I thought it was a joke. But I check all my followers and sometimes I even block them because the last thing I want is a spamer, so my first instinct was to block him.
I have vowed to keep an open mind though, so I browsed his page and was surprised to see fairly uplifting comments on his account, not at all the dark energy I had expected. And then it made me think about the myth of Lucifer. Lucifer was supposed to be one of God’s most fervent angels. The most devoted one. And the name itself means Light Bearer. Quite a conendrum in itself. But most people associate Lucifer with the devil, despite the fact there is no mention of this association in the Bible.
The mere concept that God could exclude an angel from heaven is laugheable to me because God is pure love. Us humans, through our religions, have made God in our image and as such totally perverted the totally mind blowing loving force that God is. God is just pure love. A love of a kind that is unconceivable for us mortals.
So Lucifer is a provoker. He makes us look at our own darkness. A light bearer and even refers also to morning star. Quite not what I expected.
Most of my friends, and one in particular, have accused me of seeing life with rose tainted glasses. And for a long time I refused to believe in evil. The friend of mine who was the most vehement about me dropping my rose tainted glass happened to be enrolled in a cult where the leader talked a lot about good and evil and everything seemed to be black and white. When I awakened to my divine purpose and started walking my spiritual path with open eyes, I asked the angels, is there such a thing as evil and waited for a sign. Within minutes of me asking, a car zoomed past me on the motorway with a plate numbered BAD666. I am not joking. It was that clear. I wonder however if this was the answer from the angels or a response from some spirit entity that wanted to feed the darkness.
Let me explain. I consider, still to this date, that evil can only be in our heart if we allow it to enter. This is a choice we each have every minute of our day. Evil often knocks on our door and we let it in through our fears and darkest thoughts. So our job is not to combat evil but to fill ourselves so much with love and light that there is no place or space for anything else.
I am glad I gave Lucifer a chance on twitter and went to check his account…. because this has led me to this great moment of reflection on how we can sometimes placate our own fears, darkness and doubts onto people. There is nothing negative about my follower on twitter, nothing sinister. But if my thoughts had allowed me to believe it was, then I would have had the fright of my life.
Jean-Paul Sartre, a famous French philosopher who lived in my neighbourhood when I was a child, said: “Hell is created by others”. I disagree with him entirely: I think hell is made by us, by our own thoughts and judgments and negativity. Instead of combatting it in others, we need to not make space for it in us. It reminds me of peace activits who get angry and who commit acts of violence in the name of peace. Peace can only start in our own hearts and by making peace with our families, our friends, our neighbours… and our enemies, if we consider that we have any. The mere concept of enemy is so totally alien to me…. again it opens the door for hate, but we are the ones opening it in the first place.
If you play scrabble with the word evil, you find “live”.
So” long live Lucifer”. Do bring us light and wisdom and help us deconstruct our beliefs.
I want to conclude with my motto: “I dance in the sunshine of my soul and play with the shadows”. Having said that I know that in the spirit world, light does not create shadow. It is only on earth that it does.
Blessings of light to you all
Anges de Lumiere
