Lee Lehman associates this aspect with “torch bearers.” Jacob Schwartz gives Lucifer’s
astrological meaning as “a sometimes disruptive bearer of divine light.”
Lucifer also means light-bearer and is sometimes applied to Venus.Sources:
Kowal, Charles T. Asteroids: Their Nature and Utilization.Chichester, West Sussex, UK: Ellis
Horwood Limited, 1988.
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LuciferA sixteenth-century illustration of Dante’s vision of purgatory and hell. Lucifer is shown at
the center of the Earth, encased in a lake of ice, chewing on the soul of Judas Iscariot.
Reproduced by permission of Fortean Picture Library.