Who the fuck says Lucifer is a Shem angel?
Cannot recall the shem name or thread, but it is here somewhere.
This sort of thing gets me twitchy, so I checked four sources - Godwin, Tyson's Agrippa chart, Whitcomb (wary of typos), Uri Raz and Kaplan - and could not find Lucifer among the Shem.
According to Godwin, the Hebrew name for Lucifer transliterates as
Helel, (Heh, Yod, Lamed, Lamed = 75).
That's four letters, whereas Shem names are based on triplets derived from Exodus 14:19-21 written "boustrophedon" (as the ox plows, right to left, left to right, etc). The "El" and "Yah" denote merciful or severe aspects of God respectively, though I can't find that reference (maybe Skinner).
Looking among the Shem for H's, I find:
Haayah
Hahahel
Haqmiah
Hariel
Hayayel
Hariel
Haziel
Hechashiah
Herachiel
Hihayah
There are sometimes variant spellings where, in transliteration, "H" is given in place of Cheth, but not one of these even approximates Helel.
For each decan in a sign, there is an AM angel and demon and a PM angel and demon.
According to Dr. Rudd, the angels of the quinances counter their paired demons. You place the angelic seal on the back side of the demon sigil, over the heart. After reading Carolyn Graves' book on Egyptian daemonology, it occured to me that the AM and PM assignments may actually be a dim echo of the god Re's daily journey through divisions of the the day and the Duat (which is in the body of Nut, or Nuit) Interesting to link these, but I won't swear by them.
According to Kaplan, the triplets of the Shem arise from Chokmah but receive their forms through Binah. I recently read that according to Karlsson, that Lucifer before the Fall resided in Da'ath, which linked the Supernals directly to the lower Sephiroth in harmonious union. I don't recall the latter's reference, maybe the Cohen brothers (the
medieval ones - will have to check Scholem, which I have not got to yet).
That is why, if you are a believer, it is dangerous to summon or attempt to otherwise communicate with evil. It is our individual mental image of this "evil" (that portion of a stream of energy) that we are tapping into.
One of the motives and formulas of ceremonial magic is precisely to summon this "evil" in order to dominate it (via the names of God and such) and put it to work. This could be framed as an elaborate act of sublimation, the primary danger being a neglectful attitude of presumption and an inflated ego which is gradually eroded by carelessness and taking such forces for granted.
It's also interesting to note that, according to Godwin, "Helel ben Shachar", from Isahiah 14:12, "How art thou fallen from Heaven O Lucifer son of the Morning?" is a reference to the King of Babylon. So if you are trying to connect with Lucifer easily, you might be talking to Mesopotamian alien transplant agent. Strike that last comment, it was impulsive.