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.

Blvatsky and the Theosophical View of Lucifer (2)

In this case it is but natural — even from the dead- letter standpoint — to view Satan, the Serpent of Genesis, as the real creator and benefactor, the Father of Spiritual Mankind. For it is he who was the "Harbinger of I^ight," bright radiant I^ucifer, who opened the eyes of the automaton "created" by Jehovah, as alleged. And he who was the first to whisper, "in the day ye eat thereof ye shall be as Elohim, knowing good and evil," can only be regarded in the light of a Saviour.

Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna, The Secret Doctrine: the Synthesis of Science, Religion and Philosophy, 3rd and rev. ed., London: The Theosophical Publishing House, 1893, 1902, 1905, 1908, 1911, 1913, 1918, 1921, vol. 2 - Anthropogenesis, p. 254.

Blavatsky and the Theosophical View of Lucifer

And now it stands proven that Satan, or the Red Fiery Dragon, the "Lord of Phosphorus"–brimstone was a Theological improvement–and Lucifer, or "Light-Bearer," is in us: it is our Mind, our Tempter and Redeemer, our intelligent Liberator and Saviour from pure animalism.

Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna, The Secret Doctrine: the Synthesis of Science, Religion and Philosophy, 3rd and rev. ed., London: The Theosophical Publishing House, 1893, 1902, 1905, 1908, 1911, 1913, 1918, 1921, vol. 2 - Anthropogenesis, p. 540.

1844: the Beginnings of the Bahai Faith, a movement to unite all religions

On May 23, 1844, there arose in Shiraz, Persia, a young man, Ali Mohammed by name, who declared Himself to be The Bab [the Arabic word for door or gate], or the forerunner of  "He whom God would Manifest"---a great teacher, Who was soon to appear with manifest signs of divine power, through Whose teachings the religious unity of all peoples would be accomplished.

Remey, Charles Mason, The New Day; the Bahai Revelation, a brief statement of its history and teachings, Chicago: Bahai Publishing Society, 1919, p. 14.

In the year one thousand two hundred and sixty [A. H.], when he [the Báb] was in his twenty-fifth year [Jamádí-ul-Úlá 5th, 1260 A.H. (May 23rd, 1844 A.D.) is the date given by the Báb himself in the Persian Beyán as that whereon his mission commenced.], certain signs became apparent in his conduct, behaviour, manners, and demeanour whereby it became evident in Shíráz that he had some conflict in his mind and some other flight beneath his wing. He began to speak and to declare the rank of Báb-hood. Now what he intended by the term Báb [Gate] was this, that he was the channel of grace from some great Person still behind the veil of glory, who was the possessor of countless and boundless perfections, by whose will he moved, and to the bond of whose love he clung.

Browne, Edward G., A Traveller's Narrative written to illustrate the episode of the Báb, Cambridge: The University Press, 1891, p. 3.

The Jesuitical Colleges and a New Brand of Ministers

Now you know you are told every Sunday that it does not signify what you believe; that all sects and denominations will be saved; that doctrines are unimportant things; that as to the doctrines of God's grace, they are rather dangerous than otherwise, and the less you inquire about them the better; they are very good things for the priests, but you common people cannot understand them. Thus they keep back a portion of the gospel with cautious reserve; but having studied in the devil's new Jesuitical college, they understand how to call themselves particular Baptists, and then preach general doctrines, to call themselves Calvinists, and preach Arminianism, telling the people that it does not signify whether they preach damnable heresies instead of the truth of God. And what do the congregations say? "Well, he is a wise man, and ought to know." So you are going back into as bad a priestcraft as ever.

Spurgeon, C. H., "A Solemn Warning for All Churches," February 24, 1856, at New Park Street Chapel, Southwark.
(Spurgeon, C. H., The New Park Street Pulpit, 6 vols., Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Book House Company, 1990 (reprint), vol. 2 (During the Year 1856), sermon 68, pp. 115-116.)

Producer Paul Rothchild was one [who believed Jim's accident story]: "As a child he was driving with his parents, and there was a truck full of Indians that had crashed and overturned. There was a medicine man dying at the side of the road, and Jim, this four- or five-year-old child vividly remembered a mystical experience when, as the shaman died, his spirit entered Jim's body. That was the pivotal event of his entire life. He always viewed himself as the shaman, having mystical powers and the ability to see through many facades to the truth. It was this power that drove him. This was the great force that pushed his life and took him out of the rigid, military environment of his youth and turned him into a seer."

Riordan, James and Jerry Prochnicky, Break on Through: The Life and Death of Jim Morrison, New York: William Morrow and Company, 1991, p. 193.

When Manzarek heard that Morrison wanted to call the band The Doors, he thought it was ridiculous until he remembered the Blake line. "At the time, we had been ingesting a lot of psychedelic chemicals," Manzarek remembers, "so the doors of perception were cleansed in our own minds, so we saw music as a vehicle to, in a sense, become proselytizers of a new religion, a religion of self, of each man as god. That was the original idea behind The Doors. Using music and Jim's brilliant lyrics."

Riordan, James and Jerry Prochnicky, Break on Through: The Life and Death of Jim Morrison, New York: William Morrow and Company, 1991, p. 74.

Jim Morrison later recounted what happened to him during this time: "I was living in this abandoned office building, sleeping on the roof. And all of a sudden I threw away most of my notebooks that I'd been keeping since high school and these songs just kept coming to me. It was a beautiful hot summer and I just started hearing songs. This kind of mythic concert that I heard . . . I thought I was going to be a writer or a sociologist, maybe write plays. I never went to concerts---one or two at most. I saw a few things on TV, but I had never been a part of it all. But I heard in my head a whole concert situation, with a band and singing and an audience---a large audience. Those first five or six songs I wrote, I was just taking notes at a fantastic rock concert that was going on inside my head. And once I had written the songs, I had to sing them."

Riordan, James and Jerry Prochnicky, Break on Through: The Life and Death of Jim Morrison, New York: William Morrow and Company, 1991, p. 72.

The Decision to Go Forward with 'I Love Lucy'

At that time, television was regarded as the enemy by Hollywood. So terrified was Hollywood of this medium, movie people were afraid to make even guest appearances. If I undertook a weekly television show and it flopped, I might never work in movies again.

It would mean each of us would have to give up our respective radio programs, and Desi would have to cancel all his band engagements. It was a tremendous gamble; it had to be an all-or-nothing commitment.

But this was the first real chance Desi and I would have to work together, something we'd both been longing for for years.

We continued to wrestle with the decision, trying to look at things from every angle. Then one night Carole Lombard appeared to me in a dream. She was wearing one of those slinky bias-cut gowns of the thirties, waving a long black cigarette holder in her hand. "Go on, kid," she advised me airily. "Give it a whirl."

The next day I told Don Sharpe, "We'll do it. Desi and I want to work together more than anything else in the world."

Ball, Lucille, Love, Lucy, New York: G. P. Putnam's sons, 1996, pp. 204-205.