Temple of the Black Light (TOTBL) is an international temple ...

eing two separate powers are wrong!Within our Temple of the Black Light both Lucifer and Satan are used as forms, descriptions andrepresentations of one and the same essence. Our understanding is that there is a difference betweenrendering the words 'Lucifer' and 'Satan' as just forms and descriptions, and believing that they arethe 'true names' of that which they represent. This is because our tradition states that the ancientdark gods are all nameless and beyond causal comprehension, and that all forms given to them byhumans are just that, forms, and not something that should be viewed as static in essence andmeaning.In order to focus our consciousness to, and link our unconscious minds with, the essence of thesedark gods and establish contact with them, we need to penetrate the hidden heart of darkness andexplore the concrete effect that these forces of Black Light have on our selves and the world atlarge. After we have identified, experienced,* and on a deeper level intuitively understood therelevant effects that these acosmic powers have on the spiritual, mental, astral and physical planesof existence we can try to use words and symbols in order to better and more easily grasp theirtranscendent core. It is only at this stage that the Nameless Ones can be given names. For to name aspiritual force within an esoteric context is the same thing as trying to, with one (or many) words,describe and emphasize its most significant qualities, its inner essence and the sum of its power, asit is understood by the limited mind.The greater the power or principal we try to grasp with the causal mind, the more words, names andsymbols will be needed to describe it. In the same way that the different names/words of power actas links between our conscious mind and the powers they are meant to describe, the more abstractsymbols (sonic and linear sigils) are used as tools/keys to open the gates of the unconscious mind tothe more hidden and formless essence of these nightside emanations.Lucifer and Satan are two words that for us describe different aspects of one and the same spiritualforce. The word Lucifer means 'Bearer of Light' and describes the function and effect of the acosmicpower that brings the gifts of forbidden wisdom, enlightenment, intellect, imagination and gnosis.Lucifer is within the esoteric context the secret, invisible and black fire (The First Sun/Son of theBlack Light) that burns to ashes and dissolves all illusions, and awakens and strengthens the innerBlack Flame and opens the all-seeing eye of the Self.Lucifer is the antithesis of the demiurgic/archonic lie and is the power that according to the mythosgranted man and woman the fruit of the Tree of Daath (the tree of knowledge) and gave them theopportunity to turn their backs on the tyrant god of the hylic cosmos and instead walk the path9