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Satan himself, the Jewish tradition refers to "Samael", which HPB inexplicably endorses. See
below.]
4a. Lucifer and "Christ": One of the earliest outspoken promoters of Lucifer is David
Spangler, one of the original leaders of Findhorn (in Scotland) and now a lecturer and author
in the U.S. The back cover of one of his books promotes him as "the shaman of the New Age
Movement". (_Emergence: The Rebirth of the Sacred_, 1984) Spangler, a staunch Bailey
disciple, is noteworthy for his articulate weaving of the various NA concepts of Lucifer into a
single presentation, a 1977 book with the interesting title, _Reflections on the Christ_. The
title, far from indicating confusion, emphasizes Spangler's conviction that Lucifer and the
Christ are "twin sides" of the same "power" (see Spangler's recent book, co-authored with
Professor William Irwin Thompson, _The Reimagination of the World_); therefore, Lucifer is
to be considered literally a "reflection of the Christ", and vice versa. This energy may or may
not be personified, as the situation demands. In _Reflections_ Lucifer is variously described
(all in the same sentence) as "an angel, a being, a great and mighty planetary consciousness."
(p.38) According to Spangler, "the light that reveals to us the path to the Christ come from
Lucifer. He is the light giver." His task is to "prepare man in all ways for the experience of
Christhood." (p.43) Conversely, "Christ is the same force as Lucifer but moving in seemingly
the opposite direction." (p.38) [I would caution Jews not to apply this understanding to the
Christian "Christ". Spangler would be the first to agree that his "Christ" is not a Jew from the
1st century.]
4b. Lucifer, aka Satan, aka "Jehovah": Blavatsky, unlike later Theosophists, has no
difficulty in reconciling Lucifer and Satan as the same being: "Lucifer is the LOGOS in his
highest, and the "Adversary" [Satan] in his lowest aspect - both of which are reflected in our
Ego." (_The Secret Doctrine_, II, p.162) About Satan himself, HPB (_SD_ II, p.388-389)
sets aside her contempt of orthodox Judaism long enough to cite the "Rabbins" [sic] and the
Talmud which records that "'the evil Spirit, Satan, and Samael, the angel of Death, are the
same' - (Babba Battra [sic], 16a)." She also relies on "the Rabbins [sic] teaching that 'Kin
[sic] (Cain), the Evil, was the Son of Eve by Samael, the devil who took Adam's place'".
These two rabbinic quotes are [somehow] seen by her to support a revised, "correct reading of
verse 1 (chapter iv, Genesis) in the original Hebrew text" which proves that "Cain is identical
with Jehovah". HPB refers here to Eve's declaration, "Kaniti ish et Hashem", translated as, "I
obtained a man with G-d".
[For the real rabbinic interpretation, see Rashi's simple comment, "b'zeh shutafim anu imo" -
"in this [act of creation] we [Adam and Eve] are partners with Him [G-d]." At any rate, it's
strange that HPB should fuss over the "original Hebrew" when she writes, "The Hebrew Bible
exists no more [except as] garbled falsifications." Stranger still that the all-knowing
"Masters" related to her that the "square letters Jews rely on are characters of an unknown,
dead language" which cannot be traced farther back than "the fourth century A.D." The
discovery of the Dead Sea Scroll of Isaiah must have come as a nasty shock to the
enlightened ones. Yet HPB has Israeli disciples studying at the Theosophical Society center in
Tel Aviv.]
Confident of her line of reasoning, HPB then forms the following conclusion (_Doctrine_ II,
p.389): "It becomes easy to see that Jehovah (mankind, or 'Jah-hovah') [sic - a sample of
HPB's Hebrew proficiency] and Satan (therefore the tempting Serpent) are one and the same
in every particular." [a sample of her blatant contradictions - or shall we say, those of the
"Masters" who dictated to her. For her other comments on "Jehovah", see below.] She goes
on: "Satan represents metaphysically simply the reverse or the polar opposite of everything in