LUCIFERISM

HERESY BELIEFS/INVOLVE

• Luciferianism is a belief system that venerates the essential characteristics that are affixed to Lucifer. The tradition, influenced by Gnosticism, usually reveres Lucifer not as the devil, but as a liberator, a guardian or guiding spirit, or even the true god as opposed to Jehovah.
• Founded by Lucifer Calaritanus a bishop of Cagliari in 355

HOW DID THE CHURCH RESPOND

• Deemed heretical by Jerome in his Altercatio Luciferiani et orthodoxi and followers were persecuted

WHEN DID THE CHURCH RESPOND

• The Gesta Treverorum records that, in 1231, heretics began to be persecuted throughout Germany.

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