Lucifer the organization and had a satanic agenda. As described by "Freemasonry Disclosed" in 1897: Taxil's work and Pike's address continue to be quoted by anti-masonic groups. In "Devil-Worship in France", Arthur Edward Waite compared Taxil's work to today's tabloid journalism, replete with logical and factual inconsistencies. In a collection of folklore and magical practices supposedly collected in Italy by Charles Godfrey Leland and published in his "Aradia, or the Gospel of the Witches", the figure of Lucifer is featured prominently as both the brother and consort of the goddess Diana, and father of Aradia, at the center of an alleged
Venus in culture evening continued even into the Roman period. The Greek myth of Phaethon, whose name means "Shining One", has also been seen as similar to those of other gods who cyclically descend from the heavens, like Inanna and Attar. In classical mythology, Lucifer ("light-bringer" in Latin) was the name of the planet Venus as the morning star (s the evening star it was called Vesper), and it was often personified as a male figure bearing a torch. Lucifer was said to be "the fabled son of Aurora and Cephalus, and father of Ceyx". He was often presented in poetry as heralding