth as a human embodiment, and who was the bearer of the human light that we find on the ground of ancient pre-Christian wisdom, with the exception of Judaism. Even in Greekism, through that which worked in art, in world-view, in statesmanship, flows through that which went out from the Lucifer incarnation millennia before the Mystery of Golgotha.\|195\|38}}

			The [[w:Yellow Emperor\|Yellow Emperor]], [[w:Huangdi\|Huangdi]], the legendary founder of Chinese culture, was presumably this earthly incarnation of Lucifer, although Rudolf Steiner did not explicitly refer to it by name ("There was a Chinese Lucifer incarnation in the beginning of the 3rd millennium." {{GZ\|\|193\|185f}}. He brought people tremendous wisdom and deep insights in the medical field, but could not yet give any [[moral]] impulses:

			{{GZ\|The actual moral impulse for humanity was first prepared by Judaism, then further developed by Christianity.

			And the question must arise: Where does it come from that the glorious old pagan wisdom, which for example still had an artistic and philosophical flowering of the most beautiful kind in Greece, had no moral impulse in it? If, however, we were to go further back into the third millennium of pre-Christian times, we would find that with the impulse of wisdom comes at the same time a moral impulse, and that this is absolutely so, as I have already explained here: that in the impulse of wisdom was contained at the same time that which the ancient people needed as their morals, as their ethos. But a special ethos, a special moral impulse, as it then came with Christianity, was not inherent in pagan wisdom as such. Why? Because for the millennia that immediately preceded Christianity, this pagan wisdom was inspired by a place far over in Asia, but inspired by a very strange being, the being of Lucifer, who really incarnated in Asia over there, far in the East, in the third millennium before Christ.

			And to the many things we have learned about the development of mankind, it is necessary that we also add the knowledge that just as there was the incarnation of Golgotha, the incarnation of the Christ in the man Jesus of Nazareth, there was also a real incarnation of Lucifer in the third millennium before Christ in Asia. And a large part of the ancient culture was inspired by the side that can only be described as an earthly incarnation of Lucifer in a human being who lived in flesh and blood. Even Christianity, the Mystery of Golgotha, when it took place among men, was first conceived in such a way as men could grasp it through what they could get from the old Luciferic wisdom. The one-sidedness of the otherwise extraordinarily profound gnosis also stems from the fact that this Lucifer incarnation passed through the old world. The full significance of the Mystery of Golgotha cannot be properly understood unless it is known that it was preceded - not quite three thousand years - by a Lucifer incarnation.

			To add to this Lucifer inspiration that which brings this Lucifer inspiration out of one-sidedness, came the Christ incarnation.\|191\|197ff}}

			At first, even the understanding of the earthly incarnation of the [[Christ]] was prepared by the earthly embodiment of Lucifer:

			{{GZ\|At the beginning of the third millennium, an important event took place in eastern Asia. A child from one of the noble Asiatic families of that time grew up in the surroundings of the ceremonial services of the Mysteries. Circumstances presented themselves in such a way that this child was allowed to take part in the ceremonies, probably because the leading priests of the Mysteries felt it to be an inspiration that they should allow such a child to take part. And when the person who lived in this child had reached the age of about forty, something strange happened. It turned out - and it must be said that the priests of the Mysteries foresaw the event prophetically to a certain extent - that this man, who had been allowed to grow up in one of the East Asian Mysteries, suddenly began, towards his fortieth year, to grasp through human judgement the meaning of what had previously only entered the Mysteries through revelation. He was, so to speak, the first to be allowed to make use of the organs of the human intellect, but only with reference to the Mysteries.

			If we translate what the priests of the Mysteries said about this matter into our present-day language, we must say: In this man was incarnated no more, no less than Lucifer himself. - And that is an important, a significant fact, that there really was a fleshly incarnation of Lucifer in the 3rd pre-Christian millennium in the East of Asia. And from this incarnation of Lucifer in the flesh - for this personality then taught - emanated that which is actually called the pre-Christian, pagan culture, which still lived in the gnosis of the first Christian centuries. One must not simply pronounce a derogatory judgement on this Lucifer culture. For the beauty and even the philosophical insight of Greek culture, which also lives in ancient Greek philosophy, in the tragedies of Aeschylus, all this would not have been possible without this Luciferic incarnation. This Luciferic incarnation was, as I said, still powerful in the south of Europe, in the north of Africa, in the west of Asia in the first Christian centuries. And when the Mystery of Golgotha took place on Earth, it was essentially the Luciferic wisdom through which the Mystery of Golgotha could be understood. That which first prepared itself as gnosis to comprehend the Mystery of Golgotha was thoroughly fertilised by Luciferic wisdom. So that we must first of all emphasise: There was a Chinese Lucifer incarnation at the beginning of the third millennium. There was the incarnation of the Christ at the beginning of our era. And at first even the incarnation of the Christ was understood by the fact that the power of the old Lucifer incarnation was still there, which actually only disappeared for human insight, for human self-power, in the 4th century after Christ.\|193\|185f}}

	== See also ==		== See also ==

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	'''Lucifer''' (from {{LaS}}: ''lux'' "light" and ''ferre'' "to bring"; {{GrS\|Φωσφόρος}} ''Phosphoros'' "light-bringer, light-bearer" or {{lang\|grc\|Ἑωσφόρος}} ''Eosphoros'' "bringer of the dawn"), in {{LaS}} also the poetic name of the morning star, i.e. [[Venus]], literally the "bearer of light", the light-filled '''red devil''', often also called '''Diabolos''' ({{GrS\|Διάβολος}} ''Diàbolos'' "muddler, confounder", from {{lang\|grc\|Διά-βαλλειν}} ''dia-ballein'' "to throw into confusion") and according to [[Rudolf Steiner]] identical with '''Iblis''' (also ''Eblis'', {{arS\|إبليس\|d=Iblīs}}, "disappointer, deceiver") mentioned in the [[w:Koran\|Koran]], is symbolised in the Bible by the [[serpent]] who sneaks into [[paradise]] and tempts man to eat from the "[[tree of knowledge]]". Lucifer is also often depicted as a winged [[dragon]]; in Ezekiel's vision also as a winged bull. Lucifer has anchored himself above all in the [[sentient soul]], which has come into being through the transformation of the [[astral body]] {{GZ\|\|107\|247}}, and here he incites the sensual [[desires]] and [[drive]]s.		'''Lucifer''' (from {{LaS}}: ''lux'' "light" and ''ferre'' "to bring"; {{GrS\|Φωσφόρος}} ''Phosphoros'' "light-bringer, light-bearer" or {{lang\|grc\|Ἑωσφόρος}} ''Eosphoros'' "bringer of the dawn"), in {{LaS}} also the poetic name of the morning star, i.e. [[Venus]], literally the "bearer of light", the light-filled '''red devil''', often also called '''Diabolos''' ({{GrS\|Διάβολος}} ''Diàbolos'' "muddler, confounder", from {{lang\|grc\|Διά-βαλλειν}} ''dia-ballein'' "to throw into confusion") and according to [[Rudolf Steiner]] identical with '''[[Iblis]]''' (also ''Eblis'', {{arS\|إبليس\|d=Iblīs}}, "disappointer, deceiver") mentioned in the [[w:Koran\|Koran]] {{GZ\|\|144\|71}}, is symbolised in the Bible by the [[serpent]] who sneaks into [[paradise]] and tempts man to eat from the "[[tree of knowledge]]". Lucifer is also often depicted as a winged [[dragon]]; in Ezekiel's vision also as a winged bull. Lucifer has anchored himself above all in the [[sentient soul]], which has come into being through the transformation of the [[astral body]] {{GZ\|\|107\|247}}, and here he incites the sensual [[desires]] and [[drive]]s.

	== Lucifer and Venus ==		== Lucifer and Venus ==
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	* [[Rudolf Steiner]]: ''Die geistigen Wesenheiten in den Himmelskörpern und Naturreichen'', [[GA 136]] (1996) {{Lectures\|136}}		* [[Rudolf Steiner]]: ''Die geistigen Wesenheiten in den Himmelskörpern und Naturreichen'', [[GA 136]] (1996) {{Lectures\|136}}
	* [[Rudolf Steiner]]: ''Der Mensch im Lichte von Okkultismus, Theosophie und Philosophie'', [[GA 137]] (1993), ISBN 3-7274-1371-9 {{Lectures\|137}}		* [[Rudolf Steiner]]: ''Der Mensch im Lichte von Okkultismus, Theosophie und Philosophie'', [[GA 137]] (1993), ISBN 3-7274-1371-9 {{Lectures\|137}}
			* [[Rudolf Steiner]]: ''Die Mysterien des Morgenlandes und des Christentums'', [[GA 144]] (1985), ISBN 3-7274-1440-5 {{Lectures\|144}}
	* [[Rudolf Steiner]]: ''Die Welt des Geistes und ihr Hereinragen in das physische Dasein'', [[GA 150]] (1980), ISBN 3-7274-1500-2 {{Lectures\|150}}		* [[Rudolf Steiner]]: ''Die Welt des Geistes und ihr Hereinragen in das physische Dasein'', [[GA 150]] (1980), ISBN 3-7274-1500-2 {{Lectures\|150}}
	* [[Rudolf Steiner]]: ''Wie erwirbt man sich Verständnis für die geistige Welt?'', [[GA 154]] (1985), ISBN 3-7274-1540-1 {{Lectures\|154}}		* [[Rudolf Steiner]]: ''Wie erwirbt man sich Verständnis für die geistige Welt?'', [[GA 154]] (1985), ISBN 3-7274-1540-1 {{Lectures\|154}}

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