The Secret History of Lucifer pdf

林恩·皮克内特（Lynn Picknett）是一位主要关于伪历史和流行阴谋论、超自然现象、神秘学以及历史和宗教奥秘的书籍作家。
皮克内特于 1947 年 4 月出生于英格兰肯特郡的福克斯通，在约克的一个鬼屋长大，就读于帕克格罗夫小学和安妮女王文法学校。从大学毕业并获得英国文学二等（荣誉）学位后，她短暂地成为了一名教师、店员和单口相声漫画家，然后于 1971 年移居伦敦，加入 Marshall Cavendish Publications 担任实习副编辑。
在 1980 年代，她是 The Unexplained 的副主编，并为许多其他出版物供稿。她还是各种广播节目的定期撰稿人，包括 LBC 和 Talk Radio 的 Michael van Straten 和 Clive Bull's。她还是安格利亚和南方电视台的电视节目主持人。
1990 年，她担任皇家摄影学会展览“无法解释的巴斯”的客座策展人，并于 1999 年在布拉德福德的国家摄影、电影和电视博物馆担任同样的职务。

The Secret History of Lucifer pdf 林恩·皮克内特

Everyone knows what evil is. Everyone carries iconic pictures in their heads that symbolize the horror of real wickedness: smoke and flames pouring from the Twin Towers on the September 11 that stopped the world in its tracks; piles of
emaciated bodies at the Nazis' death camps; thousands of grinning skulls in Pol Pot's killing fields; a naked little girl running screaming towards the camera, covered in napalm ... Terror, agony, war, death upon death. Although entirely of
humanity's doing, we use words such as `satanic' to describe these deeds of historic atrocity, evoking the name of the Old Enemy, Satan, personification of all that is terrible, disgusting, beyond belief. Satan may or may not exist as a literal entity, but he is a potent metaphor for the worst of the worst. However, this book will sing the praises of another hugely powerful metaphor - Lucifer - who is emphatically not the Evil One, but the spirit of human progress, the fight to learn and grow, to be independent and proud, but also spiritually free.`Lucifer' simply means `the Light-bringer', the enlightener, and it is in that spirit that this book will examine the way that a belief in the values he represents has shaped our world, the Judaeo-Christian West, in which the very freedoms he seeks are fast becoming eroded.

As the great 19th-century French occultist and sage Eliphas Levi wrote `What is more absurd and more impious than to attribute the name of Lucifer to the devil, that is, to personified evil. The intel lectual Lucifer is the spirit of intelligence and love; it is the paraclete, it is the Holy Spirit, while the physical Lucifer is the great agent of universal magnetism."