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The Hebrew meaning of the word seems to be "brilliant", "splendid", "illustrious", or as in the Septuagint,
Vulgate, the Rabbinical commentators, Luther, and others, "brilliant star!" and in this sense was the proper
name among the Hebrews of the morning star. Tertullian and Gregory the Great understood this passage of
Isaiah in reference to the fall of Satan; in consequence of which the name Lucifer has since been applied to
Satan; and this is now the usual acceptation of the word.
Dr. Henderson in his Isaiah renders the line: "How art thou fallen from heaven, O illustrious son of the
morning!" Dr. Henderson says: "The application of this passage to Satan, and to the fall of the apostate angels,
is one of those gross perversions of Sacred Writ which so extensively obtain, and which are to be traced to a
proneness to seek for more in any given passage than it really contains."
The only place in the Holy Bible where the word Lucifer is found is in Isaiah. The early church fathers were
under the impression that, the passage could only refer to Satan, the prince of darkness. However, Satan in the
Bible has no connection with the Lucifer of Isaiah.
Isaiah was figuratively speaking of the king of Babylon in reference to his glory and pomp, but he was
actually referring to the destruction of a planet known to the ancient world as the "shining one". Lucifer and
its remains are now to be observed in the telescope as the Asteroid Belt.
By a curious chain of reference the passage in Luke 10:18 once was thought to refer to Isaiah 14:12, but this
passage says: "I beheld Satan as Lightning fall from heaven." Even though this passage speaks of Satan,
Lucifer became the chief of the fallen angels, the name borne by Satan before his rebellion. However, it must
be stated again that Satan is in no way connected with Lucifer.
In "_The Saucers Speak!_" Zo said: "Your so-called Hydrogen Bomb could make an asteroid belt out of you.
This happened many years ago to the planet of what you would call the fifth orbit. We knew what they were
doing but we didn't interfere. We cannot stand by and see another waste. After their destruction there were
terrible disasters on Masar (Mars). Great volcanic eruptions took place. Many of our people perished. We
would have been thrown out of this Solar System and lost if we had not quickly constructed two artificial
satellites. Some of you scientists have noticed that our so-called moons Phobos and Deimos reflect too much
light to be made of earthy substance. They are right. They are metallic in nature. They readjusted our unstable
condition and saved a planet."
It is true that the ancient poets knew of the satellites of Mars before their discovery and ancient astrological
works mention them. Jonathon Swift in "Gulliver's Travels", 1726, wrote that Mars had two satellites and his
complete description of them was most accurate. They were actually discovered as late as 1877 by Asaph Hall
of the Naval Observatory in Washington, D. C. How did Swift and all these other individuals know that Mars
had two moons?
If the Prophet Isaiah was actually referring to a "fallen star" or a destroyed planet let us see if his description
as found in the fourteenth chapter fits such a happening.
To begin with he wonders how Lucifer, then a morning star, fell from heaven. A morning star now can be
Jupiter, Mars, Saturn or Venus when rising shortly before the sun, and forming a conspicuous object in the
sky just before dawn; hence, figuratively, a forerunner, or one who announces and guides. For a planet to be
called the morning star it must be West of the sun and visible before sunrise. When bright planets are East of
the sun and therefore visible in the early evening they are called evening stars. The ancients not realizing they
were the same stars in different roles, called Venus when the evening star, Hesperus or Vesper and when it
was the morning star, Phosphorus. Mercury was called Mercury when it was the evening star, but it was called
Apollo when it was a morning star:
When we think of morning star now we immediately associate it with the planet Venus. Therefore, we think