(a) On the Third Day of Creation, God's chief archangel, a cherub by name Lucifer, son of the Dawn ('Helel ben Shahar'), walked in Eden amid blazing jewels, his body a-fire with carnelian, topaz, emerald, diamond, beryl, onyx, jasper, sapphire and carbuncle, all set in purest gold. For awhile Lucifer, whom God had made Guardian of All Nations, behaved discreetly; but soon pride turned his wits. 'I will ascend above the clouds and stars,' he said, 'and enthrone myself on Saphon, the Mount of Assembly, thus becoming God's equal.' God, observing Lucifer's ambitions, cast him down from Eden to Earth, and from Earth to Sheol. Lucifer shone like lightning as he fell, but was reduced to ashes; and now his spirit flutters blindly without cease through profound gloom in the Bottomless Pit.
(Isaiah XIV. 12-15; 2 Enoch XXIX. 4-5; Luke X. 18; 2 Cor. XI. l14; Septuagint and Vulgate to Isaiah X
IV. 12-17; Targum Job XXVIII. 7.
Hebrew Myths, p. 57.
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