Lucifer planet was associated with various deities and often poetically personified. Cicero pointed out that "You say that Sol the Sun and Luna the Moon are deities, and the Greeks identify the former with Apollo and the latter with Diana. But if Luna (the Moon) is a goddess, then Lucifer (the Morning-Star) also and the rest of the Wandering Stars (Stellae Errantes) will have to be counted gods; and if so, then the Fixed Stars (Stellae Inerrantes) as well." In the Book of Isaiah, chapter 14, the King of Babylon is condemned in a prophetic vision by the prophet Isaiah and
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