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Lost in TranslationThe biblical truth about Lucifer's origin.
Almost everyone believes Lucifer is the name of the angel who fell from heaven. That name does not appear anywhere in the Hebrew Bible. It comes from one Latin word in one verse of Isaiah, and that verse was about a king of Babylon.
In this course I follow that word from the Hebrew to the Greek, the Latin and the English, and show you how a translation became a fallen angel. Then I show you who the Jewish tradition says the true fallen one really is.
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The verse that started it all
How a king of Babylon became the Devil
In 1611 the King James Bible rendered Isaiah 14:12 in words that have shaped Christian belief ever since:
“How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning!”
Isaiah 14:12, King James Version
But read the chapter from the start. Isaiah himself says this is a taunt to be taken up "against the king of Babylon". The Hebrew calls that king Helel ben Shachar, the shining one, son of the dawn, the morning star that rises bright and then fades as the sun comes up. The Greek Septuagint translated it as the morning star. When Jerome translated the Bible into Latin around 400, he used the ordinary Latin word for the morning star, lucifer, the light-bringer.
It was never a name. Jerome used the very same word in his translation of 2 Peter for the morning star rising in the hearts of the faithful, which there means Christ. Over the centuries, though, readers turned the word into a proper name, the King James translators kept it, and Dante and Milton did the rest.
In this course I take you through the languages, the translations and the texts one step at a time, with every source cited, so you can judge for yourself. Then I turn to the Jewish tradition and show you who the true fallen angel is.
Section one
The Lucifer fallacy
Twelve modules, 40 lessons, in two sections. The first eight modules take the Lucifer story apart, verse by verse and translation by translation.
Introductory topics
An introduction to the course, and the method and approach I use with the texts.
The languages and translations of the Bible
The languages the Bible was written in, the Greek Septuagint, the Vetus Latina and Jerome's Latin Vulgate, and how names were rendered and pronounced from one language to the next.
The falling of angels
What the Bible actually says about fallen angels, and the older fallen angel tradition in the Book of Enoch.
The verses that started it all
The verse in Isaiah, the early rumors of a Lucifer, Ezekiel's "you were in Eden", and how Christianity misread the Old Testament to build the story.
Fallen from grace?
Three lessons on "how you have fallen from heaven", word by word in the Hebrew, and Ezekiel's king adorned with every precious stone.
The English translation that started it all
How the King James Bible turned a Latin word into a name.
Is there a Lucifer?
Whether any being called Lucifer exists in the texts at all, the Lucifer and Diana deception, and how Dante's Inferno, Milton's Paradise Lost and the Romantic poets created the Lucifer we know.
The paradox of occult adoption
Why so much of the occult world took Lucifer up anyway, the "Christianity light" problem, the egregore hypothesis, and the place of personal gnosis.
Section two
Who is the true fallen angel?
Once the Lucifer story is cleared away, a real question is left. If the fallen one is not Lucifer, who is it? In the second section I turn to the Jewish sources and the Kabbalah for the answer.
The true fallen angel
The source material for the second section, and the identity of the fallen one according to the tradition.
The tale of two falls
Two lessons on the two falls that the tradition describes, and what "bright and shining" really refers to.
Evil from the beginning
Where evil comes from in Jewish mysticism. The basics of the Kabbalah, existence before existence, the klippot and the sitra achra, the "other side", in two lessons, and the demiurgic tendencies of the fallen. The course then closes with my conclusion.
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Lost in Translation
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- 40 lessons across 12 modules
- The languages and translations of the Bible, from Hebrew to Latin to English
- Isaiah 14 and Ezekiel 28 examined word by word
- How Dante, Milton and the Romantics created the Lucifer we know
- The true fallen angel according to the Jewish tradition
- The Kabbalah, the klippot and the sitra achra
- Every source cited, so you can judge for yourself
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