Lucent - a satanic tech company I discovered in a mental ward

[excreationist]

Some companies are accused of being satanic but there is a strong connection in this one...

I learnt about it when I was beginning a visit to a mental ward in about 2005. I found the following magazine from 1997 in a waiting room:



I found the back cover to be very interesting: (also from 1997)



I took the magazine home. I remember getting my sister to borrow another copy from her university. Maybe I lost the original magazine.

What originally interested me was the technology it was talking about - which included a PlayStation.

Anyway, Lucent was based in 666 Fifth Avenue (now 660), it has the same linguistic root as Lucifer, which was a character in Dante's poem about hell. Lucent's components were named after things in the poem about hell like Inferno, Dis, Limbo, Charon and Styx. It has connections to Bell Labs which has a mascot of a cartoon demon (they call it a Daemon).

I'm not saying they worship Satan but they seem to have deliberately associated themselves with things that could be seen as "satanic".

If it wasn't for that trip to the mental ward, the world might not be aware of this... I mean on Wikipedia they only allowed an unreadable 260 × 382 ad for Inferno to exist.... (which I had provided)

Inferno (operating system) - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

I also found out about Lucent and Lucifer having the same "linguistic root" which a person on Wikipedia allowed to remain there.

 

[excreationist]

What's interesting is that a previous person who thought Lucent was satanic gave very poor reasons...

Lucent is in league with the Devil

What's it got to do with us?

www.theregister.com

The red circle represents the SUN in new age mysticism and freemasonry. it is the universal symbol of LUCIFER of which your company is named after ("luc" = lucifer, "ent" = enterprises - i.e. LUCIFER ENTERPRISES)

Note I've never heard of a circle being the symbol for Lucifer.

 

[Tharmas]

The name "Lucifer" and the word "lucent" are only very distantly related, if at all.

“Lucifer”: Latin name for Venus, the “morning star,” from lux (light) and ferre (to bring).

The association of “Lucifer” with Satan comes from a mistranslation of the Hebrew “helel ben shahar” or “son of the morning.” This phrase occurs at Isaiah 14:12, which the KJ version translates as “How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning.”
Most modern scholars interpret this as a sarcastic reference to the king of Babylon.

Some Christian scholars interpret it as a reference to Satan’s fall. In my opinion that’s quite a stretch, but therefore “Lucifer” would mean “Satan.”

“Lucent” is a not too uncommon English word meaning shining or translucent. It derives from the Latin “lucens” which has the same meaning – to shine.
FYI: “How you are fallen from heaven, O shining star, son of the morning!” in Bible.com.

Some of this I already knew, some I Googled.

 

[Politesse]

Not uncommon for the tech industry to borrow mystical or religious language. Often with little attention to context. My partner works for a company named after one of the deadly sins, but his particular project team bears the name of an archangel....

 

[Politesse]

What's interesting is that a previous person who thought Lucent was satanic gave very poor reasons...

Lucent is in league with the Devil

What's it got to do with us?

www.theregister.com

The red circle represents the SUN in new age mysticism and freemasonry. it is the universal symbol of LUCIFER of which your company is named after ("luc" = lucifer, "ent" = enterprises - i.e. LUCIFER ENTERPRISES)

Note I've never heard of a circle being the symbol for Lucifer.

It's definitely not true that the Freemasons revere a red sun in particular. The sun in a general sense is a common motif in freemasonry though, representing the pursuit of knowledge and sometimes the sacred masculine. You often see symbols of sun and moon immediately upon entering a hall or other interior space built by Masons. Light from an Eastern window often falls on significant places at cerrain times of year. As for red, it usually has connections with the stages of initiation, but can also represent the masculine. It is also associated with Vulcan/Haphaestus/Tubal-Cain, who as one might imagine is a deity with a special air of conviviality for a secretish order of craftsmen.

 

[excreationist]

Not uncommon for the tech industry to borrow mystical or religious language. Often with little attention to context. My partner works for a company named after one of the deadly sins, but his particular project team bears the name of an archangel....

Though this is more controversial involving things like 666 and a cartoon demon.

 

[excreationist]

The name "Lucifer" and the word "lucent" are only very distantly related, if at all.

“Lucifer”: Latin name for Venus, the “morning star,” from lux (light) and ferre (to bring).

The association of “Lucifer” with Satan comes from a mistranslation of the Hebrew “helel ben shahar” or “son of the morning.” This phrase occurs at Isaiah 14:12, which the KJ version translates as “How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning.”
Most modern scholars interpret this as a sarcastic reference to the king of Babylon.

Some Christian scholars interpret it as a reference to Satan’s fall. In my opinion that’s quite a stretch, but therefore “Lucifer” would mean “Satan.”

“Lucent” is a not too uncommon English word meaning shining or translucent. It derives from the Latin “lucens” which has the same meaning – to shine.
FYI: “How you are fallen from heaven, O shining star, son of the morning!” in Bible.com.

Some of this I already knew, some I Googled.

Though it seems the Lucifer they're talking about is the character from Dante's Inferno, a poem about hell.
He is also called Satan:

Dante's Satan - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Dante does mention "Satan" in Inferno, specifically in Canto 34, where he describes the final circle of Hell. However, Dante also refers to him by other names, such as "Lucifer" and "Dis," emphasizing different aspects of his fallen and malevolent nature.