Lucifer and Christ are cosmic brothers, Lucifer bears the Light, but Christ is the Light; thus, Lucifer is the Christophor, the Christ-Bringer. Another phrase from early Christianity also suggests this relationship: Christus verus Luciferus, which means “Christ is the true Light-Bearer.”
Christ is Lucifer or they are two aspects of the same being, similar to that near unity of the Egyptian Geb and Nut. To call Lucifer the Christophor is to say he is the vesture of the Logos, or Christ. Lucifer bears (and wears) the body which is the Light of the Christ.
Before the Mystery of Golgotha (the crucifixion and resurrection of the Christ on Golgotha—when the Christ energy was grounded on Earth through Jesus), Christ was the upper cosmic god and Lucifer the lower inner god within human consciousness Initiates had visions of Lucifer within the realm of their soul and beheld the Christ through the outer sensory world. Christ and Lucifer had since ancient times. and by divine decree dwelled naturally side by side, as outer cosmic god and god within the human soul.
The Luciferic impulse had impregnated the human etheric body for eons, and Luciferic spiritual currents perpetually streamed into it. This was the primordial light out of which the etheric body of the human (and planet) was originally formed.
Humans experienced these Luciferic currents as the inward most aspect of their being. By the time of the Mystery of Golgotha, this stream had become exhausted, and Lucifer became invisible to humans.
Golgotha marked a complete reversal of the roles and placements of Christ and Lucifer. Christ penetrated the Earth, becoming an inner spiritual reality to the clairvoyants on the planet, while Lucifer, ascending, shone forth as a cosmic god.
Christ became apparent within human soul life as an indwelling reality, while Lucifer assumed ever greater radiance in the outer world. In the future, increasingly, Christ will be realized by way of inner meditation while Lucifer will be perceived when one directs one’s spiritual gaze outwards into the cosmos.
Thus, the relationship between Lucifer and Christ is close and collegial. Lucifer becomes the guide to the soul, the psychopomp, in our inner journey to penetrate the mystery and reality of the Christ within us. Lucifer will guide us to the “safety of a luminous spiritual life, while Christ leads us to “inner warmth of soul" as they “unite themselves in love,” as an agape of Logos (Christ) and Light-Bearer (Lucifer).
So, Christ went inward, Lucifer outward. Lucifer provided the form, Christ the substance. Lucifer’s influence would help us comprehend the world, while the Christ’s would continuously strengthen us from within.
Lucifer in fact would fortify us with the spiritual vitality, intellectual independence, and cognitive freedom necessary to describe and understand the Christ. Lucifer is the “Spirit of independent cognition, wisdom inwoven,” that which lifts into the full light of consciousness what would otherwise remain in the unconscious. It is the Spirit through which we can comprehend what “Christ has wrought.” Thus Lucifer “blazons the way” for Christ.
Eric Johnson
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