Corresponences:
Direction: West
Planet: Pluto
Metal:  Platinum, Silver
Element: Water
Colours: Black, Dark Blue, Dark Green, Dark Grey, Dark Silver, Dark Purple, Metallic Black
Incense: Copal, Patchouli, Agarwood, Frankincense, Cinnamon, Musk, Ipomoea jalapa
Flower: Maori
Other: Wild Rose, Black Olive Juice, Olive Oil, Alcohol, Mandrake, Sage, Mullein, hibiscus and sencha tea, coins, and drawings of him

Enn: Eyen tasa valocur Lucifuge Rofocale

For me, personally, Lucifuge is the Evening Star, twin brother to Lucifer, the Morning Star. This would be the equivalent of Phosphorus and Hesperus from Greek mythology. This makes Lucifuge the entity that I have always known as Noctifer, long before I discovered the name Lucifuge Rofocale.

The name “Lucifuge Rofocale” has two components: “Lucifuge,” which means “one who flees from light,” being a combination of “lux” (meaning “light”) and “fugio” (meaning “to flee”); and “Rofocale,” which is usually considered to be an anagram of the name “Focalor”, the forty-first Daemon from the Ars Goetia, however I have also seen mention of it being a corruption of the name “Raphael”.

The interpretation of Lucifuge as “one who flees from light” again speaks to him being Noctifer, the Evening Star.

Lucifuge Rofocale’s origins trace back to a grimoire called Le Dragon Rouge (The Red Dragon) also know as the Grand Grimoire. Nobody really knows when this grimoire was published. There are various dates suggested, such as 1421 or 1521 and 1522 as well as the British historian, Owen Davies, suggesting it was first published in 1702. Eliphas Levi suggested that the contemporary edition of Le Dragon Rouge is a counterfeit of a much earlier version of a Grand Grimoire, so who knows, maybe they are all right.

The Grand Grimoire, however, gives the following description of Lucifuge: “the infernal Prime Minister who possesses the power that Lucifer gave him over worldly riches and treasures. He has beneath him Bael, Agares and Marbas along with thousands of other spirits and subordinates.”

His dominion lies over worldly goods, wealth, and treasures, making him a figure of interest for those seeking material prosperity through occult means.

Jehannum also adds, “His nature is apt for baleful rites and the diffusion of the curses placed upon you. Lucerifuge rules over money, luck, chemistry, prosperity, and ambition. Considered to be he Qliphoth’s Occult librarian and scholar, he rules hatred, execration magick, war, revenge, strength, victory, courage, and anger. As a slightly psychic-vampyric entity, he can steal the magickal power of an Occultist plotting for the harm of the Satanist.”

The anti-cosmic Satanic text, Liber Azerate, characterizes Lucifuge Rofocale as the “Living Darkness,” whose role includes diminishing the influence of the Abrahamic deity on society and aiding witches in transcending the constraints of causality. The manuscripts of the Temple of the Black Light describe Lucifuge as “the revealer of all the hidden treasures of the Nightside” and as one who “purifies the darkness illuminated by the Black Light.” S. Connolly has mentioned working with Lucifuge “to manifest more disciplined working habits for [her]self.” In the introduction to her Book of Agares, she describes a dream she had during a time when she was doing a lot of work with Lucifuge, where she was sitting at her dining room table with an older man who had silver hair and eyes. He told her he was going to show her something sacred and put a black leather-bound book in front of her. As she opened it, the pages were made of mirrors, and she was looking at herself. Afterall, what is a journal but a reflection of ourselves?”