Illustration of Lucifer, taken from a French manuscript of the fifteenth century
The devil in the centre of the picture and those round the sides combine elements of the human form with those of pigs, cats, angels, dragons and carry hooks and instruments of torture, they are shown in different colours, with snarling faces and huge fangs, and are intended to instill terror and fear of hell and damnation into the beholders.
Source: english.cam.ac.uk
Emperor Lucifer, master of all the rebel spirits, I beg you to favour me in the call that I am making to your grand minister LUCIFUGÉ ROFOCALE, desiring to make a pact with him; I beg you also, prince Beelzebub to protect me in my undertaking. O count Astarot! Be favourable to me, and make it so that this night the grand Lucifege appears to me in human form, and without any bad odour, and that he accords to me, by the pact that I am going to present to him, all the riches I need.
From the Grand Grimoire. The Grand Grimoire is a black magic grimoire that claims to date to 1522. It is possibly written some point after the 18th century.
The book is called “Le Veritable Dragon Rouge” (“The True Red Dragon”) in Haiti, where it is revered among many practitioners of Vodou.
In Latin superbia, this is a apparently the father of all sins and is otherwise known as vanity or narcissism. Pride caused Lucifer to fall from heaven into hell. Pride is to love yourself and to be big-headed; to be arrogant, over-confident and blind to the concerns of others.
Animal symbols - The horse, lion, and peacock.
Colour - violet
Punishment - broken on the wheel.
image: Lucifer trapped in Earth’s frozen core. (Giovanni Stradano, 1587)
