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Is the Statue of Liberty the Prince of the Air, Lucifer?

Now I'm sure if you've been in any kind of conspiratorial circles for the past few years, that you've heard this narrative, that the Statue of Liberty is a representation of Lucifer, the fallen

angel who was Yahweh's right-hand man, who decided that he wanted to be like God, and because

of that, he was cast down to earth with one third of the angels who ended up following him.

Well, I'm going to show you today who the Statue of Liberty actually represents.

And I'm going to also show you why people are misconstruing the Statue of Liberty as being Lucifer.

And it all boils down to this specific

painting. There's a painting called Satan calling his legions, and this painting was done by a Sir Thomas

Lawrence, and he was an English painter who served as the fourth president of the Royal Academy.

He was actually a child prodigy. And at 10 years old, he moved to Bath and he was actually supporting his family

with his pastel portraits. So even as a child, he was a genius when it came to painting. And at 18, he actually went to London and he established himself as a portrait painter in oils.

And he received his first royal commission and he did a portrait of Queen Charlotte in 1789.

So he was a genius painter and he mainly did portraits. Well, he decided to take

on board this painting called Satan calling his legions. As a matter of fact, his contemporaries

said they couldn't do it because he generally dealt in portraits.

And he was trying to take an image from John Milton's Paradise Lost, Book 1, line 330,

awake, arise, or be forever fallen. And he wanted to represent Lucifer in his fallen glory.

And he decided to start this painting in 1796 for the 1797 Royal Academy Annual

Exhibition.

And he ended up pulling it off and people were stunned at how well that he did it. Now, you may ask,

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