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| | Lucifer |
 | | In demonology Lucifer is the celestial being wrongly equated with Satan, probably due to a misreading of Isaiah, 14, 12 (applied to Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, who in his pomp and glory aspired to exalt himself to the level of God): |
 | | Lucifer's sin was pride, an act of pure egoism and malice; he loved himself, above anything else and to the exclusion of everything, without the excuse of ignorance. |
 | | At all events, the name Lucifer has been adopted in esoteric circles to represent the modern equivalent of the being of the Sun (originally named Ormuzd in the Zoroastrian dualism) opposed by the darkness, the Prince of Lies, who was called Angra Mainyu, in occultism called Ahriman. |
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