Eliphas Levi on Lucifer

"O Lucifer! Voluntarily and disdainfully thou didst detach thyself from the heaven where the sun drowned thee in his splendor, to plow with thine own rays the unworked fields of light! Thou shinest when the sun sets, and thy sparkling gaze precedes the daybreak! Thou fallest to rise again; thou tastest of death to understand life better! For the ancient glories of the world, thou art the evening star, for truth renascent, the lovely star of dawn".

— Eliphas Levi, The Key of the Mysteries.