"The emphasis here should be on intent. When Albert Pike and other Masonic scholars spoke over a century ago about the "Luciferian path," or the "energies of Lucifer," they were referring to the morning star, the light bearer, the search for light; the very antithesis of dark, satanic ...
The first instance in the Hebrew Bible where the wordśāṭānis applied to a supernatural being occurs in the Book of Numbers 22:22. In the verse, Yahweh sends an angel to confront the prophet Balaam and the angel is explicitly described as aśāṭān. The verse reads as follows, ...