>>2444255It's due to centuries worth of fear mongering and propaganda. Originally, Lucifer and Satan were completely different ideas. The church merged the two, for what reason who knows, I think it was to cement their own power. In the early Greco-Roman traditions, you have the titan Prometheus, who brought fire to man. Fire is symbolic of wisdom, as many cultures around the world recognize. Namely, Zoroastrianism who influenced the Abrahamic faiths. You know what else influenced Christianity? The Greco-Roman traditions. In Christianity, Lucifer means light-bringer, the one who rebelled against divine authority. Prometheus defied Zeus by bringing knowledge to man. Knowledge is man's original sin. Why did God cast Adam and Eve out of Eden? For partaking from the tree of knowledge. Knowledge is what shapes your worldview and is what affects the course reality takes. Why? Because the world is more than what can be materially witnessed or influenced. So, if a population has greater knowledge they could get rid of a government that only serves to extract from them. This thinking is complete heresy according to the religions we are conditioned with from birth. But it is these ideas that inspired the birth of the nation.
When we venerate knowledge and wisdom, when we rebel against blind conformity, when we encourage personal responsibility, self-discovery and moral autonomy or truth that challenges established norms, is it not fair to say we become better and more capable men? What is the stated goal of Freemasonry again?