Welcome to Roon soup, a podcast about Magic, Culture and the Paranormal, coming to you from Sunny West London.

My name is Gordon and I shall be your host. Enjoy. Today on episode one of Roon soup we welcome the excellent and

estimable Peter Gray of Scarlet imprint if this is your first time listening, which presumably is it's

episode one, it is your first time listening, you can find show notes and additional

information at Roon soup.com. But let's get started. Peter, how are you? I'm Gigg Gordon. Wonderful. Thank you very much for joining me

We are here today to talk about your latest book Lucifer Principse which I'm looking at right now another marvelous

piece of work. Thanks. So I guess we'll start I mean chapter one is called a

history of error. What is that error and is that

why we is that why we decided to write the book? I asked myself one of those one of those foolish questions which was who is

Lucifer because it's one of those names that people throw around a lot

without necessarily giving a lot of thought to the origins and meaning that are behind the name.

So I was mindful that there was a lot of inherited wisdom which is in fact outright nonsense that was being propagated on the internet and has also been

propagated by various occult and witchcraft movements due to their inability to actually take a hard look at the evidence and to understand

who Lucifer is.

So my initial thought was that this would be a relatively straightforward process that I'd simply begin the

research, I'd discover who the figure was that we're standing behind Lucifer and I'd be able to pull together a fairly

comprehensive and straightforward history. But as I began to examine the material

I found that that certainly wasn't the case at all and I began to quite rapidly

understand why people had shied away from doing the work because the story is the story is extremely complex and it contains a lot of overlapping overlapping agendas from different religious groups and different time periods.

So yeah, I basically I opened Pandora's box by deciding to look at this, but I feel that it was an important work to do because the texts that were being cited at the time and still continue to be cited.

writing a book that sets things straight doesn't prevent people repeating errors,

but the books that were being cited by people were frankly terrible scholarship masquerading as up-to-date work and I'm more

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