Is Lucifer Satan or Not?

[Lurker]

if your perception of a spirit blows in the wind, how can you distinguish that from your own imagination? again, radical self honesty, its non-negotiable on this path.

How many times have you summoned Lucifer?

 

[Accipeveldare]

We have hit around this point in various threads. I was hoping someone had a definitive answer. To limit the discussion, let's just talk magickally, not historically. A lot of people, among them your humble narrator, tend to lump Lucifer and Satan together. But trying to characterize the entity I say Lucifer wears an "Apollonian" aspect; Satan a "Dionysian" one. These seem to represent fairly distinct constellations of forces.

So, what the Greeks kept asunder, why do we post-Christians meld together? That question certainly hints that the identification of the two represents an inherited habit. Is there any reason to identify them? I can think of cases where two gods certainly seem to be aspects of one being (e.g., Freya/Frigga.) Here, even while I tend to refer to Lucifer-Satan, I cannot find a compelling logical reason to do so. Aesthetically, maybe. The avatar Parallax uses in this forum of the Breker sculpture combines Numinal and Sinister aspects into a unity. So with Lucifer & Satan?

Satan translates to "adversary". Lucifer, in my experience is the adversary to all things unjust, or things that take away from others free will. So yes, in a sense, Lucifer IS Satan.