ABSTRACT
Lucifer was the chief of the angels and in some interpretations it is suggested that in his pride he challenged God and was ejected from heaven. Lucifer is most subtle of all creatures, outwardly characterised as treacherous and subtle. Lucifer is the impulse to consciousness out of the primal unity, the drive for differentiation, the birth of a new world, of conscious discrimination, separated self-awareness. This identification of Lucifer with the light can more easily be understood as the consciousness impulse and the breaking from the primal unity. The temptation scene in Genesis has a powerful seed of symbolic truth wrapped within the defensive husk of Judaic moralistic consciousness, which was obsessed with sexuality and obedience. One of the many powerful themes compacted in the temptation of the Eve story is that the emergence of consciousness is a moral problem.
