Lucifer Italian witch-cult. In Leland's mythology, Diana pursued her brother Lucifer across the sky as a cat pursues a mouse. According to Leland, after dividing herself into light and darkness: Here, the motions of Diana and Lucifer once again mirror the celestial motions of the moon and Venus, respectively. Though Leland's Lucifer is based on the classical personification of the planet Venus, he also incorporates elements from Christian tradition, as in the following passage: In the several modern Wiccan traditions based in part on Leland's work, the figure of Lucifer is usually either omitted or replaced as Diana's consort with either
The Flight to Lucifer copies, I would." The Flight to Lucifer The Flight to Lucifer: A Gnostic Fantasy is a 1979 novel by the critic Harold Bloom, inspired by his reading of David Lindsay's fantasy novel "A Voyage to Arcturus" (1920). The plot, which adapts Lindsay's characters and narrative and features themes drawn from Gnosticism, concerns Thomas Perscors, who is transported from Earth to the planet Lucifer by Seth Valentinus. The book received mainly negative or critical commentary, and was compared, including by Bloom himself, to "Star Wars" (1977). Bloom eventually repudiated the work. Thomas Perscors ("through fire"), an incarnation of Primal Man, is