Kenneth Anger began working on the idea for Lucifer Rising in 1966. He filmed it in 1972 but it was not released until 1980 after the sountrack was completed. Anger is 96 years old today. He represents a bridge between the older occult of rich wierdos and the new world of mainstream people following occult teachings. Lucifer Rising is the point of turning, when the counter culture and the older culture of mystercism met. Manson Family member and murderer Bobby Beausoleil, with his prison band The Freedom Orchestra, completed the soundtrack for Lucifer Rising in 1979. The film premiered in New York in 1980.
Lucifer Rising is a short film by director Kenneth Anger about the ceremonial rising of Lucifer, a sort-of birthday party of the Aquarian Age, the Love Generation. It is also a symbolic analogy of the coming Aeon of Horus as prophesied in the Thelemic sacred text, The Book of the Law. Anger himself said in The Guardian: “Lucifer Rising was about Egyptian gods summoning the angel Lucifer – in order to usher in a new occult age, in accordance with the principles of Ordo Templi Orientis – an occult order founded by British genius Aleister Crowley.”
Lucifer is not the devil. He’s the god of light and color. Luciferous – I bring the light. To me Satan and Lucifer are totally different entities. — Kenneth Anger
The film’s central theme as impersonation of gods, known to Crowley as the Dramatic Ritual, with Isis and Osiris appearing in Egypt invoking the natural elements that conjure the rising of Lucifer, not as devil but as the rebellious Angel of Light in John Milton’s Paradise Lost (1667), the Venus morning star, bringer of Light and “patron saint of the visual arts,” said Anger.
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