THE FALLIN ONES
By: Angel Ortiz
Ok before you read this I am not a devil worshiper I just do research on angels I don't know why, I just like to research them. So please read with open minds thank you.
The name "Lucifer" means "Light Giver" or "Light Bearer".
Light giver referring to the morning or evening star, Venus. Actually the name meant to mean the "Brightest Star".
That later was translated to "Eosphorus" (Greek word for Morning Star) and finally to Lucifer. In mythology he is the son of Aurora (the Roman personification of dawn) and the father Ceyx (Greek). Contrary to popular belief, Satan and Lucifer are two separate fallen angels. His banishment was because of his complete egotism and pure malice -- his sin, pride. This then indicates that Lucifer, not Satan was indeed the first angel to have sinned. Lucifer has been equated to Satan due to the misreading of the passage Isaiah 14:12 that was applied to the King of Babylon --
..."How you are fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! How you are cut down to the ground, you who weakened the nations! ...
First concept of this passage is that is was a mention to a man, a king who ruled the city of Babylon on that time.
The second concept is that it was also a reference to Samael, a cosmic being and the Seraphim of Purity, who descended from Heaven to oversee Hell.
The Isaiah's passage, as far as it is related to Lucifer (and in this case it is originally to Samael) is actually a lament when the "Son of the Dawn", the brightest Light from Heaven descend from his former position of Seraphim of Purity to rule also over the Underworld (Sheol) and Hell and oversee the punishment of the iniquitous.
The fact is that Samael descended, **he did not fall**. The lament is that when a being of his height and light had to descend from his original place in Heaven to work for God in Hell, shook the nations! Samael is also the sovereign of the 5th, 6th and 7th Heavens.
The actual name "Devil" was applied to Lucifer when early theologians identified him with the falling star in the passage from Isaiah, hence how Satan and Lucifer started to become interchangeable. We must point out here that writers of that time, did not know of fallen angels yet, through some passages point to the behavior of angels as less than "holly" from time to time throughout the Old Testament.
Lucifer was a "great" Archangel, Prince, and the anointed Cherub (seventh Dimension - Cherubim). Ever after his fall, he still seems to retain some of his power and ancient title. There are many different variations of stories and legends on Lucifer.
WHO IS HE?
Is Lucifer the opposite of God?
Lucifer cannot be God's opposite because he was created by God.
Lucifer is the opposite of Michael. (The Head Archangel)
Satan
Satan's name is believed to originate from the term Satan which connotes the idea of opposition and adversary.
Before his fall, it's believed that he was one of the Ruling Prince's of the Celestial Orders (specifically Seraphim, Cherubim, Powers, and Archangels), chief of the Seraphim and Head of the Order of Virtues.
St. Thomas Aquinas had a different important point on this matter, he believed that Satan was a Cherubim more than anything else.
Instead of being depicted as a six winged Seraphim, he was shown as having twelve wings. It has also been written by theologians that Satan was created on the 6th day of Creation. Representing more of an abstract entity than an evil one. He was in charge of testing "humans integrity", though God had the power to set limits on what Satan could and could not do.
The traditional theory is that Satan was the angel that betrayed and then led the revolt against God. It boils down to Satan that he was very jealous of the love that God felt towards Adam. Either by transforming into a snake or just using the snake as a tool, Satan tempted Eve with the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge. By 3rd century A.D. it was fully established by the Christian philosopher Origins the association between the snake and Satan. In following centuries, the snake has been believed to be the incarnation of Satan. God then banished Satan from the Heavens... or did he? He banished him to Earth, but the working theory is that Hell is actually located within the Northern boundaries of the third Heaven. Within the second Heaven, the fallen angels are imprisoned awaiting final judgment in complete darkness.
So it's here that Satan walks between Heaven and Earth. Primary staying here on Earth, seeking to destroy the lives of human beings and to keep them separated from God. Here is when Satan is now known by his other name, the Devil.
There's a big question arousing from the fall of the angels, and so much for the ones which followed Lucifer to his rebellion towards God but especially for the Watchers/Grigori.
Lets say that the angel in Heaven which followed Lucifer they where deceived by him and so they went into war against God and his Angels.
But the Watchers/Grigori had no excuse to be disobedient as the knew what happened to Adam and Eve when they did so.
So what was it that made these angels to "choose" to fall?
Matthew Bunson says on this:
The precise manner and events surrounding the fall of the angels is a matter of much speculation over the centuries. There have been many theories and legends as to how it happened.
For example, St. Thomas Aquinas (basing himself in part on St. Augustine), proposed that angels were created by God initially with free will to permit them to make a choice to accept or reject him forever.
As they had been made with natures that were eternally decisive, their decision was irrevocable.
One can also trace the presence of fallen angels and how they became so by tracing the historical development of Satan.
In the Old Testament, the name Satan was used to describe the "adversary" of God, bringing about evil and tempting human beings (Wis. 2:24; 1Chron. 21:1; Job 1:6-12).
Jesus was also subject to the temptations of Satan in the wilderness (Mt. 12:24).
The references to Satan are extensive in Scripture, and by the time of the New Testament, it was common to consider the presence of evil spirits, attaching the name Satan to the devil or Archfiend (as in Rev. 20:2), and variously describing him as the Evil One (Mt. 5:37; 13:19), Beelzebub (Mk. 3:22), the Accuser (Rev. 12:10), etc.
Specific reference to Satan as a fallen spirit or heavenly being (i.e., an angel) is found in 2Pet. 2:4 and Rev. 12:7-9. There he is characterized as a leader of hostile angels who was ejected from heaven.
He is thus able to disguise himself as an angel of light. The description of Satan as an angel was one that received considerable subsequent development.
In his Moralia, Pope St. Gregory I the Great wrote that Satan was so great in glory and knowledge that he wore the other angels as mere garments. Opinions have varied, however, as to whether he belonged to a specific choir, with most speculative writers proposing that he was chief of the seraphim and the virtues (as well as prince of the powers and archangels).
St. Thomas Aquinas, meanwhile, made the important point that Satan was of the choir of cherubim as he excelled in knowledge, not love or charity. The cherubim are honored in the second choir of angels and are best known for their knowledge and power.
Matthew Bunson
As we have seen in the chapter "The Fallen Archangel" Lucifer and Satan are two different fallen angels with Lucifer been the first. As the two became interchangeable, so it happened that St. Thomas Aquinas had in mind Lucifer who was a Cherubim when he referred to him with the name Satan.
I am not going to elaborate on the reasons which made Lucifer to fall, because whatever the reason he did so out of his egotism and pure malice.
But when it comes to the Watchers - Grigori it seams to me that the fallen Watchers - Grigori did not think of their help to humans as a big sin, if a sin at all.
To have done so that means that they loved humans so greatly that they chose to help them.
Besides it was the same love of God towards Adam (or was it Jesus) that cause the rebellion of Lucifer.
The Watchers/Grigori as angels and with the divine gift of Free Will made an irrevocable choice out of love to human kind, to change their path of evolution, and experience humanity/mortality, and thus been humans with physical form they got married with human women.
Although they appealed to Enoch to mediate and to speak on their behalf to God, they remained bound for 70 generations, (is that time period big enough? or the sin was not so big after all?). Hmm!
Some, they wants us to believe that the fallen Watchers/Grigori where allured by human women who were in the habit of walking abroad naked, and they gave themselves up to every conceivable manner of lewd practices. Of such were the women, whose beauty and sensual charms tempted the angels from the path of virtue.
Sorry, but I fail to see how a being of light like an angel will be tempted so easily by a naked human woman to fall. A Watcher watches everything and nudity or the shape of human body should have not be even worth looking upon it for an angel.
I had this idea of mine, which suggests that it might be the fallen Watchers/Grigori that gave all the knowledge to the people from Atlantis (the lost continent).
Knowledge so powerful that the Atlantians where not ready to handle it and it "destroyed" them.
It was said that the Atlantis "experiment" failed and that it was a mistake from the Hierarchy's behalf.
I don't think that the Hierarchy is capable of such mistakes.
This theory can be supported theologically from the "fact" that the fallen Watchers/Grigori and their children where destroyed in Noah's flood... the coincidence here is that Atlantis was also been said to be destroyed by the same flood around 8498 B.C. Hmm! That makes my wonder!
Whichever it's the right answer these are just my views on the subject, without claiming any theological specialty and not saying that I am correct, these are just thoughts for ponder.