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The Neo-Luciferian Church is a Gnostic Luciferian organisation with roots in Western esotericism, Thelema, and magic.
The Neo-Luciferian Church began in 2005 as a collaboration between Danish occultist Bjarne Salling Pedersen and the American artist, author and philosopher Michael Bertiaux. The Church was inspired as a reawakening and modern interpretation of the Luciferian Gnosticism advocated by early 1900s Danish occultist and Ordo Templi Orientis member Ben Kadosh, pseudonym of Carl William Hansen. [1] Today the organisation is primarily active in Denmark and Sweden.
The Neo-Luciferian Church incorporates elements from Thelema, Gnosticism, Voodoo, traditional occultism, and witchcraft. There is an emphasis on art, psychology, and critical thinking. [2]
The mythology draws heavily on Roman and Greek sources as well as more dubious modern writings, such as Charles Leland's Aradia, or the Gospel of the Witches , the works of Dion Fortune, Michael Bertiaux, and Aleister Crowley.
The Neo-Luciferian Church operates within a graded system of seven degrees and is a succession from several churches: some Gnostic and magical in origin and others belonging to the succession described in the Ecclesia Gnostica Spiritualis.
