Lucifer
Lucifer plays no role in Masonic ritual, symbol, or doctrine. The name appears in historical discussions only where writers examine external theories regarding potential influences on the Knights Templar.
J.S.M. Ward notes that certain Near Eastern Gnostic sects held that Lucifer created the world, a cosmology that Templar knights might have encountered during the Crusades 1. However, Ward discounts any meaningful influence of such Gnostic doctrines on the knights or on subsequent Masonic transmission, observing that the average Templar was a warrior unlikely to adopt these extreme subtleties 1.
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