What is Restorative Luciferianism?
"It is not enough to know we want freedom. We have to practice it. We have to be able to live it out together."
We belong to a point of history that is the culmination of belief systems of binaries, the most prominent being the conception of "good" versus "evil" as started by Zoroastrianism. With access to more historical information and timely current event reporting than ever before, it behooves us as people to recognize how such binary thinking leads to villainization of others, which then leads to mass destruction and trauma. It is time for the rise of religious frameworks and belief systems that recognize the inherent value of all living beings and balk against oppressive systems that seek to dominate and extinguish.
Restorative Luciferianism is a healing, spiritual variation of anti-assimilationism. Assimilation is commonly recognized as the process of which immigrants moving to a new land sacrifice their authentic ways of being in order to find safety by mirroring the dominant culture, which in the current United States is white supremacy. Like the migrants of today, many of us have had our bodies or very selves villainized or forced to assimilate by messages from ruling classes with the goal of either extracting our labor or eliminating our existences entirely. Assimilationism is an enabler of racism, sexism, queerphobias, poverty, and other forms of violence. To be anti-assimilationist spiritually is to rescue oneself from oppression and advocate for the rights and quality of life of all living beings as part of one's spiritual practice.
Per its name, Restorative Luciferianism centers Lucifer as a figure of pride, rebellion, and opposition to the status quo. Lucifer may be seen as a fallen angel, a polytheistic deity, a deva, a concept or concept-being, an archetype, or a part of one's conscience depending on differing religious cosmological frameworks. On this blog, he is written as the author experiences him, which is as a fully independent and autonomous being with his own personality, habits, and preferences.
Restorative Luciferianism takes part of its name from restorative justice, a movement envisioned and led by Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC) prison abolitionists. Restorative justice offers an alternative framework to the carceral system currently run within the United States. In this alternative framework, people and relationships are centered over laws and punishments. Restorative justice holds the core belief that there are harmful actions instead of "criminals" or bad people. As a result from a spiritual perspective, there are no devils nor demons, only living beings who can be brought accountable for causing harm and propelled toward pathways of healing and transformation.
May all beings be freed into their true, authentic, and compassionate natures!