A Logos was necessary in order for the light to dawn; and this
Logos was Lucifer, the Light-Bringer. Lucifer is the
demiurge, who created our visible world by breaking the static cosmic order. The result was
War in Heaven, by which death entered the world. Lucifer is regarded as the "higher
octave" of Saturn (Satan representing its "lower octave"), the outermost planet and polar opposite of the Sun in ancient cosmology. Because of this ongoing opposition Lucifer is still fighting the Solar Logos. The principal battlefield is our earth, which contains a negative-astral and a positive-mental sphere apart from its physical form. Saturn is seen as the great judge with scales and sword, entrusted with weight, measure and number. He is the Guardian of the Threshold, or the gateway to transcendence. Because he betrayed divine mysteries to mankind, he has been punished. His heavy, dark, leaden qualities must be transformed into silver by the magician, in an
alchemical process involving the "repolarisation of lights".
