Pike and the Scottish Rite's view of Lucifer

LUCIFER, the Light-bearer! Strange and mysterious name to give to the Spirit of Darkness! 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!

Pike, Albert, Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry, Charleston; New York: Masonic Publishing Co., 1871, p. 321.