By Vexen Crabtree 2001 Jan 01 | Read / Write Comments
Satan | Leviathan | Lucifer | Belial
Invoke the Four Crown Princes of Hell as the four most representative idols; the list of Infernal Names in the Satanic Bible are taken from a wide selection of cultures and times throughout history, they enrich the Four Crown Princes.
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Satan
Lord of Fire and the Inferno
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Belial
Being without a master. Mastery of the Earth.
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Lucifer
Bringer of light. The morning star.
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Leviathan
The serpent out of the sea. The oceans.
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The placement of these Crown Princes on the cardinal points is not entirely without precedent in the history of religious symbolism. The Professor of History, Ronald Hutton, examines many occult and eclectic prime sources in his history of paganism, and mentions that the North point has been considered the most dark, so suits its position as the herald of Satan, the most dark.
“The north was regarded as the place of darkness, and shunned, following a tradition given biblical authority in the Book of Jeremiah and embedded in English folk culture; hence the common reluctance to be buried on the north side of a churchyard or to put a northern door into a church.”"The Triumph of the Moon: A History of Modern Pagan Witchcraft" by Prof. R. Hutton (1999)1
Likewise, Lucifer, as the Morning Star, has long been a symbol of the East.
Related pages:
Hutton, Ronald
"The Triumph of the Moon: A History of Modern Pagan Witchcraft" (1999). Published by Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK. Paperback edition 2001.
LaVey, Anton (1930-1997)
"http://www.dpjs.co.uk/crownprinces.html" (1969). Published by Avon Books Inc, New York, USA. Anton LaVey founded the Church of Satan in 1966.