Arvindus

Contemplations

The Antichrist as Lucifer, Satan and Hades

  • Title: Contemplations, The Antichrist as Lucifer, Satan and Hades.
  • Author: Arvindus.
  • Publisher: Arvindus.
  • Copyright: Arvindus, 2025, all rights reserved.
  • Index: 202501061.
  • Edition: html, first edition.

Content

§

In 'Contemplations, The Christ and the Antichrist' the antichrist was thematized as opposing the Christ. And the Christ there was thematized as the principle of evolution, moving from matter to spirit, and the antichrist then as the principle of involution, moving from spirit to matter.1

The antichrist was there also mentioned as bearing the name 'Lucifer'. And 'Lucifer' was considered as not only the name of the antichrist but also of the planet Venus. On the antichristian involutionary arc, under the influence of Venus, humanity came to self-consciousness. Thus on this arc the antichrist regards the Venusian Lucifer, the light bringer.2

The antichrist is however also called 'Satan', and Satan is in the ageless wisdom not so much related to Venus but rather to Saturn.3 Now Saturn is of course known as the lord of karma. He appears in the life of the human who gains self-consciousness at the lowest point of materialization, where involution crosses into evolution, and he disappears again when the highest point of spiritualization, enlightenment, has been reached.4 Satan then is the attraction of matter when it works on the evolutionary arc, and Lucifer is the attraction of matter when it works on the involutionary arc. It can also be said that Lucifer is involutionary and Satan anti-evolutionary (or devolutionary).

The ageless wisdom acknowledges this Luciferian and Satanic material force to regard the force of the antichrist.5 However it also considers a third aspect of the antichrist, namely that of the destructive power of spirit. It is the work of the Christ principle to adapt forms to the qualities of spirit, and where spirit acts to destroy these forms this action can easily be understood as the antichrist principle.6

Now there are two planets ruling this spirit aspect, namely Vulcan and Pluto.7 Of these two, according to the ageless wisdom, Vulcan is more related to the endurance aspect of spirit, and Pluto more to its destruction aspect.8, 9 Pluto is mythologically also the ruler of death and the underworld, and he is also known as 'Hades'.10 So besides 'Lucifer' in his aspect of material attraction during involution and 'Satan' in his aspect of material attraction during evolution the antichrist may also be called 'Pluto' or 'Hades' in his aspect of spiritual induced death and destruction of the by the Christ principle built forms.

So the antichrist brings as the Venusian Lucifer, working from the matter aspect during involution, humanity the light of self-consciousness, inflicts as the Saturnian Satan, from the matter aspect during evolution, suffering on humanity, and brings as the Plutonian Hades, from the spirit aspect during evolution, death upon the by the Christ built forms that keep humanity's spirit captive.

We see the above visualized in figure 1.

The Christ and the antichrist as Lucifer, Satan and Hades

Figure 1: The Christ and the antichrist as Lucifer, Satan and Hades.

Figure 1 makes clear that Lucifer and Satan are material forces and Hades and the Christ spiritual powers, and it shows also that in the full cycle only Satan really goes against the plan of God, for Lucifer follows it and Hades shortcuts it.

This conclusion will suffice for now.

Notes
  1. 'Contemplations, The Christ and the Antichrist', Index: 202311081.
  2. Ibidem.
  3. Helena P. Blavatsky, The Secret Doctrine, Volume I, in: Theosophical Classics, (CD-ROM), Theosophical Publishing House, Manilla, 2002, p. 234-235. "It is "Satan who is the god of our planet and the only god," and this without any allusive metaphor to its wickedness and depravity. For he is one with the Logos, "the first son, eldest of the gods," in the order of microcosmic (divine) evolution; Saturn (Satan), astronomically, "is the seventh and last in the order of macrocosmic emanation, being the circumference of the kingdom of which Phœbus (the light of wisdom, also the Sun) is the centre." The Gnostics were right, then, in calling the Jewish god an angel of matter," or he who breathed (conscious) life into Adam, and he whose planet was Saturn."
  4. Alice A. Bailey, Esoteric Astrology, A Treatise on the Seven Rays, Volume III, in: Twenty-Four Books of Esoteric Philosophy, (CD-ROM, Release 3), Lucis Trust, London / New York, 2001, p. 105. "Saturn is the Lord of Karma, the imposer of retribution and the one who demands full payment of all debts and who therefore condemns us to the struggle for existence, both from the form side and from the soul side. Saturn, therefore, "fell" when man fell into generation. He "followed the sons of men down into their low place." Second: Saturn's power is completely ended and his work accomplished when man (the spiritual man) has freed himself from Karma and from the power of the two Crosses—the Common and the Fixed. Esoterically, Saturn cannot follow man on to the Cardinal Cross."
  5. Alice A. Bailey, Esoteric Psychology, Volume I, A Treatise on the Seven Rays, Volume I, in: Twenty-Four Books of Esoteric Philosophy, (CD-ROM, Release 3), Lucis Trust, London / New York, 2001, p. 630-631. "The forces of evil are, in the last analysis, only the entrenched ancient ideals and habits of thought which have served their purpose in bringing the race to its present point of development, but which must now disappear if the New Age is to be ushered in as desired. The old Antichrist rhythms, inherent in the old forms of religion, of politics and of the social order, must give place to newer ideals, to the synthetic understanding, and to the new order."
  6. Ibidem, p. 74. "The work of what in the West is called "the Christ Principle" is to build the forms for the expression of quality and life. That is the characteristic work of the second aspect of divinity. The work of the Antichrist is to destroy forms, and this is essentially the work of the first expression of divinity."
  7. 'Ageless Wisdom, The Seven Rays (Summarized)', Index: 202308011, Figure 1.
  8. Esoteric Astrology, p. 274. "This necessitates persistence, endurance and continuity of effort and is one of the characteristics imparted or stimulated by energies pouring from Vulcan. You can realise that these are first ray attributes and are the reverse side of those usually emphasised, namely, death or the activity of the Destroyer aspect."
  9. Alice A. Bailey, A Treatise on White Magic, in: Twenty-Four Books of Esoteric Philosophy, (CD-ROM, Release 3), Lucis Trust, London / New York, 2001, p. 439. "Yet Pluto has always been revolving around our sun and producing its effects. It governs however the death or cessation of old ideas and emotions, and its influence is therefore largely cerebral and in that you have the clue to its late discovery."
  10. Jenny March, Cassell's Dictionary of Classical Mythology, Cassell & Co, London, 2001, p. 640.
Bibliography
  • 'Ageless Wisdom, The Seven Rays (Summarized)', Index: 202308011.
  • 'Contemplations, The Christ and the Antichrist', Index: 202311081.
  • Alice A. Bailey, A Treatise on White Magic, in: Twenty-Four Books of Esoteric Philosophy, (CD-ROM, Release 3), Lucis Trust, London / New York, 2001.
  • Alice A. Bailey, Esoteric Astrology, A Treatise on the Seven Rays, Volume III, in: Twenty-Four Books of Esoteric Philosophy, (CD-ROM, Release 3), Lucis Trust, London / New York, 2001.
  • Alice A. Bailey, Esoteric Psychology, Volume I, A Treatise on the Seven Rays, Volume I, in: Twenty-Four Books of Esoteric Philosophy, (CD-ROM, Release 3), Lucis Trust, London / New York, 2001.
  • Helena P. Blavatsky, The Secret Doctrine, Volume I, in: Theosophical Classics, (CD-ROM), Theosophical Publishing House, Manilla, 2002.
  • Jenny March, Cassell's Dictionary of Classical Mythology, Cassell & Co, London, 2001.