LUCIFER, THE LIBERATOR

Gnostic myths relate that Lucifer is the Messenger

of the Unknowable God. We had said that this God,
the greatest one, unreachable and unknowable, is
unable to penetrate this limited universe of impure
and satanic matter. But according to these myths,
he can send someone, Lucifer. Only with a supreme
sacrifice can an incredibly Spiritual and pure being
of antimatter fire break through into the infernal
world of this universe. According to Gnostic
legends and myths, the great Unknowable God
sent Lucifer, angel of indescribable fire and light,
to show man the light and to help him wake up and
see his true origin, the origin of his Spirit, which
has been perversely imprisoned in this impure
matter called body-soul. He is an uncreated being,
who came to the created world to bring Light:
Liberating Gnosis. The saving knowledge which can
wake man up and help him free his imprisoned
Spirit. The knowledge which allows him to know
who he truly is, why he is here in this world and
what he has to do to liberate himself and fulfil his

Spirit, which belongs to another uncreated and

unknowable plane.
We have said that Lucifer came to the world to
wake man up, to help him remember his divine
origin, the divine origin of his Spirit, and to help
him free himself from the body-soul in which he is
trapped, and from created time and matter.
Gnostics consider that the biblical myth of creation
can be explained as follows: the creator satan of
the world trapped Adam and Eve in his miserable
world, and Lucifer, in the form of a serpent, offered
them the forbidden fruit of saving Gnosis, and
showed them that the creator was deceiving them.
In other words, the creator said to man "but of the
tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall
not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall
surely die." On the other hand, the Serpent said
"You will not surely die. For God knows that in the
day you eat of it your eyes will be opened and you
will be like God, knowing good and evil." The bible
continued: "And the eyes of both of them were
opened". It doesn't say "they both died", it says
"the eyes of both of them were opened", like the
Serpent had said. Later, the creator says "And now
man has become as one of us, to know good and
evil". The creator lied. He said that man would die
if he ate the fruit, but man did not die. The Serpent
was telling the truth. The creator himself ended up
agreeing that the Serpent was right. More
precisely, Gnostics called the demiurge a liar as
well as a plagiarizer. For them, the entire creation
is a failed attempt by the demiurge to imitate the
unknowable world. In this way, they think that the
bible itself is a complete plagiarism, based

principally on pre-biblical Babylonian and Egyptian

texts.
Gnostics believe that this Serpent Lucifer is the
liberator of man and the world. It is wisdom, the
liberating Gnosis that wakes man up and saves
him. Of course, this Messenger of the Unknowable
God, Lucifer, is an opponent and an enemy of the
creator of the world.
Gnosis states that the creator wants to keep man
captive in this limited, inferior and impure sphere.
He also forbade man contact with the higher world,
represented in the biblical myth by the fruit from
the tree of knowledge of good and evil. But Lucifer,
the Angel of Light, made a great sacrifice and
descended into this satanic hell to give the
forbidden fruit of Gnosis to man, and opened his
eyes so that he would be able to remember his
divine origin and his superiority in relation to the
creator. Gnostics consider that before the arrival of
the Serpent in paradise, man was in a state of
ignorance and was blind to his true situation. They
maintain that Adam and Eve were in a state of
servitude until the Serpent Lucifer opened their
eyes and fed them the fruit of knowledge, which
made them remember their divine origin and
become aware of the situation in which they found
themselves.
Of course, the creator threw Adam and Eve out of
this paradise in which he had placed them since he
wanted them (and still does) to reflect him and be
similar to him after his image and resemblance,
and to carry out his precepts so as to be like him
and not like the Unknowable God. He wants the

Spirit to stay asleep so he can take advantage of

Its energy, preventing It from manifesting Itself in
man and the world.

Lucifer, liberator of man and the world, has also

been called Abaddon, the Exterminator. But.
exterminator of what? Exterminator of matter,
because he abhors this created world of matter
and time. He would behave like a hostile
antimatter force, extremely aggressive, because
he hates all that has been created as he also hates
the body and soul of man, since he belongs to the
uncreated plane of the unknowable. He is an
exterminator, but an exterminator of matter, of the
impure. Such is the Gnostic legend of Lucifer.
Now we can go on to describe what uncreated
entities exist in this created world.
Firstly, the Unknowable God, who is not in this
world but who can infiltrate it with a tiny particle
of Himself, a Messenger. This Messenger is also
uncreated, not having been created by the creator.
Secondly, the imprisoned Spirits of men, which also
belong to the unknowable World of the uncreated
and the eternal. According to Gnosis all living
beings have an uncreated Spiritual element
enchained in their souls: the Spirit. The Spirit
locked within man is totally superior to that of
animals, plants and other living beings. The
difference between man and the other living
beings is very great, as is the difference between
the Spirits imprisoned inside of them. The Spirits

of human beings are in an elevated Spiritual

category.
Thirdly, another uncreated entity placed on this
created plane is the saving and divine knowledge
of Gnosis. Knowledge that has come from outside,
which has not been produced inside of this world,
THE SERPENT OF SALVATION
We have said that, according to the Gnostic
interpretation of Genesis, the creator god
imprisoned Adam and Eve in a world of misery and
gave them a subservient soul. The bible says that
after eating the forbidden fruit Adam and Eve hid
themselves, ashamed by the mistake they had
made. God arrived in paradise and called Adam
with these words: "Where are you?" He appeared
to be acting like a master calling his servant. When
he didn't find him, he seemed to be saying: "Where
are you? Where have you hidden yourself? What
have you done? Why are you not here working?"
This creator god created Adam and Eve incapable
of distinguishing between good and evil, between
the uncreated kingdom and the created one. He
also created them ignorant of their origin and their
destiny.
Why did he create them like this? According to
Gnosis, the creator didn't want man to know his
true origin. This world was created against the will
of the Unknowable God and this was something the
creator did not want man to know. He didn't want
them (and still doesn't) to know the Spiritual
situation in which they were living, who they were
or why they had been created. He wanted them to

remain ignorant and still does so to this day. This

is why he forbade them to eat from the tree of
knowledge. Because it would "open their eyes",
wake them up and make them notice who they
were and where they came from, the situation they
were in and what they had to do. It would make
them aware that Eden wasn't paradise, but just the
opposite.
In his book "La franc-maonnerie", Father Leon
Meurin describes the Gnostic interpretations of the
earthly paradise and the Serpent of Genesis, and
the following ideas come up: Jehovah does not
want man to know his origin or his great destiny.
He forbids all contact with the higher world. He
wants man to be a reflection of him, the creator,
and not a reflection of the Supreme God.
But man did wake up, and he did become aware of
good and evil. How did he manage to do this? The
Serpent of temptation in Eden fed him the
forbidden fruit which opened his eyes. According
to Gnostics this Serpent is Lucifer, the Messenger
of Light. This is the meaning of the word Lucifer:
Bearer of Light. Lucifer took the form of a serpent
to wake man up. He is a Messenger of the Supreme
God, the Unknowable God. He is a Messenger of
the True God who came into this imperfect,
inadequate and wretched world to wake up and
liberate man, to show him his true situation and
what his great destiny could be like. For this
reason, those who follow the orders of the creator
god consider the serpent to be something
malicious and satanic and in all this confusion liken
it with satan.

On the other hand, Gnostics see the Serpent

Lucifer as a saviour, someone who came to save
man, a Messenger of the True God. This Serpent of
Enlightenment which brought Gnosis, Gnostic truth
which allows the authentic and true nature of
things to be seen in this world of confusion, came
to liberate man. Lucifer is the true liberator of
man. He came to liberate man from the tyranny of
Yahve, from the tyranny of the creator god. He
brought the real knowledge that in itself can free
man and help him to escape from this satanic
world and return to the world from which he came.
This Serpent is, for Gnostics, the Serpent of
Salvation, the Serpent which opened the eyes of
man, which offered him the apple of emancipation
to help him wake up and free himself from this
world of misery and impure matter.
The creator wanted to create man like the other
living beings, incapable of distinguishing between
good and evil but the Serpent's actions woke them
up and liberated them. According to Gnostics, this
knowledge, this Gnosis which the Serpent Lucifer
brought to man, undoubtedly caused a great
cosmic disturbance in the creation. This is how
powerful this knowledge is. Gnosis causes changes
in those who receive it, in those who listen to it
because it is not common or current knowledge, it
is liberating knowledge.
There is an interesting book written by Ernst Bloch
called "Atheism in Christianity", which gives a good
synthesis of this whole aspect of Gnostic thought,
the aspect related to the Serpent of Liberation as a
Messenger of the True God.

Gnostics of later times, at the beginning of

Christianity, who came to be known as Christian
Gnostics or Gnostic Christians, regarded Christ as
the Serpent of Genesis. This was because Christ,
much later than the events in the earthly paradise,
came carrying a liberating message, just like the
Serpent. A message which frees man from this
impure world. These Christian Gnostics believe
that it was this knowledge which allowed man to
make contact with the other world, the one
opposed to the demiurge: the unknowable world of
the True God.
Christ, the bearer of this message, this Gnosis, has
been likened to the Serpent of Genesis, who
returns to Earth for a second time to help
humanity. The first coming was Serpent Lucifer and
the second was Christ Lucifer. According to
christian Gnosis, when Christ came to the world, it
was his second time, since the first time was in the
earthly paradise. In both cases it was, actually,
Lucifer, the Messenger of the Unknowable. In both
cases, the message was the same: Gnosis that
disturbs, causes changes, wakes up and liberates
those who listen to it. For Christian Gnostics, the
Serpent is Christ, the Saviour who came to this
world twice.
There is a Gnostic diagram of a crucified serpent,
hammered onto a cross, which further shows the
Gnostic identity between the Serpent of Genesis
and Christ. There are myths which state that the
cross on which Christ was crucified was made of
wood from the tree of knowledge of good and evil.

There was a time when all this knowledge was

written down and passed on. But this period lasted
until the "conversion" of Constantine and the
reinforcement of the roman church as the official
religion of the Roman Empire. Since then, books
and documents about Gnosis have been forbidden,
persecuted and destroyed. Very few of these texts
remain.
Origen, for example, described a Gnostic diagram
in which you can clearly see a serpent dividing the
two worlds, the created world and the uncreated
world. Although no-one likes this dualism, this is
how reality is and has to be accepted. Gnostics
know that another extremely perfect world exits,
which has nothing to do with this one. Origen was
able to have access to these Gnostic diagrams and
books, to all this information, in order to later
criticize it, as did Saint Augustine, Tertullian,
Hippolytus, Irenaeus of Lyons, Epiphanius and
many others.
But now, most of the original Gnostic texts no
longer exist and have been destroyed. These
critics of Gnosis distorted all the information from
the original Gnostic texts, taking sentences out of
context to make them look ridiculous, among other
cunning strategies. But none of this matters now.
Primordial Gnosis is always present, although
there are many who are not aware of it. In the
different circumstances in which it has appeared
openly in the world, it has always been the same
Gnosis, although with different historical and
cultural connotations. Although forbidden and
persecuted, Gnosis never disappeared and never
will disappear. It will always stay within the reach

of those who deserve it. The more it is persecuted,

the more it gathers strength.
As well as Bloch's book, there are other interesting
books which describe these aspects of ancient
Gnosis, in which Eden's Serpent of Salvation is
referred to. One such book is "Adan, le dieu
rouge", by Robert Ambelain; another is "Gnostics
and their Remains" by C. W. King, the latter having
been written in the nineteenth century.
There is one interesting piece of information about
the Serpent of Genesis in the book "The Refutation
of All Heresies", written by Hippolytus, a great
persecutor of the Gnostics. In this book, Hippolytus
comments on and criticizes some of the words of
Celsus, which to him are horrifying. It is about the
part of Celsus in which he states, referring to the
events in the earthly paradise, that just as the
creator cursed the serpent when it destroyed his
plans and ruined his work, so must the creator be
cursed by every man who has woken up. Just as
the creator cursed the Serpent of Salvation, so the
creator himself will be cursed as long as he exists,
by every Spirit liberated from his clutches.
Hippolytus, horrified, observed that even though
he knew that Gnostics likened the creator god with
satan, had never imagined that they would also
curse him.
In fact, in the few Gnostic books rescued from the
flames, we see that the creator god is sometimes
called satan. Gnostic tradition refers to the
demiurge as "satan, the creator of the world and
man", "satan and his demons, creators of the
world", and other such things.

SATAN, THE OPPRESSOR

Man in his normal state is lost in confusion, sleepy,
not knowing who he is, where he came from or
where he is going. He does not know what he
should be doing and is in a state of confusion, as if
in a mist or half-asleep.
When we were talking about the creator of the
world, we said that for Gnostics, the creator, the
demiurge, the creator of matter, the universe and
man can be likened to satan, since matter is
satanic, all creation is satanic and the creator is a
satanic being. This creator oppresses man. Since
the creation of man, he has forced him to carry out
his orders and obey his precepts and commands.
This creator wants to be obeyed by man, admired,
feared and adored by him by means of sacrifices
and rituals. He wants to impose his oppressive
rules on man. He wants man to obey him and
renounce his own wishes, which are very often the
desires of his Spirit, of this Spiritual Self that,
although ignored by man is carried within him. The
creator, according to Gnosis, has a plan for his
creation, which is why he created the universe and
placed man in it. He has a plan he wants to press
ahead with and he needs man in order to do this.
However he needs man to act in agreement with
his orders, those of the creator, and not according
to the desires of the Spirit. The demiurge does not
allow the Spirit, shackled in the soul of man, to
manifest Itself. He wants man to act through his
soul and not his Spirit. For this reason it is
necessary to oppress man, frighten and worry him.

He is a god
completely.

who

oppresses

his

creatures